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The week has barely started and it's already stressful. The apartment-hunting was so far quite unsuccessful, and thus, rather depressing :(
And it's raining. It's been raining for days now and does not look like it will ever stop.


Summer rain is actually quite nice but it also brings a certain lazy, sluggish feeling with it. The light outside seems creamy and grey, the raindrop melody is soothing and sleepy, and I'd like to stay in bed forever. Curled up with a hot cup of Earl Grey tea and one of Zola's touching novels. 

Except, I can't. Or at least - I shouldn't b
ecause the original planing for the evening featured:

1) homework for tomorrow: electric properties of a neuron, which is actually one of my favourite biophysic topics, but my own neurons are way too slowly today to wrap themselves around the exercises and lectures.

2) tiding up: which I always procrastinate till the final state, so that I can't even find my mobile phone, when it's buzzing. Whoever it was, who tried to reach me, he should have been more patient than that.

3) If I did find my needle in the chaos, I still have to make the two plushy stuffed atoms
(Gold and Hydrogen) for my friend, who is celebrating her Master of Science this week. Yay, her!  :)

Or to say it the Hergé style:



The photo is not the best, but my trusty scanner exists only in my imagination (together with a nice, old-fashioned house with a cryptic garden) and the bitchy but real one from the university keeps on drawing annoying strings into the picture. I'm sure, I could have solved the problem, but you don't want to spent too much time on a public scanner, fumbling with an eye-catching bright comic book, while all the people around you look so serious with their black-white documents and homework sheets.
Maybe next time.

It's from the this treasure I found in one of our libraries last week. It contains musings about
Hergé's archive and some background infos, which are quite fascinating.

For example:

In Hergé's head!canon Alcazar met his bossy wife (who is the daughter of the arms dealer B. Bazaroff from The Broken Ear) in a music hall in New York ;) One day I'd love to read a fanfiction dealing with the two sweethearts


Also, the godfather for the professor (Auguste Piccard) was quite a nice-looking chap and had indeed set records on both altitude flight and deep-sea dive. Except, the real prof was extraordinary tall. Hergé had to make him smaller so that he would fit into the picture square just fine ;)



(Dialogue: 'Why?.. No doubt your name happens to be Red Rackham?' 'Yes?')

Some more photos from the same page because I find the random
postcard, which was the inspiration for Haddocks apartment, absolutely endearing ;)Read more... )

Okay, now back to sleep, drinking tea, tiding up while searching for a needle in the haystack, learning more about neurons. There are already excited. Oh my,  am I really going to end the entry with such a lame line? Yes, I am.

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Want this whisky bottle oh so badly, don't you, Captain? ;)



The above mentioned picture shows Me and the Internet the right way to fight the temptation. In fact, the only way, if you're not the Oscar Wilde type (according to him the best way is to yield to it.) Lucky me, our Internet was down for a while - so the start in the new semester was rather smooth this time ;) I had plenty of time for the theater, experimental reports and walking in the rain. And I still can't decide whether to go into the Biophysics or Laser-Spectroscopy.. I'll bet you, I will end up writing my master thesis in an entirely different subject >D

Also - never neglect an opportunity to post an excerpt of your current obsession. I've already told you how those (that is -
obsessions) tend to affect me, right? Mostly in a positive sense. Obviously, "The Adventures of Tintin" isn't such a good influence as one might expect...

Since my hair is already standing up in a most ridiculous way (due to a misguided hairdresser who apparently had something against me. And the gravity), the Fate (such a joker) had a fresh idea. Nether alcohol nor a smoking pipe but an epic crash down the stairs. It could have been a page out of a comic book for all the banging down. Step for step. Really - I always thought the authors were exaggerating but it certainly is possible to fall down the stairs the "showy" style. Without breaking your neck (don't try it at home, kids!) but only with skinned knees, some fancy bruises and a bit of a shock.

Maybe I should get me another obsession. A really boring one would be nice for a change.
(But the Captain and Tintin being so perfect together makes it hard to resist. I even start lusting after some longish fan-fiction stories or a role-playing full of epic fails, crazy adventures and glorious misunderstandings. Once a junkie - always a junkie >3 any interested parties?)

Also, are there any Jeeves & Wooster crossover with Tintin's 'verse? There definitely should be - just think about how Bertie would have taught the Capitan to act like a proper squire (including playing golf without destroying the whole place, getting engaged a bit more often and bearing with less colorful ties).

I always crave for the wrong kind of crossover 
- try and find any Weiß Kreuz & Sherlock BBC crossfiction among all the single'verse stories! I ought to start writing again. Beware: According to my experimental reports I tent to amuse my supervisor a lot. Have some quotes:

[German. The next one will be in English due to the American Prof. teaching us. Since he won the Chemistry Humbold Prize he's the boss.]

"... der entscheidende Schritt ist dabei die Zufallsreaktion." [Sollte natürlich die Zerfallsreaktion heißen.] 
Und so eine Redewendung wie "... durch die gedankliche Extrapolation der Literaturwerte." ist anscheinend auch nicht Existenzberechtigt ._."

/back to learning. NOW.


PS. Yes, dreamwidth. Because I love to try new, shiny things out? And because of the tintin_kinkmeme. Obviously.
I'm still mostly on the LJ, though. Home, sweet home and all the amazing friends <3



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