"Outfit; She is yesterday's news, she's got a red pill, blue pill"

My favorite classes are the ones where the teacher is just as sleepy as us and I can sit down with a good book and my Coke Zero.

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This week has been a very slow week. It felt like the hours of the day were as sleepy as me. But now courses are over and I can sit down with a hot cup of tea, watch the snowflakes outside my window and enjoy Serenity.

This week I've learned:
+ that the thymus is the one thing between us and the nice bacteria out there that keeps us from actually being dead as a doornail. I think I will come out of this Microbiology course with a bigger germ phobia than I already have.
+ how to read a cardiac Echo

Also, I came to the conclusion that my life sometimes plays out like a really ridiculous rom-com soap-opera. And that I should maybe start doing something when I like certain people (also known as: cute boys who also like me back) before they suddenly decide to pack up and move to Germany (true freaking story).

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Playing with microscopes and not getting what you're looking at: the favorite past times of Med students for decades ;P


Between lab classes.





Last lab, getting bored and freezing in the only part of uni that has no heating. Me, Andy, Irina D, Irina and Maria.









dress: Naf Naf, sweater: Mango, tights: Accessorize, boots: Musette, necklace: Accessorize, bag: Furla, scarf: vintage

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Song of the Day: David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust

"In the days before you were young, we used to sit in the morning sun, what happened?"

First day of university today, after what suddenly feels like too short a holiday. If this were an episode of Gossip Girl my day would have been filled with drama, heartache and Martinis. Unfortunately, this is not teevee land and there was no alcohol, but rather a very boring day indeed.

The moment of the day was when my cutecutecute Starbucks boy came back to my favorite Starbucks after being gone for so long. My soy latte has never tasted this good ;)

Quote of the day:
The scene: Andy and I, half dead from lack of sleep, this close to injecting caffeine in our veins, hear the barista yell 'grande decaf latte':

Both of us: "Who the bloody hell gets decaf?"

Now really, who does get decaf?

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jeans: Mango, studded cardigan: Mango, top: United Colors of Benetton, random necklaces and rings.

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Song of the Day: She Wants Revenge - Tear you apart

"I wanna scream I love you from the top of my lungs, but I'm afraid that someone else will hear me"

HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Hope 2009 turns out to be the best one ever. Thank you all for your lovely comments and for making my past year a little bit better, you guys rock so much. So everyone, raise that champagne glass (or diet coke, if you're the designated driver) and here's to all our wishes coming true in the next 365 days!



Lots of hugs and a lot of love,
a very hungover and sleepy Anna, xoxo!

"I turn my camera on, I cut my fingers on the way; Y'made me untouchable for life"

You can't get rid of Starbucks as much as you try.

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I admit that this has not been the best Christmas holiday I've ever lived. Too many things broken and too big pieces of my heart getting lost have overshadowed the jolly old time of the year.

But then I got to spend some time with my closest friends and with some amazing girls I hadn't seen in so long (too long) and with whom I forgot how well I get along with, and then... well then I think that maybe there is a twinkle at the end of the tunnel after all. Hope dies last and so on.

You lose some, you win some, I guess. Thank you to the people who gave free hugs, offered smiles and gingerbread cookies (you know you are. and if you don't, just remind me to hug you a lot when I see you next time) and helped me smile for real for the first time in what feels like ages. I might start doing that a lot more often from now on.

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Best hair clip ever, right?


Laura (who is at school abroad but who came back to visit for Christmas and I am glad she did!) and Mada.


Livia and Dana being too photogenic ;P





Dana was a little Santa helper. Roxana (who I had not seen in too long a time) joined in my love for black. Great minds think alike!





Dana's puppy, Fitzy, and I under the tree waiting for Santa to see how good girls we've been all year long.











Livia and I bonded over our love for wine and Bailey's and white tights ;)





I was the victim of a Snuggle Attack.








Yeah, I know, I have gorgeous friends :D


I will not deny the fact that I was a little bit drunk by the time this photo was taken, ahem.

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Song of the Day: Spoon - I Turn My Camera On

"Buddy the Elf here! What's your favorite color?"

Colateral victims of the ol' Tree Decorating Morning at my house. Luckily, the rest of the tree globes are safe and in their place on the jolly tree :)

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Merry Christmas everyone! Hope it finds you surrounded by the ones you love and the things you like and I hope Santa did a good job this year and left you the perfect Christmas gift under the tree.

And, to end this post, lets all remember the words of Buddy the Elf: "The best way to spread Christmas Cheer, is singing loud for all to hear". I hope you're singing, because that's all I'm planning to do these days ;D

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Song of the Day: Acceptance - So This is Christmas