HALLO

*echo*

...noch ganz leer!!!!!!!!

DANKE, Kisan :-)

Mealtime! ;-)

Thank you, Kisan, hello suziq!

Das ist aber schön - ein neuer Faden. Vielen Dank, kisan. Ausgezeichnete Hochlichter übrigens.

Also mein Deutsch willst du nicht korrigieren, aber bei meinem literarischen Geschmack hältst du dich nicht zurück??? LOL Ich werde mir das Buch später nochmal anschauen. Vielleicht war es doch nicht so gut. ;-)

Ich mache gerade Pause, weil wir das "Kabuff" (heute lernte mein Sohn (16) ein neues Wort!) aufräumen mussten. Das ist das Zimmerchen, das eigentlich ein Bad werden sollte, in dem die Heizungstherme wohnt. Der Heizungsmonteur bat höflichst um mehr Platz, und ich hoffe, dass er nächste Woche walten und schalten können wird. Ich habe ganz viele Leinwände gefunden und meine Kunstmappe, mit der ich mich damals an der Kunstschule bewarb. Was wir noch sonst gefunden haben, schreibe ich hier leiber nicht ;-) So...mein Sohn hat mich gerade gefragt, ob das mein Ernst sei, hier zu sitzen, während er oben weiter aufräumt...*pflichtrufenhör*

Hi Wolfie und SD3...und danke auch für die schönen Hochlichter, kisan *kroneauchnochpolier*

kisan, thank you so much for "bäschtling", you saved me. If I had an old brass oil lamp
I would give it to you. You would just have to rub it and I would appear as your trusty servant, your genie! (((o;

Thnanks for the new shell, kisan!

Hey folks,
First of all "Happy (belated) new year!" It shall be a lucky and healthy year for y'all.
New years duty was a bit frustrating but it all turned out pretty well in the end. At least it's over now.


PS: Not only I think that women are complicated :o))). Most men think the same way...(I bet the I just kicked off another shoe-discussion :o) ).

kisan: Ich wollte dich noch was fragen: Wer hat das Lied "Gaston, il y a le telephon' qui son'" (meine Tastatur ist accentbedürftig) gesungen?

Entschuldigung - hallo alle Schnecken einschließlich Flo! Dir auch alles Gute für 2009. Hast du jetzt frei? Wo ist denn das angesagte Foto geblieben? Weißt du noch - in Uniform?
Ich lasse mich übrigens heute nicht in heikele Gespräche verstricken und meine Schuhe gebe ich nicht her.

*wavestoSD3*
Yeah, I got some spare time now. Oh and yeah, I forgot to take that picture until now. I'll do it on the next occasion (which will be the duty on tuesday). :)

Hello!

@Flo_123: A Happy New Year to you too!!!!
Don't forget to smile on your pic!!!!

@SD3:Nino Ferrer
This song makes me really feel ancient. I couldn't listen to it nowadays as often as I did when I was young. By the way, the singer comitted suicide 10 years ago.

@steve53: You do have a very iffy way to express your gratitude!!! I might think twice before saving your life again!!!

Nobody wants me. ))o;

very nice new house, kisan!
Thanks for the lovely highlights, too.

We're back from a magical walk to the Uracher Wasserfall. It is partly frozen, but all the same, quite a lot of water is still falling down. The descent over a long flight of stairs (we approached from the "upper level" of the Alb; the waterfall is sort of halfway down and falls down to the foot of the mountains) was quite icy; I landed on my bottom once. It is still very cold, around -5°C (23° F), and we had a wonderful colourful sunset on our way home.

This
http://www.panoramio.com/photo/11240111
is how the waterfall looks when it is completely frozen.

kisan, thank you very much for this lovely new snail house.

Goldammer, that brings some memories back. I love the Uracher Wasserfall, but I have never seen it (even partly) frozen. If I were home, I would take a walk there today. Nevertheless, we took a walk yesterday in the hills around here and I still can hardly believe that we found some icy spots on the street.

Loretta, my spayed rabbit seems to be back to normal. She gets used again to let approach Filou, my (already neutered) male rabbit. In the first days after the operation she used to run away as soon as he came closer than one foot. Filou behaved funny, too - he is not used to getting less attention than Loretta, and in the days after the operation she got much more attention, so he (looking up) was really in a snit for half a day. I did not want to be petted, took no food and made as much noise as he could so that we really had to pay attention to him. I had not known before that rabbits could react as offended.

SD3 and suziq, I am somewhat relieved that I do not offend anybody by telling that I am really fine at the moment. I anyway do not want luck at the expense of others. Nevertheless, I feel with all those who are not as lucky. I do know of bad years, too.

Thank you very much, kisan, nice new house, and not such a dangerous and ramshackle structure as the last one ;o) (see CC 193 #286)

"Bel Canto" was nice but I found Patchett sugarcoats the Stockholm syndrom. The plot seems to be a pretext to develop her ideas. As for the impact of music, I can feel what she wants to say but in my opinion she exaggerates and idealizes.

If you are still interested in books that somehow deal with music, I have just finished a wonderful book I would really recommend: Anna Enquist Kontrapunkt

look here:

http://www.die-leselust.de/buch/2495.html

Ich verteile ein paar Korrekturitos:

#9: May it be a lucky (oder meinst du happy?) and healthy year for y'all.
Not only do I think that

#15: quite a lot of water is still coming down - "falling" ist nicht wirklich falsch, klingt hier aber ein bisschen komisch, ich weiß auch nicht warum :-( Interessantes Bild!

#16: She's getting used (again) to letting (approach) Filou approach her again
that rabbits could react as offended -> could react as if they were (so) offended oder could be so offended

zu #16: Ich nehme das mit again zurück. Du hast 3 Möglichkeiten:
1) She's again getting...
2) She's getting used again...
3) ... approach her again.

candice: Du hast nach tailbone gefragt. Ja, sagt man. Coccyx sagt man aber auch.

@SD3
re #15: I find "coming down" a bit too weak to express "herabstürzen" which is what I wanted to say. "herunterkommen" appears a bit colourless - is there no stronger verb?

@candice
"Kontrapunkt" sounds a wonderful book recommendation. I'll keep that in mind!

Mein Vorschlag ist colourless? *g*
Na gut, wie wäre es mit rushing down, pouring down, coming down in torrents? Oder wäre das zu viel gesagt?
To fall (aber ohne down) würde man m.E. eher in so einem Satz verwenden: The water falls at a rate of n meters per second.

I like rushing down best. Thanks for your suggestions! :-)

Tut mir Leid, aber ich mische mich hier ein. SD3 sagt vielleicht coccyx, aber ich wette, die meisten Amerikaner sagen tailbone. Meine Mutter ist mal beim Rollschuhfahren hingefallen und hat sich das Steißbein gebrochen. Sie würde bestimmt sagen: When I fell and broke my tailbone... Und dabei hat sie in einem Krankenhaus gearbeitet und kennt sicherlich das Wort coccyx.

@Goldammer: wie wäre es mit plummets oder comes crashing down? Und dann ein Korrekturito (#21) "Kontrapunkt" sounds like a wonderful book recommendation.

Und hexlein: I did not want to be petted, took no food...Du meintest wohl Filou, oder? Ich weiß, ich weiß...Das ist ein Tippfehler, aber ich musste darauf aufmerksam machen.

Die Nutmeg logs sind selbstgebacken...von meiner Schwiegermutter. Das war ein Weihnachtsgeschenk, die wir aus Versehen bei ihr liegen ließen. Sie sind lecker, aber leider habe ich sooo viel an Süßigkeiten in Iowa gegessen. Ich müsste mal Kur bei Steve machen.

@Steve: In Iowa hat Herr MiMi ein Buch über Bienen gelesen. Er fand es sehr interessant. Es heißt Fruitless Fall. Ich wollte es lesen, habe es aber nur angefangen.

SD3 sagt vielleicht coccyx - In der Tat! Sage ich auch - auch wenn's ziemlich colourless ist im Vergleich zu tailbone! ;-)

Hi Amy-MiMi!
comes crashing down sounds also very nice and appropriate.

...and I think you messed up your correcturito for hexlein, didn't you? You meant to replace the "I" in the rabbit sentence with a "He", I guess.

also, coccyx sounds rather buchstabensalatig and not at all colourless to me! :-D

Ach, ich habe gedacht, coccyx sieht fast Russisch aus.
Da wir noch dabei sind, noch was zu falling down: so viel Wucht und Krach, wie du es anscheinend haben willst, liest man nicht aus falling down heraus. Small children fall down, zum Beispiel. Ein Haus könnte auch evtl. fall down, was zugegebenermaßen mit Krach verbunden wäre, aber das müsste man mit einer zusätzlichen Phrase zum Ausdruck bringen.

Guten Tag bzw. Abend, und ein etwas verspätetes Dankeschön an kisan fürs neue Schneckenhaus. (-:

Steve, oje, pass bitte auf dich auf und nicht zu schnell aufstehen, okay? Aber tippen kannst du hoffentlich immer noch und bist in der Tat hier nach wie vor erwünscht. Besonders, falls du dich das nächste Mal zum Basteln aufraffen kannst. Dank kisans großzügigem Einsatz (?) hast du jetzt wenigstens ein bisschen mehr Zeit, um zu ÜBEN ... (-;

Goldammer, wie wär's mit einfach 'still flowing'? Oder 'still coming over the falls'?

kisan, ich denke, ich habe auf Bel Canto eigentlich sehr ähnlich wie du reagiert, aber wie bei Lore ist das für mich schon ein paar Jahre her, also an Details erinnere ich mich nicht mehr.

Ich habe gerade The Namesake von Jhumpa Lahiri gelesen, das ich für Weihnachten bekommen hatte. Es hat mir gut gefallen, auch wenn ich schon Teile davon als Kurzgeschichten im New Yorker gelesen hatte. Das Ende hat ein bisschen übrig zu wünschen gelassen, aber das empfinde ich ehrlich gesagt bei fast allen Romanen [6g] zu diesem Punkt in meinem Leben. [/6g]

Jetzt ist aber mein wirklich schönstes Weihnachtsgeschenk dran: ein deutsches Buch. (-: *riesigvorfreu*

Amy, gut, dass du wieder da bist. Viel Erfolg im neuen Semester, ab morgen.

Ich habe vor einer Woche oder so übrigens dein Curry-Zucchini-Suppe-Rezept für meine Eltern gemacht. Nicht ganz so gut wie früher, als ich es gemacht hatte, aber es hat trotzdem geschmeckt. Ich denke, ich vermisse wohl das rote Currygewürz, das ich komplett zufällig bei mir zu Hause gekauft hatte.

hexlein, schön, dass es dir zur Zeit meistens so gut geht. Und dem glücklichen Hasenpaar natürlich auch.

Ich weiß auch nicht mehr, ob ich Starlet begrüßt habe. Also: Hallo, Starlet, falls du wieder vorbeischaust. (-:

Ok, ok, I confess, my "falling down" wasn't exactly colourful to begin with. Not strong enough for what I really wanted to say. But I found "coming down" even less so.

(you aren't really offended, are you? I absolutely enjoy such discussions about the nuances in the meanings of words, and I think you enjoy them, too, don't you?)

Hi hm--us!
Just a few correcturitos before I retire to my bed for today.

