In the days where you were helpless and poor I just liked you more

Oh hai.
I haven't done a proper post in a while, ya know, with important, life or death kinda stuff like my current hair color.

Anyway, christmas was super, check out my facebook for photos. Haha, it would be so funny if I wrote what I got.
I got Reading Lolita In Tehran, Persepolis, The Kite Runner, The sequel to that of which I can't remember the name and you couldn't give two fucks anyway so I'm not going to go look from my mommy, candles on a tray (I don't know) from Susanne, an amazon voucher from Robs mommy, neon pink tights and houseshoes (or I belive the word is slippers) from Kate, Lush crap from Vera (my fave! Let Them Eat Cake, Jungle and Snow Fairy) and from everyone else moniiiieees!
But the best present, is yet to be given. It's from Rob, and it's a tattoo!
This is what I'm getting:

But I'm not 100% sure how correct it is, so being myself, I don't go to Rob's school and ask a teacher, I write an email to Carl Zimmer.... yes, a science author for the New York Times who's published like 20 books. Haha. I'm sooo looking forward to seeing his reply.
Anyway, it's haemoglobin, or no, a haem group but whatever. And these are my reasons:

• I'm anaemic
• I'm going to study medicine
• Haemoglobin has always been my favourite word
• Haemoglobin has always been my favourite protein
• It's structure is so pretty!
• Haemoglobin is just my "thing".

Hahaha, I just realized whilst writing that... it's my blog title for fucks sake, you'd think it's my thing.
It's not just to get a tattoo... I want this tattoo. And I have for yonks. So no discussion.
So yeah, I'll be getting that done soon, as soon as Carl Zimmer answers my email.

Now something I'd like to share. I made this t-shirt for my dad. He's a photographer.
It looks like it was hard work or something, but it wasn't really. One pen, 30 minutes max.. so not such a big deal. But he liked it so yay.

And finally, on to the really important stuff.
Don't dye your hair turquoise. Bleach, brown dye, black dye, red dye, purple dye, pink dye, orange dye, they were fine, but stupid turqouise really pushed my hair over the edge. It's straw, absolute straw. I'm sick of the colour too. Purple was really fun because it was kind of... mysterious and dark, pink I loved because it was girly and cute and whatever, but turquoise is just.... ew. It's my favourite colour, but just not for hair, seriously. It doesn't suit anyone it doesn' t look good with any other colours and it's just a pain in the ass. Like, you can only wear black otherwise you already look too colourfull, it makes you incredibly pale and... oh I don't know I just want rid of it. Don't do it. Waste of money.

So the dyes I have left are: Alpine Green, Dandelion, Midnight Blue, Violet and Poppy red.
I'm not touching blue/green tones again anytime soon, I've had purple, I'm not dying my entire hair yellow and I'm not putting up with the fight against red again. (it just does not come out) So, I decided to take a break, and go back to boring old black.

Ohhhh I don't want to really. Halp.

"Why do you smell of earth?"

Yesterday I was in the city with Jana. We go into a headshop for her to buy papers. We leave the store and this girl follows us and goes: "Which one of you smells like that? What is that?" I'm like:
"I don't know, sniff us and find out who it is" I offer her my neck and she steps back and goes: "Eeew no I don't want to smell you"
Me: "Okay..... fine...."
Jana: "It's her, she smells of Patchouly!"
Girl: "Why does that smell like earth?"
Jana: "They put it on dead people" *makes sprinkling movements over imaginary corpse*
Eva: "I don't know... it just does, it's a plant"
Girl: "Where can you get that?"
Eva: "Gothic shops...." Girl jumps back again and raises eyebrows
"It's like, a normal perfume though. You can get patchouly oil like........... anywhere"
Girl: "Um, okay" Makes disgusted face and walks away swiftly.


Hahahah, what the fuck was that? It was hilarious. Jana compared it to someone coming up to you and going: "Wow! Where did you get your shoes?"
you tell them and then they give you a bitch look and are like: "Okaaay, if YOU like them..."
Ah you had to see her do it. So funny.

