tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-164132342012-01-25T10:52:00.961+01:00kristinnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1581100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16413234.post-56027348921473624452011-10-17T18:20:00.002+02:002011-10-17T18:21:57.534+02:00

(photo by fronx)

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I'm a big fan of Radiolab, a show about science that doesn't advertise it's about science and This American Life, a documentary show that doesn't advertise that it does documentaries.Ira Glass, host of TAL, attempts to explain what makes Radiolab so great.

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Work-life balance, says Nigel Marsh, is too important to be left in the hands of your employer. At TEDxSydney, Marsh lays out an ideal day balanced between family time, personal time and productivity -- and offers some stirring encouragement to make it happen.Nigel Marsh: How to make work-life balance work from TEDtalksDirector(via Swissmiss)

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[14:23:31] T: is that a no-cook pie?[14:23:53] S: i have no idea. you're the north americans in this chat.[14:24:13] S: i'm just making shit up.[14:24:28] S: (and eating pie)

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VisionAuditionGustationOlfactionTactitionEquilibrioceptionThermoceptionProprioceptionNociception

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Almost exactly a month ago, at the beginning of October i travelled to portland, oregon with my tae kwon do school for a week of intense training with Grandmaster Kwon, Jae-Hwa. Master Kwon, although he lives in the US, often does seminars in Germany but they are often either for heads of schools or groups of a hundred or more.I hadn't intended to travel to North America this year let alone to

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Landslide by Fleetwood Mac, covered by PS22 Chorus.via ggc

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In Meat: A Benign Extravagance, Simon Fairlie pays handsome tribute to vegans for opening up the debate. He then subjects their case to the first treatment I've read that is both objective and forensic. His book is an abattoir for misleading claims and dodgy figures, on both sides of the argument. - George Monbiot (Guardian)Meat: A Benign Extravagance added to my reading list.

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More wedding photos!Ten years ago today it was my great pleasure to be the maid of honour at Karen and Dion's wedding. In some ways it seems like it was yesterday. Karen and Dion, I was and continue to be so happy for you. I wish you good fortune and happiness today, tomorrow and always.love,Kristin

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This video was made to the poem, How to be Alone, by Tanya Davis (2009). (thx tmc & cavum oris)

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Every year the chestnut trees in Berlin start to turn brown shortly after the fruit starts growing. The leaves get brown spots, dry out, shrivel up and the tree essentially looks dead. Nevertheless every spring the tree springs to life again. Years ago I heard that the chestnuts are afflicted by something but didn't really know what. You know how there are things you always wonder about but

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For two before adding the yogurt. It seems like all my favourite fruits and berries are in season right now. Breakfast almost everyday has been fresh fruit with yogurt, rice milk or milk and often with müsli. Usually I'm too groggy in the morning to care much about breakfast but at this time of year, especially since it's so bright out so early, it's hardly a chore.

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From the ever delightful Mighty Girl: hello 3, 6, 7, 10, 14, 15, and 20!

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The Art of Analog Computing from meltmedia on Vimeo.(via interfilm berlin)

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The Seasons | Anselm KieferBefore SpringSnow melt in the Odenwald. Goodbye, winter, parting hurts but your departure makes my heart cheer. Gladly I forget thee, may you always be far away. Goodbye, winter, parting hurts.

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buchstaben museum, originally uploaded by Kristin.Finally made it to the Buchstaben Museum.

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this year, i'm participating in a new project Vivre pour manger with a few friends and friends of friends where i write about pancakes and use proper capitalization. we're off to a good start with articles about stichelton, preserved lemons, bolognese and stock amongst others. check it out if you're interested or at least to shake your head at how obsessed we are with food.