Ich habe gerade The Namesake von Jhumpa Lahiri gelesen, das ich (für) zu Weihnachten bekommen hatte. ... Das Ende hat ein bisschen (übrig zu wünschen gelassen) zu wünschen übrig gelassen, aber das empfinde ich ehrlich gesagt bei fast allen Romanen [6g] zu diesem Punkt in meinem Leben. [/6g]

I can't tell you why, but I wouldn't use past perfect in that first sentence, although it is correct in the Zeitfolge. I'd say:
Ich habe gerade...gelesen, das ich zu Weihnachten bekommen habe.
I'd also probably not use "zu wünschen übrig gelassen" here; I might say "war etwas schwach" or something like that - but that's probably a question of one's individual style.

Hallo hm--us!
Nein, Goldammer, beleidigt bin ich überhaupt nicht. Wie kommst du da drauf? Habe ich ein paar Smiley-Dingsda vergessen? Ich habe mir das nur so vorgestellt: Der Wasserfall ist teilweise zugefroren, also fließt nur noch wenig Wasser. Anscheinend war es in Wirklichkeit anders. Abgesehen davon, habe ich auch sehr viel Spaß an der Sprache.

*hm wink* Das Rezept habe ich vor einigen Tagen gesehen und würde sie gerne kochen, aber hier haben wir nicht gerade Zucchini-Zeit. NT: Ich habe ein deutsches Buch zum Geburtstag bekommen (eigentlich habe ich es mir gekauft, mit dem Geburtstagsgeld, das meine Schwiegereltern mir schenkten), aber leider kam es erst an, nachdem wir schon nach Iowa abgefahren waren. Und jetzt fehlt mir die Zeit, es zu lesen. :-( Aber auf der *6-Gang* Plus-Seite sieht es so aus, als ob ich dieses Semester drei Kurse unterrichte, was viel Arbeit bedeutet, aber auch entsprechend belohnt wird, also freue ich mich schon darüber, dass ich wieder Geld verdiene.

Die Fotos von dem zugefrorenen Wasserfall sind echt schön. Es gibt so viele hübsche Ecken in Deutschland. Obwohl ich viel sehen konnte, als ich im August in DE war, bin ich beeindruckt, wie viel es noch zu sehen gibt.

@ki-san: Das war recht unfreundlich von mir. Ich habe vergessen, dir für das schöne Zimmer zu danken. Toll gemacht.

Ich habe eine neue Tastatur und ich gewöhne mich sehr langsam daran. Die Taste, die ich für ä ö usw. brauche, ist auf einer anderen Stelle, oder ein bisschen nach rechts verschoben. Wie ärgerlich.

Vor ein paar Tagen haben Herr MiMi und ich den Film "Valkyrie" mit Tom Cruise gesehen. Hat sonst noch jemand den Film gesehen, und wenn schon, was meint ihr dazu? Ich war eigentlich überrascht, dass er nicht sehr schlecht war, aber ich hatte ziemlich bescheidene Erwartungen vom Film. Herr MiMi und ich möchten wissen, ob der Film in DE/Ö/LU/SZ läuft, und wenn schon, dann synchronisiert oder mit Untertiteln?

@ all, hello,

Just a short visit.
@ kisan, thank you for the new home and Hochlichter™

@ hexlein, don't worry, you could never offend anyone, you're much too kind. It might sound paradoxical, but bad news is a wake-up call, for me anyway. I know that I need to make some changes in my life.
BTW: it's snowing again; please use your magic trick.

@ hm—us re: schönstes Weihnachtsgeschenk... *schmoll* just kidding.


@ Amy, I want to see the movie "Valkyrie", I don't really care for Tom Cruise.

@ Flo _123,re: women are complicated? I think it's just the opposite. ;-)
Of course, my hubby is an exception.

@ Steve53, re: nobody wants me. Yes we do. ;-)

Gute Nacht! Guten Morgen an die Frühaufsteher & latecomers. :-)

Good morning everybody.

I hope you all had a great weekend. Mine was quite lazy. Spent most of the time in bed either sleeping or watching "Long Way Round". That was great though. I'd love to start my own adventure right away. Might be a little slippery on the streets though... at least for a motorcycle. AND for a car. Had a SLK rented and when I returned it the streets were quite icy. At the last corner before returning it I almost sent it into the wall, although I was only going about 20kmh. ABS didn't work at all. Thank God I remembered my playing around in the snow a few years ago and I made it around the curbe using the hand break. The guys behind me were probably somewhat surprised seeing a rockford turn that early in the morning. Got the adrenaline flowing.

Anyhow you all have a fun week and a good start into the new year.

Just a quick slimin' through.

Hello Amy, Valkyrie hasn't started yet and it surely will be synchronised.

@Whipsi - Ich hatte vor einigen Jahren ein ähnliches Erlebnis. Weil es so eisig war, dachte ich, es wäre besser durch den Wald zu fahren, anstatt durch die Stadt, so die Straßen sehr dicht beparkt sind. An einer Kreuzung merkte ich, wie das Auto wegrutschte und ich konnte absolut nichts dagegen machen. Es kam mir ein Auto entgegen und er hatte eigentlich Zeit das Unvermeidliche zu vermeiden, tat es aber nicht! Sein Auto war erst 8 Wochen alt und mein Panzer schob sein Auto gegen den einzigen Bauzaun im Wald. Normalerweise trifft man dort wirklich keinen aber ausgerechnet als ich ins Rutschen kam!

The snow is what made me head straight for the doctor this morning instead of going to work first and have myself thrown out again for still being a Bazillenmutterschiff. I didn't see neither the point of getting myself and other people in danger taking the car nor freezing my butt off waiting for a train and cycling in the snow when I was pretty sure I'd find me on my way back straight away because of complaining colleagues or a sympathetic supervisor. So I just called my supervisor telling her I'd rather see the doctor again than come to the office. And she was really sympathetic! Upon hearing my voice and my cough she said "goodness me, that hurts, just listening to it, go to the doctor quick. the quicker you're there, the quicker you'll be back in bed. that's where you belong."
This year's "trunk pest" is really hard to get rid of....

*chajagutebesserungwünsch*

Hi snails!
hexlein, Loretta reminds me of a show star in th fifties, Lorette Young.
She was very glamorous. I did not see the show very often. It wasn't really interesting for little boys. I rather preferred "Wyatt Earp" or the "Lone Ranger".

Amy, well I am not really sure about making a sugar cure. I am a sinner too!!
Right now I am eating, beside "Spekulatius", my favorite Christmas cake, "Christstollen". The Stollen after Christmas tastes the best and it gets better day by day.
Nowadays you can buy all kinds Stollen in in different qualities. I tested a lot and my favorite is the one from Aldi.
In DDR times we used to bake the Stollen by ourself. Well not actually bake them. It started in summer, trying to get all the ingredients like raisins, almonds sweet and bitter, zitronat and clarified butter. People who had relatives in the BRD got provided from there. Then you took your ingredients to the bakery.
The baker added flour, sugar etc. and you could watch how your dough was kneaded and formed into loafs. Then he sticked your "Stollenzeichen" in the loafs and baked them.
You had to watch this to be sure the baker did all your stuff in your dough.
Then the Stollen was stored in a box on the bedroom closet. The last pieces we ate in March and there was always a fighting to get the last one.

a(us), thumbs up

Well, I had disgusting experience this morning.
I felt awful this morning but I had an appointment with the doctor to get a 24h ECG(EKG). I hardly came out of the drive way because I have very broad "no winter tires"!
At the doctors I waited about 2 hours then she called me and said:"Oh Mr. Hansen, I am sooooo sorry. I do not know how this could happen but I am begging you to come again tomorrow, we forgot to charge the batteries. BINGO

Hi Steve! Das ist aber total interessant (Stollengeschichte) - und was musste man für den Backdienst bezahlen? Das war wirklich blöd beim Arzt...aber so kriegt man den Tag auch rum ;-)

I just caught one of my au pair applicants who obviously did the second part of her "Dear Host Family Letter" with an automatic translation program. The beginning is quite nice, but towards the end, she obviously got fed up and let the rest do the program.
Quote:
"I hope it like to you what I about myself has told. I am glad to step quite gigantically on it with you in contact."
I bet she wonders how I know! :-D

" I am glad to step quite gigantically on it with you in contact." - das gefällt mir besonders gut *g*

I like it, too, but so far I haven't managed to find out the exact German wording...

suzi, the baking didn't cost much. If someone did not have enough ingredients for to many Stollen, the "Backgeld" might have been the biggest expense. (o;

Goldammer, I found something similar on ebay. A guy who offers a lot of old stuff
has his text in German and English. The most funniest thing is a "hölzerner Schrankaufsatz". He calls it a "wood essay" Essay = Aufsatz. Maybe application or accessory would have been better.

My guess:
I hope it like to you what
I about myself has told. I am glad to step quite gigantically on it with you in contact.
Ich hoffe, es gefällt Ihnen, was ich über mich erzählt habe. Ich freue mich riesig, mit Ihnen in Kontakt zu treten.

She just called me about another question she had and confirmed my guess. :-) She said it looked a bit funny, but she thought she'd send it all the same.

@Steve
LOL! wood essay is one of the nicest 6-gear words I've ever heard!
I like your Stollen-Story, too!

...ich freue mich riesig darauf, mit Ihnen in Kontakt zu treten...

Die Minizicke hat ihren Vornamen bei youtube gerade eingegeben und einen Riesenschock bekommen, als sie sich tatsächlich gesehen hat!! Vor Ewigkeiten stellte ich als Test ein Filmchen ein, wie das Kind mit 3-4 Jahren ein bisschen frech am Tisch war - und hatte es total vergessen! Sie ist jetzt so stolz, dass sie bald Autogramme verteilen wird.

@Goldammer: Danke, für das 6-gängige Beispiel. Vorhin habe ich den Studenten gesagt, sie sollen auf keinen Fall ein online Übersetzungsprogramm benutzen, um ihre Aufsätze zu schreiben. Ich habe ihnen erklärt, dass der Text meistens furchtbar ist. "Höchstwahrscheinlich werde ich es erkennen können." Aber heute Nachmittag bringe ich dein Beispiel mit und bringe den Studenten auch das Wort Paradebeispiel bei.

@suziq: Was müssen wir eingeben? Minizicke? :-)

I have been absent lately as far as writitng is concerned but have read the one ot he other post.

However, I just wanted to drop by rapidly to tell everybody that I have to announce a happy event.

Having planted a seed seven years ago, nursed the plant for all this time and through several changes of apartments, having been teased by it for another seven months with just the promise of a flower, having feared it might bloom during my recent absence to Japan through the holiday season, last Saturday afternoon my strelitzia has finally opened its first ever flower.

It is wonderful to look at but I admit to being exhausted by the long wait.

The happy parent

@itzamna: Ach, wir haben doch gewusst, dass das für dich klappen würde, denn du bist ein Gott. *gg* Gratuliere ganz herzlich und es ist sehhhhr schön, dich wieder hier zu lesen. Grüß aus Michigan!

Hi Itzamna - schön dich wieder zu "sehen"

@Amy - Es mag dich vielleicht ein wenig überraschen aber...auf der Geburtsurkunde meiner Tochter steht nicht "Minizicke" ;-)

Boah, itzamna, herzlichen Glückwunsch!

