different approach to the whole "is the doctor asexual" discussion: what if he is sexual, but not necessarily attracted to human beings? clearly from our point of view time lords are so similar to us we can forget about or simply never notice the difference, but presumably a time lord's ability to sense others of their kind would also make them acutely aware of someone not being like them, and well, wouldn't you expect attraction to members of different species to be the exception rather than the rule? (though i do this this could change with regeneration, like any aspect of sexuality. which really makes the initial question kind of meaningless. in my mind the correct response would be "which doctor?".)

oh great, now in addition to a massive painful cold i'm also menstruating. even worse early christmas present, body.

fuck the sort of people who go on about menstruation being oh so natural and wonderful or even somehow something to celebrate. it causes me 4-5 days of pain, occasional dizzyness and a literal bloody mess a month and shows that i'm fertile and able to get pregnant. what's positive about any of that? i'll always view it as akin to some sort of annoying recurring sickness that people have somehow failed to find a cure for. that's right, the female body in general might not be intrinsically bad, but i have every right to have a negative attitude towards mine in specific. i don't feel particularly female to begin with, anyway. (or male, for that matter. as i've said before, what does a collection of electrochemical impulses need a gender for? makes no sense. i most likely do fit some kind of gender role, but that's about what others see me as, so why should i identify with it?)

mmh lidocaine lozenges :D

a sore throat is a pretty damn lousy early christmas present, body.

so, historische schnitte DOB = not really worth the money from my point of view. (barely even worth the 1.50€ i paid for the distance loan, but then again, it's my own fault for being lazy and not just going to the library that owns it myself...) i just don't see anything in there that someone who really understands pattern manipulation wouldn't be able to figure out without help, and i guess i also prefer doing it by slashing and spreading over pure construction. if for instance i wanted to change the shape of an armscye, i'd draw the new shape into the bodice pattern, cut the excess off and attach it to the sleeve cap to get the new matching sleeve, instead of measuring precisely how much i removed and trying to draft a new sleeve cap based on that. the only interesting thing in there is a section about modern underwear patterns, which i didn't even know it had, so i guess i'll make scans of that one...

and you know, german patternmaking books are generally incredibly expensive. i mean, this is a small, very specialised one that doesn't even include instructions on the basic blocks you need to start from, yet it costs far more than a much larger book like patternmaking for fashion design, which is pretty expensive in its own right. and there's far fewer different ones, too - this book is based on müller und sohn, the only other one that comes to mind is systemschnitt. i wonder why that is.

Dear Santa... Dear Santa, This year I've been busy! Last Monday I helped lion_azure hide a body (-173 points). Last Sunday I didn't flush (-1 points). In September I saved a busload of nuns in Angola (326 points). In August I ruled Iran as a kind and benevolent dictator (700 points). Last Wednesday I bought porn for collectively (-10 points). Overall, I've been nice (842 points). For Christmas I deserve a Lego set! Sincerely, katflace

Write your letter to Santa! Enter your LJ username:

i love how being a dictator is a positive thing. on the other hand, why is buying porn for collectively a bad thing? seems like not doing so would be... ;)

MBTI pet peeve: no, INTJ does not stand for "introverted, intuitive, thinking, judging". it stands for "introverted intuition, extroverted thinking, introverted feeling, extroverted sensing". which is also why you can't be, say, "halfway between INTJ and INTP". the latter means "introverted thinking, extroverted intuition, introversed sensing, extroverted feeling". they're totally different types.

conversely, ESFP is also not the most different type from INTJ there is: it stands for "extroverted sensing, introverted feeling, extroverted thinking, introverted intuition". they're actually very similar, using the same functions in reverse order.

and stop assuming that taking a single online test is going to give you a 100% accurate result. :|

annoying social pedagogues is fun, though.

one more week until vacation.