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if you'd taken the time to shovel it when it was fresh, it wouldn't be so hard to clear it now.the sound of a shovel scraping the ground is nostalgic. i remember lying groggily in bed, waking up for school, listening to my father clear the snow from the driveway. when he was done he would come back into the house and stomp his feet to clear the snow from his boots. i'd always get my socks a

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october 3rd this year, "tag der deutschen einheit", was almost a non-event. it's kind of like that every year. sure this year there were a million people out on the street and giant puppets but it didn't really feel celebratory.tonight, i don't know if you've heard, there are a few things going on. the atmosphere is also decidedly more festive.i was supposed to join the mauer mob event with

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My body aches so—It must be this heavy bed pressing up against me.- Lydia Davis

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how to know when to step outside yourself and when the best thing is to stay inside.

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Camellia reticulata

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this week has been punctuated with many many delicious meals. on top of two great thanksgiving meals, i've also had a lot of great and favourite food in toronto.eating a lot always makes me think more about food. more than usual. michael pollan, author of "the omnivore's dilemma" which has been going around our office recently, asked his readers to send in their rules for eating and posted his

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Searching for a grey dress, originally uploaded by Theophani.

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this video is cute, well-made and makes an interesting point. but something about it rubs me the wrong way.Hellmann’s - It’s Time for Real from CRUSH on Vimeo.(via Swissmiss)

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 i'm a little late but here it is anyway. these are the cupcakes i made for my birthday. for a while now i've wanted to try making buttercream icing as a culinary challenge. thanks to tiffany's assistance the first attempt was wonderfully, deliciously successful. without a stand mixer and a few other key pieces of equipment it is definitely a two person job. i do however take complete credit

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ukrainian coke or polish coke to make coke floats for our canada day celebrations?

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Declutter! a place for everything and everything in it's place.

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found in neil's basement yesterday:Predictions for 2008June 18, 1998general predictions for 2008some of us will be married everyone but me is married.nobody will have a kid over 4 years old everyone but kevin and i have children, none is over four years old.we'll be spread across the world neither cathy nor i live in toronto. although i don't know that the us and germany really count as spread

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k: i made a cake yesterday. do you want to come over for a piece?t: oooooh! sure, what kind?k: a german cake from my german cookbook.t: ah, well, then i don't think i can.k: no really, it's good!

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Retro-futurism: scientific prophesy and vintage cultural nostalgia

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pursuits of happiness had a makeover which i decided was an excellent idea. the changes here are minor but it was a good exercise anyway.it really is spring cleaning time: new haircut, new glasses, new project, new blog template.

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or "why i shouldn't go grocery shopping without a list."there was a can of lychees already on my shelf. expiry date: 08.07.2009. so you can imagine how old that can probably is. of course i forgot the quark i wanted to go with it. the kilo of potatoes already in the larder were brought here by tiffany for easter dinner. since they were not brought home by me they didn't really register in my

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Be a good communicator.Get off your high horse.Don't blame others.

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spring has arrived with the sun and temperatures in the low twenties. there is an atmosphere of contentment in the city. the four-day easter weekend doesn't hurt either. i just finished cleaning my balcony and getting the flower boxes ready and now i'm contemplating going out for coffee in the sun.

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1001 rules for my unborn sonupdate: whose name i dreamt was owen.

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then there was a blog.and now it's kind of like the beginning, only there is still a blog.

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a snapshot of life on the warschauer brücke in berlin. i cross over this bridge everyday on my way to work.

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choose your superuseless superpower! i vote complementary chameleon.this american life does an informal survey: flight or invisibility?an informal survey of maybe 2-3 friends indicates a marked preference for invisibility. ?!?!?ok, so invisibility is way cooler and more useful. but i have flying dreams and not being-invisible dreams. if someone held a gun to my head and asked to me choose, the

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o nordmannbaumwith moravian starspace station turkeymerry christmas (belated) and happy new year everyonephotos by tiffany

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the tidier the house, the less i know where anything is. the more i know where things are, the untidier the house.

