Maru's Mun Journal

Today, I

• made an appointment with my bank to resolve a potential problem before it comes up, which is a good start, as my general approach to all matters bureaucratic is usually more ostrich-like in nature;
• went to see a very funny movie by the same director who had made 'Run, Lola, Run' (and 'The Perfume', but we better forget about that one). It was about a straight couple that have been together for twenty years when they independently meet and fall in love with the same man. It's called 'Three', and I warmly recommend it; I'm sure it'll make its way abroad, just as 'Lola' did. It has the cutest thing in the credits, but I can't really tell what it is without handing you a giant mega-spoiler, which I don't want to do as I'd rather have people enjyo the movie;
• went to the only shop where they sometimes have bran flakes at an affordable price, and found they had so much of it, there was even some left when I was done; and I now have bran flakes for weeks and weeks of happy breakfasts with my cats:
• got the most wonderful milliclaus gift from wanderlustlover, who made me an Urquhart fanmix following his canonical backstory, and linked me to icon resources I hadn't known before. I have been exchanging a quarter of Urq's icons since I came home after movie and shopping.

And now, mulled wine and RP! Not too long, though, as I mean to get up at nine tomorrow for the eclipse.-

Klaus Nomi.

Freddy Mercury.

Rudolph Nureyev.

All those ordinary people my other godchild's amazing grandma is working with in South Africa.

Alex, who was my best friend in the 1990s.

Oh please God, let it really be over!! No more of all this!

cob_web has this wonderful list of things people told her she would grow out of when she got older, but didn't.

Many of the things on there, barring the Doc Martens and the interesting glasses, are true for me as well, but I think I'll add my own. This could be a real meme!

• Wanting to be a writer -- I actually earn pocket money writing spinelessly nice book reviews
• Wanting my own pet -- I am still amazed that OMG I have my own cats!
• Geeking out on fictional worlds
• Fangirling fictional blokes
• Posters on the wall
• Not having a 'proper' bed
• Flavoured tea
• Putting the volume on my music waaaaaay up so it follows me all over the flat
• An almost missionary enthusiasm for new things and ideas I freshly discovered
• Eating with chopsticks
• My ancient stinky stuffed dolphin
• Fascination with bloke-on-bloke love or sex, AKA slash (only it wasn't called that back then)

Now, which are yours?

Reply to this meme by yelling "Words!" and I will give you five words that remind me of you. Then post them in your LJ and explain what they mean to you. (Please note: If you simply wish to comment on something I've said but don't want to participate in the meme, that is fine. I will only give you five words if you specifically comment you with 'Words!')

Goths: I think I explained my past with them the for the last incarnation of this meme, so I'm not going to repeat myself. But I am heading towards a Gothic future! The Nazgul and I will be Gothic women for this year's medieval markets/events, and I am going to construct Gothic garments today and (if needed) tomorrow. The belt and belt pouch, I already have; now for a long shirt and peplum dress. The nazgul is going for the option of skirt and tunic. We have trimming that looks quite authentic (without going to the length of either card-weaving ourselves, or buying expensive card-woven trim), and are going to be quite spectacular. With the added bonus that nobody will ask us whether we're real. As they did when we were nuns.

Tarot: I'd had dabbled in tarot on and off for years (among the people I'd been loosely associated with here in Munich, you simply didn't get not to), and then, Master Urban did an 'eletronic tarot' on CD-ROM, back in 1998 or so. I tested the program for him, and one card that popped up on my radar quite a lot was the Tower. Lots of things were changing in the world just then, approaching the millennium, and in my family. That was about the time when Sphinx got pregnant with the Little Lady, my grandmother sold her house and moved to Wiesbaden where the rest of my folks were and so on, and Tower wandered through all my test spreads in some way or another. So, when years later Tiger started bringing tarot cards as charries to Milliways, I knew right away tat the only one I could possibly pick was Tower. I always used Master Urban's old CD-ROM for his spreads at first; but shortly after Christmas 2007, I found the Orthodox Icon tarot, and I've been using that ever since, for Tower and in RL, and have been getting some spectacular results. That deck is Tower's deck; he's just letting me use it. As a tarot card, he's a very strong and generally known archetype who lives in many minds, an almost independent entitiy, and if I play him, he more or less just walks through me. None of my other charries, in Milliways or Morningstar Manor, is anything like that, so I do hesitate to play him often, because I quite like to rule my own brain.

Cats: I always thought myself a dog person, but in spring 2005, my upstairs neighbour in the old house which is now torn down got a cat, a female tabby, and I volunteered to look after her while they were on holiday, sometimes. I found that I really missed her for a bit after she'd gone home again, and started thinking about getting my own. In September 2006, my colleague Lena sent an email to everybody at work with the subject line 'Who wants a cat child?', and I went and raised my hand and said 'me'. Because we already had one tabby female in the house, I took the red male. That was Lucifer -- I got him on October 20th, and soon wondered why I had inflicted 39 cat-less year upon myself. Mephisto, I got from the same colleague last year, because I had been moved to the larger flat when the old house was torn down, and now had room for two cats. I thought Lucifer could use some company; he ended up doing the lion's share of the work in education Mephi, though. Mephi is clever and weird and very funny at times, and destructive at others (he had destroyed the folding screen in his first picture within the week!), but he never tried to touch my computer, like Luiifer had done, or hew cables. I had taught Lucifer in no uncertain terms that they are NO!!!; he must have taught his little brother. Yes, they're from the same mother. After a few days, they started loving each other dearly, and are very close.

Spiral: I think that means my tattoo of a heyiya-if, a symbol from Ursula LeGuin's experimental SF novel 'Always Going Home', which I am still amazed hasn't got a much larger fan base. It symbolises the world-view of her fictional post-apocalyptic tribe in Napa Valley, uniting dualism and holism, and I thought for years that, if I ever get a tattoo, it would have to be a heyiya-if. And then, in summer 2004, I did get it...

Italy: Munich gets nick-named 'the most northerly Italian city'. It's entirely natural to go to Italy for holidays, even short ones; and there's lots of Italians here, and decent Italian eateries and even bars. I have five within two minutes' walking distance. Going to Italy like I did last summer, to Verona and Ravenna, is obvious and simple, from a Munich point of view. Of course, I had picked going there for the sake of seeing places Teja had known, in particular, and we did see a dead Goth despite the fact Ravenna again tried to infuriate us; but all in all, I did the obvious Italian thing anybody from Munich seems to do from time to time.

WTF has got into me? The weekend so far has been dedicated to total indulgence, luxury, and the enjoyment of things one should not own up to:

( Read about my guilty pleasures if you dare! )

Teja's memories for the current Milli!plot have just hit 100 posts.

Posts, not threads!

I'm impressed by all of us (alphabetically):

• alchemistseraph
• athousanderrors
• bigfluffball
• burning_bryght
• ceitfianna
• i_open_doors
• phelis_kougra
• saphyria
• slutbamwalla
• walksbyherself
• wanderlustlover

and all the others who play in those threads, but whose mun journals I don't know.

And we're nowhere near finished!!