I just finished making this sketch for a lecture my parish priest has organised. Someone’s coming over on February 9 to talk about “Believing in Merriness” about Marcel Pagnol (1895-1974) I wonder what emotion the flyer is summoning.
If you have thoughts, please comment below.
My brother just sent me this via e-mail, and I thought I’d share it with you all, because it’s awesome. I wish I could have been there and try it out myself. It’s the best use of an old sailing vessel you can think of: put skis under it and sail away!
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In my new efforts to revive my blog, I added lots of interesting blogs to my blogroll in the right hand sidebar. These are the blogs I frequently read and occasionally link to. Have an interesting blog you’re writing or reading and it’s not in the list? Feel free to add it as a comment in the combox.
I only add ‘positive’ blogs to the blogroll, which means they need to contain constructive language. There are enough people bashing other people and try to cry out as loud as they can in the hope to get attention, since negative attention is also attention. That’s not my cup of tea. Oh, and since this blog is in English, I want to keep most of the content in English as well. 
I was planning to blog a bit earlier about this, but life has been crazy the last three weeks. It involved lots of Christmas preparations, which were made a bit more challenging because the city suddenly experienced a whole lot of snow! Normally, the average temperature is between +1 and +5 Celsius (between 34 and 41 Fahrenheit) and although we do get some snow, it never lasts. Usually it’s gone within a day or so. Therefore we were totally unprepared for a ton of snow.
Last weekend I was in town, but after I left my house on Saturday, I didn’t know I wouldn’t sleep in my own bed for the next two days!
It’s Saturday again, and therefore I will be all over the place doing all sorts of things. During the day I want to take snap shots and post them, just because I can. I need to rise early to go to my mom to do laundry (because our washing machine is broken), I need to run errands in downtown Groningen, I want to go to Mass and talk to some English speaking friends afterwards and I bet stuff will happen which wasn’t planned. I love to make pictures of my city!
I hope you’ll enjoy them! I’ll also post them live on whrrl, go over to this link to find them!
After having received a couple of messages that some parts of the site (my library) weren’t working, I just wanted to post a short message to say that I know the plugin has a problem, I also know what it is. I only didn’t have the time to fix it. It should be back to normal next weekend, promised!
I know this isn’t supposed to be a picture blog, but I saw this one posted on Facebook, I think it was by Scott Bilik a few days ago, and I just HAD to repost it here:
I used to hate it when my mom would bring up the ‘think about the children in Africa’ thing. 
A small post with an update on the personal front. I’m happy to share my health is definitely improving. I can notice I’m able to do more and more every week. I’m also able to pick up more and more activities. Usually I’m very stupid when it concerns resuming my daily activities. Once I feel good, I just do anything I can do, only to completely collapse afterwards again. I now really try not to do everything at the same day, not even when I feel great. I’m telling myself not to overdo it, because I would regret it the next day. It’s very hard to find the right balance!
I also want to share what a great day I had yesterday! I got up very early to work on producing a whole stack of Audio Breviary podcasts to upload them in advance and have them posted automatically. This way I don’t stress out when a day comes I can’t produce any podcasts. While I was doing some editing work, I got a phone call from my parish priest. He invited me over for dinner with yesterday’s speaker. I was super surprised, because I didn’t expect any of this. So suddenly I had to wrap up podcasting, get myself ready and leave to have dinner with a very famous theology professor and my parish priest at a local restaurant. I’m still mildly surprised one day later.
The talk that Prof. Van Geest did was great and he even gave us permission to record it for the parish podcast. So that’s more work for me to do in the coming two weeks. It’s about 1 hour and 15 minutes of talking, so I need to edit that in such a way it’s easier to digest for those who couldn’t make it to the talk. I really had a blast yesterday.
This morning I woke up in a serene mood, because it appeared that the workers with their heavy equipment making my life miserable for the last two weeks left too. They needed to cut down a number of trees next to my apartment building and you won’t believe how jarring the noise was. It made me very cranky because I had to endure that every day for two weeks starting at 7:30 AM until 4:00 PM. It is sooo quiet all of a sudden now they left… it’s GREAT!
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