therapie am dach

loving tuesdays! Because on Tuesday we have class until 2 in the philosophy building (i.e. NIG) which also houses the large and not bad mensa ... thus some of us afterwards have lunch together which is always very very nice and then coffee at the PI cafe on the top floor. And today Azadeh totally freaked out because there was a dog and everyone started to tell her that he is a good harmless cutie - will ja nur spielen - or not even that much, but she still kept getting more panicky and all and I rescued her because i sooo know that feeling from my little bird-issue.... so we escaped onto the roof (an move appreciated esp. by the smokers in the group) and there I defended Azadeh and of course started relating my little birdy-issues and the pigeon incident of last April when I ended up shivering and all teary clutching a cup of tea and no coat at 11 pm in front of our house.... triggering, I suppose, all sorts of abused-woman-ideas in passers by and breaking down when the waitresses from the cafe asked what had happened and between sobs I coughed 'there ... is a... bird in ... my room....' Stefan then bravely (and delivered by sports car) came to the rescue, of course!
Anyway, I think people from my class are slowly starting to 'get me' - i.e. get the idea that I might possibly be a tiny bit weird ... maybe I should for once start talking about myself a little less and keep some of those stories for later times ...
And again no Literature Seminar this week - although my own paper would have been discussed tomorrow - as not only members of the group but also the teacher is ill .... better for me because this way I hope Yuliya will also be there next week and give her input which I am very much looking forward to.
thus just more reading time for Thursday which will likely bring a boring class on American Exceptionalism - at least if I judge by the bits i read so far - we will talk about the 'objectivity' and 'memory' of 'history' which is fine but was already to some extend covered last week ... and identity questions (Hall, Butler, Fluck) for the culture class which I hope will again prove to be very dense and interesting ... but unfortunately two of the texts are not yet available... so I will either have to read them from screen or go some place for the printing tomorrow as i will not be in the Villa.... oh poor me, so much difficulties ;) I love it when life's biggest problem is the immediate access to free printing...
Although ... the front tire of my bike is airless - AGAIN - the third time in a month (2 weeks of which the bike was in the shop over christmas break) and always in the morning, i.e. in front of the house - thus I start getting paranoid and suspecting one of my neighbors of sabotaging it ... I will pump it up again, if the air fails again, will check the tire myself for possibly some hidden spike that is in the outer part and ruining any new tube I had put in and will store the bike in the back yard. If the pattern continues, I suppose I will then have to choose a different path of action...