Terminal Preppie

Some of the best lyrics ever by, you guessed it, the Dead Kennedys.
Quite a simple song, but so fitting to that typical Preppy type that one can find, for example, all over my school. The only song that is even more fitting, is Little Boxes by Malvina Reynolds.
So I will post both, for your enjoyment.



I go to college
That makes me so cool
I live in a dorm
And show off by the pool

I join the right clubs
Just to build an impression
I block out thinking
It won't get me ahead

My ambition in life
Is to look good on paper
All I want is a slot
In some big corporation

John Belushi's my hero
I lampoon and I ape him
My news of the world
Comes from Sports Illustrated

I'm proud of my trophies
Like my empty beer cans
Stacked in rows up the wall
To impress all my friends
(Except that over here, replace the beer cans with vodka bottles, Absolut or Grey Goose or whatever is the most expensive "in" thing these days)

No, I'm not here to learn
I just want to get drunk
And major in business
And be taught how to fuck

Win! Win!
I always play to win
Wanna fit in like a cog
In the faceless machine

I'm a terminal terminal terminal preppie
terminal terminal terminal preppie
terminal terminal terminal terminal
terminal terminal terminal terminal

I want a wife with tits
Who just smiles all the time
In my centerfold world
Filled with Springsteen and wine

Some day I'll have power
Some day I'll have boats
A tract in some suburb
With Thanksgivings to host

I'm a terminal terminal terminal preppie
terminal terminal terminal preppie
terminal terminal terminal preppie

Pretty self explanatory.

Little Boxes




Little boxes on the hillside, Little boxes made of tickytacky

Little boxes on the hillside, little boxes all the same
There's a green one and a pink one and a blue one and a yellow one
And they're all made out of ticky tacky and they all look just the same.

And the people in the houses all went to the university
Where they were put in boxes and they came out all the same,
And there's doctors and there's lawyers, and business executives
And they're all made out of ticky tacky and they all look just the same.

And they all play on the golf course and drink their martinis dry,
And they all have pretty children and the children go to school
And the children go to summer camp and then to the university
Where they are put in boxes and they come out all the same.

And the boys go into business and marry and raise a family
In boxes made of ticky tacky and they all look just the same.

And you think, God, she is the biggest hypocrite ever. She's going to be a MED STUDENT, she's PART OF the bourgeoisie she so hates. SHE'S going to be the one playing golf soon. Well come on, do you seriously think that you can't be a med student with these views? I'm not studying medicine to get rich for fucks sake. I grew up in Germany, doctors here earn fuck all. A good plumber can earn as much as a doctor. I'm studying medicine because I'm INTERESTED. Because I like working with people, and because as corny as it sounds I want to help. Not even save lives... A doctor heals sometimes, relieves often and comforts always. I want to comfort. And of course because I'm a terrible approval seeker and quite insecure and believe my family will actually stop loving me if I don't become a doctor but yeah. Because I want to heal.
Also, I have turquoise hair!


Oh my God. I have a HUGE head. And I did not overexpose this photo... I'm just very, very pale. That's also, by the way, why this blog is called haemoglobin. I'm anaemic. And haemoglobin is my favourite word. And a beautiful molecule. In fact, I'm getting it tattooed on my arm as soon as I can afford it.

Bye bye

Organic Food - The dirty, untreated truth (?)

From an environmental point of view, yes, organic food is the way to go. It's true, pesticides and fertilisers pollute. But what annoys me to no end, is when people think they are making a "healthy" choice by ONLY eating organic food.
ONLY: People who think their organic food claim constitutes some kind of superiority over all of us conventionally-farmed-food-consuming-subordinates, usually also say they ONLY eat organic food. Fair enough, if it's true, but to me, most of the time, this sounds like pure snobbery. That sense of exclusitivity "Only X is good enough for me" makes it a little obvious that they are using organic food as a way to prove they are somehow better, the enlightened consumer.