*Schokozigarre überreich*

Hast du ein Foto davon gemacht und ins Babybuch geklebt?

Schön, dich wieder hier zu lesen. Frohes neues Jahr. (-:

congratulations, itzamna! I think we talked about your Strelitzia before, didn't we? Nice to see you again!

@Amy-MiMi
So you had your first day teaching today, if I'm right? Glad I could provide you a "daunting example" (abschreckendes Beispiel) for your students!
What age and level of skill are they?

Glück auf itzamna It takes a lot of patience and a "green thumb" to get a Strelitzia seed to bloom. Strelitzia is dedicated to Queen Charlotte of England. She was a Princess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. That is in Meck-Pomm. (o;

Amy, toi toi toi for your new class!!

*sigh*
My father has gaing changed my holiday plans...this time I'll probably survive it. He seems to be a bit worried because I told him, I was not going to study during the next semster, even if I don't manage to get that place abroad.

Looking back on the last semester I've learnt a lot of things, subject-related and social things. Being all alone among 200 other students isn't as funny as I thought (after 12 years of being only 20 people I thought a little more anonymity might be funny), if somebody tells you it's better to do X until the 20th of Octuber, you had better NOT do it on the 12th of December.If they say they require 20h of homework, per week and per lecture, they're probably right. Food IS exepnsive. Lectures aren't that necessary, but studying books and doing homework is.
Ah, well, I've certainly learnt many things. But also must say, that continuing school (that's what Bologna's made with University) after only two weeks of holidays somhow belongs into category "great mistakes of my life".
So I'll either go abroad or reduce universital stuff to a minimum or even don't study and go working.
Need some time for myself, need some time to relax, need some time to change the outer structures of my life, need some time to find out what I really want, need some time to grow up;)

I'm definitevely GOING to get a higher education, you know, a Matura is no education. So I'm going to finish my studies after that gap semster/year.

Naja... erst mal Ferien umplanen gehen...

@SD3: Thx for the correction :D
@a(us): That might be a topic where viewpoints are very important :) And OFC your "hubby" won't be as complicated as other men ;)

PS: Of course I won't forget to smile on the picture :)

@Snowflake
Can you pause at university just like that without disadvantages for your studies? Urlaubssemester or something like that?

Goldammer,
Hm, jein.
Normally: yes. My individual case: a little more bureaucracy.

I hope, I will not forget anything of all that stuff I wanted to write while reading.

Many thanks to SD3 for the corrections. I really should know that it is to be used to doing (that's a gerund, isn't it?). At least I did it right the second time.

Amy, you are right, it is Filou who wants to get petted, not me (I never know at this point if I should use me or I).

*downloading some snow from a's area* I hope it works. Thank you very much for your kind words. I would like to help, but I am so helpless. So I just keep my fingers crossed.

Chaja, I hope you get better soon.

Steve, the name Loretta just crossed my mind when we were fetching her from the humane society. I grew up without a television and I doubt anyway that a sow of the 50's would still have been broadcasted in the 70's. For this reasons, I did not even know that Loretta Young existed. By the way, her fur at the belly is starting to re-grow.

Hi folks! Hi hexlein! Hope you're well. The name Loretta reminds me of Loretta Lynn, the country singer. ;-)

Hey wolf!

Hallo Schnecken!

Bei den Lorettas kenne ich mich leider nicht aus.

Ich glaube, du bist urlaubsreif, snowflake. Ich muss gestehen, es hat mich gewundert, dass du bis kurz vorm Studiumbeginn noch lernen und dann Prüfungen ablegen musstest. Ist das bei euch normal? Irgendwann muss man sich doch erholen können, denke ich. Na ja, auf jeden Fall hast du in den letzten Monaten eine ganze Menge gelernt.

Chaja: Gute Besserung! Mein Rezept: Zu Hause bleiben, viel schlafen.
"trunk pest" *g*

@snowflake: Ich drücke dir die Daumen. Eine Pause einlegen macht manchmal Sinn...errr...ist manchmal ratsam.

@hexlein: Grammatisch richtig wäre: "It's Filou who wants to be petted, not I" aber das sagt und schreibt praktisch keiner. Hier schreiben wir relativ umgangsprachlich, also würde ich "not me" vorchlagen.

@Wolfman: Na ja, wenn Loretta neben Filou steht, hast du den Nagel auf den Kopf getroffen. Menno, das ist nicht mal 6-Gang!

Ich Romanmuffel habe mich für ein Seminar eingetragen und muss 7 Romane lesen. Pamuk, Kundera, Bolano, Puig, Desai... *Kopf schüttel* Der Professor ist zum Teil unbeliebt, aber ich schätze, dass ich keine Probleme haben werde. Er interessiert sich sehr für Politik, Geschichte und möchte vor Allem, dass die Studenten selber eine Meinung zu den Texten bildet. Also ich schlage vor, dass jede Schnecke ein Buch von der Leseliste nimmt, den Roman liest und hier Bericht erstattet. ;-) Oh, nein, das geht nicht! Er will, dass ich die Texte lese und meine eigene Meinung dazu bilde.

@Goldammer: Das sind Anfänger im ersten oder zweiten Semester des Unterrichts (wir machen das ganz anders als bei euch), also 18 bis... Der Älteste ist ungefähr so alt wie ich, schätze ich.

*Tee mit Zitrone für Chaja hinterlass*

Hallo Amy! Wegschauen...

Korrekturitos:

#35: Had a SLK rented -> Had rented an SLK ??

#38: I didn't see neither ... nor Entweder "I didn't see either ... or" oder "I saw neither ... nor"
I was pretty sure I'd find myself on my way back

#40: we used to bake the Stollen (by) ourselves
zitronat = candied lemon peel (glaube ich wenigstens)
he stuck your "Stollenzeichen" in the loaves
to be sure the baker put all your stuff in your dough. 
in a box on the bedroom closet - on top of ??
a fight(ing) to get the last one

#42: got fed up and let the rest do the program. -> let the program do the rest

Moinsen snails!

Yep, I am getting old. People who remember Loretta Young are old fossils. ((o:

Today I'll give it another try with the ECG. Let's hope that the batteries are well charged. The most noxious thing in the doc's waiting room is the radio music, a mixture of disco and commercials. That is the right thing for people who do not feel so well.
I wish I had a pump gun when I hear that hooker sing:", Car-Glas repariert, Car-Glas tauscht aus".

Thanks SD3, so many mistakes, will that ever change?? ((o:

ooh, Steve, I really feel with you! My adrenalin level rises, when I hear "Car-Glas repariert, Car-Glas tauscht aus!" anywhere! And to be stuck in a doctor's waiting room where there's no escape! Couldn't you ask the receptionist to at least change the channel?

I meant to say "get well soon" to Chaja yesterday, sorry! I hope you are better meanwhile!

re Car-Glas: Not only the song is utterly stupid, I also hate these stupid "oberlehrerhafte" Texte that come with it! Together with "Seitenbacher Müsli", one of the most horrible radio commercials at the moment, don't you agree?

Good morning snails!

O, you are so right. The Car-Glas radio commercial is so awful. *shudder* "und dann: KRRAACKK ... I'm beginning to feel queasy(?)

Hello snails! :-)

Amy I'd love to have the time to read novels and you even get credits for it - maybe you can look at it that way. I read Clear light of day by Anita Desai a few years back and loved it. It's about the separation of India and Pakistan in the 1940ies and it's beautifully written. Which book are you supposed to read? Considering Orhan Pamuk be "ready to get confused" (© Björk ;-)). It was only yesterday that I read a discussion about this author and it was the consensus that you have to know a great deal about Turkey and literature to even get close to following what he wants to say. I tried Das neue Leben and got lost at page 5. I think there was a bit of a discussion about the author here back then, too.
Milan Kundera is among the top 10 of my must read list. Die unerträgliche Leichtigkeit des Seins is supposed to be great - please report when you're done. :-)

Amy-MiMi, I won't read Pamuk for you (I gave up after a few pages of "Snow") but I'll happily read Bolaño or Puig since I don't know them (yet). What are the titles?

Over Christmas I read a very good novel by East-German-born writer Katja Müller-Lange as well as Henning Mankell's "Der Chinese", a thriller about the involvement of China in Africa. Very interesting.

Ok guys I really feel stupid now. Is it bad that I haven't heard of any of these authors??? And I always thought my education wasn't that bad. Guess I was wrong.

Good morning by the way. And have fun reading everybody...

Oh boy... I forgot how cold winter can get. Especially as I am bound to stay in, sick as I am. I stupidly left my mineral water out on the balcony and now it's frozen solid. Luckily it's plastic bottles (the German standard deposit crate...). And could somebody please thank hh and hhman for telling me to get those beer bottles (glass, of course) inside a couple of days ago? If I had left them out, too I think my balcony would be quite a mess right now...

Get well soon Chaja!

Hi snails! :-) And a happy new year to all snails who haven´t been here too often recently - itzamna and penguin.
*leaving a pot of tea, a cold-and-flu bath and a pack of paper tissues for chaja*

@steve, neutrino and Goldammer - Seitenbacher and Car-Glas: you are sooooooo right! But thank God, I haven´t heard the "Seitenbacher"-commercial for some time. I always think there MUST be some irony intended in these commercials, otherwise they would be just too stupid...
Steve, I hope you will be luckier today - in every respect.

@Amy - we are all so interested in your book list. Couldn´t you just write it down for us? (I wonder if there is anybody who really enjoys reading Pamuk - apart from a friend of mine who was teaching at a school in Istanbul for six years...)

@candice
I saw a TV feature about Seitenbacher some time ago, and guess who is doing these horrible spots? It's the boss of the company himself! As far as I recall, he is a sort of self-made-man who founded the firm I don't know how long ago, and it is his pride to produce these commercials quite "do-it-yourselfy". I remember seeing him sitting in a studio with a microphone in front of him, saying "Seitenbacher Müsli, lecker lecker leckerleckerleckerlecker....!"
I didn't have the impression that he was being self-ironic, I think he's dead serious.

@FAW
I have heard the names of some of the authors, but never read anything by any of them.
*outing myself as someone who reads mostly for entertainment and not so much for educational reasons and sometimes feeling a bit embarrassed about the fact*

It's amazing, there's even a Wikipedia entry about the Seitenbacher commercials:

Bekanntheit erlangte das Unternehmen vor allem durch seine ungewöhnlich amateurhaften Radio-Werbespots. Diese wurden stets vom Chef der Firma Seitenbacher, Herrn Willi Pfannenschwarz, selbst gesprochen und sind wegen seines Akzents sowie durch die leiernde Stimme verbunden mit dem simplen Werbeslogan "Seitenbacher-Müsli - lecker, lecker, lecker..." genauso prägnant wie umstritten. Diese Spots werden regelmäßig deutschlandweit gesendet. Der Stimmenimitator und Comedian Andreas Müller parodiert die auffallende Sprechweise und den simplen Slogan in seinem Programm. Die Seitenbacher GmbH betreibt daher auch Sponsoring auf der Comedy-Tournee von Müller.

So it is after all obviously a "Masche" he is aware of and using it to become known, if only in a disputed context. Well, with me it is definitely not working. I won't ever buy anything from Seitenbacher, and mostly because of those commercials.

