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TT #23: Thirteen things I did last week

posted on Wednesday, September, 12th, 2007 in Thursday Thirteen

I have been busy again this week, so I just should have skipped TT this time. But for some reason I am stubbornly refusing to do that, and instead keep coming up with last minute topics like this one. Well, here we go:

  1. As you might have noticed I changed the design of the blog. After reading many new blogs recently I thought it was high time for a change here. Those blogs have a lot to answer for, but that’s a topic for another post.
  2. To do that I have looked at about 547.843 different WordPress themes all over the net. Most of which, let me tell you, look basically the same and not even very good, but that is a topic for another different post altogether. I am very happy with the one I chose in the end and I hope that you like it, too. If not, well, too bad.
  3. I have come to know that I was accepted for the refresher course in molecular biology for which I had an interview a few weeks ago. So it looks like I will start studying again at the beginning of October.
  4. Because that course is gonna take place in Leipzig I will have to move there, so I have begun looking for a flat.
  5. Because I wasn’t sure if I even could afford this bloody course I had a talk with my case manager at the employment office about the financing. He didn’t sound too promising to put it mildly.
  6. A day later I heard from the foundation that’s running the course that they will pay for my accomodation, so I guess I can make it work financially. It’s gonna be tight, but that’s nothing new to me.
  7. So, in the light of me having forgotten just about every damn thing I ever learned about molecular biology, I went to the library and took out some books about genetics.
  8. Now I only have to stop procrastinating and start to actually read them. Did I mention that I was never really all that interested in genetics in the first place? (Please don’t ask why I am doing this course then! I have no fucking clue, to be honest.)
  9. At the same time I took out a book called “PHP for Dummies” because I had the sudden urge to finally begin learning all this PHP crap so I could design my next template for this website myself. (I don’t have to mention that I didn’t start to read that one either, do I?)
  10. Instead I hang around on ebay for hours, because I had the fixed idea that I needed a new laptop for this whole study thing. One that runs Windows XP, which my old little one doesn’t.
  11. Today I finally realized that, even though the going rate for the ones I was looking for is only about 300 Euro I just plain can’t afford it. And really, I don’t actually need another one. None of those things has a touchscreen anyway like my little one does, so why should I exchange it for one that’s faster, but not nearly so much fun to play with?
  12. I just finished downloading all 4 seasons of Blackadder, so that I will have something fun to watch when I am hanging out all alone at night in my flat in Leipzig in a few weeks. – 12 hours of glorious british humor, I had giggling fits already while watching the first 2 episodes this afternoon.
  13. Now I can’t think of one more bloody thing to write here, so I just won’t. :)

Oh yeah, and some of you will no doubt be happy to see that the comment link in this new template is below the post – exactly where it is apparently supposed to be. Isn’t that just marvelous?

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