Meaning, of course, that I've finished watching the series. Actually finished a few days ago, which is why my sleeping rhythm is still a bit weird.

So, after what, 250 episodes or something, here's my bottom line:

Not surprisingly, Buffy/Angel is still my OTP. Totally and forever.

Considerably more surprisingly, neither of them are my favourite characters. Just ... damn, how does Spike do it? Is it just kinda IMPOSSIBLE for him to ever be anything other than brilliant? I will admit that his accent kills me in all the best ways - what can I say, I'm a sucker for Brits or well-faked ones. I'm pretty much in love with Spike. He made a great villain, but, lo and behold, also shaped up quite nicely on the other side. (Also, more screen time)

Not sure I would've fallen for this What-HOSHIT-I'm-suddenly-in-love-with-my-part-time-nemesis routine if ... idk, I guess the acting hadn't been so good or it wouldn't have been so hilarious (and sometimes heartbreaking). Just, guh, he with his swaggering and boozing and pet names and peroxide and swirling leather coat and complete FAIL all the time, but at least he always says what's on his mind and if he loves someone, he commits completely ... yeah.

( Some Buffy Season Talk )

( Some Angel Season Talk )

There's one thing I realised: Weirdly, I don't even love Buffy as a character that much, most of the time anyway. You know, when she's so chipper and blonde and girly and, ugh, well, an American cheerleader and always just awesome and can do anything and is so cool. But! When her weaker side wins over, that's when I really like her. I guess I have a thing for tragic heros... but I just know that I liked Buffy best a) after she killed Angel, b) when her Mum died, and c) after she was resurrected.

And finally, I believe this is the first fandom where I have an OT3. It shouldn't be hard to guess which one =)



I SO HAVE TO GET SOME SLEEP. Have an exam on Thursday, meh - it's just for English, so no evol law stuff, but the one part I like the least about English and American Studies, linguistics.

ETA: I now totally have a BtVS/AtS tag. LOL. They've earned it.

The has just been a mention of sparkling vampires on Angel.

NOOO. OH, THE HUMANITY. WILL IT NEVER END???

/sleep-deprived vampire talk

Our student movement has gone from national to European!

There's a map of the occupied unis now, that despite being constantly updated is not completely accurate - lastest news is that 24 universities are (apparently) occupied, in Austria, Germany, Poland and the UK (plus two Italian cities that have been given up).

I'd just like to take this opportunity to pimp our website - you can change the language at the top right corner.

Not sure how long we'll hold the unis here - we're on the 20th day now. Stay tuned ;)

Just because.

Give me a fandom and I'll name:

Favorite character:
Least favorite character:
Character with the best hair:
Character with the best eyes:
Character with the best smile:
Character I'd most want to kiss:
Character I'd most likely fuck:
Character I'd make lunch for:
Character I'd go singing in the rain with:
Character I'd go shopping with:
Character I'd go dancing with:
Character I'd take over the world with:
Character I most want to see more of:
Favorite pairing:


Just as inspiration, some of my fandoms (very broad interpretation of the term, feel free to ask for any books, films, TV shows or so *g*):
Films/Books: Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, Formula 1, Pirates of the Caribbean, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Vampire Chronicles
TV shows: Grey's Anatomy, Gossip Girl, Brothers & Sisters, Gilmore Girls, Buffy/Angel, VAM (Ville Valo and Bam Margera), Sex and the City, The O.C.,
Manga/Anime: One Piece, Cantarella

ROMAN LAW EXAM = PASSED OMFG

This time only passed, not pwned, due to my D, but hey, I knew it was going to be pass or fail this time.

w00t!

Also, I just saw that this was quite a big 14 ECTS exam ... phew, glad all that work didn't go to waste.

Anyway, off to a flashmob now :p

This is a little article from today's Kronen Zeitung, the most popular Austrian tabloid about the student protests.
It says that masked demonstrators are spraying on the walls of the University of Vienna.

Luckily there's still hope, or rather quality newspapers like Der Standard, who solve the mystery by providing contrary evidence: The guy is merely spraying on a simple wooden panel leaning against some railing, and the "mask" is protecting him from inhaling too much of the spray can fumes.

Just thought this was a nice example of how tabloids like to twist and warp the truth to fit into their little world. :D Also, those people are making awesome art there - Mr Cock and his lackeys better recognise!

Yes, I totally love how I finally get to use my Red Flag icon more :p

Oh my God, my hair.

Well, this certainly is ... interesting.

