I wish you a wonderful day! :D

I got your email (thank you very much!) but I'm too tired to answer right now, I'll do that tomorrow (or probably today when you read this). I'm glad to know you got my card, hope you liked it. Anyway, have a very nice birthday and I'll write to you later, ok? Hope your work isn't too bad today. :)

So, after receiving the wonderful gifts from him, I sent him a thank you card in March to tell him how grateful I was. Yesterday my mum told me there was mail from Australia for me... I asked her to open it and take a photo, and guess what was inside. :) He's such a treasure!



On the back, he wrote among other things "you Rushies make me very happy - hilarious and fascinating and touching!"

This has really cheered me up a bit (I'm not feeling so good emotionally at the moment), so, from the bottom of my heart, THANK YOU, Geoffrey!

By the way, I've got msn now, so if anyone wants to add me, feel free to do so: anjaschl@hotmail.de

... and thank you Grace, for sending me the goodies so quickly (I didn't find any cat hairs, by the way ;)) and, above all, for organising this great meet last year without which we wouldn't be blessed with these gifts now. :)

I really don't know what to say. WOW. This man is beyond wonderful.

I'm currently working on an essay for uni and need to relax a little. The best way to do that is doing totally pointless and random stuff on the internet. Hehe. :D *yawns*

So because rushysgirl, dweediecat, pirate_dutchess, sadesmuseand probably many others did it, here's mine.


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Hello everyone! Sorry I haven’t been online so much lately, but I had one of those phases of depression again...

Now I’m back in Birmingham in my nice little room and I feel really independent and kind of happy again. :) Here’s to the next three months in England! I’ll hopefully be able to come here more often in the next few days (I will try, I promise!).

See ya! :)

... why I’m feeling so depressed. What follows here is more moaning, so if you can’t bear it anymore, please don’t read on. Sorry.

So, my depression. Of course, lovesickness (at least that’s what I think it is) is one big part of it. How long does that take to be over anyway? And why hasn’t beaming been invented (like in Star Trek)?
But somehow, this is not the only reason. I remember my aunt telling me last week how good I looked and how good it had been for me not seeing my family for three months (ok, she said the last one jokingly, but I begin to see the truth in it). On the first day after my return to Germany, I felt so free, so independent. I had to have my hair cut and to see a doctor, and I did both things by walking there (and NOT taking the car, which I would easily have done three months ago). It took longer, but I felt a lot better. I wasn’t even tired, I was so proud of myself.
The longer I am at home again, however, the more I revert to my old patterns. I haven’t left the house for five days in a row and whenever I’m sad, I go to sleep or online. In England, I could’ve just gone into the kitchen and talked to my flatmates. They always made me feel better. Or I could’ve met my friends and gone somewhere. Here, there’s “just” my family. Please don’t get me wrong, I love my family, I really do. But somehow, I’ve never really got along well with my father. He’s got such a negative attitude which always spoils everyone’s mood (at least mine), even at Christmas. Even before I went to England, I could hardly bear it sometimes. But now that I know the difference, now that I know how it CAN be, I’m not satisfied here. I think I just see my family way too often at the moment. I so need to get out of here. Of course, I could just go out every day, but where? My best friends at the moment are in England or their own home countries. In the last few years, I've never been able to make any close friends because I preferred to stay at home most of the time. Now I've changed a lot. Now I love going out. Now I love being independent, to be able to do whatever I like. I can’t do that here. I don’t like it anymore. Somehow England made me grow up. Quickly.
I also remember a friend of mine saying how she got along a lot better with her family after moving out. I can’t afford that here, unfortunately, but maybe that would be a solution someday. I will spend the next six months in England, so I don’t have to worry about that yet. In fact, I’m counting the days until my return to Birmingham. I don’t want to spend the whole day inside anymore. I’m sick of being lazy. I’m sick of being such an emotional mess. I’m sick of crying all the time.
I actually thought I would be really happy once I returned home for Christmas. Unfortunately, this Christmas turned out to be the... well, I wouldn’t call it “unhappiest”, but perhaps rather “least happy” I can remember. *sobs* I really don’t want to feel like this, but I do. And why does having strong feeling for someone you’ll probably never see again have to be so painful? Can it be the 5th of January already, please? It won’t make everything easier, but hopefully part of it. At least temporarily.

Oh well. I got a whole bunch of DVDs for my birthday and Christmas, so I guess I could watch something to distract my thoughts and feelings. We’ll see. Maybe the Simpsons will help.

At the moment, I’m listening to “Storm” from the Golden Age soundtrack, which I love most. It makes me feel good somehow, as it makes me remember B’ham and the Rushie Meet. It makes me feel at home.

Sorry for my ranting, I’ll stop now.

 Well, the 21st is not over here yet, but in Australia, it certainly is.
So, rushysgirl, I wish you a Happy Birthday! Enjoy your day, have some nice food and great presents! :D

I'm back in Germany now and have gone through all my mail. ;) Thanks very much for your DVD, mooncove! It was wonderful to read your German message! ;) And juriousand rushysgirl, I was very happy about your Christmas cards! God, I love you guys! :D

Oh God, it's so quiet here now that four of my five flatmates have left. So because Hana and I didn't want to have dinner alone, we invited three guys to eat with us. We were three Australians and two Germans and it was quite a nice evening.