WOW I wold never have thought that this "let's do the commercial on my own instead of paying a PUK-Student for it" thing's also so wide-spread in Germany! I thought that bad habit was only practised in Switzerland!

Here in Switzerland, actually only on Tele Züri, it's common parctice.
The worst is the one with the Recycling centre. A little boy on this play tractor is on his way out of mummy's sight and she calls him: Where du you go?" His answer "Ich gane zum Rölli uf Dielsdorf go entsorge" with that 4-year-old-voice... boah, I BET that's the kid of the CEO and he was bored on afternoon, really.
 
And this at the bottom is... actually the first do-it-yourself-commercial on Tele Züri, it has already been running for years now. But compared to the other self-made commercials, it's somehow the best. The others are FAR worse.
http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=9RMvEmvOb-o&fea...

Ich musste die Seitenbacher-Werbung im Netz suchen, um zu wissen, worüber ihr redet! Es ist wie die lokale Werbespots im Kino...sie sind auch grausig!! (wie Flöcklis Beispiel)

Heute bekam ich einen Anruf von einem Bildungswerk und sie haben mir Arbeit angeboten. Ich musste leider absagen, weil es terminlich schwierig gewesen wäre, aber trotzdem fand ich es schön, dass ich empfohlen wurde.

I think my balcony would be quite a mess right now. No, the mess will come up when it's thawing. Get well soon, Chaja.

Radio: I don't listen to the radio for many years now. It's so boring. Radio was fascinating when Thomas Gottschalk and Günther Jauch reinvented the radio on Bayern3, but that's at least thirty years ago.

I was disappointed by Kundera's Leichtigkeit des Seins. It's about a men who pees in the basin and otherwise there's nothing interesting going on. What I really was surprised is Christa Wolf's Kein Ort. Nirgends. I really did like it.

bluesky I almost had forgotten about Christa Wolf. I read Kein Ort. Nirgends about 10 years ago and remember finding it very confusing. Maybe I should give it another go, it's not that thick after all. And in contrast to Bel Canto I didn't resell it straight away. :-)

Seitenbacher.... oh my god. Thats the reason why I am happy not to have either tv or radio. I hate that spot whenever it comes up in radio.

@ Goldammer: thanks for outing yourself. I just read for entertainment, too. Right now the Fionavar tapestry by Kay and Long Way Down (after watching it, I have to read it, too).

The German book which I read in the moment "Murp".. I don't know if I really want to finish it. The first three of that series were far better.

I hate that spot whenever it comes up in radio while driving.

HA!!! I AM THE KING!!

Now bow down and give me your taxes :P

My sensitive king-senor-nose has led me directly to the bread in which the king was.
And after a little fight with my future subject I'm now King Snowflake the great white one.
(my mum refused to give me the crown, because she's hardly ever king and she had eaten three bread without finding it, and put it somewhere high where I can't reach it, until I menaced to stand on the kitchen board with my dirty socks).

Need to force my subjects to get me some coke, they're refusing.
May I torture them? Judex? Neutrino?

King? Bred? Maybe some unknown Swiss Christmas custom.

You don't know Dreikönigskuchen in Bayern? I thought Bayern was "erzkatholisch";-) and they celebrate this there. Zürich's reformated and even we know it... *wondering*
Does BaWü know that traddition? Bawü's catholic, right?

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreik%C3%B6nigskuchen
We have this one: http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dat...

@Goldammer - WILLI PFANNENSCHWARZ??? They must be kidding!

@snowflake - I´m your obedient subject, of course, but what exactly did you do to become king (why not queen?)?

Arrgh, I don´t feel like going back to school tomorrow, but not because of school itself, but because of having to get up so early. I usually had breakfast between 8 and 9 these days, and tomorrow I will have left the house by 6.50, and it will be still dark and freezing ...

@snowflake - we are not Catholic here, but Heathens, and we only burn our witches (sorry, Hexlein ;o))

http://www.oberer-lechgau.de/1362.0.html

Brrr, it´s supposed to have about -20°C tomorrow night...

Hmm, torture ... if you keep it within your family it may be okay. However, be aware, you're just king for one day and today's subjects may be your parents again tomorrow.

And BaWü is only partially catholic. The former Duchy of Württemberg was protestant until 1806. When becoming a kingdom in 1806 they "heired" some catholic parts, e.g. in Hohenlohe and parts of teh former "Vorderösterreich".

I think Baden was mostly protestant also.

Baden-Württemberg used to be mostly Lutheran, with some catholic areas spread in (according to the lords who governed at the time of the reformation). The frontiers between traditioinally catholic and protestant areas started to disappear after WWII. I don't know the Dreikönigskuchen-tradition, either. Please explain, Snowy!

should have F5ed. Neutrino's explanation is much more precise. Thanks.

snowy, wouldn't it be queen in your case?
Do we now have to say: "Your Royal Majesty"?

Hi Steve! How was the radio programme at the doctor's today? See what you triggered off in here!

wouldnt that be then your royal highness instead of majesty?

Reminds me of "Her majesty Mrs. Brown"? Anyone see that? Very funny movie. Naked Gerard Butler.... Thought I would drop this very important information. ;P

ROFL (was ich eigentlich ganz ganz selten mache) *Buch abhaken* Danke, bluesky. Jetzt brauche ich das Buch gar nicht lesen. Ich erscheine im Seminar und sage, "Oh, come on! This book is really just about a guy who pees in a sink. Nothing else really happens." *gg* *Notiz mach: Genug im Buch herumblätter, um herauszufinden, was für ein "basin" das ist.* Tatsächlich muss ich dieses Buch lesen. WIMRE habe ich es 1988 auf Deutsch gelesen. Damals war der Film der Hit im Kino und ich vermute, dass ich den Roman nur auf Deutsch gefunden hätte. Jedenfalls steht das Buch nicht auf dem Bücherregal bei mir zu Hause. Vielleicht schadet es nicht, wenn ich den Roman auf Englisch auch lese. Vermutlich werde ich mehr verstehen. Oder auch nicht.

@FAW: Na, ich habe mich schon als Romanmuffel geoutet. Ich kannte die Namen der Autoren, habe nur "Unbearable Lightness of Being" von Kundera schon gelesen. Ich lese gern, aber selten zeitgenössische Literatur und wenn schon, dann hauptsächlich auf Deutsch. *Kein Ort. Nirgends auf die Liste schreib*

Ich hätte auch gern genug Freizeit, um 7 Romane nur zum Spaß zu lesen!

Leseliste (bitte tragt euch ein)
Wer den Pamuk liest, bekommt eine Extrakanne Tee und einen Teller Baklava von mir geschenkt.

Puig: Kiss of the Spiderwoman --Snowy (danke, das Buch hast du bis zum 14. zu lesen)
Pamuk: My name is Red
Pavic: The Dictionary of the Khazars
Murakami: Kafka on the Shore
Kundera: The Unbearable Lightness of Being--Lore
Desai: The Inheritance of Loss
Bolano: The Savage Detectives--penguin

Ich wollte Snowy sagen, dass man die Untergebenen nicht foltern soll, aber wenn ich als Amerikanerin das jetzt sagte, würde man wahrscheinlich nur lachen. *seufz*

Can I read that in German? Then I would try myself on the Pamuk. But I insist on the Baklava!

Goldammer, yesterday the waiting room was crowded, the patience stood in line up to the front door. Today, the same time, I was the only one. I got my heart machine right away. It's because yesterday was Monday and the first day she had opened.
Mostly older people got thousands of "Überweisungen" to all kind of doctors for the next three month.

Heart machine? Do we have to worry?

Ok here is some fun for you all. As you know I work in a bank. The police just came in here, asking: Is there a bank robbery here?
Teller: No!???
Police: We have been told there is a bank robbery a the Deutsche Bank!
Teller: This is not the Deutsche Bank!
Police: OOOPS and runs out....

This is no joke. Just happened this minute.

Her snowy Majesty was just shopping.

The steep garage exit was comletely icey and I had to hold to give way to a passing car and then to start again on the ice. 'Course the car started fishtailing and the wheels begun to spin.
Her majesty was slightly overstrained then and tried to start at full throttle which didn't work either it just fishtailed even more.
I had the car roll back a little until it had tar under its wheels again and tried again. Took me about 5 minuets to get the car from the garage exit to the street. :D

Afterwards I had to go to a multi-storey car park. I've never been alone in such a thing and I had no clue how everything worked.
Took me quite a while to even find a parking space, I found one, probably meant for a boby car or a bike, but the smart just fitted in there (I had to climb out by the co-driver's seat). After I rushed through the shop I had ca 5 min to find the car again, because I didn't keep the floor nor the number in mind....
Then I climbed in the car and tried to get out of the car park, but at the exit it said I had to pay something, how strange! My mum said it's sometimes, depending on which automat, free for 30min, anyway, I had to back again and park the car agin somewhere to get the fee paid. *sigh* I just put it anywhere because there were no free spaces in sight anymore. Of course, the paying automat wasn't that self-explainatory either, but a kind woman helped me out :D



@Goldammer
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreik%C3%B6nigskuchen
We don't celebrate Dreikönigstag in canton ZH, because we're protestant. We even got to work. But in Catholic cantons everything's closed.
The only thing we do is eat that cake(it's normal Zopfteig) and give a golden cardboard crown to the king. Depending on family traddition the king may decide on dinner or so.
I actually wanted them to bring me coke to the couch but they refused and I had to go shopping.

mhm, my subjects are rather disobedient. I should whip them.

@amy
http://www.enotes.com/kiss-spider/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiss_of_the_Spid...
http://www.bookrags.com/Kiss_of_the_Spider_Woman

@Amy - Phew! I guess I wouldn´t be overly enthusiastic about most of these novels either (Can I read the Desai though?). Is your professor some kind of oriental Eastern world freak?

@Steve - the patience stood in line
Luckily you did not need so much patience today... *ggg*

Nicht einmal für Tee und Baklava (und letzteres mag ich eigentlich gerne) würde ich Pamuk nehmen, nein nein nein nein danke. Bei dem Herrn geht es mir genauso wie euch, mit ihm habe ich gar nichts anfangen können. (Stimmt das? Ich will 'mit jmdm./etw. nichts anfangen können' in Neuer Eintrag vorschlagen, bin aber bei der Übersetzung noch nicht ganz klar.) Ich habe ihn sogar 2x versucht, 'Red' und irgendein anderes Buch. *möööp* Fehlschlag.

Wenn Lore Desai empfiehlt, nehme ich das, zumal penguin & Snowflake die spanischen schon aufgeschnappt haben. (-; Oder von mir aus auch Pavic, wer auch immer er sein mag. Mit Murakami habe ich WIMRE auch nichts anfangen können.

Wie heißt denn dieses Seminar? 'Bücher, die oft von Kritikern empfohlen werden aber eigentlich nicht genießbar sind'? (-;

Aber Amy, hoffentlich lernst du jetzt das Geheimnis, wie man dazu kommt, sie richtig zu schätzen -- und bringst es auch uns bei. (-:

Hi, F.A.W., hast du schon von den Keystone Cops gehört?

