Um dieser Sensibilität mancher Menschen näher zu kommen, will sich Erika erst einmal informieren, was da überhaupt dahintersteckt. Mit Büchern zum Beispiel. Und sie liest, dass wohl etwa 15-20 Prozent der Bevölkerung aufgrund ihrer neurologischen Besonderheiten deutlich sensibler sind als andere. Und zwar Männer und Frauen gleichhäufig.
“Sensibel” zu sein, heißt dabei, dass man in der gleichen Zeit mehr Informationen aus der Umwelt/von anderen Menschen wahrnimmt, aufnimmt und damit auch wesentlich mehr verarbeiten, einordnen, in Zusammenhang bringen bzw. ignorieren muss. Also ein enorm großer Arbeitsaufwand. Kein Wunder, dass sich sensible Menschen in Menschenmengen oder größeren Gruppen unwohl fühlen – so viele Stimmungen und Gefühle, die da zusammenkommen. Und ein einziger intensiver Eindruck kann eben mal locker ein paar Wochen dauern, bis er vollständig verarbeitet ist, weil eben nicht nur der Inhalt aufgenommen wird, sondern nebenbei noch viele weitere Informationen. Und diese dann in stillen Momenten hervorgeholt und durchgedacht und reflektiert, bis eine plausible Lösung, Deutung gefunden ist.
Ein Leben am Rande der ständigen Überstimulation. Und damit die Gefahr, emotional und körperlich häufig an den Rand der Kräfte zu gelangen.

In der Literatur findet Erika auch, dass (Hoch-)Sensibilität nicht als Krankheit  gesehen wird. Doch im Gespräch mit Menschen, die sie besonders sensibel einschätzt, wird es sehr stark als Last, als Problem gesehen. Und sicherlich entstehen daraus Schwierigkeiten, doch weiß man einmal um die Ursachen, kann viel besser damit umgegangen werden. Und es können auch die enormen Potentiale genutzt werden, überlegt Erika. “Denn es werden in dieser Welt doch keine harten Herzen gebraucht.“

Über die Schwierigkeiten, die gesellschaftlichen Vorurteile und auf der anderen Seite die enorme Wichtigkeit dieser Eigenschaft, will sich Erika erstmal noch mit dem einen oder anderen unterhalten…

Fortsetzung folgt…

Transliteration

nee, kikoeru? kono koe ga
furitsudzuku you ni kimi ni made tooku todoku kana?

mou ano basho ni wa kaerenai
kaze ni kieru negai

kimi ga iru dake de boku wa toberu yo
hikarisasu basho e dokomademo
tsunaide itai tsunaide itai
mada aenakutemo
inori nagara hibikiwataru sora e

aa koko kara kakedaseru chikara ga hoshii yo
tenohira no mirai sore dake de

ushinatte kita mono te ni shita mono
zenbu daite hashiru

kotae ga aru kara ima o ikiteru
mamoritai mono ga koko ni aru
tatoe ima ga kioku no naka kara kiesattemo
kimi no koto o koko de oboeteru yo…

itsuka deau hi ga kite
sono te ni furerareru no nara
yasashiku kono te o nigiri kaeshite yo

kimi ga iru dake de boku wa toberu yo
kienai itami nara sono mama de
tsunaide itai tsunaide itai itsuka aemasu you ni
inori nagara hibikiwataru koe de

I Wanna be free…

Translation

Hey, can you hear it? This voice
Will it reach far off to you, like it’s continuing to rain

I can no longer return to that place
I wish I could disappear in the wind

With just your being here, I can fly
To the a sunlit place, no matter how far away
I want to get there, I want to get there
If I still can’t meet you
As I pray, it will resound to the sky

Ah, I want the power to run from here
All I have is the future in my palm

The things I lost, the things I gained
I’ll run, holding onto all of them

Because there’s an answer, I’m living now
The things I want to protect are here
Even if this moment disappears from my memory
I’ll be here thinking of you…

Someday there will come a day we can meet
If I can be touched by that hand
Hold my hand gently again

