back country
Jul. 27th, 2009 | 01:15 pm
location: innsbrooklyn
mood: 
happy
music: dresden dolls - night reconnaissance
I spent last weekend in the mountains, on the Hintertux glacier in Zillertaller area. I thought I had said goodbye to the season in May, when Martin came to visit, but Hintertux is open all year round offering fantastic conditions up in the mountains and lovely summer at the bottom. You get olympic teams coming to train there or people coming out to do their instructor courses...which means you can see really awesome skiers and boarders on the pistes...it's just this time I have spent majority of the time off the trails, hiking up and looking for fresh snow and drops in between the rocks, riding on the untouched trail and maneuvering between rocks and crevasses..all that thanks to my Argentinian friend Carlos who showed me the way and made me use my last breath to climb up with all the gear..
but it was so worth it!
Carlos is from Argentina, he's done skiing ever since he was little: from his stories he told there are awesome trails in Patagonia..South America is on my "to do" list anyway :D
He then spent some time in Canada and free riding back country Alaska! It all sounds so exotic and fascinating I want to pack my backpack and do it all too..everything in its own time though (:
PS I have 4.5 days of work left
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bring on the snow!
Jul. 22nd, 2009 | 12:42 pm
location: innsbrooklyn
mood: excited
music: pearl jam - comatose
yeah I know it's July..but I am dropping a tent and a sleeping bag in my car on sat morning and heading towards Hintertux glacier to catch one of my last weekends here in the mountains, in the snow, boarding! hell yeah!
the idea was to hike up and camp somewhere out there but that may not work, we'll see..
check the webcam!
I am so bored at work I may even go to the gym now..it's 30 degrees outside...I could do with some time out of this miserable office
8 days to go...
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omg omg omg I have the scholarship!
Jul. 13th, 2009 | 01:50 pm
location: Innsbrooklyn
mood: ecstatic
music: sage francis - slow down gandhi
I have just received an email that I have been accepted for a scholarship from my university - full fee waiver!
OMG OMG!! ah the happiness! squeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
OMG OMG!! ah the happiness! squeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
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out of office assistant
Jul. 7th, 2009 | 02:19 pm
location: Rum
mood: excited
music: rise against - audience of one
I am faking some terrible disease today and I didn't go to work, I slept till midday, I am having cabernet shiraz and cheese for lunch whilst watching daytime German TV and I don't feel guilty at all. I am job hunting and doing some house chores too so it is not a totally unproductive day. I tried to call work and let someone know about it, I ended up talking with our finance director who said it is not very legal here but who cares, I am leaving anyway. Well, he came in for 2h yesterday and then went home..how is that legal? What did he mean anyway, you can't get ill in Austria? (:
... I very very rarely skyve from work and when I do, I usually feel really guilty ...but not today. I will make it a nice day.
I have just had a phone interview for an internship with a proper translation company, for a project manager in translation. Internships pay nothing or peanuts but this is my dream job and I know it is forward planning as it is for June 2010 but I think they liked me and I am hopefully having a face to face interview with them in August and it makes me super excited. By June next year I will be hopefully done with my MA and this internship would just fit in time perfectly. There's lots of hope in every sentence there.
oh look how bad Austrian and German TV can be, there are advertising this every 10 minutes (and please forgive me but I had to share)
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how to meet tons of new people and make friends
Jul. 6th, 2009 | 12:02 pm
location: Insbruck
mood: content
music: stone temple pilots - plush
looks like I've been cooking and organizing nights out for people since Thursday without a break! Yesterday I had a dinner for 9 people, then two more friends popped in, we stayed up till 3am, drank all alcohol available at home, played mandoline, sang, did silly stuff and had generally an awesome evening. And majority of these people have just met..pretty much on the same day
I gave in and signed up to couch surfing opening my own account. I thought Margy and Jenny are away and I have a 4 bedroom flat only to myself..it feels a bit weird so I may as well give my sofa to people..and I had plenty of requests so far, unbelievable!
So yesterday we made a loud collective of English, Scottish, Polish, Austrian, American, Argentinian, Hungarian, German and Italian people occupying my kitchen..it was fun and my neighbour didn't call the police, result!