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on the way to a party the other night, i was waiting at a very long traffic light with two other cyclists. the most recently arrived cyclist asked myself and the other cyclist in heavily russian-accented german if the subway stop right there was the u8. we both replied in not-quite-so-heavily accented german, that, no it was the u5, the u8 is that way at alexanderplatz. after the russian took

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the street lamps on my street (which, interestingly but not relevantly, is named after a famous spy) are offset. when biking up the street at night, my shadow passes me on the left, my shadow passes me on the right, my shadow passes on the left... and so on. fascinating if slightly distracting.2nd. what are female philanderers called? is there an equivalent name? i've been watching mad men if

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nothing like a good run to slam your body back into the right timeline.

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so you should never have had to register to see the apartment images. i've fixed the permissions.

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a year ago i announced that i had found a new apartment and was moving. at that time i also posted pictures of the old apartment. i've promised pictures to a couple people and i've slowly been assembling them. i had started putting them together today when i realized that it is exactly a year to the day since that last post. so although i should be in bed i'm making the last adjustments in order

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that my entire notion of peanut butter as a healthy nutrious snack is based on peanut butter commercials from my youth.

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at lunch today a google 360-view mapping camera car drove by me as i was waiting at a light at frankfurter tor. i'm the one on the white bike wearing a black skirt and t-shirt. and i have my glasses on. i didn't wave, but i thought about it.

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at long last and really only a month after the trip. click on the image to view the entire set.

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this is the title of a book i read in my youthful scifi/fantasy reading days. i've always loved the title but can't really remember much about the book. the cycling of the dark stormy sky followed by the summer sun this past week reminded me today of the title.

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dusk in the summer:9:45 and it's slightly cool, some tree is currently blooming, i smell it every once in a while as i bike down the street. everything is in bloom, the light is beautiful. and best of all, there are no mosquitoes!

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a sight for sore eyes: my bed, when i'm fall down tired.

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from my colleague, an expert on all matters of style, on nu-rave: it's avant-garde. it's so passé, it's the future.

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baked goods you've made yourself - whether they turned out the way you wanted them to or not.

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lukewarm water running over my hands as i wash them.

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in december, in vancouver i purchased a packet of life brand exfoliating foot scrub with peppermint. it's my first ever foot scrub. several years ago i would never have thought that i would enjoy scrubbing my feet or occasionally exfoliating my face. it's definitely a treat and not something i feel i have to do.usually i reserve these ablutions for a quiet friday night. but for no specific

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the mango i thought was overripe but turned out to be perfect.

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today was one of those days that although nothing was really going wrong, nothing was really going right either. it wasn't pms. there was cake and coffee. sunshine and hail. the public transport strike is over. i was too introspective without coming to any conclusions. in the end i finally kicked my indecisive ass and took my unseemly unshaven legs to the sauna. where i did relax and now

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unbelievably, my toasted cheddar, jalapeño and tomato sandwich was bland.the cheddar wasn't sharp, the jalapeños were maybe a little vinagary but not hot and the tomatoes were mealy winter tomatoes.let me tell you, [and by 'you' i mean, you, my dear readers], that a sandwich where the boring dipping mayonnaise on the side is the most interesting part of the sandwich is a bland sandwich indeed.

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eating delicious leftovers for lunch in the bath on a rainy saturday afternoon.

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the delicious sounding sugar-free apple-orange-nectarine juice morphed into pineapple-carrot juice on my way home from the store. igitt!

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i get up as my alarm goes off. i watch as the black leech/worms run off the mattress, they are tiny. the light switch doesn't work. no, it seems to be rewired to my bed lamp which is now too dim and on the wrong side of the bed. the worms are still running over the bed. i scream. i realize i'm dreaming and lay down again. i get up as my alarm goes off. i watch as the black leech/worms run

kristinnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16413234.post-59609838438310125532008-01-24T16:47:00.000+01:002008-01-24T17:02:48.826+01:00

i did a double take on this headline: bill gates calls for a 'kinder capitalism'children, be kind.

