So I thought I hated 2025, until I realised perhaps I didn’t hate it quite as much as my knee jerk reaction would suggest. Without a doubt, a number of unpleasant things happened, both in my personal life and in the world in general. But in many ways, this shitty little year has been a…
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A Good List Goes a Long Way: 2024 Edition
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…
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 0721
Fair warning. Post with a lot of Olympic and Euro2020 content ahead. Let’s dive into the thick of it, with team Russia, or wait a minute, they’re not called Russia these days, they’re ROC. Yes I have succumbed to the temptation of cheering their men’s gymnastics team with Roc on. Russia are ROC because while…
Procrastinator’s Log 0621
I have always dreamed of being able to find my way around the Milky Way, but I am completely lost on planet Earth as well, where orientation is more grounded, so to speak. I can identify the Northern Star and the Ursa Maior, and that’s where my science stops. Nice one for a Trekkie, right….
Procrastinator’s Log 0521
Sometime this month I found yet another article about imposter’s syndrome. And whenever I find such a thing, even if I forgot that imposter syndrome existed at all, I remember it, and just as when you google your symptoms and the condition is unavoidably lethal, I succumb to it as well. Luckily, there is an…
Procrastinator’s Log 0321
Well, this wasn’t the month when things got fixed, or even marginally better. I still have no idea when will I be able to travel home without worries, know that my friends and family are safe, go for a (one, several) careless pint(s) in a pub. On the up side, there’s that ship stuck in…
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…
Pocket Diary Budapest 