andromacha's journal

As many of you surely don't know, I am very fond of the art of crafting; I like cross stitching, but one of my real passion is beadwork. I love anything that has to do with beads... I know, you might think it is a rather childish passion, but I like to keep my hands in movement, especially when I need to relax.

So what do I make with beads you wonder? Well basically anything... earrings, bracelets, rings, necklaces... I do have fun in doing such things, and I also enjoy wearing them... why not afterall? It takes me several hours to come out with a good result, and I am quite proud of my creations.

Here, I'll show you some pictures of the latest things I have done (which are still in my possession, because I like giving them out to my friends who always like them).

This is a quite interesting bracelet: made with lilac and purple beads (you probably can't tell that from the picture). It was accompanied by a necklace, which was broken by my aunt's cat, Martina :(

This is the very latest thing I have created; I worked something like 4 or 5 hours on it, and I finally got this bracelet. It has beads all intertwined with each other, and it has three different color: pink, lilac and transparent.

And finally, these are probably one of the best things I have ever made... two crocodiles! In case you wonder, yes, I do have the courage of wearing these earrings from time to time :P

So, I know that the quality of the pictures is not so great, but what do you think about them?

Okay, I am a little ashamed asking you guys this, but I really need someone to correct this crap of mine :P It's a Textarbeit I need to turn in by Wednesday. Don't expect anything interesting, because it is one of the most boring things I have ever had to write about, but fortunately it is not very long (unless I add some more later if I realize it's not long enough, but for now this is it).

I don't even know how many stupid mistakes I have made. I tried to reread it, but it is hard to find mistakes, especially in German. Plus today my brain is totally baked, considering that I don't remember if you put an -s or an -n at the plural genitive of a word ;)

Anyway, here it goes. Feel free to laugh at me, as long as you help me out correcting this piece of ahem art.

Ich habe eine seltsame Beziehung zur Zeit: manchmal verschwende ich es, aber ofter spare ich es.
Normalarweise wache ich mich um 8.00 Uhr auf, und die Sache, die ich zuerst mache, ist meine E-mails lesen. Ich verschwende Zeit um E-mails zu schreiben, und danach frühstücke um 9.30 oder 10.00 Uhr.

Wenn ich keinen Unterricht früh am Morgen habe, lerne ich gern für meine Prüfunge. Regelmäβig finde ich, dass mein Tag oft langsam ist. Nach meinem Unterricht gehe ich zu Hause, und surfe ich im Internet. Ich besuche mein Lieblingsforum, wo ich viele Nachrichte meiner Freunden lesen und antworten kann.

Der Abend vergeht immer zu schnell: das ist der Zeitraum ich mit meinem Freund reden kann, weil ich einen groβen Zeitunterschied mit ihm habe. Wir telefonieren regelmäβig für eine Stunde pro Tag, bevor ich ins Bett gehe.

Ich mag nicht Zeit verschwenden, so versuche ich immer meinen Tag zu veranstalten. Ich studiere normalarweise morgens, denn ich habe Zeit am Nachmittag oder am Abend um meine Lieblingssachen zu tun. Daran denke ich dass es eine gute Methode ist um Zeit zu sparen.

Brrr... I wonder how many mistakes I made. I can tell you that I am already ashamed of it. Bash me to death though... a public fustigation might help me um mein Deutsch zu verbessern! ;)

Hi all. I just wanted to communicate this nice thing that happened today. In the mud where I build and enjoy to roleplay, I met several guys that I find very nice and who I like to talk to and everything.

Well, today I finally managed to get one of those guys up here on Netalive. This is indeed a good reason to smile. I know that he will bring a great contribution to our forum, because he is indeed very good with wording and sentences, and I am sure that he will bring some new oxygen, new ideas and new suggestions/threads... here.

So, I am glad to introduce to everybody Kabal :)

Kabal, welcome to Netalive. I hope (and I am sure) that you will enjoy your stay.

I was considering writing this in the section of the forum called "what sucks", but then I thought that I would just post it in my journal, and let the moderators move it if that were the case.

It is not even something that might pertain to everybody, at least not exactly what I am about to write, but it might to a general degree.
My problem is called Germanic philology, or probably even better, my Germanic philology's professor.

I have really enjoyed this course, even thought the subject is very complex, and you really have to study it very carefully to fully understand it and to actually know something. All the topics are somewhat related to each other, and therefore if you don't understand something, you're likely not to understand what follows. I am talking about linguistic traits of the old German, old English and the other Germanic languages (different from the romance languages like Italian, French, Spanish...).
Anyway, I am not going to go in the details here. I will just give you facts.

Our professor - at least he was honest when at the beginning of the course said this - said that at the exam he will put in front of us a germanic word (like an old English one, or an old German one). If we fail to explain in a detailed way all the passages that have occurred for the old form to transform in the modern one, he will fail us. No more questions... You mess up with that one question and you are screwed.

Well, this guy also hate women, and has the bad habit of insulting people at the exam in case they say something that is indeed wrong. He used to be very mean, and say bad things about girls even in class. When this year we didn't hear any of the usual bad jokes/insults we thought that he was somewhat changed. The truth is that now he's more careful, because he's afraid that someone records the lesson, and then use it against him. So whatever it is not said during class, is normally said at the exam.

Last session I went there to listen to the exams, just to realize if it was actually that bad. It wasn't that bad... worse! He failed 4 people out of 5, because according to him they couldn't reply well to that first question... guess what? The only one who passed (with the minimum grade) was a guy.

Now, I really like the subject, I am interested in it, and I find it pretty cool to be able to actually understand the old languages. Though, this guy really scares me. He freaks me out... He just makes me hate his subject, and the idea of stepping in his office to take the exam simply terrifies me. And all I do is wonder... Is this right? Why there are people like that? They make you feel inadequate, stupid and they just make you hate something that on the contrary you are led to like.

Lately, I am wondering why people keep picking the same avatar that I have. And not the people who write good, well written posts like many of the Naoies. No, the ones who write just crap that is always rated down in the reds.

Earlier, I found this nice picture of a sort of an elven girl, and I uploaded it from my machine, just to realize a few days later that another person had the same image I had picked. And once again, it was one of the spammers basically, or anyway someone who always writes mediocre posts.

Now, I decide to change the avatar, and I just noticed that once again I have been copied by someone who, casually, is normally a mediocre writer.
I don't consider myself such a great wonderful writer, or I don't have the presumption to think that my posts are just wonderful pieces of art and everything, but... geez... leave my avatar alone!

I don't want to be associated with the ones who are lately abusing Nao, and posting every single crap that comes through their mind, or, as null nicely put it, the little kiddie-puberty idiocies that we are seeing way too often on the site lately.

I know, this is probably a silly post, and you can rate me as a consequence if you want... I am just rambling and ranting most of all, but it's just that i have observed this strange phenomenon lately of this loss of identity or, better said, of loss of avatar.

I was here on Nao, alone, and in a moment of weakness I thought "let's try out Eliza and see what she writes back".

You know that she does different things, and at a certain point I read that she was writing a pager message, so I wrote her:

"Who are you writing to?"
Her reply "My name is Eliza"

"Who are you writing to?"
"My name is Eliza"

"Boo Hoo!"
"I'm not sure I understand you fully"

"Come on Eliza, you can do better than that!"
"What are your feelings now?"

Thanks, Jaz, for adding this wonderful thing!! It just makes me die of laughter to see her strange replies to my even odder questions!! :)