They claim they do it because it's healthy, and eating food treated with pesticides and fertilisers is dangerous. Well, in fact, there is ABSOLUTELY NO PROOF that organic food is healthier. Also, have any of these people ever heard of government guidelines? At least in the EU we can be 100% sure that nothing sold in the fruit & veg section of the supermarket is so "poisoned" that it can actually cause disease. Do they seriously think that nobody thought about the dangers of pesticides but them?
DDT is GONE! Dead and gone. Stop driving yourselves crazy.
This is the test they use to see whether the chemicals they use are harmful: They find a dose that's completely safe for rats, and then divide that by 100.
I'm sorry, but I trust that.
And think about this: If farming chemicals really were so dangerous, the people who'd be affected most would be the farmers, right? Well, there have been studies done on that and nope, no results. NEGATIVE.
Besides, plants make their own pesticides too! Caffeine is a pesticide, for example. I quote:
"Even the freshest organic apples – as well as other plant foods – contain natural compounds which, when extracted and given to rats in high doses, cause tumours. Toxicologist Bruce Ames of the University of California became famous in the 1970s for sounding the alarm on the cancer-causing (or carcinogenic) potential of man-made chemicals.

But after testing 'natural' pesticides in rats, he called off the warning. A paper he published in 1990 said it all. Entitled, "Dietary Pesticides (99.99 per cent All Natural)", it reported that in a regular diet, people consume about 10,000 times more natural carcinogens than synthetic ones. According to Ames, a single cup of coffee contains more natural carcinogens than a year's worth of the pesticide residues eaten on fruit and vegetables."

And the cherry on top is, that the fertilisers organic farmers use are in no way harmless either! They use sulphur, copper, BT spray, pyethrins, spinosad. Aha, sulphur irritates the lungs, and rotenone has been proven to cause Parkinsons disease in rats. Harmless eh?
And of course toxic moulds are the most powerful carcinogens in existence. How safe are we from them without fungicides?
Natural is better... pfft... better is better.

I quote again:
"And as a flurry of papers cited in Faidon Magkos's review will attest, organic food has been subject to its own food scares. There have been bacterial outbreaks which have been blamed on the fact that organic production involves manure but not antibacterial techniques such as food irradiation or chemical washes. Another concern is the growth of moulds such as aflatoxin B1, commonly found on mouldy peanuts and one of the most carcinogenic compounds known to exist. Among the most notorious recent toxic mould scares was one linked to organic apple juice, where levels of the toxin patulin were 10 times greater than those found in regular apple juice. Levels of the mould toxin deoxynivalenol have also been reported to be higher in organic wheat. Because organics are not treated with fungicides, there is a higher risk of these toxins creeping in."

Let's get to the point, in my opinion, the whole organic food hype is just another way for the upper classes to elevate themselves.
Organic food is expensive, exclusive.... "special". I can't afford it, and I would say I'm quite "well off". It's simple, in every product we buy, there is a class system. You can buy a toothbrush for 89 cents, you can buy a toothbrush for 10€. But before the whole organic thing, this class system was hardly present in fruit. How much would that piss you off if you were rich? You have a better car, a better house, better clothes, fancier appliances, fancier phone, but you still have to eat the same fruit that the "scum of society" eats, the minions, your subjects.
So then, the whole organic food thing starts and finally you can say "I pay more for my fruit and vegetables because they're healthier" Obviously the health thing is a farse, really what they're saying is: "I pay more for my fruit and vegetables, because I can (muhahahahha)"
The fact is, if the whole world where to adopt organic farming, if any other kind of farming were outlawed 1. More forests would have to be cleared for organic manure 2. We would all fucking starve to death 3. How much easier would it be for pests or fungi to wipe out an entire crop?
Pesticides and fungicides were invented for a reason, or not? Anyone heard of the potato famine?

"Historically, most food-related diseases are due to bacterial and fungal contamination, so in terms of health consciousness, focussing on pesticides is probably barking up the wrong tree."

So basically, whenever one of you snobby ass hardcore organic food advocates comes out with one of your "I only eat organic" statements, prepare for a whipping.