With just your being here, I can fly
If there’s a pain that won’t disappear like that
I want to get there, I want to get there, I wish we’ll meet
As I pray, it will resound with my voice

I wanna be free…

Hello all! Well, today is the day that we are supposed to all join around a big nice table (sorry that we’re sitting around my coffee table… I only own one chair) and say what we are each thankful for.  Well, of course we’re all gonna say health and love and money…. And doesn’t that just sound like a phone-a-psychic commercial?  But, it’s true.  We’re supposed to be thankful for all that plus family and non-crazy pets, and less crazy neighbors, but this year I am thankful for so much more.  This is the year that I met my people.  I had no clue that you guys were out there and I am so happy that I met you.

When I first noticed the Twilight series it wasn’t due to a 14 year old teeny bopper gush-a-gooing about it.  No… It was because my Entertainment Weekly had a pic of this sparkle dude dancing with this chick and I just had to figure out what it meant.  So, I pop the mag rag open and take a looksy.  Well, guess what?  I had no clue what the hell I was reading and why on earth EW was gushing.  So, I did what any logical cheap-skate like myself would do.  I hopped on the interweb, went to the library’s website, and signed up to request this mysterious book called “Twilight”.  WOW!! There were like 80 requests on this one book.  That fascinated me.  SO, I took the next logical step…. I bought it off Amazon for under $7! SCORE!  The book arrived to me within 2 weeks and I kept it in my closet for another whole week.  I just didn’t know what on earth I actually had in my procession.  After that week I picked it up and omg I was blown AWAY! I tore through that thing like a cat on a leather couch.  It was awesome!!  This was the first time that I frightened the hubz.

So, more days went and I got the following two books from the library.  After reading them I got on the waiting list for “Breaking Dawn”.  Peoples! It is now late August and ummm… yeah…. I can’t fathom why there were like a zillion holds on that one little book.  OH RIGHT! It just came out.  My hubz told me to wait but I was starting to show withdrawal symptoms.  I needed that book.  So, what did I do?  I soo shocked myself! I went out and BOUGHT it! Yes yes…. I know…. It seems rather silly because why wouldn’t I want to own it?  Well, you see… I had no idea how deep into Twilight I really was.

I soon acquired “New Moon “through a tack on bonus from Amazon to get an order up to $25. 

Then the MOVIE came out.  Sweet ZOMBIE Jeebus!! The MOOBIE came out!! EEEEEEEE!!  Well, I was the only one that I even knew of that had read all four books and was excited.  I am sad to say that the first time I went to the movie was by myself.  YUP YUP! I was actually there an hour early and alone in the theater for at least 30 minutes of that time.  I remember counting all the rows in the theater, then all the seats in that row, and finding the dead center.  I then was greeted by a very interesting crowd.  There were the teeny boppers who kept taking pictures of themselves with their stupid Daddy-Bought Camera phones; there were a couple of elderly couples — WITH HUBZ! — and then there were people like me who sat alone and stared at the flickering screen.  WOW!! There were more of me out there and all I could think about was sitting next to them and squeezing their hands while we squealed.  Well, you have to understand that I was new to this Twilight concept and told myself that probably would have been inappropriate.  Boy… was I wrong.

Over New Years of 08 my FAM and I went up to Kentucky to spend it with my bestie, Erika (yup! That’s where I get my Twitter name from lol).  She gave me “Eclipse” for Christmas and told me she didn’t want me to wait around for it to come out in paperback like I was doing. (yes… I know.. I am that cheap lol).  On a previous visit, I had loaned her my “Twilight” book and pretty much FORCED her into reading it.  “You loaned it to her,” you gasp.  Yes in-deedy-do! I did I did and I went without that book for nearly four months!! Talk about withdrawal!  But it was for a good cause.  You see… I wanted to be able to watch the movie with someone who understood and hold their hand and squeal.  This is exactly what we did!!

