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Tuesday, 17. March 2015
Happy Birthday to me.
ell, 08:03h
I am up earlier already than most people would consider healthy given the fact that lessons don't start before eight thirty and I only have to go four floors down and one up to my classroom. I'm dressed in a blue-white-chequered blouse over a light blue T-Shirt, completed by my starfleet pin, the blue necklace I bought in france last summer and the silver bracelet I got from my dad for successfully passing my exams last year.
It doesn't fit together quite well, and my hair is still rather messy for I didn't want to use a hair dryer at nine thirty yesterday night, but I don't care. I grab my blue trechcoat-like jacket out of my closet, thinking dammit, man, it's spring, no matter how cold it is outside and rejoyce about the fact that we all have to bring a blanket to school today.
I already pre-celebrated yesterday with a meal of fish 'n' chips when I went shopping downtown. It wasn't quite as good as it would have been in Ireland or England, but it was acceptable for German standards.
The shopping didn't go without obstacles. I couldn't find any washing-up-soap, and although it's a quite small shop in the middle of the city, they only seemed to have dish-washing-sponges in packs of ten which would serve me for more than a year. So instead of buying that I ended up with a can of fish and two bottles of coke, so I can celebrate tomorrow without having to worry about cooking or dish-washing.
On the way back to the bus I stopped by on the only Multi-Media-Shop I know in the city center. Since I can't expect to get a nerdy present from most of my family, and I had decided to collect the soundtracks of several movies, I thought about buying myself a present right there.
Although the rack with movie-soundtracks there is quite small, I couldn't really decide. They had an astonishing diversity of good stuff for the little they had over all, all three Lord of the Rings movies, all four of the Pirates of the Caribbean, Michaels scores from Into Darkness, Narnia which I have already love as a kid when I stayed at a friend's and we sat there staring at the menu screen for eterneties every time we had watched the movie, because the music was so awsome, Star Wars - The Phantom Menace and a lot others.
In the end I bought soundtrack from Top Gun and a complete collection of Back to the Future, as well as ordering a compilation of TOS episode-soundtracks. That was after I had asked the clerk there if the old Star Trek movie soundtracks were still available. Of course they were not, the earliest available being that of Generations, but at least the clerk was acceptably astonished after I prooved to be able to identify the Star Trek movies by the composers of the music.
But I will come by those soundtracks somehow. I even composed the plan to find an old record player somewhere and then collect the soundtracks on vinyl. Star Trek music is so awsome I would really do that for it. (But that, once again, is a story for another time.)
And, when I go to collect my order, I will bring my birthday money (or what will be left of it after I collected my other orders - you remember, the thing with the two-and-a-half-weeks?), and buy myself some more great movie soundtracks.
It doesn't fit together quite well, and my hair is still rather messy for I didn't want to use a hair dryer at nine thirty yesterday night, but I don't care. I grab my blue trechcoat-like jacket out of my closet, thinking dammit, man, it's spring, no matter how cold it is outside and rejoyce about the fact that we all have to bring a blanket to school today.
I already pre-celebrated yesterday with a meal of fish 'n' chips when I went shopping downtown. It wasn't quite as good as it would have been in Ireland or England, but it was acceptable for German standards.
The shopping didn't go without obstacles. I couldn't find any washing-up-soap, and although it's a quite small shop in the middle of the city, they only seemed to have dish-washing-sponges in packs of ten which would serve me for more than a year. So instead of buying that I ended up with a can of fish and two bottles of coke, so I can celebrate tomorrow without having to worry about cooking or dish-washing.
On the way back to the bus I stopped by on the only Multi-Media-Shop I know in the city center. Since I can't expect to get a nerdy present from most of my family, and I had decided to collect the soundtracks of several movies, I thought about buying myself a present right there.
Although the rack with movie-soundtracks there is quite small, I couldn't really decide. They had an astonishing diversity of good stuff for the little they had over all, all three Lord of the Rings movies, all four of the Pirates of the Caribbean, Michaels scores from Into Darkness, Narnia which I have already love as a kid when I stayed at a friend's and we sat there staring at the menu screen for eterneties every time we had watched the movie, because the music was so awsome, Star Wars - The Phantom Menace and a lot others.
In the end I bought soundtrack from Top Gun and a complete collection of Back to the Future, as well as ordering a compilation of TOS episode-soundtracks. That was after I had asked the clerk there if the old Star Trek movie soundtracks were still available. Of course they were not, the earliest available being that of Generations, but at least the clerk was acceptably astonished after I prooved to be able to identify the Star Trek movies by the composers of the music.
But I will come by those soundtracks somehow. I even composed the plan to find an old record player somewhere and then collect the soundtracks on vinyl. Star Trek music is so awsome I would really do that for it. (But that, once again, is a story for another time.)
And, when I go to collect my order, I will bring my birthday money (or what will be left of it after I collected my other orders - you remember, the thing with the two-and-a-half-weeks?), and buy myself some more great movie soundtracks.
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