30 april 09

i went to amsterdam for konninginedag. i thought i had to go at least once in 4 years! this year there were the right people, the right weather and i could afford taking few hours off work. so i did.
was really nice: less crowded than i thought, people less drunk that i thought, etc..
result of the day: had fun, some okay pics, my skin feels tense because of the sun, i'm exhausted, i saw soo much orange i'm gonna be fine and no orange for the next 6 months, apart from my sofa that i orange itself and i can't help it.
i also know something horrible happened in appeldorn (and i'm honestly deeply sorry for these people, fucking murderous weirdos!). lucky i wasn't there despite what my mum thought, which caused around 10 phonecalls between holland and italy and more than 4 people getting really worried about me and even my mum trying (obviously unsuccessfully) to understand dutch [all in 1 hour].

i'm safe at home.
my head fluffy and full at the same time.
drinking whiskey and soon going to bed.

I need something to wear

Tomorrow I'm doing this, that is introducing and somehow participating to the debate with prof. Trinh T. Minh-ha, one of the film-maker I work on in my PhD and one of the very few (if not only) scholars that I have some star-like admiration for. No need to say I'm gonna be nervous!
Also, I need to wear something decent (i.e.: not too casual, confortable, looking smart and maybe even apt to spring weather!), and it's not that easy since it appears that I only have 1 pair of not-too-warm-trousers!!
Also, lately I've been hanging out with real femme girls and I admire the style, the passion and the skill of having good clothes for whatever occasions.. now, I don't wanna go there, don't worry, but I'd like to have a wardrobe that includes something "comparable" that I feel good in! Instead, since it's ages since I went shopping, not only tomorrow I have to be nervous about saying clever stuff and giving a good introduction to Trinh and making a good impression for my brain, I also have to spend energy to look good and think about what to wear!
My closet is uninspiring right now!

so, I'm going to sleep.

April caught me by surprise

so, I've realised it has been f o r e v e r since I wrote something here. The official excuse is that I'm busy, the actual reason is that I forgot.. or maybe I'm a lazy writer. Then, when I have to write for some other reasons (e.g. important academic event) I finally have my writing egocentric flow kicking again and here I am.
Too many things happened since November to summarise them now, let's just say I've travelled, taught, worked, met people, read, got the love of my friends, (hopefully) gave some love back, explored new stuff, got to terms with feeling older, learnt what it means to have a long-distance relationship, got used to "having" students, missed my friends, watched stupid stuff on TV, played in a new band, etc..

Also, I figured one of the reason why I don't blog is 'cos I feel like I have to write something clever, and although I like to think of myself as a clever girl, I'm never quite sure as to what to blog about.. but I'm good at short sentences that give you an idea of that's going on in my life. SO then, after some friends telling me (maybe out of exhaustion) that I may be using facebook as if it's twitter, I gave up and opened a twitter account. Which actually happened exactly at the same time as when a friend of mine posted a stupid twitter-fear video..
So, althought I'm pretending I'm not falling into new-trend-technological-exibitionist-devices, I totally am.. but I have the excuse that I want to use my anthropological outlook to explore new social-communicational media.
To cut a long story short, as someone said: "Twitter is basically facebook sans photos". So here you go.

More will follow.
Really.