I have two girls from the UK who are cycling around Europe, currently from Milano to Prague and then to Copenhagen to earn some money fruit picking. They discovered that there was a bike path available all the way from Milan to Prague, that's totally cool! And they lived in a tree community near Worthing until last month..then they are planning to hitch-hike on yachts all the way to South America! It's feasible!
Carlos, the Argentinian guy, has been to all the places I want to go to, he hitched a ride from Canada to Alaska, he wants to stay here to learn German and ski (he doesn't take cable cars up but hikes up and then skis, go him!) I am so tempted to drop everything and do the travelling straight away instead of doing the MA
Jon darrling, don't worry I am not changing plans! ( we have a plan with Jon to stay in the UK, finish the schooling and get out of Europe next winter maybe)
I have more guests coming this week: a guy from Seattle, a girl from Chicago, 4 Polish guys and a French lady with 2 kids coming this week..though I think I can feed them mostly with tasty but modest pasta al'aglio olio e pepperoncino as my bank account is starting to protest..it was supposed to be a hard core saving month and somehow it is turning out quite the opposite..not that I have to feed them but it is nice to do stuff and go out ..the weather has been totally miserable for the past few weeks and we need to make up for it somehow :D
So last week was fun, weekend even more fun, the coming weeks look adventurous too..I have met so many cool people, made some local friends (after a whole year of moaning that Austrians are weird I have finally met an awesome bunch, but oh the irony, I am leaving soon)
Friday I am driving to see Atmosphere in Munich and we have this free all night festival on the mountain, then my mum is coming, then Ben and Jon are coming and then whoa, the end of July already, holiday back home and back in the UK..that all goes like a blizzard!
BTW I am tired and sleepy, what am I doing at work? I should be in my cosy bed instead!
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homeopathic A&E
Jul. 5th, 2009 | 12:21 pm
mood: amused
Abby, that will surely make you laugh:
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I have just fired myself. I am my own line manager so I can
Jun. 30th, 2009 | 03:25 pm
location: Innsbrooklyn
mood: excited
music: the knife - heartbeats
It's official, I finish on the 31st of July and until then I promise to do as little as possible because the new MD is simply not worth any effort.
It is very hard to get any recognition for your work from a guy that has a severe multiple sclerosis, he really doesn't remember anything! He sits with us, talks to us and then forgets our names or the fact we had a project / a conversation/ a change he wanted to implement/ anything really, I have to repeat the same thing million times a day, I had to repeat that I am resigning, too.
And they introduced a magnetic time tracking key we are supposed to use every time we enter and leave, they are monitoring emails and conversations, what else, hidden cameras? There's no trust and a conspiracy theory that every person that is leaving will be working for our previous mgmt
But what do I care!? 31 days to go!
It's summer! I have lots of stuff planned and I am looking forward to coming back to England via Poland very very soon, yay!
I will miss Innsbruck once I am out of here, it is so good to have the mountains just right in front of my nose, boarding every weekend and the fresh air plus so many days of pleasant sunshine during the year (well, excluding now by the look of it) and so much space and and and
..
but I am actually more excited I'm coming back
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total eclipse of the...
Jun. 12th, 2009 | 04:05 pm
location: soon to be a boat
mood: excited
music: total eclipse ahah
ahah
happy Friday everybody
in other news: I'm on a boat yo!
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work suckz
Jun. 5th, 2009 | 03:10 pm
mood: 
tired
I had a truly infuriating surprise call from our new MD who is currently losing a plot (that of course if he actually ever had any)
That call followed a resignation from my line manager and our poker manager which leaves pretty much me and 2 poker guys in the department. The department can run as it is doing now without any problems, I am doing the day to day operations and things are allright but it looks like he is either scared that I want to resign or wants me to go. Fine. I do want to go, just on my conditions, dammit!
So in this totally ridiculous and unprofessional call yesterday he demanded an answer to whether I want to stay or go ...He really didn't think I would answer that just like that? Without knowing what am I standing on, where is the company going, what is the budget for next 3 months at least and some sort of a general idea on how things will go and what he wants me to do here (forget about any project plan, I have an impression that he never heard of the concept). I didn't even have time to think.
