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Yes, I will try to keep a list of books I read in the year 2009 as I won't remember what I've read without writing it down.

( January )

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You know I'm really busy enough with knitting christmas presents (and doing non-knitting-related stuff...like writing a linguistic-assignment).
I also might have mentioned a couplle of times how much I hate doing colourwork/intarsia/anything that requires knitting with more than on colour.
The logical consequence: Joining a knitalong over at strickliesl that involves not normal colourwork but double-knitting...something I've never tried before and sort of hoped I'd never need to do.

Our goal are these:

(Picture shamelesly stolen from Ravelry) Hogwarts-bookmarks...no it's not me who has already dozends of bookmarks, you're confusing me with the other girl with the same name that looks exactly like me.
Now I've watched the knitting-help-video for double-knitting here, and think that now I know even less than before...so everythings perfect.

To cheer me up: after a long time again some showing off some WIPs and FOs.

( Extermiknit )

...or propably only one person.

( I've been to the George Martin-signing today )

...aber ich muss hier ja warten bis Quer über sowas twitert...

Gods I'm tired...I can understand that I was totaly exhausted after my first days here when I did all that running around etc. but I really didn't do much today...I didn't even have lectures...anyway now finally some pictures from last weekend.

( This way )

Well OK not yet. I'll still be around for the rest of the day, but tomorrow morning I leave for Frankfurt Airport. My plain leaves at 12.50 and somewhen in the late afternoon I'll hopefully be in Belfast :D.
I guess it's quite optimistic if I say that somewhen during next week I'll have a working internet-connection and finished all paperwork/organisatoric stuff so that I have enough time for LJ again...in other words: it might be some time till we read each other again.
Take Care and till...whenever ;)

But it's still September 12th...and I just love this video.

Nachdem ich gestern ja sowiso in die Stadt musste um ein bestelltes Buch abzuholen (Die Wellenläufer-Trilo ♥ ) hab ich auch gleich mal bei Müller vorbeigeschaut ob die immer noch Tatort-Hörbücher für 5 € haben...
( tata )

Dann bin ich mehr oder weniger ziellos durch die City geirrt und stand auf einmal am Hörbuchstand von Thalia (ehrlich, ich weiß nicht wie ich dahin gekommen bin :P) und hab dort etwas gestöbert.
/uninteresannt, uninteresannt...Glutsand, uninteresannt
MOMENT *zurückspul*
Glutsand, definitiv. Das ist der dritte Teil von Kai Meyers Sturmkönig, der laut Amazon erst am 15. September erscheinen soll (was mich sehr geärgert hat, weil ich so nicht sicher war ob ich ihn noch kriege, bevor ich fliege). OK, gelegentlich gibts sie in Buchhandlungen etwas eher als bei Amazon aber fast drei Wochen sind eher...ungewöhnlich.
Das Buch hatten sie leider nicht, also musste ich mit dem Hörbuch vorlieb nehmen (schrecklich...und es wird auch noch von Andreas Fröhlich gelesen...grauenvoll) und kann mir das Buch dann einfach zu Weihnachten wünschen XD

Kommen wir zu anderen Dingen
( Wie den schon lange versprochenen Fotos von meinem HP-Pulli )

I should try this somewhen XD

Talking about LOL: I've bought the TW-tie-in Almost Perfect, too and read it yesterday. It is highly amusing...mostly for the Ianto(ya)-Scenes but the case istself is quite interesting, too (not that anyone would care if Ianto and Gwen bitch at each other and Jack is...well Jack).

Und nachdem mich Schwarzes Grab vor zwei Wochen so fasziniert hat, hab ich mir inzwischen auch die restlichen Saarbrückener Tatorte mit Kappl angeschaut. Zugegebenermaßen kommen die anderen alle nicht dran ran und liegen irgendwo zwischen 'naja' und 'durchschnittlich' aber das Team macht Spaß...und die Fälle sind erfrischend klassisch, mit Liebe, Hass, Eifersucht und Geld als Motiv, keine politischen Hintergründe, Sozialkritik und keine so wahnsinnigen Täter wie in Münster (nicht dass ich die nicht auch mag :P).
Außerdem ist Kappl/Maximilan Brückner sehr knuffig...aber auch erschreckend jung...(in Räuber Kneissl spielt er den Sohn von Michael Fitz...)

