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For so long, I may update more than once today, just to compensate. After all, spending about a week in the same house as your slightly creepy family does make you think quite a lot and puts things into perspective. After the aforementioned week, I spent a few days worrying about university, having lunch with my father and just generally being too lazy to update this.
* 10 Things About Me You Probably Did Not Know
1. I collect scissors
2. I don’t have only one favourite movie, but if I had to choose it would be Bride Of Frankenstein.
3. I collect insects. I do not kill them, I only pick them up after they have died.
4. Sugar with some tea on it is my beverage of choice.
5. My favourite writer is possibly Mary Shelley
6. I love Virginia Woolf
7. I am slightly obsessed with vintage erotic images
8. I want a monocle
9. I am fluent in two languages, and know others to different degrees.
10. My favourite band is T.Rex.
* On Russia and Georgia
I think the media is doing a lousy job. Two sides, two versions, but do not try to convince me that in the middle of all this mess there was not one impartial observer (a Swiss?). Until I have facts I’ll remain Switzerland-like, honestly. The Internet is being flooded by posts from people on the two sides, each blaming each other. What I think about all this is: a debate would be so much more helpful, and less harmful to children who have no clue what is going on.
* On house-hunting
House-hunting is the biggest woe in the history of mankind, after bee stings. I literally spent HOURS browsing for houses online to visit in person, and out of the [insert ludicruous amount here] I found only a handful, if that many. Not that I am picky, but honestly — well located houses with bathrooms that look acceptable are terribly hard to come across.