ETA: This would be great for Halloween. Only that was ... today.

Hm.

Stolen from ... everyone:

Current Books: Lord of the Rings, for the gazillionth time (it's been a while :D)
Current Playlist: Paramore, Kings of Leon and some more stuff... I'm very inconsistent - right now I kinda feel like some Pavarotti.
Current Guilty Pleasure: Buffy and Angel.
Current Colour: Green.
Current Drink: Tea - my throat hurts :(
Current Food: tomato-parmesan-prosciutto risotto
Current Favourite Show: Hm. Still Gossip Girl, I think.
Current Wishlist: Passing exams, one or two new handbags.
Current Triumphs: Practical Phonetics and Oral Communication class initial check-up: my accent is pretty good :)
Current Bane of My Existence: NOT KNOWING IF I'VE PASSED MY ROMAN LAW EXAM. It's only been 4 freaking weeks. :|
Current Celebrity Crush: David Boreanaz
Current Indulgence: Eating out frequently.
Current Blessing: J being in Vienna \o/
Current Slang: Uhm... saying also a lot? No idea.
Current Outfit: The only pair of jeans that isn't drying right now and a green cardigan. I'm half sick, only dressed for bed.
Current Excitement: DIE UNI BRENNT! (The Uni Is Burning student protests here in Austria.) We stand united! :p
Current Mood: Sore. Picked up a bad cold at one point this week. Must've been between the big demonstration and yesterday's plenum that it got so bad.

HALP, again, as my illiteracy in all things technical never lets me down:

I'm having trouble getting all my videos (mostly .avi) onto my iPod touch because it only supports .mov and .mp4. The converters I've tried so far either produce low quality results or can't handle anything over 1 GB file size (and want to get this done before 2010 please).

So, what do you use to convert videos to .mov or .mp4?


In other news, the uni occupation has survived a bomb threat, a meeting of the Minister of Education Mr. Cock with a group of students and someone (guess who) turning off the heating in one of the occupied lecture halls. It's the ninth day today! \o/

Also, the next big event is being planned: A national Day of Action in all the university cities in Austria (...which all have occupied unis :D) next Thursday, Nov 5th. It's still early, but it looks like we'll not be striking ... we're having a blocked course on the topic of Political Education, time: all day, students: all Austrians. LOL.

Anyway, I've put my name down for a flashmob, at least. We're also looking to have people go around, handing out information (because as I gather it, we now have better printing possibilities for a paper with a circulation of 5000) and we hope that we can arrange a big demonstration in the evening of university students, school students and the Union people.

Alright, back to work now. I'm now officially part of the Internationalisation Working Group. That's a fancy term for translation of the articles on our website: http://unibrennt.at/?lang=en
Also, I have buttons. WITH LITTLE BURNING UNIS ON THEM. =)

Okay, I don't have a happy, but at least a giggle:

So the Austrian military set a world record in Mass Mambo Dancing on Saturday, as ladyofsalzburg reported here.

The same Austrian military also did their best to stop a student demonstration (though nowhere near as big as the one today) on Saturday.

So, naturally, the students break said Mass Mambo Dancing world record easily just 4 days later after a very successful demonstration - because it seemed like fun.

Karma's a bitch. :D


ETA: LOL Best Poster Ever. The guy is our Minister of Education (aka the Anti-Christ) called Hahn ... which literally translated means cock. Ahem. XD

Okay, so if I had slept more than 3 hours last night, if I hadn't been in uni for 8 hours, if I hadn't just spent 3 hours marching around the inner city of Vienna chanting and whistling with 20.000 other people in a huge student demonstration, I would be with them partying right now.

As it is, I'm half-deaf and totally knackered and in my bed and not willing to move more than two muscles for the rest of the evening. Where are the slave boys with the grapes when you need them?

Anyway, not the point of this post (tell you all about the demonstration tomorrow when there's more news coverage). I have managed to watch episode 8 from the first Angel season today between lectures on my ipod.

*takes a deep breath*

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO~

WWWWWWHHHHHHHHYYYYYYYYYYYYYY~

OH GOD. WHAT WAS THIS. SRSLY. WHY SO CRUEL. WHY SO WONDERFUL AND AWESOME AND THEN BAM - DRAMA AND TEARS AND HEARTBREAK.

WHY IS IT ALWAYS MY OTPS???

I SHOULD SO STOP WATCHING THIS STUFF BECAUSE IT IS ALWAYS LIKE THIS. THEY MAKE ME LOVE THEM AND THEN RIP MY HEART OUT.

