my 2 cents

I called in sick today. i'm not acutally sick. I'm sickened. I found that counts too.

Thank God it's not my own thesis but yesterday I realized what I should have known one and a half months ago. Mr. Advisor is not qualified to be an advisor.
The Vienna University, where I'm still enrolled because I haven't yet done my last to term papers, one of which is due today (do I really need to mention that I'm not done?) - bach to the point - the Vienna University is a chaotic and unorganized lot of people who usually don't have an idea what they are talking about. I was lucky enough to have found some professors who know their trade and therefore taught me at least a little bit of scientific knowledge.

Mr. A* (insert *dvisor or *sshole here) told the gf that she wouldn't be able to write thesis one and a half months back. fair enough, it seemed undoable. But when the gf came home from the meeting without any real input from A* I should've known something was fishy. I have someone stepping on my toes with every term paper I have to write. that unnerves me but it at least makes me finish the papers sooner or later.
Mr. A* was never heard of again until gf handed in a first version of the thesis last week. Back came the famous e-mail in which he elaborates that it's a little late, isn't it. Hmm. let me think a bit, who set the deadline again?
Well, some hours ago he sent another e-mail claiming he read the thesis and had some things to critisize. I was shocked, literally.
I knew that the University gf went to is organized differently from mine, but her kind of Universities are rumored to be less unprofessional and yet it was possible for that A* to send gf a completely useless piece of shit called feedback. where he claimed that the thesis lacked structrure while his own feedback didn't even have so much as a thread to work by. If I hand in on time I get back my hard copy of the paper with comments, or I get an e-mail sticking to the structure of my paper explaining in the last bit of detail what was problematic and what was good. Not doing the corrections for me, but at least so that I know what the problem was. The mail of Mr. A* was a guessing game, mixing layout with content and much worse stuff too. I read the mail and while gf was shocked because it said that the work wasn't good enough (which I strongly disagree with), I was shocked because of the way it was written. I honestly thought there was some sort of attachment that I hadn't seen yet, something to work with.
Well, acutally I wanted to leave the ranting to the gf but after staying up almost all night to correct the whole thing with her, I have a right to rant too.
And bless my good Dr. P, who's organized ways are valued even more now.

that also means I'll go work on my paper now, so I might even hand it in today or tomorrow.

the piles are back

I'm at work right now and the piles of paperwork are back. Actually, they are new piles but none the nicer...

also gf and I will be going on HOLIDAY!! more news on that later this week or maybe on gf's blog.

So, after telling you all that, here's what I originally wanted to post. I'll not be blogging for the rest of the week because I have a paper due on Friday and kind of done near to nothing to finish it.
This means I'll be on hiatus until probably Saturday or so...then I'll be back with hopefully good news.

See ya,
finn.

end game

finally, I'm done with all the crap it seems and my work is all normal again. no porn today.
basically it was an amazingly boring day. the police came twice, then we had the special forces over and finally a military general came visiting. the latter only on private matters but still, he fitted well into the scheme of today.
I won't bore you with work anymore.
because I was just hit in the face (by means of pay day) that the month is over and I have only one month to finish 3 essays. for which I have done nothing really and at least two of them should be profound 40 pages long.
thank god I'm a lazy b*** all summer, only to realize that there is no time left.
so if someone is an expert on EZLN raise your hand now.
experts on UN Peacekeeping operations are welcome too.

go back to start!

hurray!
after sorting through 9 GB of porn on Monday, I came to work to day thinking that it can't get worse.
It seems I'll never learn, no matter how old I get, that it can always get worse. So I'm back at filing the illegal stuff, from the probably legally bought stuff and sorting out the things that will put the guy behind bars.
oh, and in between I'm trying to get visa for the russians again.

and the strange thing is...I acutally like my jobs on days that are not like this week. i wonder if someone brainwashed me...

I guess I'll need a good work out today. probably punching in walls.

you know, the good thing is. it's all gonna be over pretty soon.
the bad thing is it's gonna hurt.
my body shows signs of exhaustion (already!) and there's not really a lot that I can do.
it's nothing bad, it's a tummy ache or a headache...just so that I don't feel 100 % well. it's slows me down, I hate being slow.
And being slow is nothing I need right now. Luckily there are moment with enough adrenalin that make me forget for a short time.

I hate JUNE!!!

1:14

so i had my presentation today and it marks the beginning of a series of things i gotta do. one down 14 to go. and i'm not talking about reading 20 pages and summing them up. I'm talking real essays here. with 30-40 pages each and the respective research to do. i'm talking exams and i'm talking drafts and outlines for the essays...ugh. i don't wanna think about all that anymore. too little time for too much to do.
wish me luck.

Soundcafé

Hi folks,

so somehow I managed to be a lazy blob the last few days, but now finally the soundcafé is online. If you have time on your hands - go and drop by.


see ya at the café

since I tried to blog yesterday but couldn't cuz the computer would crash halfway through the process, I'm giving it another try today.

Surprisingly enough I didn't spend the night at work because of a damn helicopter. but I didn't really have "home-time" either. but I hope for better karma today and I also hope that I can leave at least on time.

also I planned to open the soundcafé on sunday. for a link - see my blogroll. Sorry, I'm too lazy too hyperlink this. and of course the computer could crash again if I don't hurry up.

So people, the soundcafé opening on sunday. come and have some coffee.

now, I have to pretend to be working though because looking busy is never a mistake.