24 Minutes until Camp Nanowrimo begins

Last entry before Camp Nanowrimo starts. I can't wait. Will get everything ready so that I can start to write at midnight!

It's so easy to say... no?

Say you have the option to earn at least 10, with some effort 100 and if you are really good and what you made is chosen up to 600 Euros. What would you do?
In an ideal world put some effort in it and get at least 100 Euros and dance around happily. Save it up for a possible semester abroad which you are actually thinking about. And dance around a bit more.
But nope we do not live in an ideal world and as it is most of the time it is not a question of having money that would make your life so much easier, it's a question of moral integrity.
It would be very easy to walk away not even considering it a opportunity at all because it just isn't, but then again it is a assignment for a course I'm currently taking at university.
So instead of just saying no you have to at least think about the options.

And so here I present you the options and their lovely consequences:

a) Do nothing. Ignore assignment. Live with maybe not getting an A. Also: Maybe I did enough already and it is an A anyway.

b) Explain why I refuse to participate in said assignment. (Which as you may have figured out already is a challenge.) Offer to do something else. I see that totally working plus giving the professor necessary information to maybe change his own mind.

c) Do as told. And do it badly. No one will want my work anyway.

d) Do as told and cry at night and complain how very unfair everything is but it is just the way it is. (Totally Austrian thing to do. *wink* at my "employer" at the Austrian Tourist Office)

e) Make the assignment in a way that it is critique. Downside: I have yet to find out if they could just use the concept and thereby ridicule my effort to tell them off.

f) Organize a protest instead of making the assignment.

And now to add some additional sugar (which we know is addictive and very very bad for you:

The whole point of the assignment is to motivate girls for science. They can even win a internship and science training or stuff like that. And now you do ask where they will have their internship.

Oh yes you clever claus you totally got it.

Motivate for something good to do something bad or at least be indoctrinated by someone who you don't want to work with in the first place.
So yes, it is so easy to say no.
It was never easy to make money, was it? I prefer hours of cleaning because believe me it gets less dirt on my hands.

NaNaWriMo

In 24 hours I will start to write on my Camp Nanowrimo Novel. I can't wait. Finally! I'll spend tomorrow reading all my notes and stuff and preparing. Yeah... and there was also discrete math, which I do find very interesting. I have to make room for both!

Try a different angle then to get the point

"I think it's triangles." "Triangles? What exactly is that supposed to mean?" "You know just about everything." "So, like the world is built out of triangles?" "Mhm." "What kind of triangles?" "You know, just triangles." "Yeah, but you do know the come in different shapes and sizes?" "See, that's the problem. It's just triangles." "Triangles." "Like Try Angles." "And what angle do you want me to try?" "The full rotation of course." "So where's my triangle when I do that?" "You are honestly asking me this?" "I guess I am." "Just look. It's about everywhere." "While I'm rotating." "Exactly." "So you agree there may be different shapes after all." "No it's just triangles. Reshaping." "So they have different shapes." "No, they have just one shape." "And that shape is all the shapes?" "I guess you could call it that." "You are just crazy." "Me? I wasn't the one who did a full rotation to try see it from a different angle." "Just shut up." Silence. "You know, I don't think there is something like a circle." "Surprisingly I think now you do have a point."

CampNaNoWriMo will start soon!

So I guess for this months I should probably write in English. Not that I actually expect anyone to read what I write here, but then again you never know, so just in case. I'm excited! I wish I could start with the story this moment, but then again I was glad to have a few days left to get a lot of stuff done. But I'm starting to realize it is almost impossible to finish all I wanted to finish before the challenge starts. Here is an excerpt (!) of my lovely to do list: - weekly assignments for discrete maths (we got the next two in advance so it just seems to be perfect. i could do this in time, right? RIGHT???) - refresh my knowledge about thermal radiation until Thursday for an in class assignment (could be embarrassing just sitting there without knowing what to do...) - draw my little ponies for a "flatmate wanted ad" - read a book that my brother should read for school and write a summary (just to let you know the whole situation is thought through not only by my brother and me, but my parents and several other family members, so just trust me, you need not say he should do it himself - the book is interesting anyway) - spring-cleaning (since one flatmate is moving out and hopefully another in it is necessary) - start with my work for the summer next week and I suppose there where about a million other things to do, mainly for university, but enough for now, you have an idea now of what I will do until Friday My plan for Thursday: Stay up late, start writing at midnight. Write for at least one hour. After sleeping I have about 2 hours in the morning. And then hopefully some more at night. And how are you going to spend the last few days before every day brings you closer to the Last-Days-of-June-I-still-haven't-wrote-50k-madness?