Yeah so I saw the new HP-movie yesterday
( some ramblings...spoilery only if you don't know the book )

Und nun die Werbung/Shameless Comunity-Pimping: tatort_fandom | tatortfangirls 
Ich weiß gar nicht ob außer jolly_rotten noch viele Tatort-fans auf meiner f-list stehen aber falls ja: KOMMT! es ist noch wenig los dort  aber es ist nett und gemütlich (und slash-freundlich XD)

I'm working on too many long-term knitting-projects. It's sort of depressing: I'm knitting and knitting but don't finish anything. That's why I decided to throw in a tiny wee project and knitted through The Quest yesterday (well and the last 30 minutes of In love with a witch and the first half of Genial daneben...)
( this )

Is it a sign of obsession when as soon as I found a cool new TV-Show/book-series I search on Ravelry if there are already related knitting-patterns (or at least projects I can squee over) for it? About two third of the groups I'm in are fandom-related (and today I joined two more...guess wich)

Talking about obsessions: I'm falling more and more in love with Life (which doesn't have a Ravelry-group, yet :( ) I loved Charlie and Ted more or less from the first time they appeared but only know, when I'm rewatching some S1-epsiodes Ialso start to love the show...and everytime I watch an episode I get ths craving for fruits XD

try to spell the name of the actors right. Even when they had only small roles in the film and have names with a somehow difficult spelling...
but this is really riddiculous:



How many mistakes can you find?


But now some srs bsns...like memes!

Tell me you want to play and I'll pick up to three of your fandoms.
You must then update your journal and answer the following questions:

1. What got you into this fandom in the first place?
2. Do you think you'll stay in this fandom or eventually move on?
3. Favorite episodes/books/movies, etc?
4. Do you participate in this fandom (fanfiction, graphics, discussions)?
5. Do you think more people should get into this fandom?

asthenie_vd picked Doctor Who, Harry Potter and Die Drei ???/The Three Investigators

( in alphabetical order )

*Ugh* I talk too much.

I've watched a few episodes of the Randall & Hopkirk (deceased)-Remake and I love it.
Other than the original series it doesn't try to be serious (which probably isn't a bad idea considering it's about two private investigators of whom one got killed in the first episode but returned as ghost...). It has stupid B-Movie-plots with B-movie-cliche-villians who die gory B-movie-deaths. And all with a great regular-cast (OK, I actually didn't know the two guys who play Randall & Hopkirk but it has Emilia Fox as Jeannie and TOM BAKER) and a lot of well-known guest-actors (who usually play very evil and very mad villians and die very bloddy deaths)

( Meet psychiatrists, artists and scientists )

I've just watched Sherlock - The Case of Evil and propably had the best laugh since weeks. Seriously. It even beat Peter Davison driving the French cook mad. It's one of these 'Canon? That's a great big gun, right?'-films with James D'Arcy as Holmes and Roger Morlidge as Watson. Actually with D'Arcy as 20something-Holmes (who looked like Matt Smith about 16 years old).
The Plot-synopsis sounded already...questionable...and the only reason why I watched it, was because Richard E. Grant played Mycroft!!!111!!!

Yes, now Shirley is also sewn together and stuffed! OK, according to the pattern she shouzld also get a little scarf, but I'll do that later.

( More Pics - Beware of many UFOs )

( Moar )

I only wanted to look if there were any episodes of The Champions. There is. It's neither the one with Brett and Delgado nor the one with Nicholas Courtney but I think I'll watch it anyway, just to have a good laugh.
But I found other amusing clips:


It is somehow weird that this is the first time I've heard Moore's original voice...I mean I've watched and rewatched The Persuaders over and over but always only in German (didn't want to miss all the jokes and subtext).

Also: I actually remember this episode of The Saint:


I watched it before I started with Doctor Who...or at least before I watched any 2nd Doctor episodes so I didn't recognise Troughton (and I think if I didn't knew I'd still have troubles...the recorder's missing...as well as a certain good looking and damn hot guy in a kilt).

On a completely unrelated matter: I can finally see my invisibility-shawl growing! It get's longer and longer and I LOVE it. I finally got used to the pattern and now I don't need a whole All Creatures-episode for six rows!
I've nearly used the whole first skein (at this moment I prefer to ignore that I still have a 2nd skein of yarn from happy urigayan merino-sheep I'll also have to knit up...)