I NEED A HAPPY. I NEED A HAPPY NOW!

*clings to Buffy and Angel*

TV shows are so stupid. *sulks*

Okay, so I did watch more Buffy.
...stop looking at me like that. :)

Anyway, ( thoughts )

But more importantly - HALP, I can haz question:

I'm four episodes into season three and I'm not feeling it. In fact, I'm terribly disappointed (...with this series I started watching two weeks ago. YES.). I've said already that I'm a big Buffy/Angel fangirl. So... is Angel gonna come back at one point? Like, ever? Because if not, I doubt I'll let this series eat up more of my time, it kind of doesn't seem worth it, at least not the way it is right now... I'm even considering watching the spin-off, though the story doesn't seem all that interesting.

So, any helpful comments?
Yes, I am still using Twilight icons for this. You know, in a mocking way.

Yep, they're still going strong...

I hear when they're not having discussions, concerts, plays, or parties, the people in thee Audimax in Vienna are busy preparing for tomorrow, which is Nationalfeiertag, the Austrian National Day. There'll be lots of events around the area of the university, so they're making banners and flyers. They have about 44 working groups at the moment who have all kinds of jobs - organisation, music, food, legal matters, cleaning, PR. Also, people are working on a website on 21 laptops.

Today they invited an English professor of European Studies of the King's College in London, Alex Callinicos, to speak in the Audimax. It's a great lecture on Universities in Neoliberalism, and thanks to the Audimax live stream, it's all on the internet. You should check it out, it's quite good and exactly what this whole initiative is about:



He tells them that he's loving what they're doing.
(Most importantly, he calls our minister of education an idiot, heh.)

I'm going to Vienna some time tomorrow to join the students in the Audimax, and there'll be a big demonstration on Wednesday. Yay!

Just so you know, my political activist streak came through again:

Since Thursday, the students in Austria are protesting against ... well, the system :D Moar information here on this facebook page and also here. It started with the Academy of Arts, then they've moved on to the largest lecture hall of the University of Vienna, the auditorium maximum, where they've lasted over 50 hours already. Other occupations are happening in different lecture halls, like at the technical University of Vienna.

I'm currently in Graz (at home), where we did the same yesterday and occupied a lecture hall - not there now because I kinda caught a cold from that, but I'll go down later.

I'm not totally comfortable with everything that's been happening (like people not being able to take an exam because the auditorium maximum was occupied), but it's kind of fascinating - the spontaneity and organisation of the whole event is dazzling. Like, in the audimax they're apparently electing a 6-person committee every day to organise stuff. They're cooking, they have a lot of panel discussions, they're organised a press conference, and between that they party with DJs and bands playing.

Anyway, just wanted to let you know what's happening - there's live updates on @unibrennt (Vienna audimax) and @ugrazgehoertuns (Graz).
Check out this picture taken at 1 a.m. today after 36 hours in the audimax</a>, I find it quite impressive:




Kinda unrelated, but having to do with my break from squatting today: THE BUFFY SEASON 2 FINALE MADE ME CRY CRY CRY ;_; (...shut up.)

Okay, so I might have just watched the first 2 episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Mostly because I was curious and I know a few people who really like it.

Yeah... fans might want to skip this, though I don't think I'm being too mean. Anyway, very random thoughts:


i. I'm getting really tired of people in their twenties playing 16-year-olds. They made me feel pretty much like a loser in school.

ii. Wow, this show is so 90s.

iii. I'll admit it: At first I was totally convinced that Giles was an American badly playing an Englishman. I was wrong. His accent is weird, though.

iv. ...Angel is H-O-T.

v. No-one wears shoes like Willow, the bog-standard nerd. Not even nerds.

vi. ...Angel it still hot.

vii. The special effects and fighting scenes are horrible - then again, they had better technology for Charmed and it was still bad.

viii. That evil vampire looks like he has Down's syndrome.

ix. ...Actually, all of the vampires kind of look like they have Down's syndrome. O_o

x. Giles is pretty creepy. And he's one of the good guys.

xi. No teenager has skin this perfect.

xii. "They can fly?" "They can drive." Okay, this was funny.

xiii. Xander isn't unattractive either.

xiv. That fanfiction I read was better than this.

xv. AHAHAHAHAHAHA highest ponytail ever... and here I thought nothing could be worse than her first Bronze hairdo.

xvi. What is it with 90s TV shows and climbing out of windows? ...Yeah, I'm thinking about Dawson's Creek.

xvii. I thought this would be ... more exciting? It's kinda slow.

xviii. Okay, either this "most popular club in town" has unusually great music or I was a teenager in the wrong decade. None of the "best" clubs today have rock/indie/grunge.


