Study break

While I'm dying of a disease called "study depression" I said I HAVE to do something to cheer me up, to entertain me. And since my blog is dying of collateral damage of my study depression, I said I should do it here! So here you go, my favorite trio of HOT GUYS!

Please keep in mind my all time personal favourite is Johnny Depp, but this trio is from my favorite show: Grey's Anatomy. Feast your eyes, girls ... :P

Patrick Dempsey a.k.a. dr. Shepherd a.k.a. McDreamy:

Eric Dane a.k.a. dr. Sloan a.k.a. McSteamy:

Justin Chambers a.k.a. dr. Alex Karev

How do you like it? :)

Poppy ;)

Must love dogs.

Yeah, you certainly have to love them. Except when they're causing problems.

Our dog is very cute and funny and everything.

Like that, see? But today she made us all worry about her. We took a walk, a short swim in the river (just her, not me) and then came back home. I left her on the balcony because she was all wet and I went doing my stuff.

Suddenly I heard her coughing and making some weird noises. I let her out and she couldn't stop sneezing, she kept rubbing her nose and after a few minutes like that we were ready to take her to the vet.

My boyfriend then noticed she had something inside her nose. He got tweezers and guess what he pulled out - a 20 cm long grass leaf! Can you imagine having that in YOUR nose?

Pets are a lot of fun, but sometimes a lot of worries, too. :) But it's all because we love them. :P

Poppy

A date

I have a date on Friday!


Today I got an SMS from this cute guy. He asked me out to some concert. He's really cool and I relly like the band that's playing so of course I said yes. I have a boyfriend, We've been together for more than 2 years, but that's no problem. He's the cool guy who asked me out anyway. :)


The whole thing reminded me of our early teens, when we did all the "courtship" through texting, MSN, even friends ... :) It was crazy when the phone beeped. Is it him? What if it's him? And the heart started beating hard, hands were shaky and so on and on.


And if it was him, the problem was even bigger. What to write back? I remember myself writing one single SMS for more than an hour! It was all about strategy. :)

I can't even imagine how people did all of that before the "cell phone era". :))

Poppy

Apricot cake!

Hello hello!

I am happy to share the news: I got a 9 on Slovene literature III. We have grades from 1 to 10 so 9 is pretty good. :) I rewarded myself with some shopping, visited my grandma, bought her a late B-day present, went to my uncle's first book presentation and then collapsed into the bed in the evening. Regarding the fact I couldn't sleep at all the night before the exam that's quite

reasonable.

I should have started studying for my next exam the following day but I took another day for relaxation and regeneration. And what did I do?

My boyfriend's parents are a perfect housewife + DIY king. She brought me some apricots from their orchard and some apricot jam she made the previous day.

... they aren't perfect but at least they are organic! By the way, do you try to buy organic food? Do you grow your own vegetables?

And this jam - perfect! :) Do you make things like that at home? I'm not very good at it. I decided to use the apricots and the jam for a nice summer-ish fruit cake. I mixed the apricots with some whipped and some sour cream, added some sugar and lemon juice, spread the jam over the sponge cake and put everything together.

I should have taken a photo earlier, this is all that's left. :)

... I guess it was tasty ... :)

Poppy

More pics

I just can't study any more. I'm not concentrated enough to do it. :P So here are some more photos:

A little bit of my study materials ...

Something sweet ... (sour cherry pie)

A little cactus ...

A bunch of roses my mother in law brought me ...

And of course our little foxterrier! She loves the new rug! :)

My camera is a *perfect* procrastinating tool. ;)

Poppy

New Camera

Hello hello,

a great procrastinator as I am I decided this - 4 days before the exam - is the perfect time to look for a new camera. Besides loads of books to read I have all the time in

the world, so why not? :P The old one is almost dead anyway ... :)

This is what I chose. My boyfriend did, actually. I wanted the pink one. :(

However ... Instead of studying I made some test shots.

Have a nice flower-ish day everyone! :)

Poppy

Online poetry lesson

Where to begin?

1) I have a cold. In June. It sucks! My throat is killing me ...

2) I have to study a lot ... really. Slovene literature. 11 days until the exam. And I wanted to share a bit of my new knowledge. :)

3) Since my plan is to be a teacher some day I should combine my knowledge of Slovene lit and teaching in a simple way and give some representative examples.

So here are the

MODERNISTIC SUB-GENRES IN POETRY:

There was a lot happening in that moment (cca 1900) so literature was mostly a response to events at that time. Therefore the theme of this poetry lesson is going to be my current event: sore throat. And mind another thing: This isn't an academic lesson but a lesson for fun. :)

1) IMPRESSIONISM

The point of impressionism is that the subject gets an impression from the nature, and combines it with his / her own feelings. He / she captures the moment. For example:

Warm sun, light wind
a sound of little birds

In my room I sit alone
with a sore throat.

How do you like that, ha? Very impressionistic!

2) DECADENCE

Decadent poets are sick of life, they hate most of all everything. In decadent poetry we can find disgusting figures sometimes eroticism. I have no idea how to connect sore throat and eroticism so we'll just skip that. :P

It's June.
Sore throat is nauseating.
It looks like dead animal
smelling bad and being flown around by flies.

That was kind of gross ... :)

3) NEW ROMANTICISM

... is similar to old romanticism, but less rigid. It is a part of old tradition in the new one. A sonnet is a typical new romantic form, it should have a certain rhyme (ABBA ABBA CDE EDC). There are also some content rules which I didn't obey. I should write about my beloved one, but we set the theme at the beginning so here's my sonnet:

My throat is sore and I feel really bad
It's hot outside but I have got a cold
unusual is that have I been told
I have a cold in June, how weird is that?

But anyway I think I am quite glad,

that's now's the time that I have got a cold.
It's better being young than being old,
an old man dies, survives our little lad.

And most of all this thing is interesting
Because I'm forcing words to form a rhyme
when poetry is really what I hate

I have to read it eventhough it's late,

Although that's really not a perfect time
to let the poems bore you with thy sting.

Dear god, I wrote my first sonnet, yay for me! (it is really bad, though ... doesn't have much sense due to the rhyme thing ... )

4) SYMBOLISM

Symbolists couldn't express everything with words. Words weren't enough for them, so they used symbols for expressing bigger ideas. Hmmm, I don't really know how to form this one but let's say that a scarf is a symbol for a better future regarding my sore throat:

I have a sore throat
(as I already mentioned)
It isn't easy
I can barely live.

But there's a scarf
hanging on the rack
and waiting for me.

See? Scarf is a better future, a salvation! Ok whatever ...

5) NATURALISM

OK this is the easiest one. Do you know what naturalism stands for? It says that everything that a person is, depends on heritability and the environment he / she is in. One cannot change that (at all!) He or she is defined by those circumstances. So my sore throat isn't a coincidence at all:

I have a sore throat.
It runs in the family.

My mother had it
My father too.

I have a sore throat
because it was cold outside that night.
I couldn't do anything to stop it.
So here I am now

With a sore throat.

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So this was my short non-professional explanation of the modernistic sub-genres. Poetry can be fun! How did you like that? I still have to figure out expressionism and constructivism so those two will have to wait. :P

Have fun studying, everyone! :)

Poppy