I asked for a face to face meeting today. He is away in Italy and said he would be in tomorrow 11am. Tomorrow is Saturday and I am in Barcelona. Kiss my ass, Sir.
On top of it he has known me (or more like seen me and heard of me) for the past year and last week he asked me what do I actually do here. Yesterday on the phone he asked me whether I spoke Italian. He is taking the piss! He knows I bloody do, last time we spoke was in Italian!
I am not going to let him scare me into saying things I may regret. I was planning on handing in my notice at the end of June anyway.
oh man this is so goddamn tirying.
I am not leaving here until this goddamn Mediterranean cruise we are being sent on next week.
29 minutes to 5.
I am tired, confused and I think I don't care abnymore
FIN
That call followed a resignation from my line manager and our poker manager which leaves pretty much me and 2 poker guys in the department. The department can run as it is doing now without any problems, I am doing the day to day operations and things are allright but it looks like he is either scared that I want to resign or wants me to go. Fine. I do want to go, just on my conditions, dammit!
So in this totally ridiculous and unprofessional call yesterday he demanded an answer to whether I want to stay or go ...He really didn't think I would answer that just like that? Without knowing what am I standing on, where is the company going, what is the budget for next 3 months at least and some sort of a general idea on how things will go and what he wants me to do here (forget about any project plan, I have an impression that he never heard of the concept). I didn't even have time to think.
I asked for a face to face meeting today. He is away in Italy and said he would be in tomorrow 11am. Tomorrow is Saturday and I am in Barcelona. Kiss my ass, Sir.
On top of it he has known me (or more like seen me and heard of me) for the past year and last week he asked me what do I actually do here. Yesterday on the phone he asked me whether I spoke Italian. He is taking the piss! He knows I bloody do, last time we spoke was in Italian!
I am not going to let him scare me into saying things I may regret. I was planning on handing in my notice at the end of June anyway.
oh man this is so goddamn tirying.
I am not leaving here until this goddamn Mediterranean cruise we are being sent on next week.
29 minutes to 5.
I am tired, confused and I think I don't care abnymore
FIN
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la vida o la pellicula
May. 29th, 2009 | 01:05 am
mood: loved
I've just watched "Vicky Cristina Barcelona" and now I feel like I don't want to be back in my world. I'd rather stay in the film or live in the screenplay. Many of Woody Allen's films made me feel like that before and it just occurred to me that I haven't met anyone who liked him in quite a while. Last time when I was in high school. That's a long time. People say he's pretentious. I love his way of being pretentius in that case.
Next week I'll be, we'll be in Barcelona. Can it be magic, passionate, unexpected, full of mystery, Gaudi, Miró, spanish guitar music, fire, good wine and love? :D
Next week I'll be, we'll be in Barcelona. Can it be magic, passionate, unexpected, full of mystery, Gaudi, Miró, spanish guitar music, fire, good wine and love? :D
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meh
May. 27th, 2009 | 09:46 am
mood: 
bored
music: kings of leon - revelry
in a current work climate I have totally lost motivation. It is only 9:46am. Boredome is awful.
keep away petrol and matches..i could put them to use
keep away petrol and matches..i could put them to use
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is it summer already? yes it is!
May. 22nd, 2009 | 04:48 pm
mood: cheerful
music: jeff buckley - grace
We had some unexpected mgmt changes in the company as a result of which many people were rendered either shocked or dissapointed or angry or.. no-one was made redundant yet but who knows what will happen in a longer run.
So currently the new mgmt is trying to buy people's trust and favour by organizing events and paying for stuff because they know nothing about the company, no clue what figures we do and how we do it, all they are interested in are titles and money. pfft.
They want to send us all on a cruise in Med, somewhere off the coast of Turkey and Greece... in few groups, in June..so like, soon.
I am not that happy about working for these people and making money for them, but what the hell..I'll put principles somewhere in hiding for a week and roll on that goddamned cruise.. that is meant to be as an extra holiday and all paid for.
skunks. striped skunks even.
Surprise dinner party tonight so I will make sure I'll represent my tiny department well by drinking an extreme amount of funky cocktails.
