Stine yet again...

Did I mention that the designers of our lovely, shiny new E-Learning system FORGOT about Minor subjects? 

EDIT: some of them, that is. Some were lucky, but then, it only befits my faculties to be sloppy and unorganised. They always are.

Until today, students could only enroll for courses in their Major subject - in most cases. Minors - pshaw, who even needs those?

I only need one more course in my major, all other courses I need are in my minor subject. 
This whole thing is so typical of my university - instead of introducing it little by little, for the new students who enroll this year first of all and then, after a test phase, subsequently for the rest, they do it for everybody at the same time and are dismayed when it does not work - as everybody with a spoonful of brain would have known from the beginning. 

For most courses on the syllabus of my lovely German literature minor, it's still not possible to enroll online and I'll just have to come along to the first session and basically see what happens. I hope nobody'll kick me out or anything. Studying in Hamburg is nothing for the faint-hearted, each semester, some new, half-baked plan will amuse old hands and cause younglings to despair. 

Today, I'm going to try and get someone to explain to me what I'll have to do when I change from my ordinary Magister-course to the "state examination" teachers have to take in Germany. The courses themselves are pretty much the same, it's just another title and stupendous amounts of paperwork if you want to change your course. The only difference is that you have to take more of everything as a teacher and have to do internships and Latin. 

Oh, and I'll get my Latin results today. *crosses fingers* 

Anything else? Uh, no. *sigh* Nothing interesting ever happens in  my life. Other than waiting for Stine to work properly I am reading a lovely book on "courtly culture". I'd love to be able to go back to the late years of the 12 century and hear what those Minne songs really sounded like. 
Couldn't these guys hurry a little with realising that not only church music deserved proper notation? I know that those cunning folks have been using neumes back in the 9th century, couldn't they be a little more liberal and teach those illiterate courtiers not only to write the words but the notes of their songs as well?
It feels so pointless to look at the text of a song without any idea whatsoever what the music sounded like.

I am lyk, unique

... at least in the US. I know that there is someone who's got my name in Germany. She does karate.

HowManyOfMe.com

There are: 0 people with my name in the U.S.A. How many have your name?

Finally, excitement (and Stine IV)

Note to brother: composting should not be attempted indoors.
This boy's room is beyond being a complete mess, it's a health hazard. Seriously.

Well, but so is mine at the moment, because there's something wrong with the wall between the bathroom and mine, it's apparently too moist. We've had the problem a few years ago and thought it was the wallpaper rather than the wall. The problem quite apparently persists and now there's icky stinky white mould on my wall. Mould? Mildew? Aspergillus niger and flavus, anyway. Why exactly is everything around me - decomposing? Why my room? Can't the mould appear in the bathroom, where it would be so much easier to clean away - and would not eat my wallpaper, most importantly? Best of all - it's  behind huge shelf full of books, and I do not particularly look forward to having to take everything out, examine the offending fungus, put the shelf back and put everything back in. 

Incidentally, when googling for the right expression for my organic wall decoration, I found this:

Leviticus 14: "If the mildew reappears in the house after the stones have been torn out and the house scraped and plastered, the priest is to go and examine it and, if the mildew has spread in the house, it is a destructive mildew; the house is unclean. It must be torn down—its stones, timbers and all the plaster—and taken out of the town to an unclean place."

Guys? I hope I can count on your help here - please bring a cart.

I really don't understand my grandfather. When advising people on building bathrooms, he always, always told them to put a waterproof foil between the tiles and the wall in a bathroom and so they did, always - everywhere but in his own house. 
Two possible things could be wrong with the wall - either the water is seeping through the seams and tiles only have to be re-grouted, or, worse, the riser's broken. Which would mean that we'd have to have someone open the entire bloody wall. Great. Sorry, Crocky, but we're never going to buy a house. And if we do, we'll do some serious planning beforehand. My parents just had to pay a huge bill for the new windows we needed, now this wall-problem - and no end in sight.

As for Stine - *snorfles* I just received a reply to the - "I can't log in!"-mail I sent on the 8th, which I already wrote them about, telling them that now I can and thanks a lot for their time. The problem was, it tourned out, that they activated the accounts one after another, and some of those were only activated on Friday or later, mine being one of them. Enrolment started on Monday last week. A nice woman told me that now I "should be able to log in and I ought to get back to them if the problem persisted". Yeah, I'll do that. 

Ok. Off to collect the Latin results.