Orchid's journal

As you may possibly now, I work as a kind of "freelancer-journalist".
Yesterday, my contact at the paper phoned me at work to ask me for a job. Some months ago I've changed my attitude: Instead of always saying "Oh no, I don't wanna do that (Why the f** do I have to attend all the scout events and stupid brass band concerts??) into a "I take everything" because of the lack of money (In Zürich it's really hard to avoid the Bahnhofstrasse with two H&Ms and so on ;) and if you say no too often they won't offer you a job for a oo tlong time.
So I also took yesterdays job which consists in something that really scares me off but I just said yes knowing that I won't dare to phone and say "...err... no I can't do it."

So what do I have to do? It's really silly: In Liechtenstein their started the U19-EM. I don't know if this is interesting, I'm not at all into football. So they created something called "EM-Meile (EM-Mile)" in the capital Vaduz. For each participating country they chose a restaurant which is in these days offering meals and decoration like in the country their presenting. My job is to wander through those locations and interview the fans from abroad. Oh my God, I'm breaking my head on that since she called :/
How I am going to fulfill this task? I am somewhat scared! I am just the opposite of a good journalist who should be talkative, extroverted and always makes it to catch some good statements. Besides I don't look like a cool chick for whom every Italian fan would instantly snatch up all his english words to tell me something.
Will there come any fans at all?
Uh, this will be a sleepless night :P
I'm doing the wrong job but it's somehow still a job I'd really like so maybe I involuntary "throw myself in the cold water" 'cause I know I have to be able to survive things like that :)

This post was edited by Jaz on Jul 16, 2003.

Usually my birthdays are really unspectacular. In luckier years I could force some friends and mates to visit me and bring me presents.
This year, I don't remember why, we planned to have a weekendtrip to the Europapark that included sunday (june 1), my birthday.
It was really funny. My birthday was too hot and not that easy but we had a lot of fun with all these nice rollercoasters :)
We were a little embarassed by the decoration of one of the Swiss attractions and I was far more embarassed by the pics they make when you shoot down and scream.
We also had a nice hotel directly in front of the park and enjoyed a lot of the european specialities (food).
Sunday, we bought lots of waterballons to shoot ourselves. Every drop was welcome :)

Finally, we got one acceptable picture showing two friends, null and me riding the "Silver Star". This was really crazy and I'm glad having survived it!
This thing gets slowly up to the height of about 73 metres (all you can see is the blue sky) only to race down to ground afterwards with a speed of 130km/h. Boah... Everyone should've done this once in a lifetime. Is there something more crazy in the world? It was really impressive. I thought I'd at least have my stomach up in my throat after like in usual rollercoasters but this wasn't the case. I thought my brain was pulled out of my head!! Strange feeling. Plus, I usually scream out the hell of me, here I couldn't do it anymore. It felt like paralyzed. My mouth stood open and I just thought: Oh my God, let it be over.
On my birthday I refused to do it again but it was worth the experience.
Look!

This post was edited by Jaz on Jun 03, 2003.

Tonight I dreamed of Marylin Manson being with us just like another mate. Well, I always have some strange dreams but this one was really weird not because of the situation but, well, you know...

It's April Fool's day and I haven't fooled anyone till now! That's really unbearable, I have to catch this up tomorrow. Anyway, a friend fooled me :P
Question: Are your local media also fooling people on April Fool's day? Well, ours are always but it's easy to see which is the wrong article. Well, some people are just too dumb to get it. Our local radio station was broadcasting this today: The Rolling Stones just cancelled a show and were looking for a substitute, neat, little place when they was really impressed by the well-functioning security staff and organisation last saturday on the game of the games in Liechtenstein: England-Liechtenstein (2:0). So they decided to hold their gig at this Rheinpark stadion. The first 10 people showing up at the station get free tickets! Bah, there really showed up more than 10 people! I can't believe it! :D

BTW, Jaz, you told us something about your taxes. I was curious and asked my mother today about ours. She said we pay about 6% of the yearly salary. Just if you're interested.

Well, I came back to Zürich this evening, that's why you may read more posts of me from now on :) It's because I have more time and because I am not that fulfilled and happy as I was in my holidays. :(
Thank you, null, (TV, home) for making my holidays that agreeable, enjoyable, harmonic and absolutely wonderful. :)

Okay, I have to leave... Wish me luck!

I think today I finally found out about one of the reasons why I am always so unhappy with myself:
I can't reach that much people I want to. I never realized that before. But today someone said to me I couldn't get to close to him (german "zu nahe treten"). I can't. And after some memories coming to my mind I finally saw that this is one of the things in life I always wanted to achieve with every person I know! No matter if cousin, work mate, student or neigbour: I always want everyone to trust me so much to tell me things hardly anyone knows of him/her, just to help, listen and advide because this, I think, is the only thing I may be able to do. I don't have talents. But knowing someone is telling me a secret I have to keep or just someone asking me the meaning of a word used to give me the most complete satisfaction to my soul, makes me happy even with myself like hardly anything else and infinite sadness if people remain "locked"...

Strange. Anyone feeling similarly? :/

Is there any Mac-specialist among us?
It's just weird: This noon I decided to pursue my favourite obsession: NAO. So I went to the computer working places at university. They're having this nice, sophisticated new Macs null uses to call table lamps.

First I tried IE. Oh it was horrible: The whole NAO stuff, the posts, were caught on the right side whereas 90% of the rest of the site were empty. Weird.

Then I tried it with Netscape. The usual board on the ledt (where you can chose Users, Login and other options) was to be found on the bottom of the site. Plus, the style was different: The letters were typed in Times New Roman!

How is this explainable?

Hi all!

I was never really encouraged in writing a diary, but having on on NAO sounds exciting! :-) Maybe writing a diary is just interesting if someone can read it :-)
But sure I also won't write down something everyday: Maybe nothing interesting happened, maybe I don't want you to know ;-)
At the moment I am just enjoying the sunday :-)

See you!