June looks tempting, colourful and full of travelling and sunshine! I'd love to catch one of London events too but all the picknicks, birthdays and club nights are never on when I happen to be there...maybe June then :) I am going to attack Eva with Sangria in Barcelona on her first days there too!
And I had Martin for a weekend visit, how cool! And if anyone wants to come to innsbrooklyn whilst I'm still out here I'll be having lots of free house space from 29th of June till 10th of July so maybe give me a shout. My flatmates are off to Mexico to bring some parmageddon back :)
anyway, hellos from afar
So currently the new mgmt is trying to buy people's trust and favour by organizing events and paying for stuff because they know nothing about the company, no clue what figures we do and how we do it, all they are interested in are titles and money. pfft.
They want to send us all on a cruise in Med, somewhere off the coast of Turkey and Greece... in few groups, in June..so like, soon.
I am not that happy about working for these people and making money for them, but what the hell..I'll put principles somewhere in hiding for a week and roll on that goddamned cruise.. that is meant to be as an extra holiday and all paid for.
skunks. striped skunks even.
Surprise dinner party tonight so I will make sure I'll represent my tiny department well by drinking an extreme amount of funky cocktails.
June looks tempting, colourful and full of travelling and sunshine! I'd love to catch one of London events too but all the picknicks, birthdays and club nights are never on when I happen to be there...maybe June then :) I am going to attack Eva with Sangria in Barcelona on her first days there too!
And I had Martin for a weekend visit, how cool! And if anyone wants to come to innsbrooklyn whilst I'm still out here I'll be having lots of free house space from 29th of June till 10th of July so maybe give me a shout. My flatmates are off to Mexico to bring some parmageddon back :)
anyway, hellos from afar
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dribble
May. 11th, 2009 | 03:12 pm
location: office
mood: 
busy
music: themselves - poison pit
There are so many things happening every day that I could write about and would write about even to myself only, even if no one ever wanted to read it and then it always pops to my head when I am far way from a computer, so I write it in my head and then I am wondering why no one ever responds to me... I swear I haven't touched pot in a long time now, not talking about any other mind altering substances...
I have found my emo diary I used to write when I was 16 and I nearly died laughing, reading that was better than drugs. Thank god no one ever read it (:
It would be so good to go back to that time, at least for a while (: none of that work nonsense, responsibility, bills, flat tyres, bank interest rates (well, that was never part of my life, unless we're talking the interest on what I borrowed), an angry psycho neighbour...
It may be a time to move out very soon. Or they will throw us out of the flat. We can't walk in shoes or talk louder without police being called or nasty notes glued to the door as a Monday Good Morning message... this woman is mental, I feel like punching her straight in her big nose!
Moving out from there would be good if it happened around August time, that would help me solve quite an awkward situation of trying to keep my job as long as possible and planning to come back to the uk before the academic year. And my job actually starts to be interesting now, ah the irony! I've just been on my first business trip to Riga, Latvia. I can see how people find it tirying if too much travel is involved, but once in a while is totally pleasant. It was rather hectic as it involved a trip Innsbruck-München - Gatwick - Brighton -4h traffic jam - London for 3h - Brighton- Gatwick - München - Riga -Hamburg - München - Innsbruck in 4 days! Still, I liked it. Bring on more!
And I am slowly realising that I will miss this place when I'll leave, I wish I could cut out this bit of landscape and stick it on the map of the UK, somewhere close to London and the coast. Or I could have a supersonic travelling vehicle. Or can I just teleport, please.
ok. less dribble, more work!
I have found my emo diary I used to write when I was 16 and I nearly died laughing, reading that was better than drugs. Thank god no one ever read it (:
It would be so good to go back to that time, at least for a while (: none of that work nonsense, responsibility, bills, flat tyres, bank interest rates (well, that was never part of my life, unless we're talking the interest on what I borrowed), an angry psycho neighbour...
It may be a time to move out very soon. Or they will throw us out of the flat. We can't walk in shoes or talk louder without police being called or nasty notes glued to the door as a Monday Good Morning message... this woman is mental, I feel like punching her straight in her big nose!