On New Year’s Day we went to a theater and boy was it packed!! Not a seat left in the house.  We grabbed two seats right next to each other and squealed like little baby pigs.  We even got scolded by a manager for being too loud.  US!! We were the only girlies in there that got lectured!! He told us if we didn’t quiet down and let the other customers enjoy the film then he would have to remove us.  WHAT?!! IS he kidding me?  This was Twilight! We’re supposed to squeal!  So, we shook our heads and watched the kill joy leave the theater and started right back up.  I can’t imagine that we were being that loud.  Ok… I can imagine, but you know as well as me, that I was NOT the only one out there getting loud!!

After that my bud Stacy introduced me to a group called OME.  With Stacy, I learned that there were a ton of housewives, mothers, and over thirty-somethings out there that were just as die-hard about Twilight as I was.  I started making my Twibites, then.  YUP! That was the birth of Twibite   That is also when I ran across someone that we all know and love but with a different name.  She was looking for a beta to read her story called “Breathe Me”.  Oh crap! Did I give it away?  Do you know who I am talking about?  Well, I had been reading this other vampire story that another girly was writing and I decided that I could do another.  WOW! I was sucked in.  This was my first fan fic ever and I was granted the responsibility to beta it.  I was in aww!!  Well, I at the time was a Moonlight virgin and over time I had to buy that series (you go out now and buy it!! I command you!!).

Soon after that I got to meet this mystery girl who wrote “Breathe Me” and a couple of the other Alabama OME girls.  Stacy set up a Meet-and-Greet to go see Harry Potter.  That was the highlight of my July!  I felt like a 12 year old girl with all these Twi-hards.  It was awesome!! Stacy, Fragile, her SIL, and I stayed the longest and gush-a-dee-gush-gush… four friendships were quickly sparked!!

After that week I started reading “Wide Awake”, as suggested by Fragile, and started following this super-secret Twilight blog that apparently wanted to stay hidden lol!!  OMG! I was sucked in!! That was my second fan fic!! And boy oh boy… nom nom nom…. This was a side of Edward I had never seen before and I wanted more more more!  Sadly, my husband was on business trips for most of that time which left me extremely frustrated but extremely thankful when he came back.  This was the time when Fragile explained to me what lemons were.  Yup yup! Remember having that awkward talk with your parents about the birds and the bees?  Well, poor Fragile had to explain to me where exactly lemons came from lol!

After “Wide Awake” I got on to the Twitter.  Yuppers!  And from there is when I met you all.  The lovely world of chickies out there that share the same love for Twilight as me.  I learned that I am NOT the biggest fan! Far from it!! I also learned that a lot of you share the same twisted humor as I do and think my little DOMO Edward is cute. Awww!! But mostly, I learned that I am not an obsessive freak and I am not the only grown woman out there that dreams about a 17 year old boy

SO, this Thanksgiving… I am thankful for all that Phone-a-Psychic mumbo jumbo but I am also thankful for my new family.  The family I type to every Friday night and squeal la da dee about sparkles, lemons, and this dude named Rob.

Thanks again chickies!! I am so Happy that I found ya

Jo det stämmer nog. Efter 2 dagars konstig influensa är jag helt klart på väg att förlora statusen som tropisk storm. Hoppas gå upp i vindstyrka snart igen dock, det är alldeles för trist att vara hemma i soffan hela dagarna.

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I was only in North Carolina for a quick 48 hours, but it was still so fun to catch up and hang out and chat too. We had a few more adventures that included a stop in Dunkin Donuts! MMmm Had to have my DD Fix!

We also got shakes at Chick Filet (OMG Ice Cream HEAVEN!)

We had an awesome lunch in downtown Raleigh at The Mellow Mushroom! I had an awesome Avocado Melt!

And of course, we spent plenty of time hanging out with the kids dogs.

Thanks for an AWESOME weekend Erika!!!!!

We also ventured off to Duke University’s Campus. It was GORGEOUS!!! We loved it! We just walked around and imagined what it must be like to go to school there. It looked like a movie set. A Hogwartz perhaps? So unreal. 

Check out these awesome rocking chairs… perfect for studying! They looked so comfy!

I LOOVED the leaves! Look how orange and Crunchy!

A Mini Photoshoot with Timmy and Erika!

Reese is going to apply to Duke when she’s out of High School.