monday, stupid job application training crap that they're desperately trying to deny is just a way to keep half of us busy so the other half will be less cramped sewing their test. i mean, you're trying to tell me that one day, 8:00 AM to 1:00 PM, minus breaks, is actually going to teach anybody anything? seriously? the way they squirmed when i mentioned that study which found that the job center's own similar stuff actually makes zero difference to your chances of finding a job was also quite amusing. and then they tried to tell me that the fact i could still help the others even if i didn't need it myself made it worthwhile. uh, that'd be a reason not to show up, bitches. why is it any of my concern whether people i'm never going to see again after i finish training can write a job application that doesn't make them look like total idiots? i'm not obliged to be nice and helpful towards people i coincidentally ended up in the same class with, or take any interest in them at all. it doubtlessly makes life easier, but it's still a choice, not a duty.

tuesday, other half, including me, sewing that stupid children's jacket. (and it's made of corduroy this time. who the hell thought that was a good idea?)

wednesday, wasting time trying to deny that there's actually nothing sensible you can do on the last day of practical training before vacation.

thursday, economy and social studies test, which everyone will claim to be utterly impossible to do well on, because apparently it's unfair for tests to have questions on them that weren't talked about in precisely the same form during class. will get an A, like every other time.

friday, english test. same thing.

i fucking hate this place.

       

( have a bunch of la linea icons. )

no credit necessary, considering i didn't actually do much of anything...

the outcome of going to sleep in a lucid dream isn't nearly as exciting as you'd expect. :(

      

that's the sort of thing i'm learning to do at the moment and will have to sew as a test next week. would you believe everyone else picked the black-with-huge-white-dots fabric to practise on, though? cowards.

(and in case anyone is going to go on about it, no, it's not particularly good. it only got 81 points out of 100, barely a 2. which apparently was still the top grade, but that's more a sign of how badly this class sucks.)



this is a bargain at 2.99€ a set. seems they weren't being bought because the labels use american bra sizes, which the average german woman doesn't understand. you normally wouldn't even get one of these for the price i paid for all three...

i like how most of these actually make some degree of sense.

the next time it snows, i'm skipping school and going to nikolassee instead. i've never seen the crazy long stretch between grunewald and nikolassee (6 1/2 minutes on modern trains, 10 1/2 minutes on pre-war ones! and it's all just trees and trees and trees!) during the winter before.

unless it happens on a day when i have to write some kind of test (which there will be a lot of in the next two weeks) or during christmas vacation. then i'll be sad.

well, that went much better that i expected. i apparently also came up with a way of bagging jacket linings that my teachers can't make sense of, but they've always been very clear that it doesn't matter a whit how we sew put things together as long as the result looks the way it's supposed to, so it's all good.

i don't want to sew this fucking test of a test. i've gotten down to needing about 430 minutes for a whole jacket, and we've already prepared the lining and applied all the interfacing this time, so i know i can do it, but i still don't want to.

also, apparently my most recent weekly grade was a 1.2. how did that happen when i'm sewing so miserably and making stupid mistakes left and right all the time? i was that good last year (to the point where my grades once broke the computer system - it thought i had a 0.8 for a bit, which is clearly impossible), but right now i feel so generally awful it seems like i couldn't possibly produce anything worthwhile...

i found a while ago that i knit combined when nobody else i've ever met has even heard of it. it's pretty weird. where did i get it from? it does seem like a far more obvious way of going about it to me, so did i just figure it out from scratch?

either way, it was fun to confuse my teacher with.

i kind of think philip pullman used the spelling "dæmon" instead of "daemon" because in a lot of typefaces the æ character kind of looks like two copies of the same letter viewed from different angles and stuck together. see, it's symbolic.

or maybe i just think too much.

woo back to really short hair

also i recommend you never buy blouses like this cause the ruffles are fucking hell to iron and not ironing them is even more hell.

no christmas train this year D: i'm not completely sure why, either. i mean, they've obviously had a ton of problems in the last few months, but the christmas train is a museum vehicle and so surely should've been taken better care of than the modern ones. (i was actually thinking they should've put the historic trains and the panorama one into regular service during the worst part of the problem, because while it wouldn't actually have helped much in terms of capacity, i'm sure it would've done a ton for their image...)

on the upside, christmas market this weekend? the berlin-spandau one, which is the largest german one and among the largest european ones? :D