Seriously, you'd think someone as left as me would be totally pro organic farming. And I AM, I'm only anti the people who a. Support it for wholly the wrong reasons b. Think it would be sustainable worldwide.
And of course the people who claim they can "taste the difference" seriously, that is the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard. And I went to private school.

I care about what food I buy. I don't eat red meat for one thing and try not to go overboard with the wheat products. That is because of their carbon footprint. I try to decrease my carbon footprint in many, many ways. Organic food however (except organic meat, which I will pay more for is available) is not an option for me. Too expensive, and seriously, does anyone ever look at the quality of the tiny, bruised organic produce? The runts of the produce isle. Why? No genetic engineering? Well if I heard food has not been genetically modified, I seriously wonder whether i'm getting value for my money. I WANT science to have gone into my food.

If I were a farmer, I would farm using organic methods, but I am a consumer and when I consider the value of the food I buy, organic food consistently is of inferior value. Plus, I'm not rich. I CAN'T spend 10-40% more on food. I simply can't. To those of you who can, knock yourselves out, but don't you dare adopt that holier+healthier (WEALTHIER) than thou attitude and start preaching to everyone else about it. It's a choice! If you are so deluded that you think you can "taste the difference" then seriously, there is no use talking to you about it.

I hate the rich. I hate the idea of "lifestyle". It aggravates me to no end.


(And I mean VALUE not price not quality, VALUE)

Sources: http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/features/print/1567/organic-food-exposed?page=0%2C4

I am a poseur and I don't care, I like to make people stare

Okay, I'm sorry, this is going to be a somewhat fashion-based post. I don't know what's wrong with me. I think it's that I saved loads of money this month (mainly by making Rob starve; "Cheese???!! Cheese???!! Who do you think I am?? Bill Gates? Donald Trump??!!") and I'm all like what can I buy what can I buy! Which is VERY rare for me. Aaaand, because of this:


Okay, extremely bad picture. If you can't read it, it says 53.6! YAY. Thanks to a night of drinking. In Rose Club btw. with Brian, where I also met the lovely Sara McLara who was feeling raaather out of place, as were we all.



So, here are the newest things out of the patch factory:


This was for my little sister, Vera. She's a cool kid!
I'd tell you to check out her blog, but she's actually never posted on it, so, kinda pointless, but here's a picture of her for you to admire:



And here's us looking all punk at Robs bands concert!

Aaaanyway, I also made this huge thing for my new blazer, which I bought at a charity shop for 3.50€. I drew that brick background even. This took me days and days and days (it wasn't all I did, obviously haha) And I bet people are gonna be like: "You put that much effort into it? You care that much?" *subtext= soooo not punk* and I'll be like, what, I thought that was what 'punk' is about diy and all that crap? and then they'll be like "Yeah but, seriously, you're not meant to care that much" AGH you can't win in that scene.


Aaaanyway, the next (no doubt obvious) step is to cover the collar in leopard print fabric. I bought some today for 1€ . And when that's done, voila, I'm a picture-perfect punk. Hahaha (please remember not to take this kind of stuff seriously)
That reminds me of a cartoon I once drew:


And finally, behold my new haircut:



Or, my future haircut, once I have the university interview over with.
Picture kindly stolen from some random girl (with exquisite taste, i must say) on flickr.
Only that in my version, the fringe will be neon yellow and the rest turquoise... or as directions calls it: Alpine Green.
Yes, I know you all disapprove and hate it but hey. I need to do this. Really, I want a mohawk, but I've realized, the only place it's okay for me to have a mohawk is in my bathtub.

So, that's all. Not a very deep post this time, haha. I promise, one of the next ones will be a little less superficial.. not.
Oh and one more message:
PENICILLIN DOES NOT COMPROMISE THE SAFETY OF THE PILL.
It's a myth, and it's been debunked. This goes for most other antiobiotics too. Don't drive yourselves crazy.
I leave you with a picture of myself in the snow, taken by Rob.


Haha, I look all fancy with that coat. And like I'm trying to be sexy.

