I... am still around, if not doing much of anything.

Result: bored Cass who remembers she actually does have an LJ.

I know, eh? :O

But then you knew that. -.-

Hey, asshole PVV dude? Pretty sure you only speak for the xenophobic morons who voted for you. Which, although I will immediately admit was waaay too many people (god!) is not actually the entirety of Dutch population. So, y'know, STFU and protest your whatever in silence, 'kay?

You guys should also maybe get it through your thick skulls that a) Islam is a religion, not an "ideology" and b) Turkey-the-state is very, very secularized.

But, honestly, the stuff you said was stupid and offensive, as should be expected whenever one of you clowns opens their damn mouths.

GTFO my country, ktnx.

So I finally beat the scanner into submission for some tiny!Cass photos.

( Pics are kinda big so click )

More once I rob another album.

My not-so-secret weakness is Germans who speak or understand Dutch, as you might know. So... Erik Zabel turning out to be able to understand my language and even speaking it reasonably well (I mean, it was easy to understand him) and appearing on a Dutch TV show? Instant fangirling material. (See also my reaction to Alberto Tomba on Holland Sport.)

*loves*

PS - lol FOREVER at Cruijff on de Avondetappe. The Tour is basically going by his house.

From now on, expect weekly OH MY GOD ROUTE DU SOLEIL DIEDIEDIE posts from me.

God damn, I hate this freaking program. >:(

Claudia... :(

(Hope this isn't the first of many doping cases in the sport.)

You know, I tend to be pretty neutral on players not Roger Federer (unless they're moaners in which case SHUTUPSHUTUPSHUTUP) but all the BBC's Murray love is really not endearing him to me. At all. Stfu, BBC.

Hoping to conclude my yearly OMG-I-suck-let-me-hide-from-teh-world phase with this post (yes, I managed to not finish most of my classes again, I am awesome at that). Okay, maybe it's not all so dramatic.

But I kind of am facing a mini-dilemma here, since one of the courses I should've finished this semester is not really looking too exciting to retake... This is the one where 1) the two groups had different paper deadlines, one three and one ten days later than us, and this was never resolved; 2) I would write a longer paper (4500 rather than 3000 words) and my 4400-word paper was judged not long enough; 3) our teacher was sick one week and we were supposed to hold the discussion part of the class by ourselves -- which, of course, went very well as we were all students; 4) though the course was titled "experiencing differences", not a whole lot of that was done, and there wasn't really a distinct theme running through the different lectures; 5) I am really kind of sick of the aforementioned teacher.

This is a problem as she's with Anthropology as well. -.-

Then again, the good news is that I don't seem to really understand the studielink.nl registration/enrollment, and recent experience proves registration woes > crazy schedule.

The good part: next semester I kind of need to do Sociology -- hadn't been able to follow ANY of the classes -- and the rest is FREE. I'll probably stuff some things in there and hope to be able to avoid retaking Experiencing Frustration and Boredom. Grrr.

MY BABY BROTHER IS SIXTEEN YEARS OLD TODAY.

WHERE DOES THE TIME GO?!

16 YOU GUYS.

Okay, so what if I've only been following RG since uh, Tuesday*? I am, actually, following it now. Or I was, until a) Studio Sport was out of broadcasting time (grrr) and b) we were going to my mom's -- home of sucky internet, no TV, so no tennis.

In short, QQ.



* I'm really, really eclectic in my tennis watching. The only tournament I can even be counted on to follow with any regularity is Wimbledon. I mean, I like tennis, I do, but if it doesn't have three sets it can gtfo** and I'm lazy. Okay? Good.

** Moar sports on my TV = good thing

So I screwed up my studies again! As this is not news, let's move on to less *headdesk*-worthy things.

I didn't vote yesterday. While I agree it's important to use the (let's admit, kind of hardwon anywhere in the world, even if it was almost/over a century ago) right to vote, and while I do think the European Parliament is important -- hi I'm one of those crazy people who's for a federal European state -- I still chose not to exercize it.

1. Last I checked, I did not actually have a voting pass. Admittedly, I last checked over a week ago, but my dad had his at that point, so... And I wasn't going to go all the way to Diemen and back to see if I might have gotten one in the mean time. Sry but no.

2. I only checked pretty superficially, but it seems most parties are all about more supervision to stop those nasty terrorists (admittedly a more valid concern in Europe as a whole, but still) and/or against European unification and/or other stuff I pretty much really don't agree with.

3. As much as I'm all for a federal EU? I don't want it to be one that tries to get its not!constitution passed by bullying, pressuring, threatening war/disorder/the end of civilization as we know it if it's rejected, etc. You've been there for their campaigns. If the thing is so important for the future workings of the EU, how about you try to convince us with arguments? I mean, such a good thing must have many advantages you could promote. So promote them. IDK.

In short: this is not the EU I want to see become a federal state.

4. Turkey. Please to be doing one of two things: a. START NEGOTIATIONS ABOUT EVENTUAL MEMBERSHIP AND SET A DATE. Turkey's only been involved with the EU since forever and continuing to string them along is uncool on so many levels I'm not even going to list them. Fail much, Europe? or b. Admit that you're never going to let Turkey join the EU because it's full of icky Muslims and we're ~scared~ of them right now. And that Germany and Turkey will become BFF as the largest countries and France/UK don't get as much influence as they used to.

BTW, should b. occur, kindly immediately take apart the whole thing and rebuild it with people less stupid. Ktnxbi!

Also. Rijkaard to Galatasaray... On the one hand, I'd've loved to have him for us (Frank <3), but on the other hand, according to my theory of AJAX TRAINERS GO INSANE OVER TIME (it's true; shut up), it won't matter anyway.

Still, I'll be whining about it, just a bit.

I am almost certainly moving back in with my dad, for reasons related to, well, money. And my not having enough of it. (PS no I still don't have a job, see: CASS FAILS AT LIFE.)

That said, I also still haven't started on my thesis, and am again actively hiding from anything to do with university and am, indeed running a severe risk of not making the year. Y'know, again. On the plus side, five years after the oh I forgot to study for that exam thing, I am kind of realizing that I might possibly have a problem. I know, I know, I'm a true genius. *headwalls*

Other things: both my laptop and my iPod are currently in some way broken. All (yes, all however many thousand) of my photos are on that thing, so you might imagine I'm somewhat displeased by this turn of events. Anyway, the other thing that's on my iPod is my WIP in its current incarnation (it's also on my computer in Diemen, but I don't have access to that one right now and it's still an older version, 'cause I moved everything on my iPod). Since it's May anyway and next season's not starting for months, I'll probably rewrite that prologue some more and post the whole five parts come October. Sorry. :(

Going back to feeling sorry for myself now, if it's all the same.

What's behind the cut has no structure whatsoever, just warning you. :P ( Spoilers for the SPN s04 finale )

I had other stuff to say but I'm a) really tired and b) blown away at the moment, so... And more coherence later, because I'm going to have to rewatch this (I know, I never do that) because I probably didn't even catch most of it. So, yeah. Glad I found this fandom.