Check out these Benches!!!!

In my next life, I’m totally going to Duke. So awesome!!

I went to North Carolina this weekend to visit my friend Erika and her husband Timmy. It was so great seeing them and their family. Even though I only see Erika once or twice a year, it’s always like no time at all has passed when we’re together. She just cracks me up. Thanks for a great weekend!!

I was only there for 48 hours, so we made the most of our time there. It was an awesome balance of conversation,exploring and enjoying the east coast fall weather. 

On Saturday, we went to the North Carolina Zoo!

 

Lions!

Zebras!
Gorillas!
Polar Bear! (I love his reflection in the water!
Bald Eagle. It was actually pretty cool to see one this close. I felt so American!

The Sea Otters…. so sleepy!
How awesome is this fall scenery?
 

I’ve waited my whole life to see a Venus Flytrap!!!!

Bobcat!

These Orange Pine Needles remind me of building forts at home!

A Polar Bear? Poor Guy. He was totally out of place here. I kinda felt bad. He looked so sad and lonely. And for the record, mud is NOT the same as snow. He needs a bath!

Long lost friends! Together at last!

A Lion!

Gorilla… an ANGRY gorilla!

Where are the Elephants?

There they are!

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Enjoy!  :p

Erika Garcia 1.

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[Ed. Note-- Hello monsters! Please welcome our staff blogger Erika into your monster clique. She will be recapping Glee for us every week. SPOILER ALERT, duh. Presented is her recap of last week's show. Season 1, Episode 9: "Wheels"]

Last week: No… Glee… again…

Week before last: Our beloved Gleeks took a field trip to the World Series

Week before the week before last: Music solves everything until Sue gets ditched by her anchorman love and everyone gets slushied.

So! This week:

The Cheerios, sans Quinn, are hard at work on their new jump rope number. The fallen cheering star sits in the bleachers, dejected. Finn asks her what’s wrong and she hands him a bill for $685.

"It's not like finding a job is hard in this economy, you useless poor. Unemployment in Ohio, which is where we are, is only 9.7%, down from its June peak of 11.2%! If only you weren't so stupid and lazy!"

Then, Fobray fans forgive me, she pulls the ultimate bitch and tears Finn’s head off. Because he totally got her knocked up. Oh wait, that was Puck. Sorry, I forget.

She leaves the auditorium, because being off the team sucks. What happened to all that Glee support?

The creepy J-fro guy is interviewing Sue about the Cheerios, specifically, Quinn’s departure. Sue explains why she can’t have a pregnant girl at nationals and then she steals his tape recorder.

"I'm taking your tape recorder, rube."

Meanwhile, Will is trying to convince Figgins to pay for the handicap-accessible bus required to take all the Glee members—Artie included—to sectionals. Once again, Figgins is pleading budgets. Will has to find the money to hire the bus. Sorry Will.

Quinn is still getting doctor’s bills. And she’s still gnawing at Finn. Maybe she needs a new chew toy or something like that to cheer her up.

Will has the new song: “Defying Gravity” from Wicked. Kurt and Rachel are ecstatic, until Kurt finds out that he doesn’t have the chance to sing it. At least not the solo. Mercedes calls for a song suited to her “chocolate thunder.”

In more important news, Will has found the solution to the bus issue. Bake sale! Everyone, was flabbergasted at the school’s lack of funding, and they were quick to sink the holes in Will’s plan. It’s not that people have—in the words of Will—“stopped eating delicious, sugary treats.”

Brittany has something amazing to say about this:

“It’s not that… it’s most of us don’t know how to bake… I find… recipes confusing.”

And according to Finn, everyone is too busy with teen pregnancy. Artie gets put on the spot and he says it doesn’t bother him.

Cue Artie’s first solo song His version of Billy Idol’s “Dancing With Myself” is catchy, hip-swinging, and bouncy. He does some wicked wheelchair tricks down the hallway and we find out that he’s got a crush on Tina, who totally doesn’t notice him. Artie does some more really cool wheelchair tricks on the auditorium stage, where talent stalker Will watches him from behind the curtains.