Ps: No, I did not get the practice of using lyrics as my post titles from Miss Cory Kennedy. If anything, she got it from me, I've been doing it for years, even as a kid in my diary.
Oh shit, now you know I read her blog. Well I do, just to mock her (like everyone else really). You'd think I'm jealous of her (like everyone else really) but no. Being on speed all night (or coke for that matter, as we all know she is a priviledged young miss) isn't THAT cool, been there, done that. (Oh, I love sounding so patronizing when I can)

Marlboro Intense

I don't know whether I hate or love this idea.
Rob and I have always wished for shorter cigarettes... the normal ones are just too long... after half of it I don't even wanna smoke anymore.
So now they've brought out Marlboro Intense, little tiny baby cigarettes. I thought, great! Except that it's 25% less tobacco and they only cost 8% less... hmm just another way to make money... i'd say.
But they're also good because you don't even notice you aren't smoking a whole one, plus, you'd be smoking less in total (as if that really matters though...)
So I don't know... mixed feelings..
I won't be buying them anytime soon... Rob has, but that was only a one time thing.
If they cost 3€ that would be absolutely fair, and they would become my new brand.. but they cost 3.80€ and that's a total rip off.
And I wanna stop anyway... haha.

I'm a reborn maggot using germ warfare

Done!
Jeeeez that was more work than I thought. I officially HATE working with fabric. Hard to draw on, hard to cut... just plain annoying. And now I don't even know where to put the patches.


I'm actually quite proud of the cramps one... but hey, the logo isn't THAT hard to do.
I decided against doing the offspring one... when I was like.. 13 and they where my favourite band, I was so good at drawing that offspring skull. I even had a whole scrapbook about them. (Haha, I'm SO going to do a post with that) But I thought nah... too hard at the mo... I'll wait till I get better at this.
So I did another simple one... which I think is still quite effective though. Did this one with a t-shirt pen and highlighters too.. it's a little more obvious here.



Then I thought, hey! That Dead Kennedys symbol would be easy to do! And the patch would go on pretty much anything...
I tried and failed.


It looks okay at first glance, but if you look at the angles of the D... it's totally out of proportion... I should've used a protractor but as if I have one. Plus, that thing is harder to draw than you'd think!

And you'll always be my whore, cause you're the one that I adore

So yeah. Now a little update on my life, and my own endeavours in fashion.
I dreamt last night, that I was at a birthday party, and they were serving these delicious pink drinks, and I got completely smashed.
It was great, only now I've woken up with a longing to get drunk tonight, which I'll probably pursue.
I was wondering the past days what colour to dye my hair next.. since the pink is fading.


Okay, on that picture it looks fine, but trust me, it is.
I was also considering getting v-shaped bangs although everyone is telling me it'll look too "psychobilly" Who gives a toss?
However, then I thought, what the fuck is wrong with me. I don't have enough money to spend 7€ on dying my stupid hair... so I decided to leave it pink for now.
Also, on tuesday I actually went to H&M although I hate it (My sister wanted to) and it was worth it actually, because I bought a skirt and pants for 10€ together, which I am now modifiying. Since I'm also too poor to buy band shirts, or patches or anything with a band name on it I thought it'd be a good idea to fashion my own patches and stuff. I usually draw the t shirts myself, although that doesn't really work when you want white writing on black. So I decided i'd cut white letters out of an old t-shirt and stick them on. Let me tell you, not as easy as it sounds. I haven't done something so fidgety since arts and crafts in kindergarden.
Anyway, heres the result:

I'm an idiot, I should've moves dead more to the right... but whatever. They'll come off anyway, and then I'll do it. Also, one hardly sees it when I'm not holding back the braces but whatever.
Next, I'm making a Cramps patch for the skirt and maybe an Offspring one. Then I thought it'd be cool to write 999 down the side of the pants (The band 999, for those of you who don't know) since people would be confused and wonder whether it's 666 or 999. Then I realized that would be stupid, because I'm not going to walk around with 666 written on my pants. A little sad.
Although, isn't everything i'm doing here quite sad?
*Sigh* It's impossible to get it right! If you buy your clothes you're not a real punk because you've just bought them, if you make your own stuff you're not a real punk because of the time you've invested. It's all quite confusing.
Well at least I can admit that yes, I am trying to be punk. Everyone is, come on. When the get a mohawk, when they get piercings, when they dress in a certain way, of course they're trying to be punk! But of course they could never admit that.
I admit it.
Btw. I just had to think of this looking at the picture... I'm wearing a flannel shirt, I hear they're all the rage these days;