Steve, also trägst du jetzt für 24 Stunden ein trägbares Gerätchen, das deine EKG-Wellen aufnimmt oder sogar zurück zur Ärztin schickt, oder wie? Und wieso musstest du und viele anderen den Arzt wechseln, aus Versicherungsgrunden oder wie?

Whipsy, nope, the heart machine is only a 24h ECG!

I know, it just reminded me of Herz-Lungen Maschine....

I started the Desai recently and sold it again immediately - couldn't get into it, it just did not interest me. I'm not quite sure I've read the Murakami, I've read several of his and enjoyed them all, I'll have to go look. But I've just ordered the Bolaño, it sounds interesting.


hm -- us: Ich kann mit Pamuk nichts anfangen (OT: ich, wie gesagt, auch nicht :-)), I don't think you would use the past tense

@hm no never heard of the keystone cops? What are they?

hm, no I did not change the doc. Our doc is the "Hausarzt" and if you want to go to a specialist doc, like "throut, nose and ears", "eye" etc. you have to have a refferal(Überweisung". "Deutsche Gründlichkeit oder auch Bürokratie"
So. and many of the old people have lots of time and lots of "Zipperlein" so they need lots of "Überweisungen" and that cloggs up the waiting rooms.

HRM snowy, I am starting to worry about you. ((o:

Well, we have to pay every quarter a so called Praxisgebühr of 10€. And also if you go to a different physician without a so called Überweisungsschein. That's why people squall (?) the doctor's practice at the beginning of every quarter, they need new Überweisungsscheine.

Basin, I took the first suggestion of LEO for Waschbecken, that kind of sink you have in a bathroom, not in the kitchen.

Habe vergessen, Chaja gute Besserung zu wünschen (und hh & Co. zum Bierschutzvorschlag zu gratulieren).

Ah, jetzt ja (danke, bluesky & Steve), dieses lächerlich geringe 10€-Copay. Ihr Europäer mit euren funktionierenden Gesundheitsversicherungssystemen seid wirklich verwöhnt. Obwohl, nicht einfach eine dauerhafte Überweisung bekommen zu dürfen, wenn man an eine chronische Krankheit leidet, ist zwar ziemlich bürokratisch.

—> people storm the doctor's office to get referral slips

bluesky, 'basin' in diesem Sinn ist BE, im AE ist alles ein sink. Hatten wir schon irgendwann.

F.A.W., die Keystone Cops habe ich persönlich nicht gesehen, sie kommen aus der frühen Kinozeit. Aber so weit ich weiß, haben sie eine Art körperliche Komödie gemacht, sahen immer sehr ungeschickt und blöd aus, sind immer wieder versehentlich gegen einander gelaufen usw.

pengu *wink* *ume-mailsusw.schuldbewusstsei*, okay, vielleicht sollte ich es mit Murakami versuchen, vielleicht habe ich an einen anderen Japaner gedacht. Und Katja Müller-Lange hört sich auch interessant an, danke.

Snowflake, Snowflake, Snowflake ... *seufz*

Hi hm-us (can´t miss the rare opportunity):

man an einer chronischen Krankheit leidet

What, hm-us?

*smilinginnocently*

*slimingthrough*

*wavingtoallsnails* *therebywaivingthe'i'* ;o)

Hi candice, are you already prepared for the start back to the cruel life after vacation? Co-Neutrino is already now mourning for having to get up early tomorrow ...

Hello snails!

Amy-Mimi's seminary is called "Literary Tough Beans".
 
I read "The Red Book" some years ago at a time when, maybe, I was a more patient reader than I'm now and even finished it!!! Even if this novel might appear a bit long winded and repetitive, it's a much easier read than "Snow", for example, I didn't finish either, but I might give it another try - some time perhaps. When Pamuk describes Istanbul he really makes me want to visit his city. Sorry, I had to say something in his defense!!!

I saw "The Spider Woman" and liked the film very much but didn't read the novel. By the way Anita Desai Lore is referring to happens to be Kiran Desai's mother.

hm--Us,, "The Namesake" disappointed me in the end too, especially since the novel has such a promising beginning.

Lore,, thanks for the link, but this novel doesn't tempt me at all! I think, I'm going to read Evanovich next - I only have to get hold of some of her novels. Something uplifting would come in handy. I wish you a good start tomorrow.

SD3, I find the pronunciation of "coccyx" slightly obscene ... ( I had to click on pronunciation in the Leo dictionary.)

Sorry, candice, I was thanking you for the link, not Lore!!

Hi neutrino, you should read #89, then you know why I feel really sympathetic to(wards?) co-neutrino... ;o)

And that´s also the reason why I go to bed now - arrgh, I hate that and would love to stay up till at least 1 a.m., but I also hate being so tired in the morning.

So good night, night owls, the early bird must sleep now. :-(((

*sigh*
Why can't you buy motivation in cans?

Snowflake: Was brauchst du denn? King for a day war nichts?
Ich habe auch keine Motivation. Stell dir vor, morgen fliegt mein Auftraggeber nach Paris. Er nimmt zwei Kollegen mit, mich aber nicht. Dabei könnte ich zur Not ein paar französiche Sätze bauen, während die Anderen von Französich keine blasse Ahnung haben. Und ich war doch so lange nicht mehr in Paris!

kisan: Ich weiß gar nicht, was du meinst. Reine medizinische Fachterminologie. ;-) Wie spricht man's denn auf Deutsch aus?
Auf Bel Canto komme ich hoffentlich noch zurück. Momentan habe ich wenig Zeit. Das Ende ist doof - da gebe ich dir Recht. Das hatte ich ganz vergessen. Es ist eine Weile her, seitdem ich's gelesen habe.
NB Evanovich ist Unterhaltungslektüre, keine erhabene Literatur - will ich vorsichtshalber gesagt haben. (Stephanie Plum - female bounty hunter.)
Gaston - ich erinnere mich noch an das Lied, an Nino Ferrer aber gar nicht.

Hat wer Kunderas "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting" gelesen? Wie ist es? Ich hab's grad hier - ist schon etwas vergilbt. Ich weiß nicht mehr, ob ich's gelesen habe.

neutrino: "Feel queasy" ist richtig.
they "heired" some catholic parts - they inherited some Catholic areas?

FAW: Keystone Cops -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keystone_cops
Her Majesty, Mrs. Brown habe ich gesehen. An den nackten Gerard Butler erinnere ich mich aber nicht. Was mein Gedächtnis angeht, sieht's anscheinend wesentlich schlimmer aus, als ich ahnte.

candice: it´s supposed to be about -20°C tomorrow night

Snowflake: We even got to work. -> Entweder "We've even got to work" oder "We even have to work"

Ach, candice, das lese ich jetzt gerade nochmal, nur diesmal mit Verstand - minus 20!!?? Das ist furchtbar.

candice, do you burn little witches, too?

(I didn't know any of these authors, have I to feel dumb now? I's take the Baklava (I love those), but I would probably not be able to read and understand this Pamuk)

*thinking of poor early birds candice and co-neutrino*
*considering going back to bed since Goldammerson has just left home*

@SD3
Not quite minus 20°, but nearly minus 16° (3.2°F) this morning! Poor Goldammerson who goes to work by bike!

ups, sorry, this was a reading mistake on the thermometer! It's only minus 5°! (just about 23°F).
*being relieved*

I bet at Steve's, it is surely colder this morning! Seems to have been the coldest night for 22 years or so in the east.

Yep Goldbird, it is what we call "arschkalt" and I have to go outside this morning.
My Mrs.H. said it's almost -22°C this morning. Let's hope that the car will start.

I will get some more bird seeds this morning. I bought a big bucket of mixed seeds but then I found out that it contained only a little bit of sunflower seeds. The biggest
part was wheat. The birds now need oily seeds so I will pimp it up with more sunflowers and with "Meisenknödel". I will also crack walnuts for the squirrels and the Jay (Eichelhäher). Actually the Jay do not deserve it because they rob the the eggs and the young birds out of the nests.

My neighbor has bunnies but it looks as if they can stand this frost. He doesn't have to care for his 4 Indian runner ducks because someone stole them 3 days before Christmas. Not a fine way to get a Christmas dinner.

We had - 9°C this morning and I think it's simply outrageous that we don't have a law that prohibits the temperature to drop below zero! I had to walk about 300 m in this cold and it felt like my jeans were already beginning to freeze...

@ Steve: Maybe it was an animal rights activist who wanted to save the ducks from becoming dinner?

Amy I just ordered the Kundera :-)
So there are two Desais. I didn't realize that.

Berlin city has -11°C this morning. It started snowing and the air isn't as dry as the past two days when I almost didn't care about the temperature (-15°C last night) because it was so beautiful outside. Now, with the upcoming snow the air almost bit off my nose when I walked Lorbeerchen to the kindergarten.

SD3, my grammar consultant are you already around? (Or any other helpful snail for that matter. :-))
I've been trying to come up with a sensible translation of denkbar, like in Speicherung an diesem oder jenem Ort ist denkbar. Can I say Storage... is conceivable? That sounds just so German. I know the possibility of We can conceive of... but I'd like to keep the passive voice.

@Lore - almost bit off my nose ... *ggg*

http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=Qz1iYb12s48

Can´t really answer your question; I would probably just say "possible" :-)

Hallo Schnecken!

Bei einigen von euch ist aber kalt. Hier geht's noch - die Temperaturen liegen über dem Gefrierpunkt. Es herrscht aber eine "winter storm warning"! Eisregen und noch Schlimmeres soll es heute geben. Bin gespannt, wie es auf der Fahrt zur Arbeit sein wird.

Temperaturangabe:
Normalerweise sagt man: (here) it is n degrees (here).
Obwohl man auch sagt: The weather was great. We had temperatures in the high eighties.

Hallo Lore: "Storage is conceivable" ist m.E. völlig OK.

Hi candice!
Ich gehe jetzt frühstücken.

it definitely IS freezing. My mineral water bottle crate has moved from the balcony into the kitchen. Deepest temperature last night in Cologne was -14°C. Right now it's still around -7°C. While yesterday it was bright and sunny now it's rather grey and the sky looks snow-laden. Can't tell whether the air smells like snow's coming on because I haven't been out yet.

Global warming definitely seems to be on holiday somewhere...

candice *g*
SD3 Thanks!
Chaja Hi! :-)

Hi SD3 (Enjoy your breakfast - my first day of school is already over (-:) and Chaja.

I remember opening a mineral water bottle once, that had been outside when it had been freezing for a couple of days. I was wondering why it was still liquid, but at the moment I opened it, it froze within 1 or 2 seconds, and the bottle virtually exploded in my hands. Any physicists around who can explain this phenomenon?

@ candice: look here: http://www.kopfball.de/arcexp.phtml?kbsec=arc...

Thanks, babs!
I was speculating about the freezing point of water being lower when the water is under pressure or something like that. Very interesting!

Also Innentemperatur: Tendenz steigernd. Endlich wurde die Heizung repariert und jetzt hoffen wir auf Wärme!! Gleichzeitig Heizung UND heißes Wasser - welcher Luxus. Buchstaben mit doofer Mütze und Töchter toben im Schnee...also alles normal!

*schnellreinschleichund"r"aus"steigernd"wiedernehm*

Congratulations, suziq!