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footnote to week 2:I also feel very isolated. Extroverts don't like isolation, and extreme, technophile extroverts like me even less so. I suppose I was sort of asking for it though, by moving to a country where I don't speak the language and the only person I know is such an extreme introvert that she moved to a country where she didn't speak the language and knew no one.in case there is any

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24.11.2007 - up the street from my house9.1.2008 - on the way to work at sunrise (~8:15am)

kristinnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16413234.post-61061874278584328262008-01-07T23:12:00.000+01:002008-01-07T23:34:32.824+01:00

this morning the packed tram was eerily silent.

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today i woke up after an incredible, for me, 12+ hours of sleep. i just got back from 10 days visiting my brother in vancouver. 10 days plus a nasty cold is just enough time to really mess up your sleep schedule. vancouver is nice and it was really great seeing kevin. we had a nice relaxing holiday. we decorated the tree one day and had a turkey dinner with our cousin andré the other.

kristinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16413234.post-70973779417731979762007-12-16T11:27:00.000+01:002007-12-16T11:29:46.582+01:00

unbelievable. i now have a landline AND dsl!

kristinnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16413234.post-16390380935975543232007-11-29T11:35:00.000+01:002007-11-29T11:37:13.601+01:00

last night i went to the bookstore. too many books, too little time.

kristinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16413234.post-30952545146534743602007-11-08T08:12:00.000+01:002007-11-08T08:43:59.787+01:00

galaktische weine. bodenständige preise. galactic wines. down-to-earth prices. the title and subtitle are on a giant ad for a hotel wine bar that's hung on a building i go by frequently. the ad puzzled me. i could tell they were referencing a sci-fi film but i couldn't figure it out until i translated it out loud (but in my head) - Planet of the Grapes!i've been assured that a german would

kristinnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16413234.post-11794543755598334372007-10-24T14:57:00.000+02:002007-10-24T15:25:37.385+02:00

unfortunately i still don't have a telephone line or an internet connection. it should happen sometime in the next six weeks.

kristinnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16413234.post-34375963826266034422007-10-15T15:44:00.000+02:002007-10-15T16:05:48.860+02:00

i keep meaning to write a post about why i choose to live in berlin and not say - toronto. about my experience as a foreigner, culture shock, acclimatization, why i like it here, why i've stopped planning to move back to canada. i've started it a few times but it threatens to turn into a rambling essay of jumbled thoughts that i then decide are too private. discard.germans, in my opinion, have

kristinnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16413234.post-41451421232388965132007-09-28T16:39:00.000+02:002007-09-28T16:51:18.353+02:00

today at lunch i sat across the street from a secondary school. i indulged in some people-watching and observed the students coming out around lunch. notably, i found the students to be a bit older on average than what i would expect high school students to be. which was odd, because my reaction to students these days leans more towards the "oh my god, they are so young!" end of things. there

kristinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16413234.post-34600402233330203142007-09-28T16:26:00.000+02:002007-09-28T16:59:44.078+02:00

it's a mall. ruining alexander platz. i've thought it was ugly since they started building it, but was (somewhat) willing to reserve judgement until it was completed.thousands of visitors were at the opening last week. all hoping to get a bargain. injuries and damages ensued.i went to check out the hoopla myself this week. my assessment: it's a f!ing mall. and it's still ugly.

kristinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16413234.post-65824983119698926132007-09-25T08:54:00.000+02:002007-09-25T09:43:22.833+02:00

a country manor serving as a boarding schoolsqueaky wooden floors and wooden desksa payphone in an institutiontalking with service provider to get website publishedrunning through the halls to the classroom to go look something upintimidating school teacher with steel grey hairback 'craft' room searching through paper website portfoliosold dusty portfolio opened to reveal fat white pus-sy

kristinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16413234.post-41841150356530212007-09-10T09:19:00.000+02:002007-09-11T11:34:53.412+02:00

i moved successfully last weekend. i'm one of the first tenants in a newly renovated building. in fact, i am currently one of two tenants in the building. the rest of the building is still being renovated. my flat is more or less finished as promised. unfortunately, i have no telephone or internet connection because the building although internally wired is not connected to the rest of the

kristinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16413234.post-24727625791861098102007-08-29T09:26:00.000+02:002007-08-29T09:47:15.320+02:00

last night as my packing efforts became less efficient: "i'm not so much multitasking as thrashing."which is a mixed metaphor, but hey.

kristinnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16413234.post-50236567259014525712007-08-27T17:24:00.000+02:002007-08-27T17:52:05.175+02:00

sometimes you spend a little too much time looking in the mirror and need to get perspective. it's easy to forget or simply miss the distortions all around us.

kristinnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16413234.post-7864652202437504992007-08-07T23:16:00.000+02:002007-08-08T00:08:47.001+02:00

i'm moving at the end of the month from moabit to friedrichshain to a new apartment with a balcony, bathtub and oven. my apartment for the last three years is lovely and i spent a lot of time looking for a new one that had the extras i was looking for and matched the good feeling i had when i first found this apartment. these are the pictures of my apartment i took with my cellphone camera to

kristinnoreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16413234.post-19775779187873429272007-08-05T22:20:00.000+02:002007-08-05T22:20:24.080+02:00

dietrich has thrown me a stöckchen - has tagged me to write 8 random facts about myself.heard about blog memes? this seems to be similar to the "5 things about me" blog meme.it's impossible to write 8 random things about one's self. and i found it surprisingly hard to come up with 8 things.i won't even claim these to be pseudo-random.1. i sleep with a teddy bear named dandylion. dandylion

kristinnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16413234.post-37181364142467304932007-08-02T23:46:00.000+02:002007-08-04T09:25:02.336+02:00

as recorded on 5 January 2007in a swimming pool outside a bungalow, in the distance a purplish-blue cloud begins expanding. it is ominous. i go inside, ushering the person i was talking to with me.we close all the windows so that the blue gas does not get in.someone, an older man with grey hair, arrives to tell me that the blue gas has reduced the oxygen content in the air. "olive", the teenage

kristinnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16413234.post-46069113655052508702007-07-23T14:54:00.000+02:002007-07-23T14:59:28.294+02:00

das mobbing - schikane od. psychoterror am arbeitsplatzbullyingbullying at workharassment at workworkplace bullyingi'm not being gemobbt. i just think the word is interesting - like handy.

kristinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16413234.post-44820857207801611702007-07-18T00:11:00.001+02:002007-07-18T00:13:09.387+02:00

on saturday i bought new dish soap. the cheap dish soap. because really, can it be that different from the slightly more expensive stuff? it sucks.

kristinnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16413234.post-54913931567066056692007-07-12T23:16:00.000+02:002008-12-09T06:01:01.643+01:00

Berlin Hauptbahnhof

kristinnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16413234.post-6624210140492064922007-06-19T23:14:00.000+02:002007-06-19T23:15:25.673+02:00

i've started laying out things to pack.

kristinnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16413234.post-5683699426643978612007-06-18T23:16:00.000+02:002007-06-18T23:32:57.618+02:00

a moose is not a just a deer or just an elk. this is a moose.ever heard of a canadian horse? yeah, me neither.

kristinnoreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16413234.post-76575416089060144492007-06-15T15:38:00.000+02:002007-06-15T19:33:36.180+02:00

on the last weekend in may i went to bad tölz for a tae kwon do seminar weekend. gudrun, katharina, michael and i rented a car and a cottage in lenggries about 10k from bad tölz. since it was the pentecost (or whitsun) weekend, monday was a holiday and we all booked friday off. we mostly planned it as a short vacation with some tae kwon do thrown into the mix. it was a good break.we enjoyed

kristinnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16413234.post-36568012471294856712007-06-01T15:27:00.000+02:002007-06-01T15:34:23.988+02:00

the way the light dims and brightens on a partially cloudy somewhat windy day.

kristinnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16413234.post-57841909031548574582007-05-19T14:45:00.000+02:002007-05-19T15:05:14.376+02:00

maybe burger king could do it. the menu: choice of sandwich, choice of drink and one of fries, "country" potatoes or salad. fries OR potatoes OR salad.me: with salad.cashier: you would like me to substitute the fries with salad?me: aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahh!!

kristinnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16413234.post-35684156415766985742007-05-18T10:04:00.000+02:002008-12-09T06:01:01.871+01:00

words i've apparently looked up recently.

kristinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16413234.post-49146520903239493762007-05-07T12:08:00.000+02:002008-12-09T06:01:01.992+01:00

the bruise doesn't show that badly here and the scratch on the bridge of my nose is on the other side. this photo is from last monday. it's all healed now.

kristinnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16413234.post-29484119541040372352007-05-04T17:03:00.000+02:002007-05-04T17:03:15.553+02:00

i was being a bitch and i knew it. but i couldn't stop. the first problem was that i was at mcdonald's. mcdonald's here has "maxi menüs" where you choose a sandwich or nuggets and two of fries, salad, 0.5 L softdrink, 0.5 L shake, 0.5 L sparkling water, some coffee and an orangejuice. i usually order softdrink and salad. the salad somehow reassuring me that i'm not eating completely

kristinnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16413234.post-5923092067455423412007-05-01T10:25:00.000+02:002007-05-01T10:42:05.319+02:00

the blue man has new shoes. blue new shoes. light blue new shoes. i saw them at the corner, near the subway stop. the blue man lives on the ground floor of my building. in the summer he wears blue skin-tight polyester shorts that show EVERYTHING, with a short sleeve blue polyester top artfully unzipped to show his greying chest hair. in the fall, the blue polyester shorts turn into blue

kristinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16413234.post-40678250321023262132007-04-30T15:26:00.000+02:002007-04-30T17:41:28.506+02:00

this morning i scared the shit out of myself when i looked into the mirror. fortunately google told me not to worry. i have a sub-conjunctival haemorrhage in my left eye that was not there when i went to bed.this does not help my whole look at the moment. i also have a large bruise on my forehead from a door hitting me last wednesday and a scratch across the bridge of my nose from my glasses.

kristinnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16413234.post-14810661814453776232007-04-19T13:54:00.000+02:002007-04-19T13:59:27.969+02:00

the "tschüüüüüsss" a little boy on my street yells to his mother (i assume) every morning a little before 8 on his way to school.

kristinnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16413234.post-75824790936016400662007-04-17T22:53:00.000+02:002007-04-17T23:09:55.326+02:00

we've had a couple of tight deadlines at work.i had a cold - sore throat and cough.tv series binges.i had pms.i was simply uninspired - the wry or funny twist that inspires me to write just hasn't been there.the weather has been really nice and i was taking advantage of it.several good books.but the real excuse... my editor is too strict at the moment. i need to get her to relax.

kristinnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16413234.post-88262963499154779352007-03-31T20:21:00.001+02:002008-04-18T17:13:49.997+02:00

the way the house smells when you've had the windows open for the entire day for the first time in the spring.

kristinnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16413234.post-42808367810915831702007-03-29T15:02:00.000+02:002007-03-29T17:08:58.266+02:00

the witch from rapunzel may have been the bogeyman under my bed but darth vader is the bogeyman in my dreams. darth vader often features as the bad guy in my nightmares. sometimes he doesn't wear the classic black suit but it's still him. he doesn't look like hayden christensen either, because then that wouldn't be a nightmare. last night darth vader made an appearance. we turned him from the

kristinnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16413234.post-57918499242045352422007-03-17T12:56:00.000+01:002007-03-20T11:07:12.694+01:00

what i like about getting up on the weekends is not that i get to sleep in but that i get to wake slowly. once i wake up i usually lie in bed in a half-awake, half-asleep stupor thinking half-baked thoughts. i usually get up when the thought of a cup of coffee and my book sounds like the best thing ever. saturday morning in my sleepy almost-drunken state i found myself contemplating a very

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