Moving out from there would be good if it happened around August time, that would help me solve quite an awkward situation of trying to keep my job as long as possible and planning to come back to the uk before the academic year. And my job actually starts to be interesting now, ah the irony! I've just been on my first business trip to Riga, Latvia. I can see how people find it tirying if too much travel is involved, but once in a while is totally pleasant. It was rather hectic as it involved a trip Innsbruck-München - Gatwick - Brighton -4h traffic jam - London for 3h - Brighton- Gatwick - München - Riga -Hamburg - München - Innsbruck in 4 days! Still, I liked it. Bring on more!
And I am slowly realising that I will miss this place when I'll leave, I wish I could cut out this bit of landscape and stick it on the map of the UK, somewhere close to London and the coast. Or I could have a supersonic travelling vehicle. Or can I just teleport, please.
ok. less dribble, more work!
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swine flu update
Apr. 29th, 2009 | 11:05 am
location: work
mood: amused
music: sage francis
please avoid the following activity:
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teaches of peaches
Apr. 24th, 2009 | 01:37 pm
location: innsbrooklyn
mood: happy
music: teaches of peaches
fuck the pain away! ahahaha
in other news, yesterday I got an unconditional offer for MA in Translation/ Interpreting I applied for at Westminster Uni
yay! oh man, how do I do it?!! I need a good strategy, a plan. and money. and and.
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snowbombing!
Mar. 30th, 2009 | 10:20 am
mood: excited
music: LaRoux - In for the Kill (skreamix) - BLOC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I must have had like 5 hours of sleep in total over the weekend but it was totally ace! I managed to miss Lydia's show but I caught her running past at this expo, she said it has its highs and lows...
yeah, I must have seen the total low after midnight on Saturday ... so many sleazy men in one place it was terrifying - though Lucifire and Roxy Velvet's performances were great
I then continued drinkage with friends on the town only to finish at 6am realizing that the clocks go forward and I have maybe 2 hours of sleep before picking up
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djsynne from the airport and heading off to Mayrhofen for the Snowbombing !!It was so very chaotic on the arrival and we were both a bit tired but we managed to sort stuff out, score some very cheesy pizza and beer, and an afternoon nap in very comfortable beds :)
Then we were joined by Shana's mates from Manchester and we headed out on the "town" for the much praised partying has begun (I have a pass to the festival courtesy of Tinkerbell who pulled out last minute and whom I'd like to thank very much because thanks to her pass I had one of the best dancing nights in ages!)
One of the venues is a huge arena that Glade or Bangface wouldn't be ashamed of - we caught some good acts yesterday and this was just pure awesomeness!
Now, I will have to fake some horrible disease on Thursday and Friday and go there for some snow and party action instead of work
work is for suckers (and I am a sucker for sitting in the office typing this)
The highlight of boarding there is Harakiri, Austria's steepest slope (78% incline!)
If you don't fancy doing it you can always grab a drink in a bar with THE view and watch people struggle and tumble down and probably die or something...
hope you all had a good weekend!
snowbombing is the shizz btw! what am I doing at work again??!!
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camphor and cow pats (no obscenities, Guy..)
Mar. 27th, 2009 | 02:15 pm
location: Innsbruck
mood: 
curious
music: comeback kid - wake the dead
I have just had the best massage - 25 minutes of pure orgasmic pleasure in the gym next door.
I am a sucker for massages, I would never say no if someone offered one...this must be number one on my weakness list!
I don't mind smelling like camphor muscle rub now though it mixes with equally not so sophisticated smell of cow pats from outside (they are fertilizing the field nearby, that could give you an idea of where our offices are)
...mhmm I am soo attractive today I even make my knees go weak (;
Anyway, it's leisure Friday! time for another item from my good-things-in-life list, mojito!
And, I have won some misterious competition I have entered from Lydia's show website link - it was meant to be something to do with the show, they were looking for courageous ladies wanting to co-operate and the main prize was meant to be a burlesque weekend in London..
So being courageous or just plain silly and thinking it'd be amusing I have entered..
I have been rang at 7am this morning and talked at in tirolian gibberish and I said "ja jaja ja" to everything ...though not really sure to what.
