The (re)presentational "Ähh"

"Ähhs"/"Ähms" are the German equivalent of the "umms" or "uhms" in English. Today, I held a short presentation at my University, where we did peer review by other students. Two people already counted the times I said "Ähh" (one person counted 49 - "49 Ähm's sind schon viel, nicht?!" -; another one 42 - my talking time was roughly 13 minutes). Good feedback is probably the best way to improve your presentation skills. I'm glad we did enough presentations at school, so at least the content and the presentation (apart from the numerous "Ähms") was quite okay-ish. Maybe video-taping one's own presentations would increase feedbacks and the learning effect even more :)

Kubezius Nickelback

As a result of service idleness this morning, here's something I've came up with to describe Nick's nickname (sic).

The Zivildiener Kubezius with his fabulous band mates. This is how you remind me.