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Dec. 8th, 2010 09:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wiseheartThis is that infamous Wednesday every other week when I spend eleven (!) grueling hours at work. But today was a fruitious one nevertheless.
As we have our charity Christmas market tomorrow (on behalf of those who lost everything due to the recent environmental catastrophe), there are quite a few books to have at school. Some of them in excellent shape, as we got them as rests from a bookshop chain. I fell in love and brought two of them: Dublin by Edward Rutherfurd and An A to Z of King Arthur and the Holy Grail by Simon Cox and Mark Oxbrow.
It was quite a bargain; in the bookshop, they cost 3,200 and 5,000 Forints, respectively, and I got them for 500 Forint, each. It's so rare that I'd find something I'm really interested in, and that in English, too! I'm very pleased. Perhaps I should dig a bit more tomorrow, before or after I take over one of the stands.
The odd free hour or two that I had between lessons was also useful. I've finally finished Captar 09 of "Sparrows" and started Chapter 10. That's supposed to be the last one, save from a short epilogue... yes, I know I've said that many times, and it never turned out like that, but I'm really hopeful this time. After "Sparrows", I intend to attack "Brothers-in-Arms again, in the hope to finish that one, too, within foreseeable time.
We had choir rehearsal after work, too; Christmas concert is shaping up nicely. I'm promised a contralto solo part *crosses fingers* in Ave Vera Virginitas by Josquin de Pres. I really hope it works out. It's written in a beautifully low region, and I love singing in Latin, too.
Oh, and how could I forget! I've just seen John Barrowman in "Desperate Housewives" - all the fifteen minutes that I could endure of the idiotic show. Boy, but he's aged considerably! A good thing he plays a vengeful ex-terrorist and doesn't have to do the flirting thing all the time... these boyish types don't really age well.
As we have our charity Christmas market tomorrow (on behalf of those who lost everything due to the recent environmental catastrophe), there are quite a few books to have at school. Some of them in excellent shape, as we got them as rests from a bookshop chain. I fell in love and brought two of them: Dublin by Edward Rutherfurd and An A to Z of King Arthur and the Holy Grail by Simon Cox and Mark Oxbrow.
It was quite a bargain; in the bookshop, they cost 3,200 and 5,000 Forints, respectively, and I got them for 500 Forint, each. It's so rare that I'd find something I'm really interested in, and that in English, too! I'm very pleased. Perhaps I should dig a bit more tomorrow, before or after I take over one of the stands.
The odd free hour or two that I had between lessons was also useful. I've finally finished Captar 09 of "Sparrows" and started Chapter 10. That's supposed to be the last one, save from a short epilogue... yes, I know I've said that many times, and it never turned out like that, but I'm really hopeful this time. After "Sparrows", I intend to attack "Brothers-in-Arms again, in the hope to finish that one, too, within foreseeable time.
We had choir rehearsal after work, too; Christmas concert is shaping up nicely. I'm promised a contralto solo part *crosses fingers* in Ave Vera Virginitas by Josquin de Pres. I really hope it works out. It's written in a beautifully low region, and I love singing in Latin, too.
Oh, and how could I forget! I've just seen John Barrowman in "Desperate Housewives" - all the fifteen minutes that I could endure of the idiotic show. Boy, but he's aged considerably! A good thing he plays a vengeful ex-terrorist and doesn't have to do the flirting thing all the time... these boyish types don't really age well.
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Date: 2010-12-09 11:03 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-12-09 05:53 pm (UTC)And now that the Christmas Market is over, I'm contemplating the baking plan again. I've originally planned to bake five more sorts, but your Gewürzbäumchen look very promising, too. Unfortunately, if I bake them, I'll have 13 different kinds of Plätzchen, and ironically, I find that I'm getting superstitious at my old age. So I'll have to hunt down a 14th recipe and bake it, too.
Any suggestions? Something that's fast and easy to make? Preferably without Kokosflocken, Marzipan and Nüsse innit? *insert beseeching look*
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Date: 2010-12-09 08:11 pm (UTC)Uh... I usually make Spritzgebäck for quick and easy Christmas cookies. Or Anisplätzchen, these are quick to make, too, though you have to leave them overnight.
Oh, if you like Vanillekipferl, when you go to Vienna, you should keep your eyes open for a Vanillekipferl-Blech. I got one last year and it really works as advertised. It's very handy!
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Date: 2010-12-09 10:35 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-12-10 10:58 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-12-10 10:47 pm (UTC)Ich glaube ich lege mich jetzt hin in ein ruhiges Eckchen und sterbe... *g*
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Date: 2010-12-10 11:12 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-12-10 11:40 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-12-11 02:49 pm (UTC)Stimmt, daran hatte ich gestern auch gedacht. Es ist ja ne Weile her, ich glaub, ich werd mich erst mal wieder einlesen müssen, dann schreib ich was. Ich weiß nicht, ob ich es dieses Wochenende schaffe (die sind bei mir immer stressiger wie die Wochentage, ich verplane die zu viel), aber dann nächste Woche!