I had a very interesting meeting today; my latest English student and I met for the first time. He is 59 years old, has a learning disability or mild mental retardation and decided he wants to learn English. He talks without end, very long and detailed stories about all sorts of things, and has had some English lessons many years back. He is really nice and sociable, maybe even a bit in-your-face (is that what you would say for "distanzlos"?).
Quite a challenge!
In our first lesson, I think I will show him that there are many English words in German which he probably knows, such as T-shirt, Snack, Talkshow..., let him find more, maybe, and then introduce some everyday words with "this is..." , with pictures or so. I have no idea so far whether he'll be able to concentrate on some matter for a time. We'll find out!

As promised, "Ordinationsgehilfe Flo" (Doc[MD] Flo *blush*; thx Snowy):
http://i193.photobucket.com/albums/z77/chaosr...

:D

You, dear leo folks, now have a real rarity on your pc's. Me at 6:30 in the morning without a coffee, completely in white and smiling. :).

@babs - Aaaaaaaah! Thank you for this interesting link.

@suziq - Tendenz steigernd doesn´t sound too bad, either. Anyway, you seem to have learned to be grateful for small favors :o)

Hi Goldammer, I hope your English lessons will be fun. How frequently will these lessons be?

First day of school is over, and I feel better than yesterday because first of all, it´s always easier once you got started again, and second, I can sleep a little longer tomorrow morning - till 6.45. For me, this is what hot water and a warm house is for suziq. ;o)

Hi everybody!

Finally managed to defrost myself so far that I am able to type ...

Flo, I'm not really sure where YOU are on the picture that link leads to ...

Sorry, Flo, this doesn't seem to work. I only get a picture with "Children of Bodom" lettering and nothing remotely resembling "Ordinationsgehilfe Flo"!

F5
@candice
That's not decided yet. He will have to discuss with his carer how often he can afford me. I am thinking of making a special price for him.

o_O

I'll check that asap.

Ok. That's the right link :).
http://i193.photobucket.com/albums/z77/chaosr...

Yes, that looks more like "Doc Flo" ... very professional.

EVERYBODY LIES!
(MD house fans will get it ;))

(Sorry I just had to xD)

And where's that gun you shoot the bacteria with?

*creepingfinallythrough*
If I go to bed for 1 hour now, will I be all lively and jumpy afterwards?

6.30 and smiling... what kind of drugs do you take, Doc Flo?
Can you give those to me, too ;-)?
Nice pic btw.

@SD3
Stell dir vor, morgen fliegt mein Auftraggeber nach Paris. Er nimmt zwei Kollegen mit, mich aber nicht. Dabei könnte ich zur Not ein paar französiche Sätze bauen, während die Anderen von Französich keine blasse Ahnung haben. Und ich war doch so lange nicht mehr in Paris!
Now that's a mean thing!

Was brauchst du denn? King for a day war nichts?
I need motivtion and a boot in my arse to start working.

BTW My subjets were either being disobedient or fleeing. Should have built a wall and a prison.

@atalante: I AM armed :D
see: http://i193.photobucket.com/albums/z77/chaosr...

@Flöckli: This specific drug you're talking about is called "motivation by leo-regulars". ORDER NOW AND YOU'LL GET A SECOND ITEM FOR FREE!!! xD

*OrderingtheHUGEtenpack*


Wow, those bacteria must be huge, regarding your ammunition ;-)

Snowy, you should have hired Flo yesterday - with him, your subjects would certainly have been VERY obedient ...

Flo: Danke für die Photos. Siehst du um 6:30 immer so fröhlich aus? ;-) Ich bin selbst zwar kein regelrechter Morgenmuffel, aber so heiter sehe ich bestimmt nicht um die Zeit aus.
"Everybody lies!" Das sagt der House gern, wenn ich mich recht erinnere. Wenn du House schaust, hast du ein Gebäude hier in der Nähe gesehen.

Goldammer: Du hast einen interessanten Auftrag mit deinem neuen Studenten. Weißt du was ihn motiviert, Englisch zu lernen?

Hallo atalante, babs, Steve, Chaja, Snowflake; gratuliere suziq!

Hello snails, hello SD3,

Here, we had a very fine day with the sun shining all day and no wind blowing so that the temperatures of -8 C this morning and -5 C during the day were quite bearable. Everybody was obviously enjoying the sunshine and in a good mood. I wouldn't have managed without heating, though.

Thanks, Flo, for the nice pics! You make me feel ancient again. The motivation drug you are referring to has to be applied intravenously, I think.

SD3, I hope you didn't encounter any problems on the road. As for Ann Patchett, there is no need to worry - really - (and no need to read her novel again). While I was reading, I couldn't make out what you saw in the book that I failed to see.
Evanovitch sounds like good fun. I will not make you responsible, if I shouldn't like it.

You usually don't talk much about your coccyx, except when it hurts. Its pronunciation makes me think of a phallic word and that's how I can remember it. It was a bad attempt at a joke, I have to admit with a maiden blush.

hexlein, I don't pretend to understand what I'm reading and certainly not Pamuk!!! We are all waiting for Amy-Mimi's explications!!!

Those Indian running ducks do they eat slugs or supposed to do so, Steve?

Here an autocorrectito: It dawned on me in my car that Amy-Mimi is taking a course. A seminary would be for priests. Mr. Amy-Mimi would certainly mind his wife becoming one.

Now it's hightime to creep into my warm bed. Good night!

Quick hello from the Ruhr! Snow on the ground, temperatures below freezing ... This is not what we're looking for over here.

@Snowy: Raise your butt and get going! ... and that's an order!

Good night, all!

explanations, of course!!!

Come on, wolfie, don't be so weichbächelig. A little snow won't kill you :P
And keep an eye on my relative snowflakes until I'll be there next week and visit them.
And I've just rose to do something.

*silently-creeping-along*

Hey Wachtelkönig - bist du wieder da? Durftest du wieder einreisen? Wie war es - hast du eine schöne Zeit gehabt?

Hallo Wolfman u. Snowflake!

Hi kisan! Auf den Straßen war es gar nicht so schlimm. Zum Glück ist es doch nicht richtig kalt geworden. Es hat aber den ganzen Tag lang ziemlich stark geregnet. (Bucketing down, candice!) Wenn es noch dazu kälter gewesen wäre, würden wir heute Abend bis zu den Knien im Schnee stehen. Die Schneeflocken sollen sich ruhig dort ansammeln, wo Snowflake sie auch besuchen kann.

*Wachtelkönig wink*

Korrekturitos für Snowy: And keep an eye on my snowflake relatives until I('ll be) get there next week to(and) visit them.

@kisan: Da ich evangelisch bin, könnte ich aber "minister" werden und sie studieren hier auch an einem Seminary, aber Herr MiMi hätte vielleicht etwas dagegen. Er möchte wahrscheinlich gar nicht "husband of the minister" spielen. Wäre irgendwie doof in unserem Fall.

Hier waren die Straßen wieder schlecht. Zum Glück habe ich aber einen Satz neuer Winterreifen gewichtelt gekriegt.

@Flo: Bist du in der Tat so freundlich, wie du aussiehst?

*wieder rausschleim*

Hi Wachtelkönig!
Welcome back to the yellow boxes!

@Amy-MiMi
I can imagine Mr MiMi wouldn't enjoy so much being "Herr Frau-Pfarrer" ! :-D
(An elderly minister's wife I know once told me that in a village where she and her husband lived some decades ago, her husband's title "Herr-Pfarrer" was so stuck in people's minds that they sometimes called her "Frau Herr-Pfarrer"!)

Moinsen snails!
Well, still -15°C this morning and blue sky. Driving the B-streets is okay but on the backstreets they did not removed snow at all. The same on the big parking lots.

kisan, yes those duck eat slugs but only a limited amount. They rather prefer our relatives, the ones with the snail house. )o;

Congrats to your winter tires Amy. I haven't had some all my life and I will hope to get over the winter without damage. If you get checked by the police, it can become expensive, 75Eu fee and one point in Flensburg.
So next summer, if there will be summer, I will probably get some.

snowy, what did Benjamin Franklin say" Early to bed, early rise, makes a snowflake healthy, wealthy and wise". What he also meant but did not mention was, no tobacco, no alc nor other drugs ((o; stay away from the "bad boys".

suzi, "Happy new furnace to you....". We have one those, rather small, "Kombitheremen" (heat & warm water) on each floor and except minor repairs are satisfied. They work with "GAS"!!!, lets keep PUTIN in a good temper!

Guten Morgen allerseits *michwohligwarmfühl*

Hallo goldammer und Steve!

Heute gibt es allgemeine Aufregung, da ich es in Aussicht gestellt habe, endlich wieder einkaufen zu gehen! Es war wirklich so ruhig hier in der letzten Zeit, dass sogar DAS als eine willkommene Abwechselung begrüßt wird.

Gestern habe ich einen Termin für eine neue Ausstellung bekommen und heute will ich die Ausstellungsmöglichkeiten erkunden. Ich kenne den Ausstellungsraum zwar schon aber es ist immer einfacher "vor Ort" zu entscheiden, wo welche Bilder hingehängt werden sollen. Ich dachte, ich nenne die Ausstellung "Mütter und Töchter" und könnte ein paar Bilder ausstellen, die suzitochter und ich zusammen erarbeitet haben, (die aber noch nicht fertig sind!)

Danke, Flo für das Bild...immer schön ein Gesicht vor Augen zu haben, wenn man die Beiträge liest :-)

Willkommen zurück, Wachtelkönig :-)

@Amy-MiMi: The Savage Detectives have arrived and look promising, if very weighty .... 576 pages. What do you need to know and by when?

Hello suziq! I like the idea of a mother-daughter exhibition. I grew up living with only my mom (and her mother, too, until I was ten) and to me, there's much ambivalence in the subject.

As for my daughter, the little lady decided that she disapproves of nappies with her 1 1/2 years and she fiecely voices her opinion at every occasion. What makes the situation particularly funny is that the loo-thing doesn't work at all, yet.

@Lore - Meine Güte, wie die Zeit vergeht...schon 1 1/2 Jahre alt! Meine Mädels waren recht schnell fertig mit Windeln - mit 2 Jahren...auch nachts. Da sind die Jungs in der Regel langsamer, denke ich (warum auch immer).

suziq Maybe, I'm lucky, too. We'll see.


Does anyone want a Spatzen-Reihenhaus on his/her balcony? *g*
http://www.deutschewildtierstiftung.de/projek... (No time for a decent link, I just wanted to share this because I think it's so neat.)

*sliminginwaveingly*

self correction

*sliminginwaving*

*waltzes in quickly*

Happy New Year to all of you!

After being back to freezing temperatures in Germany I long for the 7 or 8 degrees (Celsius) I had last week in the Bay Area. Still, it's not as bad as one time when I got back here and the temperature difference between California and Germany was about 30 degrees. Spent Hogmanay in SF which was nice but somehow a bit strange as well (but maybe that's just because the fireworks where missing from where I was and because we didn't have anything to drink - or maybe because we had way too much work to do around these days which made it hard to get into a festive mood, who knows).

@hexlein: thanks for waving! Hope you saw mine during our approach into and take-off from SFO. And also thanks for the card which was waiting for me when I got back yesterday! Hope I'll have a bit more time next time for a mini Leo get-together.

