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Spent my day sleeping again yesterday. Went for a little workout session in the evening.

The sky before night falls in looks so beautiful at the moment and where I live, the sunset it just amazing to watch! I love the smell in the air and the wind very much. I guess, September is my favourite month of the year. :-)

Went to work at Altwienerhof again yesterday night. Something really weird happened there with two guests who are writing about the hotel for the Petit Fute in exchange for a two weeks stay. It was a really embarrassing situation...
I am beginning to falling in love with the chef cook. ;( He is married, she is a really kind woman, and he has a child.
Can I not stop falling in love with the wrong men all the time???
Love without any future???

Since last week I have read so much about vegan nutrition, vegan philosophy (animal protection, environmental issues, globalisation,...) and have learned that what I have always considered as vegan lifestyle is just a beginning of a brandnew experience. I am very happy I have found all these books and the forum . It will be a new world in which I am entering. :-) This is more holistic than before.

The meeting for the diploma discussion with Mr. Kiraly is cancelled for today. Daniel will postpone it until tomorrow. - But there is so many things I would like to do then!

Spent my day sleeping yesterday and in the evening I went to the first 111-round organised by Sandra. Her friends will now be inviting females only to different locations - either at home or at a bar or at a swinger club. ;-) Just women doing crazy stuff together and talking about relationships, men, love, sex,...
It was nice to read them out the suggestions of love poems and things to do for lovebirds in Vienna, my wedding present as calendar to Veli and Nikolaj, it will be a self-made calendar 2007 with black and white pictures of hands touching hands or hands touching body parts.
The whole evening was so much fun! I laughed my a** off, gosh! :-)
When everybody had left, I stayed at Sandra's place and we went on talking until 0400am. I went home by bike and slept pretty much until midday.

Did some house cleaning and shopping, went to a workout session and will be heading off to the Altwienerhof later on to work.

Aleksandar's recommended bands include:

Ulver (phantastic electric tunes, his favourite band)
Opeth (technically very well, some songs last as long as 20min)
Morbid Angel (classic old-style metal)
Krisiun (very fast)
Mortician (a metal subdomain, named "grindcore")
Cryptopsy
Dissection (one of the best black metal bands, especially the track "Storm of the light's bane")
Emperor (similiar to Dissection, recommendable especially the albums "Anthems to the welkin at dusk" and "IX Equilibrium")
Wintersun (epic, nearly film music :))
Bal Sagoth (similar to Wintersun, only more bombastic)
Zyklon
Fear Factory (especially the albums "Demanufacture" and "Obsolete")
Life Of Agony (rock metal mix from the USA, a very cool band) :)
Crowbar (slowmotionmetal, also called doom metal, from New Orleans)
Sick Of It All (New York hard core)
Godspeed You Black Emperor
Tenacious D (is the band of Jack Black, known from films and TV, he is a better musician than an actor ;))
Boards Of Canada (a DJ-group with distintive sound)

This is just for now so that I do not forget about them. I will have a look at the bands later and create some links to the webpages.
Strangely enought the 111 ladies also listened to heavy metal - something like the band that was before Queens of the Stone Age.

Took a sunbath at the Burggarten with Sandra. We talked a lot about love, relationship, family,... I feel that a really good friendship can develop between us because we are at the same point in life and feel the same way about many things. We went to our favourite coffeehouse in Vienna, the Kaffee Altwien, afterwards and continued talking.

I slept nearly the whole day yesterday. At night, I had an interview for a tour guide position for Stoll Reisen. It is for October and only for four days in Austria, Carinthia, but if I receive positive feedback from the participants, they will offer me more jobs in spring 2007.

I was working at the Altwienerhof yesterday night. How funny: All of the staff were already drinking when I came. It has never happened before. Some of them do drink when their shift is over but never all of them. So I thought "There is something going on, there." Yeah, right, one of my working colleagues' who has been married since only two weeks, had her husband there. I joined the drinking a bit and had a very relaxing night.

Slept today, stayed at home and will go working again tonight.

I have had an idea for the wedding present for Veli and Nikolaj: I will take some pictures of my favourite places for lovebirds in Vienna, a kind of three-series, and make a calendar with famous love poems and aphorisms about love for 2007 for them. I am sure they will like it.

The Juggling Convention was much fun. I went by bike to Tulln, took a train from Tulln to Krems and got there just in time when the first workshops started. I also met some people of the fire meeting at Schwertberg and we exchanged some moves. I was fascinated by the skill of most of the jugglers. For the first time in two years I could juggle three balls as well. - Let the ball loose and let it fly through the air. - Just a connection between my more relaxed mind and my body?

