I must confess that I was about to, again, give up on the yearly list exercise. I am too old and wise for this- which is something I often say when I feel lazy to do something, hence being immature. But then I took a look at previous yearly lists and discovered strange and interesting…
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A Good List Goes a Long Way: 2023 Edition
I realised that for reasons I can now hardly recall, I skipped the yearly lists at the end of last year-it may have been some sort of weird conviction that lists don’t matter- that it’s pointless to draw lines at the end of a year, and then make resolutions for the one to come. Admittedly,…
A Good List Goes a Long Way- 2021 Edition
FILMS. 2021 was the year my film watching went decidedly eclectic. I kept mostly out of cinemas- wondering whether someone’s cough is COVID or the nachos scratching their throat is not conductive to great entertainment. Online cinemas can be fun if a little odd- the chat rooms are an unexpected throwback to the weird years…
Procrastinator’s Log 0221
It’ll soon be one year since the lockdown, in some form or another, started and every now and then I suddenly miss something from our life ‘before’. Say, going to museums, just getting lost for hours, until my back and feet hurt and I felt overwhelmed by everything I’d seen. These days, there is the…
Procrastinator’s Log 0121
The log is BACK. It dawned me that I procrastinated the log for the past months for the very reason I procrastinate everything else- I have the attention span of a Labrador puppy, and writing the damn thing just lasted way too much. So from now on I will stick to this fancy thing people…
A Good List Goes a Long Way- 2020 Edition
This year I skipped the ‘traditional’ best of posts, as they simply did not feel right. There have been good moments, but most of it was about lying low and waiting for the light at the end of the tunnel, hoping it’s not a train. I do not want to overdramatize either. I suffered no…
Procrastinator’s Log Stardate 0420
RANDOM STUFF. This may turn out to be an even randomer than usual post, as it is cobbled together from little snippets I wrote throughout the month. I also insist on mentioning that the autocorrect function insists, every time, to fix stardate into startdate. Pedro Almodóvar has been writing a diary of the COVID year…
Procrastinator’s Log Stardate 0320
Let’s call this the month when the proverbial shit hit the fan, and we’re still facing the weird realisations of what this ever changing new normal means. There is a flood of COVID-19 related information everywhere, and after a period of frenzied online activity, I have decided to restrict my doses of disbelief and terror…
Travels with Books- Part Two
Henning Mankell- An Event in Autumn, London, October 2014 It was, unsurprisingly, a rainy autumn day in London, we were tired and soaked, walking by the grey Thames melting into the grey sky, and looking for a pub. But first, another bookstore, my boyfriend a wet statue of resignation as I got lost among the shelves,…
Travels with Books- Part One
On the first of January, holed up at home with what, I now realize, was a moderate case of the ‘nice flu’, I wrote up a list of things I look forward to this year, including, naturally, travels. For more than a decade now years have been framed, punctuated, divided by travels. I have never…
Pocket Diary Budapest 