Especially the black, white and red ones. They even sell them at Urban Outfitters for 50$ I heard.
Hahahahahahahahhaha. It sure is funny, because flannel shirts used to be like the cheapest thing you could get, and had NOTHING to do with fashion... everyone even made fun of them.. and now, combine them with leggings and you're a perfect hipster clone.
But hey, finally a trend I approve of. To Rob, flannel shirts have always meant Kurt Cobain, so he likes them. To me, flannel shirts have always meant pyjamas... so I LOVE them! Finally I can go to the supermarket in my pyjamas and be SO fashionable!
Besides, Rob and I have loads because we bought them for 3€ at a cheap shop.. haha.

Another day, something new to get angry about!

So the designer of Comme Des Garcons designed a collection for H&M. So everyone was like, yay! Cheap designer clothes!
Yesterday, the collection was introduced. People crowded in front of the stores an hour before they opened, just to get their hands on some of the stuff.
This girl I don't know, but who is friends with me on Myspace, wrote a bulletin about her experience.. apparently, she arrived 20 minutes after the shop had opened (She was VERY upset about that) and there was nothing left but like 3 blouses and women were elbowing eachother out of the way, carrying enormous stacks of clothes and gathering around salespeople bringing stuff back from the changing rooms like vultures, to grab the last clothes right out of their arms.
The collection was sold out within minutes.

And that was here in cologne. In New York, people crowded in front of the store at 11 pm.
So you're thinking, wow! Those clothes must've really been something... well... haha... see and facepalm:


Yeah. I admit, I don't know much about fashion, but if people camp outside stores for polka dot blouses and canvas slip-on sneakers (costing 60€!!!) then what the fuck is wrong with them?
Seriously.... how were they brought up to have those kind of values? It's ridiculous, pathetic.. disgusting really! And I have vowed to make fun of anyone I see wearing that STUPID polka dot handbag that I swear is completely undisinguishable from anything else at H&M.
Also, I'm not into designer clothes myself, but whenever I've asked friends who are why they wear them, they say: "Because you stand out, because nobody else you know will have them" (although I wonder how Louis Vuitton bags figure in to that...) and my crazy private school friends say: "You wear them to show you can afford them".
Aha. Well in that case, why??!!! This collection is cheaper than the usual Comme des Garcons stuff, and loads of people will have it.... so seriously, why? Because it's so wonderfully beautiful and unique and special? Come on, I dare you, challenge me to recreate those exact outfits from cheap store stuff or make them my self and I guarantee you, I will.
It sickens me, really.

An 18-year-olds probably ridiculous world views

It came to me on the train home from work today. I'm only really writing this to get down an idea that probably many have a had before, but only struck me just now, leaving a "Ping!!" sound ringing in my head.
Those who know me, know I've always been a communist. Haha. An anarcho-communist, to be exact. I'm sorry. It's just what I believe in.
I wish I could leave it at that, but these days, especially kids my age have a tendency to ask why, repeatedly when faced with someone who has distinct beliefs in a political ideology (or anything, for that matter) That's all good and dandy. However, because these are still "beliefs" I don't think I'll ever be able to answer all the whys.
I believe in direct democracy, I believe in the abolition of private property and the state and... ah jeez, I'm not going to list every single thing now. Check out wikipedia if you wanna find out some other things to say i'm stupid for supporting.
And now come the usual arguments. I'm a total ideologist, i'm naive, i'm completely out of my mind. And the mother of all anti-communist arguments:

"Communism is a good idea in theory, but it doesn't work in practice"

