Year: 2008

We got our grades of the exams we wrote two weeks ago today. On February 14h at midnight, so Wednesday night. I’ve learned my lesson the last few semesters not to stay up and wait to go online and check my results. 15.000 other students may also wait to get online to check and the server will not load. Until maybe 2am then.

So, I went to bed, got up this morning and checked. Here are my results which I will explain below:

• GIS-Cartography: 1,3
• Remote-Sensing Cartography: 2,0
• GIS: 2,3
• Print-Media II: 2,0
• Geography II: 1,7
• Quality-Management: 1,7

Best Grade in general = 1,0, if you flunk you get a 5,0 so 4,0 is the worst grade you can get. It goes 1,0 – 1,3 – 1,7 – 2,0 – 2,3 … until 4,0. 1 = Very Good, 2 = Good, 3 = Satisfactory, 4 = Adequate.

So I did best in GIS-Cartography and worst in GIS. I feel ok about my grades. I thought I did worse in Geography but I also thought I did better in Remote-Sensing Cartography.

Next semester I’ll be writing my last exam (subject: business start-up) and then the studies are over. Kinda sad, but kinda nice though too.

On Monday, Feb 18th I’ll be starting my 42+ week on writing my thesis ((The analysis of TerraSAR-X Data compared to optical data based on the classes coniferous-, deciduous- and mixed forest)) *sigh*. I’m not really in the mood, I’m enjoying my free time at the moment. I really hope that the Remote-Sensing company ((where I’m writing my thesis)) will take me over, but allthough working with Satellites and Satellite-Images is a little dream job of mine, I think I’d be more happy in the Webdesign/Graphical Industry.

So, my next blog posts will probably contain my rants about how much I hate Satellites and how my thesis is pissing me off 😛

I haven’t been outside since Monday. Today it’s Thursday Friday, and I’m happy to pronounce – I’ve been outside yesterday! Yes yes, I’m quite proud about that, but on the downside – I went outside to go to a restaurant to eat. And it’s not as if my belly would get any thinner by sitting in my beloved office chair. So eating Greek at 8pm doesn’t make it any better. BUT it was lovely, my mom came over and my two sisters, all three I haven’t seen since Christmas.

I’ve almost finished two other fanlistings (the buttons are missing – I very much dislike creating buttons):

• Munich FL
• Friends: Season 9

As soon as I found out that BellaBuffs isn’t using any database I applied for a bunch of Fanlistings and I don’t even remember which ones. On the other side, I’m such a forgetful person ((it’s scary at times)), I’ll get off the phone with my mom who just told me to send her an email with some data one minute ago (on the phone) but I’ll forget – until she calls me again. So it would be a little miracle if I would remember which Fanlistings I’ve applied for. I’m happy that TFL.org sends out emails 🙂

I did get off my lazy butt today to clean. I’ve cleaned my apartment a few days ago, but when it comes to the bathroom I tend to just “wipe”. Not today though. I grabbed Mr. Clean, took off my pants ((who am I kidding, I took of my pajama-bottoms)) and socks and cleaned. You only can clean the bathtub, well, if you’re in the bathtub (I think). That’s why the taking off the clothes. My bathroom is all shiny and weird smelling now (chemistry) and I can’t wait until my next bath/shower/…

It’s just like when you put a new pair of sheets on your bed and sleep in them the first night. Such a great feeling, don’t you think?

I got a nifty new plugin: Footnotes ((I hope I don’t go over the top with them 😉 ))

First of all, thanks for giving me such good feedback on my new layout, I hope you still like it as much when you see it in action?

I’ve never had a one-column layout (well, once, but only for about two weeks during Christmas time) and I hope I will give it a chance and not lose patience too soon. I’m still working on getting the pages set up, need to change the footers and index pages.

If you notice something weird or if there’s something that bothers you (about the design) please let me know.

[EDIT]Still working on this layout, so if things seem wacky to you (or you think, “gosh, she really doesn’t know how to code”), bear with me :)[/EDIT]

… and I’m happy.
They all went quite good, but I wanted the to go a little better.

The best grade you can get at my Uni is a 1,0. Then it goes 1,3 , 1,7 , 2,0 , 2,3 … until 4,0. I was aiming for a 1,0 or 1,3 but …. yeah, but. I’m not going to say anything though, I’m happy they’re over, I’m happy I know for sure I already passed one (the prof let us know).

I upgraded WordPress finally. Errors were following me all over. The Dashboard, the plugins page – everything full of errors. Gah. I’m also working on a new layout.

I have two weeks where I can do what I want (call it vacation) and on February 18th I’m starting my thesis. I’ll be working 40-hour weeks until September (well, hopefully longer). The lovely university is pretty much over. No spare time for me anymore 🙁 *sigh* I’ll miss it – but I also can’t wait to finally be done – to work, to earn money, to move into a bigger place. BUT, I’ll miss it. I just hope all my classmates and I are going to keep in touch. That’s always the thing that hurts me most – knowing some of them I probably won’t every see again (or maybe once every five years).

So, the last exam was friday at 3:30pm, at 6pm we all went out to eat and drink. Fun times – unfortunately I forgot my camera. Yesterday I coded the whole day. I only moved my lil’ ass to go to the bathroom (wait – did I?). This morning the Lover came for breakfast, the noon I spent coding, this evening we’re going out for dinner. McDonalds!!!! 💡 It’s such a delicious dinner when you haven’t had it for weeks 😆

How was your week?

Nothing new here in good ol’ Munich. Still studying daily for my upcoming exams, and the library life isn’t that exciting. I can’t wait until they’re over (which will be Friday, February 1st at 17.00). I can’t wait to sleep in again, see my parents, my sisters and my nephews again, have a love-life with the lover again ;). Missing all those things quite much. When I have upcoming exams I stay in Munich, I’m at the library at 8am, staying until about 7 or 8 pm. Almost no talking (except when the Lover and I study at home and explain things to each other. Good study method, btw), always looking down on your books (my back and neck and also head hurt so much). It actually drives you crazy after a few weeks (me at least).

I read, that after Heath Ledger got the role as the “Joker” in the new Batman movie, he practiced his role in a hotel room for about a month. He described the joker as a “psychopathic, mass murdering, schizophrenic clown with zero empathy” (taken from wikipedia). Imagine practicing a role like that. What a job. Pretty tough. If I were an actress and had to play a role like that (or any role where you’re a rapist, mass-murder …) I think I’d go crazy in my head. Totally. If you want to play your role good, for the time when you’re making the movie, you have to be the role, you have to be a different person. At least that’s how I imagine it (I must say, I really have no idea of how the movie-business works). No wonder the actors take medicine (of whatever they take). *sigh*

Or what do you think about this? Could you play a role like that? Do you think it somehow would affect your life?