My pile of work is still almost as hight as Mt. Everest so I'd better get back to trying to conquer it...

Ich habe keinen Balkon und bin eigentlich ganz begeistert, welche Vögelchen wir im Garten sehen können :-)

Suzitochter hat jetzt das Internet entdeckt und jetzt können wir zwischen den Stockwerken chatten...das findet sie ganz lustig! Man hört das diebische Lachen, wie sie eine freche Nachricht ausdenkt.

Hi Skye :-)

Meine Freundin ist heute zurück aus Dubai gekommen - sie überlegte, ob sie in einigen Jahren dahin ziehen würden, aber teilte heute mit, dass es sich "ausgedubait" hat!! Es hätte sich in nur einem Jahr schon so viel verändert - jetzt hat sie keine Lust mehr.

Hi snails! :-)

@suziq - Dubai...Isn´t that just for millionaires or Russian Gazprom owners??

@Lore - she disapproves of nappies with her 1 1/2 years
For my children summer was the perfect time to get rid of these inconvenient things. Little mishaps don´t bother anybody when you´re out in the garden...

@candice - ...und Menschen, die für Fluggesellschaften arbeiten ;-)

Hello!
I am still there. Visa approved (but still without passport). Tomorrow I will fly back into the south. Fed up with 15-18-hour overnight bus trips. Plans somewhat changed, but everything well. Should have come back here much earlier.

@suziq: Man hört das diebische Lachen, wie(wenn) sie sich eine freche Nachricht ausdenkt.

Candice I would have chosen summer, too, but maybe I don't have a say in this. ;-)

"ausgedubait"
Das erinnert mich an das Mario-Brothers-Spiel, das Ende der 80er Jahre bei den Kindern so beliebt war. Am Ende des Spiels erschien auf dem Bildschirm: GAME OVER! Wenn man die Kinder dann gefragt hat, wieso sie schon fertig seien, haben sie geantwortet: I gameovered! :-)

*wachtelkönig hinterherwink*

Happy new year & danke, dass du dich kurz meldet hast. Jetzt müssen wir uns wenigstens keine Sorgen machen, dass du als Geisel in der Botschaft oder so gehalten wirst.

Schön auch, dass dir ansonsten alles auch meistens gut geht. Hoffentlich geht es dir sogar 2x so gut, wenn du von der starken Kältewelle in Deutschland und Alaska und so liest und dich freuen kannst, nicht dort mitzufrieren.

Ich denke, Amy würde eigentlich eine gute Pfarrerin sein. Aber das würde sie wohl sogar mehr erschöpfen, weil sie nicht mal an den Wochenenden frei haben würde. Und so schwierig Schüler auch sein können, macht die Erziehung von Gemeindemitgliedern wohl nicht unbedingt weniger Mühe.

Steve, das alles mit Gazprom und so ist tatsächlich beunruhigend (oder wäre wohl, wenn ich Europäer mit Gasheizung wäre). Lieb Kind bei Putin zu spielen, wie z.B. Schröder es gemacht haben soll (laut unseren Nachrichten, z.B. eine ziemlich gute Bericht heute oder gestern auf NPR), ist mir schon seit einiger Zeit (als?) ziemlich riskant vorgekommen, d.h., nicht unbedingt klug auf langer Sicht.

Aber vielleicht gibt es nicht so viele andere Optionen. Wir kaufen ja auch immer noch Öl aus dem Nahen Osten, da sollten wir eigentlich nicht reden. *seufz*

suziq, trotzdem schön, dass eure Heizung endliche repariert worden konnte.

skye, schön, dass du gut nach Hause gekommen bist.

*den anderen einfach zuwink*

Guten Morgen Schnecken! (Kann ich nicht so oft schreiben. ;-))
Seid ihr denn alle schon zum Skifahren losgefahren?

No, just returned from the supermarket - I will cook a meal now, in two varieties, one with fish and one without (Mr Goldammer doesn't eat fish)

Also Goldammer...ich sehe du bist um einiges weiter als ich ;-)

Hallo Goldammer und suziq! Ich überlege jetzt: Was kann man entweder mit oder ohne Fisch essen?

Yeah... I finally got an appointment with the building society's guy that is responsible for my apartment block for my living room windows. There's a horrible draft that I try to keep out with packs of hankies and a woollen scarf, but with these freezing temperatures outside too much heating energy just goes out the window...
He'll come around on Tuesday afternoon.
You'll never believe me what he told me yesterday: "Before I'll make an appointment with you, you have to check with an A4 sheet of paper whether your window closes tightly. Open the window, put a sheet of paper on between window and frame, close the window. Then try to pull out the paper. If it comes out untorn, then there's a draft and I'll come round. Otherwise the window is considered tight." Ever heard of that???? I'd personally put a candle in front of the window to prove the draft....

Well... Tuesday afternoon... lucky me that my supervisor kicked me out yesterday morning straight away for coughing too much and sending me back to the doctor who then handed me another sick note until Tuesday (incl.)....

Hi SD3, Goldammer and suziq!
*feeling bad because of not having started to cook yet*

Poor Chaja! What did your doctor prescribe or recommend?

Yesterday evening I talked to a colleague (and friend) who has been suffering from a severe form of tinnitus since Christmas Eve. She is almost going insane, because she can hardly sleep, and hasn´t been without that sound in her ears for a single second since. I can´t even begin to imagine how tortured one must feel...

*running off with an A4 sheet of paper to test my windows*

Hallo candice :-)

*chajaweiterbedauer*

uuups...nein SD3, du bist nicht unsichtbar...ich war nur zu schnell "HALLO" :-)

@Chaja - no way I could pull out the paper, but I still feel a draft, and it´s terribly cold next to my windows, especially the French windows. I know for sure that they are not tight, so I kind of doubt the validity of that test...

Thanks for commiserating, everybody.

The doctor had already given me antibiotics and some stuff to losen the cough (acetylcystein in a very high dosage). The recommendation is to continue with the medication, sleep much, drink loads of hot herbal tea and regularly go for walks in the fresh air but keep away from crowds.

Hallo Chaja! Haben deine Fenster die Blatt-Papier-Prüfung bestanden? Hört sich schon ulkig an, aber Hauptsache, es kommt einer, der das Problem löst.

Hallo candice! In meinem Fall *feeling bad because of not having eaten yet*, was ich jetzt nachhole.
Tinnitus kann ich mir gar nicht vorstellen.

@Candice: I could indeed pull out the paper - so you can imagine HOW much cold comes in there. But I do doubt the validity of that test, too. I said so to the guy from the building society, but he answered that that was the procedure fixed by the director of that society... - Well, I suppose, the director has his own house with _really_ tight windows...., but that's council housing for you...

@Chaja - Sounds pretty sensible...Do that! And get well soon.

*sigh* Can´t I stay here and chat some more with you instead of shuffling to my pots and pans in the kitchen to throw together something to eat? Can you tell that I somehow lack the enthusiasm for cooking? But my (almost) 14-year-old son will go berserk and starve on the spot if I don´t serve him at least half a boar the minute he comes home from school. So - I´m off, girls, ... errm snails. *sigh again*

*slimingthrough*
Oh, I have a hint for the Tinnitus person: He/she should either listen to lots of classical music or/and go and let his blood circuit check.

Ach candice...wenn du Ablenkung brauchst, bist du hier schon richtig ;-) Die Minizicke holt das Frühstück gerade nach...meine Versuche, sie an "normale" Aufstehzeiten zu gewöhnen (9h als Anfang), sind kläglich gescheitert. Ich erhielt die Antwort: "Pech! Ich will weiter schlafen!"
(Wir wissen jetzt, dass "Pech" als Antwort von diesem Kind bedeutet: "Ich weiß, dass du Recht hast, aber ich will es nicht zugeben." - es ist in fast jedem Fall so 1:1 austauschbar ;-))

Nostalgie: Das waren Zeiten, als wir einen im Hause hatten, der wie Obelix essen konnte.

Weiter zum Thema Essen: Ich finde, dass deine Tochter (wie ich auch) genau zur richtigen Zeit frühstückt, suziq. *g*

Hallo Flo! Wie prüft man denn den Blutkreislauf? Indem man den Blutdruck messen läßt oder gibt es andere Möglichkeiten? Heavy metal nutzt nichts?

Pech! Ich muss in den Pendelverkehr einsteigen. Schönen Tag noch!

Hallo Schnecken, lange nicht gelesen. Ich schaffe es jetzt nicht, alles nachzulesen, also steige ich einfach quer ein. Candice, ich kenne das - mein 15-Jahriger droht auch immer gleich umzukippen wenn man ihn nicht mit Unmengen Futtermitteln zustopft. Manchmal komme ich mir wie eine Vogelmutter vor - immer nur offene Mäuler stopfen... *gg*

Meine Tochter hat auch seit längerer Zeit eine Tinnitus, nicht so schlimm wie hier beschrieben, aber immerhin. Sie war beim HNO Arzt, der über mehrere Wochen eine Art Laser- und Ultraschalltherapie gemacht hat, aber wirklich geholfen hat es nicht. Jetzt trägt sie Ohrenstöpsel bei den vielen lauten Konzerten, die sie besucht.

Hi kat, nice to meet you! :-)

@Doc Flo - about tinnitus: my friend already went through a number of treatments - blood pressure measurement, infusions, cortisone, acupuncture - the full works, even on Dec. 25 and 26, because she suffered so much. Nothing seems to help. She also knows about the various methods to try to mask the "noise", but she can´t imagine having to live with it. At the moment it apparently makes her want to drive her head through the wall, just to make it stop. But thanks for your well-meant advice nevertheless.

The only thing I can recommend then is a psycholoist. Reasons for tinnitus must not always be from physical nature. Too much stress could cause a Tinnitus too.

@the_kat: I as a musician have a hint for your daughter then. She should hit up a music store once and look for ear plugs with several filters for the plugs. You can regulate the noise level yourself then :). (They cost about 25 €)

Jetzt trägt sie Ohrenstöpsel bei den vielen lauten Konzerten, die sie besucht.

That's most probably why she has one.

candice: Du hattest eine Frage bzgl. "sympathetic":
why I feel really sympathetic to(wards?) co-neutrino
Wie du schon weißt, ist beides theoretisch möglich. Ich bevorzuge "towards" bei Personen und "to" bei Dingen (Ideen, Plänen, Vorschlägen, usw.). Ob es irgendeine Regel gibt, weiß ich leider nicht. Man kann natürlich auch sagen:
"why I have a great deal of / a lot of sympathy for..."

Ein paar Korr.:
#161: Congrats on your winter tires
#183: You'll never believe (me) what he told me yesterday oder "You'll never believe me when I tell you what he told me yesterday..."

Ich habe neulich zwei interessante Webseiten entdeckt. Hier kann man verschiedene (GB-)englische Akzente und Dialekte hören:

http://www.bl.uk/learning/langlit/sounds/inde...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/voices/recordings/index.shtml

Ich habe leider noch keine entsprechende Webseite gefunden, die linksteichlerische Akzente und Dialekte bietet.

American Accents

Map, scientific things:
http://www.geocities.com/yvain.geo/dialects.html

Audio samples of Illinois Iowa Michigan Minnesota North Dakota South Dakota Wisconsin
http://csumc.wisc.edu/AmericanLanguages/engli...

