http://merlinasinnersanctum.org Merlina's Inner Sanctum Thu, 01 Jan 2009 21:03:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en My Dear Friends and Family, ... http://merlinasinnersanctum.org/?p=71 News about climate change are everywhere. The newest estimate in insurance cost from the German Institute for Economic Research - 800 billion Euros. Read more here. And yet just more talk and no real commitment. CO2 emission decreases are good, but how about investing into energy sources that will not cause ... http://merlinasinnersanctum.org/?p=68 After an ongoing battle with my computer for the last few weeks, it has now become so unbearable that I am having it looked at. Thursday it took about 15 minutes to start up and then about 5 for each program to load. The “wheel of death” has become a ... http://merlinasinnersanctum.org/?p=67 The below is not meant to be a dooms-day prophicy. I DO believe that we can prevent the worst, but we have to start acting strategically NOW. What are you doing to help solve the problem? http://merlinasinnersanctum.org/?p=64 Weil dieser Eintrag sich hauptsaechlich auf Deutschland bezieht, werde ich versuchen ihn 2-sprachig zu schreiben. Because this entry deals mostly with Germany I will try to write in both languages. Not much has been going on in my life these days. Gym and thesis writing. That’s about it. On a brighter ... http://merlinasinnersanctum.org/?p=63 …which seems to be all over the place right now. Looking at some pictures from last year, I got sentimental about the people I left behind in the US. I guess I had never activly realized how much time I spent with some people and how much fun we had ... http://merlinasinnersanctum.org/?p=62 The day I left Sweden was cold and snowy. At least it was sunny, which I cannot say about the days since I have returned. When I finally arrived in Madrid at midnight after a 10 hour trip, of which 6 where spent travelling to the airport in Malmo with ... http://merlinasinnersanctum.org/?p=61 I am feeling homy these days. While last semester, I was out on the town all the time dancing…and mostly dancing, these days I just want to stay at home, drink tea and watch TV. Partly, it probably just has to do with the weather…or maybe I am just getting ... http://merlinasinnersanctum.org/?p=58 This is why my roommates and I choose to do things ourselves: This morning after 8 weeks of hazzle, several phone calls and complaint emails, the electrician came to fix my internet. (Mind you, this is after I threatened my landlord not to pay the entire rent and he ... http://merlinasinnersanctum.org/?p=60 I’ve had a couple of sleepless nights lately and most of them had to do with the amount of communication I had to do or felt I was lagging behind on. I now have this blog, a number of email addresses, facebook, the German version of it, Messenger, iChat and ... http://merlinasinnersanctum.org/?p=59