...And it's still about a hundred times better than Twilight. :D Nonetheless, I doubt I have the patience for more of this.

Anyway, even if you don't know Buffy or Twilight, you should totally watch this:
Buffy vs Edward: Twilight Remixed



It's just so good. Every feminist who was kind of disgusted and insulted by Twilight will love this - and everyone else will probably get a good laugh out of it too :p

ME: *sits in front of the computer wearing 2 cardigans and gloves, wrapped in a fleece blanket, with a hot-water-bottle*
ME: *texts flatmate* Hey, so it's down to 17°C in here, start heating soon?
FLATMATE: *texts back* It's not so bad yet... I'm sure we can wait until it's down to 15°C.
ME: *shrugs and crawls into bed*

3 hours later:

FLATMATE: *pops head in* You know, about that heating thing...
ME: *arches eyebrow*
FLATMATE: It's really rather chilly in here...
ME: *smirks*
FLATMATE: Maybe we should turn it on soonish? Uhm, now?
ME: *cackles victoriously*
FLATMATE: ...I'll go turn on the boiler, then.


In her defense, last year we did hold out until 16°C. We didn't start until Nov 20th.

That said, You know what I did one week ago? Sit in the sun in the MQ with ladyofsalzburg in 27°C weather, nearly melting in the heat. You know what my mother did 5 days ago? Go for a swim in our swimming pool at home-home (which is normally emptied towards the end of September).

This week, I'm wearing 5 layers when going outside, the temperature's dropped to 3°C, and because the Annual Icy Viennese Winter Gale from Hell Siberia is back, with the wind chill factor it's around the freezing point. Also, large parts of the country look like this and it's even snowing in Vienna all day today - tiny frozen rain drops that find their way underneath every jacket.

I love winter. I love snow. BUT NOT IN OCTOBER OKAY.

Sharing is Caring - For one week, recommend / share:

Day 01 | a song | Helden
Day 02 | a picture
Day 03 | a book/ebook/fanfic
Day 04 | a site
Day 05 | a youtube clip
Day 06 | a quote
Day 07 | whatever tickles your fancy

So, guys, please just accept that this is taking way longer than one week XD
So, my favourite fanfiction writer (sarahtales) has fled this realm to become an awesome author. I'll pick random fics I've read recently - which happens to be all Lord of the Rings:
King or Traitor, a Lord of the Rings story about Aragorn's time as Thorongil: Was it truly Aragorn’s own decision to go back North or was the choice taken from him? I really enjoyed this story (and let me tell you, it's hard to find good LotR fanfiction. :|), and it's a one-shot with gratuitous ickle!Boromir.
If you want a bit more detail: Thorongil.
And something short but sweet enough to give you cavities: And It Was Light Again: It was dark when she left, and it has been dark ever since. Until a little boy appeared and lit a candle in a place where all light had been long forgotten.


Meh, have to get up early tomorrow. For labour law, no less. Not impressed.

That said, I liked this week's Gossip Girl, but I can't wait for next week - boy-on-boyChuck action hooray!

1. If you'd like, comment to this entry saying 'ICONS!' and I will pick 6 of your icons.
2. Make an entry in your own journal and talk about the icons I picked!

fanged_angel gave me these icons:

( I love me my icons. )

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AM I NOT ENTITTLED TO PROFS WHO SPEAK PROPER ENGLISH? And not, you know, something that sounds like English but is just an Austrian trying to pronounce English words? >:O

Snagged from tinini:

Sharing is Caring - For one week, recommend / share:

Day 01 | a song | Helden
Day 02 | a picture
Day 03 | a book/ebook/fanfic
Day 04 | a site
Day 05 | a youtube clip
Day 06 | a quote
Day 07 | whatever tickles your fancy

Helden by Apocalyptica feat. Till Lindemann, Cover of David Bowey's Heroes (download link)

This song is simply divine. Not just because APOCALYPTICA IS THE BEST BAND IN THE WHOLE WORLD EVER, it's a genius twist on a classic song. I don't like Rammstein, but Till Lindemann's voice just works here, not to mention that the cellos are brilliant as always. Srsly, Apocalyptica OWNS MY SOUL >.>
(Also check out that awesome fan-made music video. Totally had me fooled for a while :D)