Search youtube for "American tongues" (documentary film about AE accents)
http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=_vF9g37FCmk&fea... e.g (it's a play list with many exerpts from AT)
( http://www.cnam.com/non_flash/language/americ... )

I am around, but don't have anything interesting to write (maybe besides the fact that I had my last English lesson today. Additionnally I am looking forward to my Junior College classes to start)

Goldammer: distanzlos - in your face - Für mich ist "in your face" sehr negativ, irgendwie schon mit Absicht verbunden, fast drohend. Empfindet man "distanzlos" auch so. Ich könnte mir vorstellen, dass es bei deinem Studenten um eine fehlende "spatial empathy" handelt, d.h. er kann nicht so gut beurteilen, wieviel Abstand angemessen wäre.

Hallo hexlein! Ich gratuliere zur letzten Englischstunde. War der Englischunterricht als Vorbereitung auf Junior College gedacht?
Addition(n)ally I am looking forward to my Junior College classes (to) starting.
Was willst du da studieren?

Hallo Snowflake! Hab gar nicht gesehen, dass du auch da bist. Vielen Dank für die Links. Ich schaue sie mir später an.

Boah, hexlein, die letzte Englischstunde ist schon etwas, herzlichen Glückwunsch. Und viel Erfolg dir auch im neuen Semester. (-:

Was für Kurse wirst du denn am junior college besuchen? (belegen? aaack) Immer noch Englisch (damit du noch gaaaanz viele tolle Aufsätze schreiben darfst *g*), und wenn ja, normales oder ESL, oder (auch) etwas anderes? Musst du das alles nachts oder an den Wochenenden erledigen, oder hast du auch tagsüber Zeit?

—> looking forward to the start of classes / looking forward to my classes starting (Substantiv oder Gerundium)

*f5* Hallo auch SD3 & Snowflake. (Obwohl, Snowflake, solltest du eigentlich nicht direkt ins Bett gehen? Go to bed, go directly to bed, do not pass Go, do not collect $200, etc. Schlaf gut!)

Zu 'distanzlos' in diesem Zusammenhang, falls es eher geistig als körperlich gemeint ist, vielleicht: He doesn't have a good sense of personal boundaries? He's very demanding? Das könnte in der Tat problematisch werden. Aber auf der anderen Seite würde es ihm wahrscheinlich eine Freude machen, wenn er das neue Versuch erfolgreich realisieren kann.

Goldammer, vielleicht könntest du den Herrn sogar direkt aber auch sehr einfach ansprechen: Sehr gut, das sehe ich gern, das haben Sie aber gut gemacht, vs. Hören Sie bitte damit auf, machen Sie das bitte nicht so oft, das gefällt mir nicht. Oder einfach mehrmals wiederholen: Gut, aber jetzt müssen wir ein bisschen Englisch lernen, nicht wahr? Wenn du sehr konsequent bleibst, entschlossen aber auch immer freundlich, könnte es ihm vielleicht helfen, deine Grenzen (und seine) besser zu begreifen. Aber das ist auch nur meine Vermutung als blutiger Laie, was weiß ich eigentlich.

Ich möchte übrigens auch wissen, was man entweder mit oder ohne Fisch kochen kann. Suppe etwa?

Hi everybody, hi hm--US, hi SD3,

I'm only here to switch off my pc. Last night I was shivering so that I took a hot shower and went to bed immediately, intending to read a little bit. It's only a few mintutes ago that I woke up with all the lights on.
This morning I've an appointment with my hairdresser. It would be nice if I could do some shopping before but I doubt it.
I'd say Goldammer prepared some spuds.

hm--US, this guy is 59, I'd be surprised if he changed at that age.

Thanks for the links, SD3!
I think the butcher's accent is lovely, though I'd certainly never try haggis before I die: http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=fEqcxwXHJIY
That's a nice link too:
http://www3.germanistik.uni-halle.de/prinz/ka...

Good night!!!

oh ... thanks for the corrections. I somehow did not recognize that the starting is still belonging to the looking forward ... I know that it should say looking forward to doing sth. (and the additionally is a typical mistake for (of?) me.

I will not study English any further at the Junior College. However, I took some tests so that they know my level of English. I would be either on a high ESL level or even the first College writing, but so far I do not have the placement of the last test.
Anyway, I am taking a class on Californian vegetation and I am on the wait list for a Spanish class. Preliminarily, I am doing that to have something to do during the days. I am working one day and a half per week and still have some time left. Anyway, we are not here because of me (I just enjoy it, I seem to have so many more possibilities here), but because of my husband. Originally,I had wanted to do a class in astronomy, but the classes had already been filled up by the time I wanted to add them.

And not to forget SDs question: I took the English lessons because my husbands company payed for them. That is why I had a teacher all for myself. If I had had the possibility to choose, I would rather have chosen a group class to get more contacts here, or a teacher who would have made much more grammar.

kisan, ich habe eigentlich schon (einmal) Haggis probiert und es hat mir sogar gefallen. Okay, ich habe auch nicht zu lange darüber nachgedacht, was wohl drin sein mag, aber trotzdem. Aber es gehört einfach zu einer Schottlandreise, und das würde ich eigentlich jederzeit wieder machen. (Liest skye etwa mit? Und es gibt im Forum eigentlich mehrere Schottlandschätzer, glaube ich.)

Auch bei dem Regen. Das war in Fort William, die angeblich regnerischste (?) Stadt Schottlands, wo es tatsächlich ca. 2 Stunden wie aus einem Eimer geschüttet hat (die 2 Stunden, die wir da waren). Das Beste am Haggis war eigentlich, dass wir es drinnen serviert bekamen, in einer trockenen, warmen Kneipe. Und die Neeps und Tatties waren auch nicht ohne. (-:

Zu Akzenten: Es gab einmal einen Faden, sogar mit amerikanischen Links WIMRE, aber ich weiß nicht mehr wo. Die vielen britischen Akzente mag ich auch.

kisan, hoffentlich hast du dich wieder gut einschlafen können. Gute Nacht dir auch. (-:

hexlein, die Spanischklasse sollte eigentlich Platz haben, für die melden sich wohl mehrere an und höchstwahrscheinlich tauchen nicht alle auf. Wir können für dich wenigstens die Daumen drücken.

Schön immerhin, dass du so einen positiven Schritt machst. So etwas sollte ich eigentlich auch tun, bin aber meist zu faul, oder nicht mutig genug, oder beides.

—> a typical mistake for me (stimmt, oder:) of mine ... California[n] vegetation / California plants / the vegetation of California ... [Preliminarily] Primarily? ... something to do during the days (besser:) daytime / day ... so many more possibilities (besser:) options / opportunities here .... the classes had already been filled up (auch ganz einfach:) were already full ... my husband's company paid ... If I had had the (besser:) choice / If it had been up to me / If it had been my choice, I would rather have taken a group class / I would have chosen a group class instead ... or a teacher who would have done much more grammar.



@ die Tagesschicht bzw. die Westküstler:

Falls jemand in ein paar Stunden schon basteln möchte, wäre ich dankbar, bei mir braucht die Seite schon eine Weile um zu laden. Dankeschön im Voraus. (-:



Wo ist eigentlich judex geblieben? Ich habe ihn ein paarmal im Forum gesehen, aber nur selten hier. judex, du bist hoffentlich nicht krank? Aber es kann auch sein, dass er nur die nächste Skireise plant ...

Und wi-chan? Hoffentlich geht's ihr immer noch gut beim neuen Job.

Noch andere Vermisste? Es ist immer schön, wenn ein alter Hase wieder aus seinem Bau springt.

Gute Nacht links, guten Morgen rechts, schönes Wochenende an alle. (-:

Good morning!

.. and good night to all leftpondians.

hm (#206): ... wenn er den neuen Versuch erfolgreich realisieren kann.

#209: ... und es hat mir sogar gefallen Bei Essen sagt man eher, dass es geschmeckt hat.

*wishing a good morning to all the rightpondians and a good night to the leftpondians*

Thank you very much for the corrections, hm. I seem to need another English class considering all those mistakes. I will read them again tomorrow when I will hopefully be fully awake.

I can tell you more on Monday about the Spanish class, and if there is room(?) for me. I was on the wait list for the other class too, but I am not anymore. I think I will be in Spanish, too. I just want to keep in mind that I am still on the wait list in order not to be to disappointed.

*snailing to bed now*

*wavingathexlein*

Sleep well!!

Thanks for your comments on "distanzlos", SD3 and hm!
It is indeed more mentally in his case, and not in any way physically threatening or anything. So "in your face" obviously doesn't fit. It is more that he speaks without end ("er labert einen völlig zu"), and that he offered the "Du" in the very first minute of talking together, that kind of thing. Although the use of "Sie" and "Du" is not as strict any more as maybe 30 years ago, in this situation his offering the "Du" felt somewhat inappropriate in a first meeting of two middle-aged people talking about a student-teacher arrangement, if you know what I mean.
So, hm--us' suggestion
He doesn't have a good sense of personal boundaries. seems to be a good solution.
I agree with kisan: I most likely won't be able to change his habits in that respect, but of course I will tell him friendly when he's transgressing my boundaries - feedback still makes sense and is necessary, even if I can't change him, I think.

I accepted the "Du", though, because he simply insisted in using it and it would have felt a bit funny if I kept calling him "Sie" and he said "Du" to me. I guess that has to do with the fact that he has been institutionalized all his life, and he grew up in a time when mentally handicapped people, even when grown up, were called "Du" by anybody who related to them in any context. Showing them more respect by calling them "Sie" if you are in a relationship in which you'd say "Sie" to a non-retarded person is something that started in the late seventies or eighties, I'd say. So this "Du"-from-the-first-minute thing is quite typical for middle aged or elderly mentally handicapped people.

Meal without fish: It was nothing special at all, just a meal I "invented" on the spot. I made pasta with a broccoli-cheese-cream sauce, and for Goldammerson and myself I added fried pieces of salmon, whereas Mr Goldammerson had fried pieces of "Oberländer", a special (regional) white kind of sausage. It was quite delicious.

...and thanks for those very interesting language / dialect links, SD3 and Snowy!

@SD3 - Danke für die Links...ich schaute sie an, aber leider hatte ich keinen Ton (ich schaue später, wo das Problem liegt). Ich klickte auf meine Heimatgegend und meine Mutter kennt bestimmt einige der Frauen, weil sie zu dem Landfrauenverein gehören - und da kennen sie sich alle!

Good morning everybody. :-)

I wonder why I always turn to the CC when I should be thinking about what to cook instead... Can you guess what, almost invariably, my son´s first two (or rather 2 1/2) words are when he comes home after school? I give you a clue: It´s not "Hallo." or "Grüß Dich."

Here is a link on Bavarian dialects - very funny, I think. And most of them almost impossible to understand... :o))

http://sprachatlas.bayerische-landesbibliothe...

Oh, and SD3 and Snowflake, I just love such links - thank you very much!

On demand of hm--US, we have moved house again:

Crossover Chat 195

@SD3 - hast du die Text anhören können? Ich leider nicht...ich glaube, es liegt daran, dass man außerhalb von GB, es nicht machen darf - oder hat ein anderer es geschafft?