Because being socially awkward has its benefits
So over the course of the last few weeks I again and again promised myself to simply stop most of my shopping, regardless of it being second-hand items or books or else. And it didn’t work. For one reason or the other I always found an excuse to shop, to buy new things, to [...]
This will be quite a different reading report compared to the ones before; first, Foer's book is a factual report of how animals, or rather 'livestock' is treated in the US and most certainly in a lot of other parts in this world; furthermore, this is not just about reading a book, this is about [...]
It's a new year and we are encouraged to make a new start. Magazines, newspapers, friends, family, and pretty much the whole internet demonstrates some serious motivation regarding new year's resolutions. That's nice, and inspiring. But I know myself better than that -- a lot of us do. I hate Christmas, but I love the [...]
In the last few days I booked a flight and my Dad found me a nice hotel in an ideal location between the university and the rest of the city I want to see and discover. Regarding the practical aspects of this little adventure everything's already taken care of, everything's fine. Which is wonderful and [...]
Today, by chance I listened to the episode "Choosing to live child-free" of the What would a feminist do?-podcast (you can listen to it here); I haven't thought about that issue for a while, but what the three women – host Jessica Valenti and her two guests, authors Meghan Daum and Danielle Henderson – talked about resonated [...]
From what I’ve written in some of the blog post before, one may assume I am a sophisticated reader thanks to my academic ventures (*cough*) in the field of comparative literature. Well, sometimes I am. Depending on my mood, my ADHD, the lunar phase, and the position of Jupiter to the last third of my [...]
I have finished my talk some weeks ago, ready to edit it a bit here and there and in the end having weeks to rehearse it (...something that is reallyreallyreally important for non-native-speakers!!!) – at least that was my plan. Of course, quite the opposite happened. After finishing my first ‘draft,’ my supervisor and wonderguy [...]