EVERYONE says this. It's as if they all got together one night and were like: "Okay guys, this communist thing, not so sure about it... seems kinda evil, can anyone think of something to say to people who advocate this? And then we'll all say it EVERY TIME as if it where the most obvious thing ever!"
Everyone always says this, just to write off the idea, because they don't want to think about it, because so many people ADORE capitalism, and they don't even know it. They just love their ipods.
Well anyway, one thing is true about this statement... it would be a wonder if it ever worked to put communist ideals into practice. In that respect, no, it doesn't work. But that's hardly what they mean. They mean that from history we know the communism would never work. That sentence in itself is a contradiction! The communist governments of the past just didn't carry it out correctly, that's why communist countries tended to go completely totalitarian. They went totally crazy because for them, communism was about control. Only government control.
Plus, they weren't anarcho-communists were they now ;) Government control is hardly their aim. So they can't turn totalitarian. Aha! So what arguments do you have now?

"Yeah I agree Eva, but trust me, it just wouldn't work!"

And that's when I had my idea. Yes, it certainly wouldn't. It is impossible for communism to work, if capitalism exists. Because of the way most humans are.
I tried to prove this by relating to divided Germany. The people in the west were all like: "Look at us, we're SO american, living in the lap of luxury, we're free, we're rich" and the people in the east were like: "I wanna have that and not have to wait 3 years to be able to drive a car made of CARDBOARD! I don't want to drink Vita Cola, I've seen Coca Cola now and it seems so much more glamourous"
Plus, the DDR was also going the totalitarian way. Impinging on human rights, censorship... basically things that you KNOW I think are terrible.
However, those in favour of the DDR understood that in many ways they were superior to the west, their values for example. Hard and honest work (although, that sounds wrong... I guess harder is more fitting) family values!, no status symbols... but of course that's not for everyone.. haha.
ANYWAY!
This has turned into a huge rant, and I'm quite embarassed to post it. Because I know that I've probably got a few things wrong, and that some of my arguments can be defeated very simply and obviously. That's why I want to state; I don't think I'm some visionary, I don't think I and only I have the ideal ideals and that I can't be wrong. Completely to the contrary. I'm eighteen years old, I certainly don't know anything, and believe me, I'm well aware.
This is just a modest account of my beliefs, at the moment. If you disagree, or if I've said something really stupid please do tell me, I want to queston my views, I want to learn, so that maybe someday my ideas won't be as half-baked.
So go ahead and tell me how thick I am, I will surprise you with my insight... haha.

Oh my Bama

Victory!
This guy is now our president!

I'm not miss political myself, so this might be the first and last political post you ever see on this blog. (Although, it can hardly be called political.. we all know the us presidential elections are more of a beauty pageant type thing.)
I'm afraid many people were under the impression I supported Mc Cain and Sarah Mooseburger Palin because I mentioned now and then some good points about him. Really guys, what do you take me for?
Anywaaaay, I am slightly hungover at the mo, so don't expect anything too deep here, but something annoyed me today, and i'm afraid I will have to rant.




I like it how it says: Reading Now (1) so very mockingly... so... patronising! Like: "Oh she's reading ONE book, bless her, how dear"
Because now everyone wants to be über-intellectual and read Metamorphosis, Anna Karenina and Thus Spoke Zarathustra at the same time. Yes you damn wannabe-über-intellectuals, who make fun of me because my favourite book is 1984. "Ahahaha how very quaint! I believe I read that when I was 11 and a half... no... wait... just 11! Ahahaha".
Screw you guys! You're no better than the people who order shortened audio versions of classics, just to get the gist and be able to keep up with the conversation. That disgusts me. However, I'm also thoroughly annoyed by the people who brag about reading 4 books at a time. Probably something reminiscent from their childhood, when their mommy used to tell them how proud she was of them and praise them for reading. Well guys, I'm afraid that changes once you grow up. Reading is a hobby, a pastime, something to do in the holidays. Not a scholarly pursuit that will make you part of the intellectual elite. I for one, do NOT respect people for claiming they're reading 4 books at a time. I say, if you don't read anything except magazines you're probably not very smart or interesting to talk to, however, if you do read, it doesn't mean you're unbelievably wise and eloquent and superior to all of us.