Kurt asks to audition for the Defying Gravity solo. Will shoots him down and then admonishes the Gleeks for their treatment of Artie. Rachel says they didn’t think he’d take it personally, to which Artie replies, “You’re irritating most of the time, but don’t take that personally.” Good one, Artie.

So, in addition to the bake sale, the AV Club has wheelchairs for the rest of the Glee team  (what?). He also tells them: we’re doing a wheelchair number. Only in Glee.

Finn and Rachel figure out how much it sucks to be Artie in the lunch room and in the hallway. Finn takes some unnecessary hits to the head (seriously, guys, he can’t get much slower than he already is) and Rachel (initial victim of the slushies) becomes the first Gleek to be… mushroom-beef-noodled?

Ew

Meanwhile, Quinn and Puck are in the Home Ec room. Puck suavely hands her a whopping eighteen dollars. She hands it back and calls him an egg-head. When he denies this state of being, she fixes it with a literal egg to the head. Note: she looks happier here than she has at any other point in the series. They get into a cupcake ingredient fight and almost into what promised to be the possible beginning of a steamy make-out session when Finn walks in.

Sexy food fights, everyone has them.

“What the hell?” he says. I would have asked a few more questions, Finn.

In other news, Kurt is at his dad’s auto shop being spacey. His dad asks him what the problem is and Kurt spills about not getting to gender-bend the singing roles. At least they don’t have to worry about teen pregnancy. But Kurt’s dad finds this discrimination, despite his son being “as queer as a three dollar bill,” an outrage and goes to Figgins.

Will completely agrees. In the name of gender equality, the Glee club is having a Diva-off on who gets the solo. The judges? The rest of Glee club.

"It's on."

Rachel protests, as expected, and Kurt has everyone promise to vote for the person who sings the song better. Go Kurt. Rachel, as expected, is mad at Will for creating teaching moments that ruin her life. Has she not discovered that the world does not revolve around her? Her dramatic exit is hindered by the wheelchair, she smacks the doorframe on the way out.

Figgins is really happy about handicapping the Glee club. Will tells him about the lack of wheelchair ramps in the school. Sue, who is there for some reason, says they make people lazy. But Figgins has a different idea. Inspired by equal opportunity, he wants Sue to hold open tryouts for the Quinn’s slot in the Cheerios.

At lunch, the ‘cool kids’ are trying to sell cupcakes. Brittany lost her wheelchair and she’s hanging out with Becky, a mentally handicapped girl. [Ed. Note--Seriously, Brittany is so great. The Best.] Quinn manages to turn the lack of cupcake sales into another dig at Finn and his jobless state.

"Brittany's always cheating off her test papers."

On to Cheerio tryouts! Sue is confused, Will is supervising. Mercedes and Kurt try out: both are knocked down. They are followed by a couple on poorly choreographed girls, creepy Jacob, and Spiderman.

The last to be auditioned in Becky, who is trying to jump rope… badly. Sue stops her and the audience braces itself for one of her meanest, kitty-eating comments… that doesn’t happy. Becky is on the squad.

WHAT?!

Will feels the audience’s sentiments and immediately starts accusing her of less than noble intentions.

"What are you up to, sneaky person I do not trust?"

Finn and Puck are arguing about Quinn in the hallway, wheelchairs and all. In addition to calling his best friend stupid, Puck takes up on Quinn’s lead and starts getting on Finn’s back about his lack of job and baby money. To take care of a baby that’s not even his. They get into a minor bumper-wheelchair battle that turns into an all out brawl. Will breaks it up. Apparently Puck is just really stressed out about the bake sale.

At practice, Artie is trying to teach the club how to turn around in the wheelchair. Tina and Artie, alone, talk about why Artie is in a wheelchair. While a car accident has disabled his legs, he wants it clear that his penis is not incapacitated. D’oh!

Kurt is still practicing for the Diva-off. At the same time, his dad gets a phone call. The caller says “Your son’s a fag,” and hangs up. Kurt notices how agitated his dad is. Dad relays the phone call to his son and Kurt is left looking kind of guilty.

