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Reading
Happily, my love for reading seems to have been rekindled. This is what I put my reading glasses on for these days:
- „Science of Discworld“ IV by Terry Pratchett et al.
- my backlog of short stories at deadlinesforwriters
Listening
- „Saving Us“ by Katherine Hayhoe on Bookbeat
- Yugen Blakrok
- „Good Boy“ (YouTube) by Paris Paloma
- lots of podcasts including „What’s Her Name?“ by Katie Nelson and Olivia Meikle
- all the concerts that I did not get around to see in Wacken, thanks to Magenta
Watching
- „Andor“ Season 1, again, to prepare for Season 2
- my various YouTube watchlists with the literally hundreds of videos I used to save „for later“
- Still loving the videos by @hairforhumans. I had a few frustrating experiences myself, so seeing him ask all those thought questions before cutting into peoples hair and giving them what they want not he would prefer is so wholesome 🙂
Now Working On
- improving the accessibility of my webpage, even though I’m not required to, legally.
- blogging more and more regularly in English
- checking and reparing broken links on my webpage, there are so many, still at it
- enjoying a full but not overfull timetable with my students
- learning WordPress properly
Now Doing
- watching my ToDo-list melt away while racking up experience points in Habitica
- upping up my French lessons on Duolingo to be able to follow this fascinating YouTube channel called Mathémusique
- also now doing the Chess and Latin courses on Duolingo, somebody help me
- drawing a Zentangle each day for Inktober 25
My latest blog posts in English:
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Story Challenge September 2025 – Cup and Saucer
My contribution to the Story Challenge September 2025: Jenny’s teammate pushes all the wrong buttons, some of them literally.
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Story Challenge August 2025 – What Does It Mean?
Deadlinesforwriters short story challenge August 2025: Being the village’s wise woman sometimes requires you to make difficult decisions.
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Story Challenge July 2025 – Loyal
My contribution to the deadlinesforwriters short story challenge July 25: Sometimes people change. And sometimes this is hard for others to accept. In the end, Stella has nothing to do with Tom’s problem and neither does the chocolate cake.
Now Page Last Updated: 16.10.2025