I've also begun to pack my things. Tomorrow I'll finally be back home, which I'm really looking forward to. But I'm also a little frustrated because I got to know a really nice guy at the Christmas Market (he's German and will return home next week) and I probably won't be able to see him again soon. This is so unfair.

Somehow I'm totally tired, so I'll go to bed soon. Next time you hear from me I'll be back in Germany! Yay!

Oh God, I am soooo tired! Today was such a long day for me, even if I didn't have uni.
Had Pilates around noon, then I went to city centre and took a walk over the Christmas Market. I saw a sign that a sweets stall was looking for help, and so I've got a job now! :D Went to the cinema at 4 to watch Beowulf in 3D... the film itself was not so good (because I've read and like the story and they just changed too much), but the 3D effects were amazing.

When the film was over, I returned to the Christmas Market and started my first shift... ok, I was only there for three hours, but I still had to learn anyway. No I totally smell like sugar. :D

So I'm going to work there on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays... the rest of the week will be devoted to uni work.

And now I'm going to bed. My feet hurt. ;)

I've put the pics from our Bath trip last Saturday online. As always, you can see them here.

Went to see GA again today. My opinion hasn't really changed, I still admire Geoff and Cate and can't stand Clive... sorry to his fans.

Only seven days until AWE is released here. :D I can't wait to hear Geoffrey's audio commentary and see if he appears in any of the featurettes...

And I've finished my first "English" essay (I'm not used to the way they do it here, we do things differently at my home university). Until the middle of December, I'll have to write another one and translate a text from German into English. I hope I'll get these things done soon so I can enjoy the pre-Christmas time here. And I could read "Northern Lights" again, as the adaptation comes to cinemas on the 5th of December... wish me luck I'm in a good mood to work. :)

I’m tired, I’m full, I’m happy. That’s all I have to say. :D
No really, it was a wonderful day and it’s been a real pleasure meeting you all! It was so good being together with people who actually know Geoffrey and his work. I didn’t take any pics, but everyone else did; so they‘ll probably come from the others. *patiently waits for photos*

Grace, thank you very much for organising all this, I loved it! I hope we can meet again some time before I have to return to Germany (June 2008)...

Simone, it’s been a pleasure to meet you, and thanks again for paying for our food (I still feel very bad). Love your Barbs tattoo!

Cassie, you’re just hilarious. :D Now I can‘t forget the girl in the orange boots... and I know pink is not lilac.

Emily, you and your friend are such whirlwinds... I felt so overwhelmed by your liveliness. We certainly couldn’t have got bored in your presence (not that it would have been possible anyway, with Geoffrey as our focus). :)

Thank you all for this great day!

Anyone put their chocolate in the fridge yet? I should really do that, it’s starting to melt. :)

My stupid internet connection hasn't been working for two days now... it's so annoying to always have to go to the library. What do we pay that much money for anyway? And there are so many new posts I've got to catch up on. Grrr... I'm sorry for not commenting very much at the moment. I really hope they'll get it fixed soon.

Later today, I'm going to meet

jurious and cohonslove ... really looking forward to that. :) And tomorrow's the big day. Yay! *jumps*

 

I've uploaded some pics from our Cambridge trip last Saturday. As always, you can see them here. Did you know (I'm sure jurious does...) that Walsingham went to King's College for a short while? It was so beautiful, I've never seen anything like it! :)

And look where I went today:


:-) Hehe. I also managed to take a nicer photo of Geoffrey on one of those doubledeckers:



Yum. Are you ladies sure we're not going to spend next Saturday at a bus stop? :D

I booked my flight home (Christmas holidays) yesterday. I'll be back in Germany on December 18th and here again on January 5th. That's more than 2 weeks, yay!
And two of my friends and me are going to visit Glasgow for two days in December too! I'm soo looking forward to that!

Yesterday we went to the "Black Country Living Museum", kind of an open-air museum where they rebuilt a 19th/early 20th century town. If you've never heard of it, here's the website: www.bclm.co.uk
We did a coal mine trip, watched a Charlie Chaplin comedy in a 1920's cinema, ate traditional fish & chips (fried in beef drippings; God was that good!), had a lesson in an old schoolroom (she really inspected our fingernails...) and visited many of the houses. It was really beautiful. I took some photos which you can see here. I would've taken more, but unfortunately my batteries ran out... but hopefully I get some more from my friends who took a little more. :)

Yes, I admit it. I was bored. This afternoon I was so tired I slept for four hours. Now I should do some reading but somehow can't...

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I got a letter from apple4b today. Thanks so much sweetie, I love both the pic and the nice card (you don't hunt deer, do you?)... *cuddles* For those who want to know what she sent me, here is it:



This is just so cool! Slowly, my room is getting really Geoffreyfied... :D

I spent most of my day in City Centre (and had to think of Barbossa when I saw the bull, thanks jurious :D). We went to Starbucks and I ate a superdelicious peach-raspberry muffin and drank a hot chocolate with cinnamon... God, was that good!  Here's a pic:




Yummy! I just had to take a photo of it - it looked (and was) so good!

Tonight I'm just going to continue reading Jane Eyre (Rochester is really an interesting character) and hope I'll have it finished by Monday.

Cheers everyone! ;)