After I got up, I decided to go to Burggarten again and take a sunbath. I was TRYING madly to get some sun but clouds and wind did not help much. Was reading a little bit (Gill Langley, "Vegan Nutrition"), watching other people but decided to go home then.

Spent my afternoon sleeping and reading at home.

Tonight is Christine's last shaking and dancing night. A soulsugar night at the planetarium at the Giant Ferries Wheel at the Prater. I am looking so much forward to it.

Ali called in today and I will be making plans to go to Dublin. I do not know whether or not I feel already ready to see the place I have spent four very intensive years at again but just the feeling to spend some time with Inesa, Ali and their baby is so nice! I have not seen them in nearly two years now. Their photos are hanging in my room, so they are always with me. And for sure, I would like to see their baby.

Sandra called me as well when I was going to take some dinner. We will be meeting up tomorrow, at the Burggarten for sure or if it is raining go and visit the Giger exhibition at the Kunsthaus.

I got up early this morning, yet another rainy day it seemed.

I did some shopping in the morning, had a look to "Art of Soya", a new vegan store in Vienna. At the library, I got some books about vegetarian and vegan lifestyle and cooking. Since I am becoming interested in the nutrition facts and possible dangers of being vegetarina/vegan and healthy cooking again, I guess, at the moment how I am doing it, I am doing it the wrong way. And since there is a lot of vitamins and proteins to consider, I do not want to have a lack of anything or have to take chemical pills. The Austrian forum for vegans suggest a medical check if there is anything one is lacking. I will arrange for a test like that on Monday.

In the afternoon, I went to Christine's. Since she is going to Utrecht on Tuesday for half a year, I have to spend as much of my time with her - I will miss her a lot. Karoline also came and it was nice to chat with my sisters, laugh together and watch some stupid movie and telenovelas on TV.
I juggled with sparklers for Christine in her back garden and that was so nice and felt really "safe". Not like the big flames that are hard to control sometimes (especially when there is a lot of wind).

Christine told me that I am looking so much more relaxed lately, and she is definitely right because I feel happy about myself, about life, about the things I am doing because I enjoy them.

Tomorrow I will go for the day to Krems to the Juggling Convention (hopefully by bike if it is not raining). The organisers told me that there would be some poi masters. :-)

Spent my last three nights working at the Altwienerhof and sleeping during the day. I did not do much in between because the body is very tired when you are awake all night long without anything to drink or any music to dance to.

We had a big discussion about the cleaning ladies yesterday. We'll try it one more time to look after the flat together. I feel disgusted about the way how my flatmates made their comments. :-(

Tobias recommended a band called Wolf Mother to me lately. I am listening to Razorlight's hit song a lot as well. And a Guns n'Roses revival is taking place here too. :-)

I wonder how my grandma is at the moment. I have not had any news since last week. Hopefully I can see and talk to her soon.

Just received my telephone bill for the three weeks of the guided tour. SHOCK!!! Why is the EU not finally enforcing that roaming charges should be diminuished or abolished anyway?

There was something else I wanted to write but I forgot... too tired, I guess.

Got up late this morning, Pamina was already awake. I LOVE this child!!!

The photos poi session at Schwertberg are online: http://www.foto-session.at/foto/openpoicampfranz/ and http://www.foto-session.at/foto/OpenPOICampManfred/

Got some calls from some cleaning ladies, the first one will come on Wednesday. Do not know whether I should already inform my housemates about it or leave it until Wednesday night...

Got my bike today!!! I AM INCREDIBLY HAPPY! It is wonderful! - No more public transport for the next two months!!! :-)

Got a new haircut as well.

Looking forward to my first long bike ride to Krems for the Juggling Convention.

Have to go to work at the Altwienerhof tonight...

Slept nearly the whole day yesterday, went for a work out at night and went to work all night long. Because of the concert of Robbie Williams at the Ernst Happel Stadium it was a really busy night.

Slept much today, did some house cleaning, ate, got to the city center when it started raining to meet up with my sister and her friends at the Weltcafe to celebrate her farewell to the Netherlands. It was very nice to meet Tobias, Romy and Karoline there as well. Received the CD of Pungent Stench from Tobias. Drank some Mexican coffee, had a Zotter hot chocolate and then my study colleagues Alex and Daniel came to speak about our project for the diploma. We discussed quite a bit.

After a really nice evening I am now at home and am just going through my emails and web pages I wanted to look up.