"Sorry Dad. Sorry for being who I am."

Finn and Rachel are in the rehearsal room and Finn is… fixing her wheelchair? Handyman Finn. Quinn storms in to ruin the fluffy, happy moment. Rachel attempts to flee, but fails because Hurricane Quinn needs a witness. She has a Past Due notice for Finn and hangs the future of their relationship over his head. He is devastated. However! Devious little Rachel has quite the plan.

Big (mind)wheels keep on turnin'

On a happier note, the bake sale is going well. Puck supplied the ‘recipe’ because he thought that the wheelchair bake sale was somehow going to give money to Quinn’s baby-fund. His secret ingredient? Marijuana.

"Just enough to give you a wicked case of the munchies."

Will is watching Sue tear at Becky while she learns to jump rope. He tries to confront her about the way she treats Becky. Sue tells him that he doesn’t know the first thing about her.

The Diva-off begins with Kurt who is… amazing. He is handing Rachel’s ass to her. [Ed. Note: I disagree. The song is in Rachel's is more in her "belting range" (whatever that is) and her voice sounds way stronger than Kurt's, whose falsetto I find offputting. Music! Art! Subjectivity!] Speaking of Rachel, we switch to her solo, and then it goes back and forth. They’re both belting it out. Chills. Chills. Chills. And then… Kurt fudges the note. He looks like he’s about to cry.

Looks like he fumbled the money note

Puck approaches Quinn in the hallway with a fistful of money. He then tries to convince Quinn that he’s the better choice. Quinn realizes that he stole the money from the bake sale. Bad Puck. She does the right thing and tells him to put it back. Good Quinn. Finn arrives on the scene and tells Quinn that he has a job and Rachel’s devious plan is revealed. I think the lines actually speak for themselves.

Rachel: Excuse me. Are you the manager?

Unsuspecting Businessman/Prey: Yes?

Rachel: You need to hire my friend Finn. He is clearly handicap able and refusing to hire him could be seen as discrimination. My dads are gay and unless you want the full force of the American Civil Liberties Union coming down on you, I’d work something out.

Bad Rachel. Bad Finn.

"Ain't I a stinker?" --Bugs Bunny

But this is a good thing and Finn even gives Quinn a lift to rehearsal… on his wheelchair. Puck is left alone. Poor Puck.

Thanks to Puck’s secret ingredient, Glee club has raised $1200 for the bus to sectionals. But, in a selfless act, Artie asks his fellow Gleeks if he could give the money to the school so a handicap ramp could be built in the auditorium. No one objects and you get this wonderful feel-good moment.

BUT!

Sue and her diabolical self just wrote Figgins a check for three new handicap ramps for the school. What?! Will is stumped and suggests that her erratic behavior is caused by a brain tumor.

Then we find out the Sue Sylvester is HUMAN. Jean, her older sister, has Downs Syndrome. I actually chocked up here. I couldn’t tell if it was from the shock or the tender moment.

We know what you're thinking. We're thinking it, too: "AWWW!"

Tina and Artie are on a date in the school hallway. Tina makes a move on Artie and then tells him that her stutter is faked. Artie gets really pissed and leaves her alone.

Kurt reveals that he blew the note on purpose, to lay low and minimize the painful calls for his dad. There’s a really touching father-son moment and I found myself tearing up again.

The show ends with the wheelchair number and Mercedes’ “chocolate thunder”. More chills. Artie, Mercedes, and Tina all have awesome solos. The song? The Creedence Clearwater Revival classic, “Proud Mary”.

"Chocolate thunder" is right.

Next Week: Instead of matching up based on music, the Gleeks will match up based on fate and Rachels gets over Finn to fall in love with… Will?

Enjoy yourselves first with the DVD caps here while I get the better quality ones from its Bluray version. I have also a thread for its picture drama HERE. Censored on the left and uncensored on the right.

