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Money spent: I don't want to know. Easily in the thousands.

Time spent: This year, most all of last year and half of the year before. Two years and growing.

Books read: I have no idea. Climbing to three digits, if not there already.

Films seen: Easily a dozen, probably more.

Stories written: Far fewer than I could have. I was trying to challenge myself. However, if it all went tits-up, I knew I could always rely on this.

Trips taken: Two in a year, three if you count this one. Insane considering I'm doing this on a student's budget.

Themed visits:
Imperial War Museum (countless)
Jewish museum (1)
Madjanek (1)
Auschwitz (2)
Plazow (1)
Therizenstadt (1)
Mauthausen (1)
Dachau (1)
Buchenwald (1)
Sachenhausen (1)

Other: Learning German in order to read more books.

Enough. Enough. This is devouring my life, and there is no end to it. When the Past Tense bunnies bit, I never imagined it could lead to this. I wanted to be a writer. Now I want to be a historian. I remember the first Holocaust book I picked up. I can even name it, because I've since bought it. 'Auschwitz and After', by Charlotte Deboe. I picked it up the year before last while working as a data collector. I'd reached my quota and hid in the library of the small town we were raking over.

Two years. That September I went to the Imperial War Museum for the first time, bought the little notebook that has since become my lucky charm and wrote about the Holocaust for the first time. Past Tense notes. The next year I saw the camps for the first time. No idea what'll happen this year.

Happy birthday.

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Date: 2008-08-10 02:17 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] splintertalon.livejournal.com
Yeah, I suspected that was the case. Originally I had no intention to do any photo work, but the first thing everyone I mentioned it to said was 'OOH ARE YOU GOING TO MAKE SUPER DARK ANGSTY PHOTOS' (since I'm a photography student, everyone equates everything I do with it) and in the end I figured it might be okay to do some for posterity. thnking about it properly, I'm not actually very keen to do so, even though my pseudo-intellectual classmates will probably bitch and moan that I haven't brought back morbid stuff for them to fawn over. Students are dumb like that.

I'll bear that in mind. I probably won't be going for another year or so, so I'll have time to do a lot of research beforehand.

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Date: 2008-08-10 10:31 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] skull-bearer.livejournal.com
Go, take the pics, and find out so much about it that when they ask you for the photos, you can give them a very educating (and uncomfortable) time. If you don't want to, don't, but I am glad I took mine.

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