They said I was one of the winners but they had to change something due to some technical difficulties...very vague and I was very sleepy..
I am supposed to be in the radio offices (which are conveniently located in a building next door) at 3.45pm and I am terribly intrigued!
PS Lydia advised to avoid the live sex when at the show. Live sex in Tyrol! Cow pats, camphor and live sex! If that was someone else I would be intrigued, but I shall stay away then...is it that bad I wonder?
EDIT: oh wow, guess what? I have kind of won together with some other bloke. But the original plan of doing something burlesque at the show didn't work so they decided, to my total surprise, to do a quiz on air. That is why I had to be in the radio's offices. Then that other bloke (why did he enter the competition in the first place no one knows) has given his entry to some random girl at his uni. That girl din't even know what burlesque was and she ended up winning with 1 point because I knew no answer to a local FCInnsbruck football question (she didn't know the answer either), so she got my point.
So she won the return flight to London next weekend, with a night in a 5* hotel and a ticket to a burlesque show! That could be me, man..
But check it out: she doesn't want to go alone and then asked whether she could go on a different day (and lose the hotel and the show) ..what is the point then? I offered her some dosh in exchange but to no avail.
Unlucky! (:
But still. I was on the austrian radio, doing a quiz in German with rather local Tirol knowledge questions and I won tickets to Lydia's show and some radio goodies. ahaha!
More highlights to come to Tyrol: marilyn manson ahahahah ahah haha ha.
I am a sucker for massages, I would never say no if someone offered one...this must be number one on my weakness list!
I don't mind smelling like camphor muscle rub now though it mixes with equally not so sophisticated smell of cow pats from outside (they are fertilizing the field nearby, that could give you an idea of where our offices are)
...mhmm I am soo attractive today I even make my knees go weak (;
Anyway, it's leisure Friday! time for another item from my good-things-in-life list, mojito!
And, I have won some misterious competition I have entered from Lydia's show website link - it was meant to be something to do with the show, they were looking for courageous ladies wanting to co-operate and the main prize was meant to be a burlesque weekend in London..
So being courageous or just plain silly and thinking it'd be amusing I have entered..
I have been rang at 7am this morning and talked at in tirolian gibberish and I said "ja jaja ja" to everything ...though not really sure to what.
They said I was one of the winners but they had to change something due to some technical difficulties...very vague and I was very sleepy..
I am supposed to be in the radio offices (which are conveniently located in a building next door) at 3.45pm and I am terribly intrigued!
PS Lydia advised to avoid the live sex when at the show. Live sex in Tyrol! Cow pats, camphor and live sex! If that was someone else I would be intrigued, but I shall stay away then...is it that bad I wonder?
EDIT: oh wow, guess what? I have kind of won together with some other bloke. But the original plan of doing something burlesque at the show didn't work so they decided, to my total surprise, to do a quiz on air. That is why I had to be in the radio's offices. Then that other bloke (why did he enter the competition in the first place no one knows) has given his entry to some random girl at his uni. That girl din't even know what burlesque was and she ended up winning with 1 point because I knew no answer to a local FCInnsbruck football question (she didn't know the answer either), so she got my point.
So she won the return flight to London next weekend, with a night in a 5* hotel and a ticket to a burlesque show! That could be me, man..
But check it out: she doesn't want to go alone and then asked whether she could go on a different day (and lose the hotel and the show) ..what is the point then? I offered her some dosh in exchange but to no avail.
Unlucky! (:
But still. I was on the austrian radio, doing a quiz in German with rather local Tirol knowledge questions and I won tickets to Lydia's show and some radio goodies. ahaha!
More highlights to come to Tyrol: marilyn manson ahahahah ahah haha ha.
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burlesque in Tirol is quite unusual
Mar. 26th, 2009 | 04:53 pm
location: Innsbruck
mood: excited
music: Mongrel - hit from the morning sun
well, in the land of farmers and Graukäse there is all of a sudden an explosion of erotica and then I get to know that Lydia and Lucifire are performing there too
this is brilliant! I am trying to get tickets and it is proving to be difficult but I am determined to go tomorrow or saturday if not today
I have managed not to see Lydia performing all that time in London and bizarrely I will get to see it here, small world!
