October 26, 2005
Lately, I've been...(among many other things)
shouting numbers in german...
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pretending to be a tourist in my own Lisboa and feeling at home in Madrid...
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completely offline/unreachable...
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taking naps...
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amused by Smullyan's "5000 bc and Other Philosophical Fantasies" (what a great birthday present from R!)...
"Saul Gorn once told me his theory of asceticism :"It is well known that the longer one postpones a pleasure, the greater the pleasure is when one finally gets it. Therefore, if one postpones it forever, the pleasure should be infinite."
:-))
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finding out about Remedios Varo eerie paintings at Reina Sofia's bookshop...
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fantasizing about buying every book at Librería La Central in Atocha...
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communicating with an otter...
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finding secret doors at Quinta da Regaleira...
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laughing at Hugo & Nicole's purple outfit dancing and singing on the Eurovision Song Contest...
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singing silly portuguese cartoon songs...
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trying to understand spanish slang/smut on the El País classified ads while sitting on a bench in Parque Del Retiro...
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Hah. In short, great holidays.
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and more recently...
irritated by an HR coworker who insisted that I should have had my cellphone on during my holidays because she had something very urgent to tell me. Since that urgent call was not about having been fired or given a raise, it was obviously not that important....
(which makes me want to post about the "cellphone induced social high availability syndrome" and how everyone assumes that just because you own one or because it is on, you MUST take all the calls no matter where you are or what you're doing.)
Maybe later.
Posted by claudia