und du sagst, du wolltest immer raus hier...

Somehow I ended up with a girl from New Zealand sitting next to me. No, really. She's actually staying with a friend of mine for a couple of weeks, but said friend called me today, sounding rather desperate, going "OMG, Dani, I have this really urgent appointment and I have to go to Neumünster tonight, WHAT DO I DO WITH HER?" And because I'm such a nice person *coughs* and because it's a good reason to procrastinate my studying, she's now here.

And I had to figure something out to keep the two of us entertained, so I introduced her to DeRo, AS YOU DO WHEN YOU HAVE A VISITOR WHO CAME ALL AROUND THE WORLD. So I forced her to watch Gay Boys With Issues all day, with the pleasant but of course completely unintended side effect that I had to watch as well.

She pretended not to get the hype pretty convincingly, going "Uhm yeah, they're cute, but what's the point?" - until now. Now she's sitting next to me, pricking and tickling me to get me away for the computer, so she can continue watching. I guess it is true, there's no way to escape the charms of Fandom. And I enjoy corrupting people. :)

(On a different note, it's making me nervous and confusing me big time, to have someone watching me typing in English and noticing every single mistake I make, while refusing to just freakin' correct me, already.)

Cheers!

Wohoo, I have a free day from school tomorrow, because there's snow. Because apparently Germans are insanely scared of snow. I mean, honestly, there's like 20cm of snow and I don't see any problems whatsoever with getting to school, but no. Seems to be way too dangerous. Well, I'm not about to argue.

In other news my boyfriend and me went to the theater last week to see "Danton's Death" and OMG, it was brilliant. I always love going to the theater, but unfortunately can't afford it very often. But we managed to get our hands on some cheap tickets and it was so worth it.

The theater of Hamburg is always a great location anyway, let me say this first. It's over a hundred years old, with lots of pomp and gold and velvet. So yeah, that's great.
But more importantly the play was amazing. Georg Büchner, the author, is one of my favourite German writers of all time anyway. Unfortunately he died really young, but everything he wrote is sheer brilliance.
Danton's Death is the story of the end of the French Revolution. Robespierre is about to establish his Reign of Terror, while Danton, the idealistic humanist, tries to end the horror. But it's less about the victory of one ideology over another than about how Danton is tired of fighting. He doesn't fail because of his enemies, but because he mistrusts the revolution in its very nature, because he is disgusted with humanity and because he is longing for death while being afraid that dying may not give him the "nothing" he is longing for. Obviously he dies at the end, being guillotined by Robespierre's sidekicks.
It's typical for Georg Büchner, who was trying to prepare a revolution in Germany while writing this play, to have this kind of fatalism and determinism in his plays. But like I said, I love him.

And it also helps, that I have a bit of a crush on one of the actors of the ensemble, Aleksandar Radenković, since he was Ferdinand in "Intrigue and Love" by Friedrich Schiller.

And (because I'm a meanie) I'm not going to post the picture of him kneeling over another man completely naked while sticking that gun in his mouth. Phallus-symbol, anyone?

This may seem a bit random, but... YAY, SNOW!

Okay it's not that much, but it's a lot more and a lot nicer than what we usually have here.
So we took the car and slithered our way to visit the horses and go riding in the winter forest. Now my strange, old horse is from Iceland and still seems to think it could be a little colder, but it's about as cold as it gets here and she really enjoyed it.

I love it. Who needs the summer anyway? :)

Over here the new year is already 17 hours old, but I still feel the need to wish everyone a great, sparkly, awesome New Year!

I don't usually believe in celebrating birthdays, Christmas and so on just because they exist. But watching the fireworks at midnight with my loved ones, drinking bubbly, is always something that feels quite ceremonial. I don't know.

2009 has been only been moderate, some great things happened, as well as some not so great. 2010 scares me big time, a lot of things are going to change for me. But I'm also really looking forward to it.

Anyway I hope that 2010 is going to be awesome for all of you. Try to keep at least some of your resolutions. Or don't, if that's more fun. Stay healthy, find love. And here's to more great, sparkly storylines for our Gay Boys.

Hugs and kisses to everyone.


Also, I discovered that Essen is the European Capital of Culture in 2010. I'm sure no other city could be better for that job. Let's hope some of the glitter reaches fictional!Essen. :)