Episode 8

Heute ist der 15. November und auch Erischkas Burtstag!
Erie hat zwar gerade kein Internet aber egal … xD

Sie ist 18 Jahre alt geworden und die Olle hat mein Geburtstags aber schon gestern aufgemacht!! xD
Naja egal,  hier ist es:

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Bonjour à vous,

oui je sais, ça fait un baille…
Est-ce le fait de s’habituer a la vie d’ici qui fait moins ecrire et communiquer aux autres ? Je ne pense pas, au vu de mes autres collegues toujours aussi prolixes, Cecile et Cedric en tete.
Dès que je trouve la raison qui va bien je vous la communiquerai… sur ce blog.

Rassurez-vous, depuis Juillet il s’est quand même passé un minimum de choses.
Le 31 arrivaient ma mère et mon beau-père pour 2 semaines, a la decouverte de l’Ouest. J’y consacrerai un autre article (si…) car ce fut un voyage riche en aventures !

Le jour de leur départ arrivait… mon matériel de mix DJ ! Table de mixage, platines CDs, Enceintes de monitoring… bref l’ideal pour ecouter de la musique et perfectionner mes techniques.
Techniques que j’aurai l’occasion d’eprouver lors d’une soirée Trance Psychedelique dans un bar le 21 octobre, grâce à la rencontre de DJs locaux.

Le week-end du Labor Day arrivant, me voici reparti avec Cédric à la découverte du Sud de la Californie. Un passage à San Diego pour 1.5 jours / 2 nuits, puis virée à Los Angeles ! Un bon petit week-end mémorable.

Hollywood et moi

Puis un pote de promo Miage (Gilles, si tu nous regardes) est venu visiter les environs et me faire un coucou, avant que nous partions ensemble pour le week-end du 19-20 septembre au festival Symbiosis, un des plus gros festivals électroniques des environs. La encore, un week-end memorable a ecouter des artistes que j’attendais depuis longtemps, et a retrouver des amis parcourant le monde.

De retour de ce week-end, je célebrais (interieurement) mes 4 ans de presence chez Yahoo!, le 21.

Quelques semaines apres, c’etait au tour de Yohan et Erika de finir leur periple ouest americain a San Francisco. Je me suis donc greffé a leur groupe pour pouvoir faire un tour de limousine et profiter d’un bon repas aux Joulins, restaurant Jazz bistro d’inspiration Française.

A j’oubliais, auparavant le 3 octobre j’ai assisté avec plusieurs collègues de boulot a la LoveFest, la LoveParade de San Francisco. Bonne journée, suivi d’une bonne petite soirée Trance Psy dans un club de la ville.

Puis vint la celebration des 40 ans de Woodstock au Golden Gate Park, et la celebration d’Halloween.
Vous le savez peut-etre, je ne suis pas tres interesse par cette coutume d’ordinaire. Mais cette année j’ai quand meme voulu tester ca d’un peu plus pres, donc je suis allé louer un costume et hop, c’est parti pour le week-end !
Vendredi soir, soirée au Ruby Skye avec notre ami Ferry Corsten, puis samedi soir, house party (soirée privée) en compagnie de mon pote Thomas.

Rajoutez a cela quelques week-end tranquilles a rattrapper du sommeil, d’autres a parcourir la ville ou bruncher, encore d’autres a…bosser (c’est arrivé une ou 2 fois), et vous aurez un bon petit aperçu de ces derniers mois !

Au programme de ces prochaines semaines, un repas de pre-Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving itself, Noel et pour finir l’année en beauté, un petit voyage au Brésil pour le festival Universo Paralello !
De quoi passer mon premier reveillon du Jour de l’An au soleil, a mixer sur la plage…

Vous l’aurez compris, je ne prevois pas de retour en France avant la fin de l’année et vous allez me manquer, mais je prévois ça pour 2010 à coup sûr.

