Yes, call that day just how you want.. ;)

On that day I was flying to Paris to visit mose. The night before I already thought, that I can live with that missed test. Everything felt ok again - but then on the train I got pretty depressed.. shit
.. well, on the plane then some crazy couple (she always laughing in a way, that made my brain hurt and he joking in a way, that my brain... errrr...) poked me with questions. Being completely exhausted anyways, I slept all the time and that wasn't comfortable either.
Well, then hanging around at mose's place in the evening was really nice. Made me feel better a lot. Just I wasn't too talkative.. :-/
.. and that (not really usual) trait of mine stuck to me for all the Paris visit.. :(

My last test in the last semester was a disaster!
Why?
Because I wasn't there!
Yes!
Right!
Aaaargh!

I wrote the date down in my calendar two months before the test - to be sure, that I won't forget it! I learned about five days for it and the evening before the test I went to the webpage of the university to check again for the room in which it was supposed to be held. Ah, ok, there!
Me being paranoid about such things, I went about two hours later again checking for the room "to be really, absolutely sure" and in the moment I wanted to close the browser-tab, I noticed.... the test was today! :(

...yes, I know!

And I had a lot to tell. Actually I wanted to sum the stuff up a little bit here since a month or so also.

But for now you have a sign of life from me and I try to get my ass up again.

Note to self: install some Desktop-blogging application.. ;)

Today was Kasimir's last trip. After having a big, literally bloody tumor in his breast for about a week the veterinarian sent him to sleep forever...

We got him, when he was something above one year old and gave him the name just because we liked it and only afterwards found out, that it means "The destroyer of peace". Well, that he truely was! ;)
He used his wheel so much, that he wore it out in only some weeks and after that it held a terrible noise at night, so that we could barely sleep. After we fixed the wheel, he found another way to keep us awake, he began to gnaw on a bar of his cage. Only one bar and only on one special place. My girlfriend then taped a paper tunnel on that bar reaching inside the cage, so that he could crawl through it, but couldn't gnaw on the bar. Well, seemed like this was really the only interesting bar for him, the gnawing stopped. :)

Our littel beloved furball was also known as the daredevil. Once we built the tunnels of his cage in a way, that a 30 cm long part reached straight up into the air. He really managed to climb up there and then he slid down again. That seemed to be that much fun for him, that he immediately climbed up again, but this time just jumped down and again - and again... well, we didn't leave the cage in this shape! ;) And when we had a cat here to take care of, Kasimir didn't fear her at all.. brave and tough little pal.

May you have a lot of fun with all the hamster girls in hamster heaven! We won't forget you! :)

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Kasimir during TikiFest Argentina 2005

R.I.P.
Kasimir
early 2003 - 25.08.2005

So, I had a test today about european legislation, namely "Europäisches Wirtschaftsrecht/European economic law". Since a long time I learned for a test more than 24 hours (what up to now usually was enough) since this is a 'Diplomprüfung' meaning one of those last huge tests you have to take before you get your diploma. I learned for a week exactly and after the test really didn't know why! All the knowledge I could use today, I could have learnt easily in two days. Well, if I would have been to the lectures, I would perhaps have known the special cases, that were asked. But didn't I write two e-mails to the guy having the lecture, asking what has changed from the last to this semester? Didn't I take three unconcerned, disregardingly insulting answers before giving up? Didn't I search the unbelievably bad web site of the university to get the newest information?

People who know me know, that I don't care much about the current educational system - and that's not locally restricted to germany - that's meant globally. Have a look at the congenial book The hacker ethics by Pekka Himanen, a finish philosoph walking in the footsteps of Max Weber. Pekka knows the answer to the question for the educational system of the future(well, actually the present)..