Ach spring is lovely, things are happening, there's lots of travelling planned ... budget travelling but that means more unexpected fun like last weekend's when we stayed in a six people's dorm in five hoping that the hostel would not add anyone to our room
to our surprise they did which we noticed only when the said addition woke up in the middle of the night to vomit all over his bed, travel back and forth to the bathroom being more sick just to come back to his bunk bed to clean up a bit, change sheets and go back to sleep...he woke up very early and snuk out being most likely a bit shy ...
Though he was there again the following night ! We haven't exchanged a single word with him and barely saw his face...not like it's much lost there but it was so totally unsocial ! (;
ach hostels! the joy!
and Berlin wins on all fronts! it's made of great people, fantastic street art, alternative cultured and less cultured events, great bars with brilliant atmosphere, cheap and good falafels, colourful and friendly people, Tacheles, U-Bahn, friends, friends of friends, wine bars where you drink as much as you can and then pay what you think it was worth! parties on S-Bahn trains where you can drink on public transport that runs all night long (S1 wins this competition and Barn has even expressed his willing to stay and drink on the train) , commie looking eateries, river Spree, Kreuzberg, fragments of the Wall with more graffitti, that weird mix of post communist landscape and capitalist Coke neons - it looks like on a plan from "Goodbye, Lenin" which if you haven't seen by now you definitely still should ..
Berlin is made of win! I could move there in 5 mins if there was work available.. this and previous link is very very useful for those of you who are planning a short escapade but have no clues
now, tickets!
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fast forward to Friday please
Mar. 16th, 2009 | 10:03 am
location: work
mood: 
sleepy
whaaaa? one of our potential affiliates wants €1 for page impression...
that's like €1 for viewing and without clicking on our banner! out of his little mind or what the heck?
- oh hi, you looked at me now pay
- but but but... I didn't really want to look, I'm not interested, it just happened, you know, when you have your eyes open it's just inevitable that you LOOK at things...looking at things should NOT cost money unless you are aware that you are looking at something you WANT TO PAY FOR, like ARt... no one pays for window shopping
- well, it doesn't matter. you did look. these are my rules. it's €1
is it grey in London too?
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proper sunday chillout
Mar. 8th, 2009 | 07:21 pm
location: Rum
mood: happy
music: alkaline trio - private eye
Today was a reward for yesterday's office torture - I woke up at 7am to a beautiful morning drowning in sunshine and headed of to meet
brokenbeast for a luxurious breakfast in a posh hotel in the heart of the town...he is in Austria for work and it turned out that our circles of friends weirdly meet here, what a small world! going back to the breakfast buffet it made me wonder where do they get all the exotic fruit that was served? You certainly can't find it in supermarkets here...mmmm yum!
then we drove to Schlick for some boarding action and beers and food. more beers though. and lounging in the sun. It was such a lovely day!
Here's Barry in action:
And now I'm home to enjoy a bit of silence before the party comes back here: we have new couchsurfers, a really sweet couple from Brisbane (I was told by Jon that I said coachsurfing instead of couchsurfing last time eheh, it makes a small difference)
They arrived straight after our Mongolian guest had left and they are nicely refreshing after that one... I rarely don't get along with people but that one was really tiring...he just wouldn't stop talking, mostly about himself and his travels - it was all very interesting and impressive - he travelled through Africa and Middle East hitch-hiking, if one believes this is actually true but the way he was making himself VERY BLOODY IMPORTANT was less impressive..and he had a story about nearly everything...you couldn't even drink a cup of tea without him telling you a story about a cup. Apparently travelling the world is his mission and his destiny (his parents somehow help that destiny because he's been on the road since 2005 without having to work :) and I wish him good luck and all. But Aussies are more fun.
oh. it's international women's day today. in communist Poland we would get a bunch of carnations and maybe a pair of nylon stockings from the state and all that with greetings from the Party - that would happen ostentatiously in the place of work and all men would smile and be nice for a day, you know, women deserve it once in a while (:
eheh good ol' communists