Dear Rianne,

Thank you for your patience. My congratulations on a very solid final essay that has significantly improved from the midterm. I think your final essay on "Ethnicity in a New Light" seriously looks at the issues discussed by Philip Gleason, Trinhn t. Mihn-ha and gloria Anzaldua. I read it with interest and appreciate the coherent and clear exposition. Grade for the final essay: 8. Grade for the seminar: 7,5. With best regards,

Prof. dr. Paulo de Medeiros

Yay :D

You may or may not know that I live in a student flat on the 8th floor, and share this "house" with 7 housemates. About once a year we have the fire department coming through to ensure the hallways aren't blocked by anything in case a fire breaks out. This is usually the only week in the year the hallway is empty. No different this year, only this year I figured out that if for example Hugo has his junk sitting out in the hallways when they come to do their second check (they usually come on monday and then again on thursday or friday) that the whole house could be put out on the street. As in, I would need to find a new place to live. So that kind of put a new perspective on things. From now on I will be ever vigilant for clutter in the hallway, and no more mr niceguy for Hugo's giant contrabass.

It rained all day and I made way too much macaroni.

My blog is dead. Again.

I was pretty irritated the past week, I was kind of stupid to my parents which I feel bad about now and two days ago around 10 am one of my housemates was trowing a BALL around in our hallway which woke me up pretty good. It also enraged me and I've seriously been walking around with this "screw you all" mentality ever since. They finally realized we didn't need a new oven after all. I could barely restrain myself from writing an "I told you so"-reply to the e-mail that went around to suggest if it wouldn't be better to sell it on ebay.

I haven't seen rakoo in a while which makes me sad :( But I know he has important school stuff to do so I'll be brave!

There are some new people in the guild and one of them if a girl so thats got half of the guys all rattled up but besides from that nothing new. Still no LC heroic down, at least my team spirit is not the problem. It's taking Lorril a lot of effort to get everyone in the raid on time, and I gotta say I admire his input. I wonder what would happen to UndisputeD if there was no Lorril-force to drive it.

I had a really cool queens day last friday with Jorien, we drove through the city in a carriage and walked by the fair and some markets and that was just fun to do, in the evening she had to raid so I leveled my draenei on her laptop, and we ordered in. Since then I've come to lvl 77 but am now at a standstill because it looks like nothing is going to happen anymore when I reach 80 (besides from arena which i suck at) so I lost all motivation to lvl.

The screenshots and streams we saw of Cataclysm are very promising. Looking forward to release :)

Some seriously awkward moments in the kitchen today with this girl who's temporarily living in Lina's room which is across the hallway from me. I was defrosting some bread in the microwave when she walks in. "Hey, do you surf?" (I was wearing Wieske's surf t-shirt) so I say "No my sister does I just got the shirt because I went along" she says something like "ahh okay" and I was just standing there not knowing what to so I said "yeah.. s'nice" she goes "what?" and I say "Nice, getting free clothes" "ah yeah" ... (silence) and the stupid thing was she wasn't DOING anything like seriously did she follow me into the kitchen to have words or something? Thankfully my bread was done then so I said "well have a good meal if you're going to have lunch" while she was inspecting some century old announcement on the bulletin board, and just left. I mean that a reasonable thing to say right? She was in the kitchen after all. Anyway the conversation may seem fine from what I wrote but it wasn't. It was weird, it can't have been pleasant for either of us, I'm sure of it.

For the rest I religiously worked on my essay all day with (in my opinion) good results! Hail Jewish American Literature!

I found a ladybug on my window and wanted to use a glass and a card to put it outside safely, but then I accidentally squished it with the glass so I flushed it down the sink. I felt guilty.

This weekend was easter and I have in fact been searching for eggs. I searched for and found a bunch in WoW but that's no surprise. What was weird was that while I was moving the TV so I would be able to watch Animal Planet from my desk I accidentally dropped an egg carton that was sitting on the TV (don't ask my why it was sitting there it was a convenient space at the time) and one egg that was still in it dropped to the floor. Or at least I could hear it fall (didn't sound like it broke) and I assumed it was on the floor. But when I looked for it later I couldn't find it. I've moved the whole fridge which the TV is sitting on around and found nothing and its really bugging me since if it's just gonna vanish I just know when it starts to rot its going to stink. A lot. So the great egg hunt is still on. Though I read on the internet eggs can stay fresh for up to 28 days so I guess I have some time!

Well I guess I'm just generally not that kind of person who updates their blog at regular intervals, so what.

Ok so just to come right out with it, I'm not exactly worlds best WoW player. I know I suck at pvp even though I like BG's (espeically with friends who I can follow around). And even though I used to be (I think) quite ok at pve (you know back when naxx was still for 40er groups and during black temple times and such) I somehow managed to earn a reputation as a, well, there's not really a nice way to put this, a screwup. I was thinking about how this has come to pass and I guess it's not so much that I make a lot of mistakes, it just that when I do, they're memorable.

Like last week when I was 10er ICC for the first time. (First time! so give me a break okay?)
Anyways, I did okay I think, sure I died a few times and I managed to set off some spirits at lady deathwhisper (but I lived!) but overall the run was not that bad. Still all I'm hearing this week is how fun it was when I died at Sindragosa.

So yes I died, but Onishi died as well, and bearmaster too if I remember correctly. It's just that when Sindragosa does this pullthing where we're all supposed to run away, I thought I was being extra skillig by blinking away and that was working just fine, until I accidentally blinked in the wrong direction and found myself at the wrong side of Sindragosa. Since she was doing her blue-dmg-shit under her belly I thought I'd carefully get back to the other side by walking in a WIDE circle around her... head. So off I went, thinking I was being so careful not to receive any cleaves. Yet I forgot (or may just havent even known though it makes sense) that she does this breath. As fate has it she breathes right as I'm strolling across, ciao. They all thought that was just hilarious.

Another stupid thing was in pdk25 with my hunter when anub was (thankfully) almost dead I suddenly noticed I wasn't shooting any arrows anymore and then I see in the top right a red bow icon. So my gun was broken. How the hell does it happen that my gun is kaputt when the rest of my equip was just fine? I should've kept my mouth shut of course, or just pretend to have a disc as I know caspi did once. But I just hat to blab about it the minute it happened. So funny, not :(. Now I'm the hunter who runs around without a weapon!