My New Mittens
A colleague of mine took my picture, not with the intention to take MY picture, but in order to get pictures showing the crochet mittens she made (and might be interested in marketing). I like the mittens, but maybe I dig the pictures even more (I don't like posing, but she took so many of them that a few turned out rather nicely).
Just a brief update
hush!
The beauty of an empty tourist ship during sunset...
Aaargh!
Captain, my Captain, the piano has been drinking! We were running on empty on booze, how he's started to guzzle down the lake itself! Look what he's done already!
Chief Sitting Bull
...concealed by and within the protuberances of a mountain which is dubbed "The Sleeping Lady from Greece" by the locals....
Traunsee
Check this out! What a scenic juxtaposition of sea, land and mountain!
Upper Austria
Paid me ferst visit to Herbert's parents last week, and to Gmunden, the place were he grew up. And it was also soooo very nice... lovely people, lovely countryside, delicious cakes and tangy coffee. Let's hope that 13 is my lucky number!
Long hair
My hair has become really long now, and is curlier than ever.
Done for
Ok, I've had it for this year. At a rough estimate, I've spent twenty to twentyfive weekends in the train, on the road or on a plane, with a final spell of four weeks on the
CELTA course in Edinburgh.
If I had it my way, all the people I love would come to Austria from now on ... (shhhhhhh... one, the most precious one, is coming back to me tomorrow:-)
Don't shout!
The other day someone who I thought I liked yelled at me. We had a disagreement regarding the interpretation of a situation, and our views were rather irreconcilable. But even if she had been right (which she wasn't;-), I still keep pondering this incident. What's the point of shouting? Getting the anger off yer chest? Well done, you, it doesn't really enhance the quality of your argument, quite on the contrary. People who shout at you just don't look like people you like any more. They look ugly. They look like someone you don't want to know.
Makes you (me) wonder and question in general why people keep shouting at each other when they actually mean to settle differences. I guess that I have shouted at people a couple of times in my life too, in particular at family (at friends I haven't shouted much, I don't think - *relief*).
Bottomline: Shouting, if justifiable or not, is pretty unattractive. Look at this angry fella: Would you like to chill with this chap?
(That's actually quite an accurate rendition of what she looled like when she shouted at me, I have to say... picture found here: http://www.tarsierjungle.net/gallery1.5/albums/tarsiers/tars_yell.sized.jpg [03/09/06]
Either way I look at it: I just don't like her as much as I did before anymore.
