Decent as starched white lace

So you like writing about sex and paganism. That's fine with me, after all Marion Zimmer Bradley earned a lot of money with writing about this stuff, and I enjoyed most of her books. And even if I didn't: everybody is free to write whatever he or she likes.
Just one little note: If you want to write about these topics couldn't you imagine a better main character than an abbess in an 11th-century monastery? After all people who join monasteries usually do this because they want to worship the christian God and not pagan ones (and seriously: I don't think that the 'Aren't all Gods just one higher Being'-POV was very common in the 11th century) and unless you write a story that is set in the early Christian Ireland monks and nuns aren't supposed to marry and have sex, either.
No I'm not talking about fanfic or some 13 year old wannabe-witch, who put her stories on the internet, I'm talking about a published author *sighs*.
I loved the first Alys Clare-book. I'm really into historic novels and crime novels, so historic crime-novels are just perfect for me, but it's quite difficult to find good ones that are set in a historic period I'm interested in. And somehow 'Fortune of the moon' was really promising: set in England during the time of Richard Lionheart (who is after all the grandson of Empress Maud...), and the detective-duo, consisting of an older abbess and a young knight, was unusual and likeable.
I also really enjoyed reading it, not that I'd have called it best book I've ever read, but good enough to read the next one. It wasn't bad. Just strange. In the forest, surrounding the monastery suddenly some forrest-people appeared (well, not suddenly they've been living there for centuries, but they hadn't been mentioned before), who still followed 'the old way'. Somehow the abbess (whose name is Helewise), and the knight Sir Josse observe a ritual of the forest people, when they search the forest for clues in their murder-investigating (BTW: the ritual involves lots of sex), the Domina of the forest people notices them and tells them that the rules tell her to kill them, as they've seen something they shouldn't have seen, but she is going to spare them if they promise not to tell anybody about it. The escape happily, and later Helewise comes to the conclusion that these people aren't that bad after all, and hey -aren't all Gods just one?
The next book (well, chronologically the next after the next, we haven't got all) was even stranger, it involved magic stones, Merlin and plenty of logic-holes, and again an abbess, who again had no problems with ancient heathen magic.
But her view suddenly changed in the next book, but perhaps that was because we didn't have any pagans this time, but evil heretics. Rush! Fetch wood and torches! Burn them all! I really don't get it, why a person who is surprisingly open-minded for her time when it comes to other beliefs, suddenly feels terribly guilty for not telling Evil!Cliche!Priest that she knows that there is a heretic in the hospital-ward of the monastery. Oh, I didn't mention Evil!Cliche!Priest. Every historic novel-series needs a priest, who believes that already thoughts about anything the bible forbids is punished wit eternal purgatory. And it's really bad luck for the poor heretics that they always appear in the same book as these evil priests. And it's bad luck for the evil priests, that they never survive the first half of the book. This one is killed by one of the forrest people (a women who once slept with Sir Josse and got pregnant). Yes, the forest-people apear again in this novel! (And they have lots of rituals involving sex).
In the next book we learn something new about Helewise, the earlier books already told us, that she didn't join the monastery as young girl, but only after her husband died and that they had two sons. Now we also learn that Helewise had the rare luck to marry a man she actually loved (and who loved her), besides we learn that Helewise and Ivo:
- had sex before they were married (once...on Belthaine)
- had lots of sex when they were married
- had generally great sex
In fact half of the book are Flashbacks of Helewise about her time with Ivo.
Actually I think that the idea of writing books about someone in a monastery who 'has a past' isn't that bad (well, actually Cadfael had a past, too, but it never came out that much), but I really don't need that...

*is now going to read either the new Jasper Fforde, she already got for christmas, the cozy-knitting-mystery or just listen to one of her ???-audio-books, simply anything where she can be sure that it involves neither sex any paganism, something she actually expected from stories set in a monastery*

There is a Dresden China elegance, daintiness and precision about the work of John Greenwood - who delivers witticisms in a way that says 'Have I been clever!' instead of  'How clever I am.'

I might repeat myself but WTF? You couldn't have said this in a more confusing way, could you?
I'm writing my term-paper for university. It's about different adaptions of The Importance of Being Earnest in stage and screen, and I quote a lot of reviews for it, write who played which role and if the critics considered it good or bad.
This is one of the reviews, and it's not the only one I have to stop and think about what the writer actually meant by writing it. It's so *gnaaaaaaa*. Couldn't they have written it more clearly? I'm so fed up with guessing what they wanted to say.

This year there will be elections in Bavaria, and of course the different parties are running campaigns to make us vote them. That's not really something new. And it's also nothing new, that these campaigns and spots are sometimes a bit riddicoulus. Well A Bit, but usually not like this:

It's a song, made by/for/whatever the ruling bavarian party (they're ruling aproximately since 500 years)  and it's just...stupid? embarrassing? bad? making me wish I wasn't from bavaria? Propably everything.
(Believe me: if you don't understand German you simply don't whant to know what the lyrics mean, Goethe and Schiller are propably just rotating in their graves because of what these people did to the German language).

It actually took me 1 1/2 season of E.R. to notice that the guy who plays Dr. Gates is the same one who played Jesse in Full House, a series which I loved when I was younger and watched over and over.

