I shall talk of things, which are sometimes accidently true

I have the most boring and brain numbing class today, WHILE THERE IS SNOOKER ON. And not "just" snooker, but Higgins vs. Holt and Hendry vs. Ding! WHYYYY!?!?!

I really don't like the class. The final assignment is amazing, and I really love working on that, but the class itself? URGH! The teacher is just horrid, he does things with chairs that I'm sure are forbidden in some countries, he keeps asking us things, doesn't get an answer and then says "well, you couldn't have known that anyway", and the list goes on.

As if today isn't already hard enough with Lost and a morning session of snooker!

The workshop on Friday about "How to make 17th century paint and paintings was absolutely amazing! We made our own paint and learned how the painters worked. We even tried it ourselves, with a little detail of a much larger painting (I can't find a pic of the original at the moment). This is mine:



I rather like it, actually. But I definitely have a new and much bigger respect for painters. I was dressed like a Rembrandt when I came back, more like some very modern artwork or a Pollock ;)

I just wrote a 1,000 word essay and made a diagram to go with it and I didn't even have tea yet! WTH, self?

So. I haven't slept properly in days, am seriously tired, have a presentation later today (I know what to say, only my powerpoint isn't read yet it's done!) and two looming deadlines that freak me out.

However, I will have dinner with ilovesamwise tonight and I will going to a gig of the Rascals with the adorable Miles Kane.

So clearly it all balances out, right?

Well, it's been a while since I mentioned the many ways in which I deeply detest subscribing the uni-things.

WHY does it have to be so hard? WHY does the bloody site ALWAYS crash? LEARN ABOUT PAST MISTAKES, UNI!

Now it's time for a little (art)history! Click the pics for slightly bigger ones. Sorry for the .png files, but I'm at uni and can't change that until I'm at home again much later today.

Anyway.

This is the first image of New YorkAmsterdam.



Looks a bit depressing, huh? But this is how it really looked like, drawn from a ship in 1647.

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The last couple of weeks I've had a rather evil throat infection that made me really ill. The doctor's first thought it might be whooping cough, but thank God that wasn't it since that's contagious and it would have been horrid since I'm in the middle of three rather big research projects that force me to go out often. Anyway, I'm finally starting to feel human again, so I figured it's time to post about the fun things this month has brought me so far.

Coldplay



The seats were a lot better than I feared (even though you can't really tell by the pic, but I really like this one so whatever). Coldplay was fantastic. They played all my favourites from Viva La Vida, plus parts of Trouble and Amsterdam, so I was a happy bunny. The way those guys play with the audience is just fantastic. I must say that Album!Coldplay < Live!Coldplay.

Graduation



The day after Coldplay in the early morning (I was home at around 2 the night before) I graduated. Now I'm a Bachelor of Arts, what a stupid title is that?

De Kift



No pictures, but I went to see the Dutch band De Kift. I love them SO MUCH. They are from my hometown, but rather known in the alternative circuit of the Netherlands. They are good enough to do a special project this year where they will cover a song by bands like Franz Ferdinand and Calexico, while they cover a song by De Kift in return. Watch the video. Seriously. Their lyrics make me so happy.

Tonight I will go and see The Last Shadow Puppets. Really looking forward to that :)

Today = not a very good day. And it's only just past 9 in the morning.

ETA: Finally I'm a normal member again at HP-B (looooove my new username). So this means they are really back this time? I'm impressed.

So, I hate everything that has anything to do with uni, right? And I don't mean the classes. Last uni year made me realize just how much I love the classes. It's just the complicated, stupid and awful organisation bullshit around it.

I really hate mailing or phoning them when something has gone wrong, and something ALWAYS goes wrong. And now this morning I finally got it together and mailed first the wrong people and then the right people and after that I was terrified to look at my mail for the entire day. Silly, huh? I know it's silly and stupid and immature and yet: I still do it EVERYTIME.

But I just bravely looked. I was listening to the Beatles so I figured I could give it a try.

Their reply?

Oh, yeah. We checked and now you are registered and we send you the stuff you need asap.

WTF UNI?!? WTF?!?! WHY COULDN'T YOU DO THAT ALL BY YOURSELF?

Anyway, big sigh of relief here. Even though I won't be able to sign the damn papers until I'm back from holiday.