All Blog Posts Tagged 'german' (4)

vlog FAIL.

so here's the deal:

i'm trying to do a five-day-a-week vlog*, each posting more than two minutes but less than four minutes. i'm planning on having fridays being my "week in review" posting, so as i don't run out of creative juices (which by this vlog, i can tell i already am.)

i'm not funny. people think i'm funny. but i'm not.

*original, verdad?**

**verdad=right, true, auf*** espanol

***auf= in, about, of, auf… Continue

Added by LEe! on December 10, 2009 at 10:30am — 1 Comment

R.I.P. Sue

My mom took my dog, Sue, to the vet last night. There had been a growth under her right eye for about a month, and though it didn't seem to cause her any pain, the vet said that she couldn't diagnose it without a really expensive series of tests, which would only tell us whether or not it was cancer, not what kind of caner it might be. That would require meds, chemotherapy, and many more expensive tests.

The vet told mom that since the bump had gotten big enough to close her… Continue

Added by Super Dave on September 18, 2009 at 11:56am — 3 Comments

Book Review: Borrower of the Night (Elizabeth Peters, 1973)

See, this is what happens when you put off reviewing a book for a long time. You don’t get the review posted on your blog until almost a month later.

Elizabeth Peters’ protagonist art-history-professor-and-sometimes-amateur-detective Vicky Bliss came into being with this book, the first in a series of about seven or eight. I noticed that the characters spoke a little strangely (e.g., actually using “shall” in its proper place in a sentence), so I flipped to the title page, and discovered… Continue

Added by Super Dave on September 9, 2009 at 11:20am — No Comments

Life angst.

So, I did a lot of thinking over Spring Break. I don't know why, really. I mean it was instigated by lats of things, lots of realizations. Lots of memories were brought up, especially ones I don't remember or wasn't there to see. A lot of those were of my brother.

You see, my brother died about 12 or 13 years ago. Just by those numbers, guess how old I was. Yeah: Young. Too young to remember him. It didn't help that when we lived together, I was a baby. When my dad left, Mom and I… Continue

Added by Kaia Schäfer on March 15, 2009 at 11:30am — No Comments