This is not a random combination of consonants, no it's a correct Czech sentence. OK, translated it means something like 'Put your finger through your throat' which is hardly a sentence you have to use very often but it's still a correct sentence, without any vowels. I mean I've nothing against consonants...but some vowels in a sentence are just nice, it is really helpfull, when you try to pronounce something.
Could somebody just explain to me again, why I want to learn this language?
Propably it's because I need this thing called 'Fachübergreifende Kompetenzen' for university and somehow I think learning a language is more usefull than something else and Czech was the only course with free spaces Ok, somehow I really like it, the teacher is really nice, I've discovered, that I haven't forgotten all Russian I learned at school (which is a bit weird, as I start using czech words with russian endings *lol*) and the language isn't that difficult..well except for that lack of vowels. I really like vowels *sighs*

Some days ago I watched  "Dharma & Greg"-episodues, I admit I only started watching this series, because of Thomas Gibson :roll: usually I'm not really in that comedy-stuff, but I somehow like "Dharma & Greg", it's better than most of the comedy-series when I was younger (OK, except "Mein Laben und ich" a great german series, but back to topic). So I was talking with my mother about it
She: And what's this series called
Me: Dharma & Greg, an American comedy...and I only watch it becuase of Thomas Gibson.
She: Who?
Me: The guy who plays Hotch in Criminal Minds
She: You mean...he can actually be funny?

(Yes it's thursday over here)

originally from LJ

1. My username is ______ because ______.

black_cat_aoife, because aoife was already taken and I didn't want something like aoife_87 or aoife_812. The 'black_cat' is -hm- a tribute to one of my favourite bands, they're called 'An Cat Dubh' which is irish-gaelic for 'The black cat'

2. My name is _____ because ______.

Well, Eva, ask my parents why ;)

3. My journal is titled ____ because ____.

Decent as starched white Lace, a line from a song (by An Cat Dubh by the way ^^), you can see the lyrics on the right. I really like them as it sometimes also fits for me ;)


4. My friends page is called ____ because ____.

Life of the others, because of the German movie 'Das Leben der Anderen' (great movie about GDR/Stasi, so different than other movies about the same themes), I liked the movie and somehow I think it fits also for my friends-page, because that's what it is ^^

5. My default userpic is ____ because ____.

A Quote from Dexter, because I love this show, and this quote is so funny ^^


6) My IJ name (you know how you can change that sort of sub-name thing?) is:


aoife, becauseit's my standard-nick on the internet. It's just the gaelic form of my real name (and by the way it's pronounced Eefa), and as already mentioned I love Ireland ^^.

I. Loved. The. Latest. Criminal Minds. Episode.
Rossi finally showed some feelings (more than just some, actually), Reid talking so long to a serial-killer, that he forgets, that he wanted to kill Hotch and Reid and finally Garcia and Xander Kevin, they're so cute :D.
And Prentiss new haircut is gorgeos, I nearly didn't recognise her.

OK, I manly want to try how this layout works with youtube-videos
3...2...1...TEST

Oh I love this series, I think it was once of the first ones I watched. My parents always liked it and so they showed it to me and I *sighs* oh it's so cool

I'm just reading an amazing book about the history of forensic science (it's german: Das Zeichen des Kain by Jürgen Thorwald). It starts with the 'Bertillionage', where several parts of the body of criminals were measured, as two people never have the exact same measures in all body-parts it helped to discover if a criminal just used a new name, when he was convicted and claimed that he had never commited a crime before. But you couldn't proof if a suspect was at the crime-scene or not with this. This changed around 1900, when the finger-prints were discovered. OK, actually they were discovered already a few years earlier, and a few people also noticed the importance of it and the possibilities that lay within but not many people believed them. Only in 1901 the first crime was solved with the help of a bloody fingerprint the murder left at the scene. It was in...guess - - - Argenitinia . I wouldn't have thought that! And well, soon after the importance of prints was also noticed in other South-Amerivan countries and a few years later finally also in the rest of the world.
It's really crazy, about 100 years ago fingerprints were the only way to connect a suspect with a crime-scene, OK another possibility were eye-whitnesses but you couldn't always rely on them. And today? We've not only fingerprints but also DNA and it is possible to find bloodspattrs you can't see with your eye. 100 years and the science made such huge progress (and not only in forensic scence but everywhere). And: 150 , 200, 300 years ago, in the middle-ages... you had nothing, people who investigated murders, robberies, thefts... had to hope for eye-whitnesses or that the suspects accidentialy blabed. I think today nobody can really imagine that.

OK End of Geek-Post

I really like this layout, but it wouldbe even cooler if you could see the userpics already on the front-page. Yes I know, it's not really important, but I like my userpics *lol*. But till now I haven't found another layout I like *sighs* there aren't many LJ/IJ-Layouts out there, and the ones I find are mostly ugly (or about some manga/anime-stuff I don't know). Perhaps I try one with my own header...

I could post in english in this journal. After all here aren't that many users who speak German, yet. And due to the fact, that I study English, understand English quite well, read a lot of English books, and know words some natives never heard of but am totally lost when I have to express myself it would be a quite good practise.

is 'Am I or the others crazy?' (Albert Einstein, es geht doch nichts über Criminal Minds-Folgen um seine Zitate-Kentnisse aufzufrischen).

OK. Momentan vermute ich fast, dass ich die Verrückte bin. Seit einiger Zeit neige ich dazu allen möglichen Dingen Namen zu geben. Ja. Dingen. Meine Tin Whistle heißt seit neusten Kelly, meine Barockflöte Penny (und beide sind krank *schnief* klingen auf einmal so komisch, hoffe das gründliche Saubermachen hat geholfen) und ich überlege jetzt schon länger ernsthaft meine heute Nachmittag endlich fertiggestellte Tasche auch einen Namen zu geben. Irgendeinen Frauennamen aus einem Buch vieleicht. Mir spukt Kai Meyer so im Kopf herum. Saga vieleicht, oder Merle...
OK, ich glaube ich bin tatsächlich ein bisschen gestört.

Jetzt bin ich also hier auch noch. Blog Nummer wieviel? Community Nummer wieviel. Ich mags gar nicht wissen. Naja, jetzt bin ich halt auch noch hier.