Une dernière chose et non des moindres, c’est maintenant officiel le site de Yahoo! Grenoble est amené a fermer dans les prochains mois. Apres son inauguration en octobre 2008, le site avait d’abord vu une separation d’avec Kelkoo (vendu fin 2008 à un fonds d’investissement Anglais), puis une vague de licenciements due a une restructuration a l’echelle mondiale du groupe.
Malgré les efforts de mes talentueux collegues pour valoriser le site alors inauguré par le Ministre de l’Economie en personne, la nouvelle strategie aura donc eu raison du site et 78 employes a temps plein sont a reclasser. Qui sait, pour certains ce sera peut-être l’occasion de venir nous rejoindre outre Atlantique…
D’ici là, j’ai bien évidemment une pensée triste et nostalgique pour mes collègues, même si je suis sûr que la plupart d’entre eux sauront rebondir de belle manière.

På fullaste allvar möttes jag av detta scenario för en stund sen. What to do? De fick flytta på stegen helt enkelt.

Perfect timing. Chips and salsa. Dancers. Mesmerizing. Unfunny jokes. Talk. Work. Space. Cookies. Peer pressure. Edit.

Before I launch into this, I’d best explain. These next two weeks in English we’re studying poetry, so I figured I could get a little extra practice.

Flying like a bird
Skimming across hard concrete seas
Light and fast
Exhilarated
Breathing in the
Cleaving through the
Air
Blue sky above
Paradise, perhaps?
Graceful breeze flutters willow trees
And ripples glassy pools
Murky sunlit green
Dancing shadows latticed across the ground
And bright green blades of grass
Among daisies
Laughing and talking people
I fly by them
Look, there is a little girl on an
Elephant tricycle
She meanders along the sidewalk
On top of the world
Look – the people are like ants from this height!
Reluctantly
We both land back on earth
But we will fly again
Someday

Después de haberme pasado dias combinando proyectos de YouTube conseguí ganar a dos lideres de gimnasio más en Pokémon Heart Gold: Erika,experta en planta y Sachiko,experta en veneno e hija de Koga,Alto Mando de Johto

Disfruten de todo y estén atentos a más videos muy pronto.

Erika ist einer interessanten Person begegnet. Sehr freundlich und nett, aber irgendetwas lag ihr schwer im Herzen. „Es ist die Tatsache, dass ich anders bin.“ offenbarte sie bei einem Cappuccino, während draußen der Regen nieselnd alles nass machte. „Es geht mir so nah, wenn ich merke, dass es jemand nicht gut geht. Oder wenn jemand ungerecht behandelt wird, oder auch Filme, über die alle anderen lachen oder nach dem Abspann vergessen haben, gehen mir noch so lange nach. Es beeinflusst mich immer so stark, wie es den Leuten um mich rum geht. Und wenn ich dann in einer Gruppe bin, in der Spannungen vorherrschen, macht mich das fertig. Dann zerreißt mich das innerlich. Ich will gern helfen, nur kann ich das meist nicht. Und mit diesem Zwiespalt werde ich nicht fertig. Andere scheinen damit zurecht zu kommen und sie verstehen mich auch nicht. Und dann bin ich nach einem Gespräch oder einem Erlebnis wieder so fertig, dass ich auf den Knien liege und Gott frage, warum ich so bin und nicht normal sein kann.“

Erika musste lange darüber nachdenken. Denn es war echt seltsam. Manchen Menschen schienen sehr sensibel zu sein und damit nicht zurecht zu kommen. Andere wiederum empfanden das als übersensibel und waren der Meinung, man müsste sich doch mal zusammenreißen, nicht ständig Retter spielen und nicht alles so schwer zu nehmen. Ein Missstand. Vor allem diese Unverständnis. Da musste etwas getan werden. Erika hatte auch schon eine Idee…

Fortsetzung folgt…

P.S. Dies wird eine mehrteilige Erika-Serie über ein wichtiges Thema, welches viel zu oft missverstanden wird. Eigene Erfahrungen oder Erlebnisse sind herzlich willkommen!

gefunden von Guido G. an einer Hamburger Kreuzung

A friend of mine here in South Africa sent me an “SMS” (text) and asked this quesitons: If you could sum up Beam in one or two words what would you say?  I thought for a few moments and these are a few of what I came up with:

Helping hand // Blessing // Guidance // Support // For others // Open hand // Light // Strong work // Strength // Care //

If any of you, who have been to BEAM before, want to add to this, be my guest!