With my only 21 years of age, I have traveled alot. Once a year at least. And still the question always arises again: how do I pack, as little as possible, but as much as is necessary, in order to not stand without X or Y in another city? The check-list is written, although not in any thematic order. But how am I supposed to get all that into a small, but very fine, bag? Do I really need everything? More importantly: did I really not forget anything?

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What would Bryan Adams possibly say to this ad? Thank you to my personal blog helper and best friend Simon for sharing this discovery.

Time. Every individual has the same amount of hours and minutes daily. And still, every one of them uses this time differently.

Some wake up early on their own, make coffee, have breakfast and make a list, what one has to do throughout the day. Those things are then done one by one, lunch is eaten and then the to-do-list is worked off further until the early evening. Then there is time for anything, whatever one wants to do. A stirdy, eight to nine hour sleep ends the day.

Others however also get up relatively early. Breakfast and coffee also are made. But there is no list. At least not a specific one. Things are done, many thousand other little things are done in between, which are not that important, the important ones are shuffled off. Latter pester one in the head until the pressure is just too huge. They then need to be done (often it has something to do with studying/work or something boring) and it does not happen seldom that it will be a long night. With a little less sleep.

And again there are others, who sleep long. Really long. Breakfast turns into lunch or it is not eaten at all. The morning, no the afternoon, begins with coffee. Lots of coffee. Because it is a different take of the day when one’s day begins in the afternoon. A lot should be done. Should. But still half asleep things are done, which should only be done, once everything what is important is done. Therefore everything is delayed into the night; prior to 4 or 5 a.m. one does not lay into bed. And in the end, not much has been done. Or sometimes maybe even nothing at all. The rest was somehow more interesting.

Which of these types I am – there are definitely also mixed forms – I am, can be guessed. But with what I will be spending my next days, one can define once one saw my purchase from yesterday:

10:25 p.m. Brush teeth. Lay into bed.

10:35 p.m. Not really tired yet. New night stand lamp on. Reading a few pages.

11:15 p.m. New night stand lamp off. Eyes shut.

11:17 p.m. It’s warm. Turn. Roll over. Eyes open. Eyes shut.

approx. 01:30 a.m. Eyes open. Still warm. Right ear hurts again. Awake.

02:14 a.m. Thought: You need to sleep. Eyes shut.

approx. 06:00 a.m. Eyes open. Bright. Tired.

06:10 a.m. (buzzing coffee maker)…

(picture source: ikea.de)

Never in my life did I think I would list him (or anyone else from the show) in my weekly post for my song of the week. But after hearing him live in an unplugged session, my mind definitely changed. He has an incredible nice, mellow but also strong voice, which really grabs you. And he made my train trips to university this week far more pleasant. Please, don’t get yourself freaked out by his, let’s say, individual style ;)

This week (04/12 – 18) I listened to Adam Lambert’s “Whataya Want From Me” about five times (*click*).

This week I re-discovered Robbie Williams for myself. I have all his albums in my CD rack (except his recent one), but for some reason I don’t listen to him that often. He doesn’t have the best voice in the world, but he does have something unique in it. And his “I don’t give a “*%#!” – attitude makes him very likable. Simply also because he is that way, although being one of the best-selling artists ever!

This week (03.01 – 07) I listened to Robbie Williams’ “Let Me Entertain You” three times (*click*).

If you leave out the music I listen to while I work at the radio station, I don’t really have much time to listen to any other new music. This time I also don’t know the exact number of times I listened to this song, since I can’t scrobble the radio station, but I felt like they played the song around 10 times within 5 days. And that doesn’t make the song any better…

This week (02.22 – 28) I listened to Ke$ha’s “Tik Tok” around 8-10 times (*click*).

In my first week of my internship, I was able to also write my first band profile. In order to get into writing it, I listened to the whole album several times while researching the band. And of course this is how this week’s song of the week developed. The album I’m talking about is ‘Ocean Eyes’ by the Rock-Pop band ‘Owl City’. They have been only slowly started to become successful over here in Germany – from what I read they made it in the US last year already. Anyways, they are worth a listen. Especially because I think many of the songs on the album are a nice introduction to the beginning of spring…!

This week (15 – 21 Feb) I listened to “Fireflies” by Owl City four times (*click*).

This week I finally tested listening to music on my cellphone (Nokia 5800 Xpress Music) and I have to say that I am thrilled! The quality is pretty good and now my train, bus and other trips will be more enjoyable. Luckily the installation of the last.fm scrobbler was easy too, so that when I now connect my cellphone to my mac, it will transfer the data onto my online music library. That way I definitely know, how much I listen to what music. And this leads me to this week’s most listened song. This time it is by a woman – Michelle Branch. I like to listen to her music once in a while; this week it was probably because I just put the first songs I came across on my cellphone to test it. This song is one of her more slow ones, but I think the lyrics are very emotional.

This week (08 – 14 Feb.) I listened to ”Goodbye To You” by Michelle Branch six times (*click*).

It is exactly one month ago that I did my first typing speed test. Let’s see if I improved:

You type 385 characters per minute
You have 74 correct words and
you have 0 wrong words

74 words

That is one word and three characters per minute more than last month. Not a great improvement, but maybe next month…?