LostFocus

A weblog by Dominik Schwind

I have nothing to say, really.

Fuck off.

No snow

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Apparently the only area without snow today.

Week 2

Monday, January 9th, 2012

I so want to stay in my bed.

timehop – and yes, it will make me sad forever.

That being said, Monday was pretty good. We had our “Traditional Asia Dinner” at Kushi-Tei. 1

Tuesday, January 10th, 2012

Went to have lunch at Südstadt Burger with Marc, Fabian and Dominik. (Who forgot his part of the deal – tztz.)

Wednesday, January 11th, 2012

I’ve watched this video and had lunch again – this time at Bona’Me.

I know. Excitement – but hey, I warned you.

Thursday, January 12th, 2012

I don’t even know why I watched the first casting show for the German entry for the next Eurovision Song Contest.

Friday, January 13th, 2012

A whole bunch of German bloggers wrote about their trends in Social Media usage, started by this blogpost by Cem Basman.
My answer to that was a rather short post:

Grumpy on all channels.

But basically my Social Media usage is currently Twitter, Tumblr2 and here. Besides that, I’m also using Instagram and Path, which are both fun. Foursquare, too. But that should be about it.

After all this, I decided to annoy Jan Manuel:

Hah!

Sorry about that.

Saturday, January 14th, 2012

For some reasons I decided to check out the remodeled Sevens mall at Königsallee in Düsseldorf. I turned around pretty fast – it’s just a big-ass Saturn electronics store now. All things considered not too exciting.

Finally, after many, many unsuccessful tries3 I finally managed to find the Onigiri store at Immermannstraße open and bought some Onigiri.

Sunday, January 15th, 2012

Sunday was a nice, sunny day. So of course I stayed in all day, making this thing here a bit prettier, listened to podcasts and ate instant Rösti.
My glamorous life.

Prestigious


  1. For those who wonder what that might be – a couple of months ago I bullied Jan Manuel into coming to Düsseldorf to have food at Takumi and because Düsseldorf has a lot of really good Asian restaurants, we decided to go ahead and do that every couple of weeks. Sometimes we are joined by many (like this Monday) and sometimes we’re just a couple of people.
    So if you’re around Düsseldorf, let me know and join up! 

  2. Tumbalah! 
  3. Two, to be precise. 

So, I just had the weirdest encounter, ever.

I was grocery shopping at the real in Bilk, queuing at one of the always too full and too few cashiers. Suddenly the woman in front of me turned around and stared at me. Really intense.

Now usually this doesn’t happen. At least not to me. Being the always suave and collected person that I am, I couldn’t really think of anything else than stare back. Think rabbit and headlight.

Either way, it was her turn to pay and when she was done with that and the cashier woman started to scan my stuff, she turned back to me:

“Is your name Dominik?”

Now you might remember, just now I already pointed out my extreme quick-wittedness. And that was, when I was just being stared at. Not when some complete stranger (who, even though that’s not such a big part of the story, was actually rather pretty and around my age) seems to know me and asks that question in English.
So, I did manage to say: “Eh, yes…?!” Which made her laugh. Which just added to my confusion. Before I could ask her, who she is or why she knew my name:

“Das macht sieben Euro und fünfundsiebtzich Tzent!”

the cashier woman interrupted.
I paid and when I turned back, she was gone.

I picked up my stuff, looked around both in the cashier area and outside the supermarket, but I couldn’t find her anymore.

So, uh… if anyone of you is (or know) a roughly end-20s/early 30s woman, living in the southern part of Düsseldorf, about 1.70m with blue-grey eyes and long dark hair, who speaks accent-free English: who? why? what?

Yes, I’m confused and slightly paranoid.

Sign of the times: I’ve published it on Solipsism, my blog on tumblr.com, before I even thought about posting it here.

Bookmarks for August 9th through August 10th

These are my links for August 9th through August 10th:

Webmontag/Mixxt-Geraffel

Eigentlich wollte ich gerade auch noch was dazu schreiben, aber eigentlich ist es mir doch ziemlich wurscht. Den Webmontag in Düsseldorf schaue ich mir auf jeden Fall nächste Woche mal an.

Und wenn sie kommt? Dann kommt sie halt.

Kortmann kommt

Dieses Poster irritiert mich ja massivst. Ist ja super für Frau Kortmann – und ich gönne das ja auch jedem. Aber: Warum muss das überall plakatiert werden?

Lebenszeichen

Sind fast fit und munter umgezogen – was wir in großen Teilen unseren fleißigen Helfern, allen voran Giacomo und Poolie, zu verdanken haben. Vielen Dank noch einmal an Euch beide – und vielen Dank an den unbekannten Arcor-Kunden mit dem offenen WLAN.