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My conscience is clean.

I never used it.

12/23/09 01:47 pm - What cold can do.

When the kitchen is the only warm place in the house, and you spend all day there together with your flatmate, the cold affects your privacy.
When you lie awake at night because it is too cold to sleep, the cold affects your energy level over the day.
When the bathroom door and window are crusted with ice on the inside and you want to spend as little time in there as humanly possible, the cold affects your personal hygiene.
When your lips get chapped and your face breaks out in zits, the cold affects your self-esteem.
When the internet cable freezes, the cold affects your contact to the outside world.
When the pipes freeze and you have no running water in the kitchen and wash dishes in the shower, the cold affects your general level of amusement.
When you need gloves to vacuum because the metal handle of the vacuum cleaner makes your fingers stick to it with cold, the cold affects the cleanliness of your flat.

Negative twenty degrees outside, about five degrees in our kitchen in the morning.
BUT my loneliness is cured, I have a date tonight :)

12/17/09 07:50 pm - Bože moje...

I found my boss's porn on my working laptop. I'm both amused and disappointed. Oh come on, you keep your stuff in your personal PC or on USB or something, not on a laptop that you give to volunteers. And you name the folder something other than "personal data". It makes people look. Name it "finances". Or "stuff". Or, like my wise friend, "have fun playing", which actually makes people look, too, but is at least a bit original.
From now on I will be much calmer in an argument with him =)

12/1/09 04:25 pm

Four girls and three guys start an evening with weed and nature shows.
One girl falls asleep.
One girl and one guy go to one room.
One girl and one guy go to another room.
The last girl and the last guy have nice conversations for an hour, then he sleeps on the couch and I sleep in a bed.

Folks, I fail at life.

11/24/09 01:06 pm - Only in the Balkans...

...they can have brand names like:
Barfy
Kum
Wudy
Slap
Kviki

And those are just the ones for food.
Either someone didn't speak any English at all, or someone spoke English very well and pulled a sophisticated joke on, um, their monolingual compatriots :D

10/27/09 09:30 am - Do you know those days when...

...there is a spider in your boot and a stray cat in the office, when your laundry from three days ago still hasn't dried completely but you wear it anyway, when you have just ended any relationship with your best friend of 12 years, when the cookies in the kitchen have gotten soft, when your flatmate is sick and needs nursing, when you go outside in the drizzling rain to get firewood and you twist your ankle, when you get your period, when the bathroom is icey cold – and still you are happy as a kitten and you just can't explain it?
That your day sucks and you are still in a good mood?
Or does that only happen to me?

9/28/09 06:25 pm - I spent...

...my 14th birthday in Finland.
...my 15th birthday in Spain.
...my 16th birthday in Spain.
...my 17th birthday in Texas.
...my 18th birthday in Germany, with my family.
...my 19th birthday in Germany, with my family.
...my 20th birthday in Bosnia-Hercegovina.

Considering that, my conversation with my 60-year-old, extremely loveable landlady today was downright comical.

Ljilja: Honey, aren't you sad to be so far away from your family?
me: Uh. No, it's fine, actually. I chose to be here.
Ljilja: But Honey, it's your birthday!
me: Yes, I know.
Ljilja: But aren't you sad?
me: No, I'm not. Birthdays aren't all that important to me.
Ljilja: What? How can birthdays not be important? You are young! You should celebrate them!
me: I feel as though I celebrate every day of my life.
Ljilja: But, aren't you sad to be away from your family on this day?
me: ....*sighs* Yes. Very sad.
Ljilja: Aw, poor girl. You know, you shouldn't be sad on your birthday!

9/6/09 02:38 pm - Home, sweet home

After a week spent attending a seminar in Sarajevo, I am "home" again.

The funny thing is, it was definitely summer when left here on Monday, and it was definitely autumn when I came back yesterday. Which is wonderful, as this is my favourite time of year. It was just a bit sudden.

Unfortunately, it has also become rather cold, and since I have neither wood nor an idea how to handle the oven yet, my only means to keep warm are woolen blankets, dancing with my walkman in hand, and masturbation. All of them undoubtedly enjoyable, but not exactly long-term solutions ;)

8/7/09 02:56 pm - News from Bosnia

I feel extremely uncomfortable doing nothing. I know it's not my fault – I do have „tasks“ but they are very vage and little work. But still I don't want them to see me check my personal e-mails, read news, or play dict.cc every time they look...

My new flatmate arrived yesterday. She is very nice and we'll get along well. I don't like sharing my precious flat with anyone but I can hardly complain about something like that. They are doing so much for me here! My landlady gave me a whole bag of vegetables from their garden yesterday... At least I'll never have to worry about my diet as long as I have them, hehe.

My language course will start today. I can hardly wait. I've learned quite a bit already, of course, but it's unstructed. I need someone who corrects me and who I can communicate with well enough to ask grammar questions. The best thing is that I have my teacher all to myself, which means I won't have to wait for slow students all the time =) God, that sounded conceited. Forgive me, I am cursed with perfection ;)


8/6/09 02:37 pm - Google Translate ftw!

"Estoy diecinueve, de Alemania, y los nuevos voluntarios de la delincuencia organizada Jajce."

....Yeah, I'm so volunteering for the mob. Always been my favorite career, anyway.
Can anyone explain to me where google gets the delincuencia organizada from? The original expression was youth center, and I don't see the connection... Juvenile delincuency? Purely a social disease...? :D

8/4/09 10:25 am - Yay for Jajce

Since I don't own a laptop and don't have a PC in my bosnian flat, I am writing and posting this „illegally“ from the office computer. They wouldn't mind, anyway. There isn't much to do for us and all of us use the computers mainly for private things. I wonder what they expected me to help with? There are only four employees, but they constantly have volunteers. In December, we will be four volunteers at a time – one per employee. Weird. But I don't mind. I get food and rent paid and all I do for that is write personal e-mails, it seems.

Jajce, Bosnia is beautiful. Full of flowers and pretty buildings and old men sitting on the street eating huge watermelons and watching cars drive by. It's like a fairytale, hehe. Tomorrow I'll meet the girl who will be my flatmate for one month. Let's hope we'll get along.
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