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Cabaret and Champagne
No, I didn’t say Cabaret Champagne, I said Cabaret and Champagne. For years and years that has been the way we spend New Year’s Eve together. And this year was no exception. Tonight I went to visit Julia and so did our dear friend L. As far as cabaret (Dutch word for stand-up comedians) is [...]
Interview
That poor journalist has to travel by public transportation! I hadn’t expected that… So I have agreed to pick her up at the railway station. And we won’t do the interview at a restaurant, as I had originally planned, we will do it at my place instead. Now that the cleaning team has done its [...]
Little time left
Buzz, buzz, buzz, tidleedee, tidleedah!Hmmmm?Tidleedee, tidleedah!O, today it is my cell phone! Luckily I am prepared for anything today!Tidleedee, tidleedah!I grab the phone from the bedside table and answer the call. It is the newspaper journalist. She wants to postpone our meeting to tomorrow morning… OK, no problem…I put down the phone, roll over and [...]
Cleaning team
RRrrrrrrrrrrriiinnnngggggggg!RRrrrrrrrrrrriiinnnngggggggg!OH NO! Not again!RRrrrrrrrrrrriiinnnngggggggg!Again I roll myself out of bed…RRrrrrrrrrrrriiinnnngggggggg!“If this is the same guy who called me yesterday, I will tell him…“RRrrrrrrrrrrriiinnnngggggggg!I manage to reach the phone in time…“Would you open the door please? The cleaning team is here!“Oh yes, it is Wednesday! Julia and our dear friend L. come here to clean the [...]
Order! Order!
RRrrrrrrrrrrriiinnnngggggggg!RRrrrrrrrrrrriiinnnngggggggg!“Huh, what?“RRrrrrrrrrrrriiinnnngggggggg!Ow, it’s the phone!Reluctantly I roll myself out of bed…RRrrrrrrrrrrriiinnnngggggggg!“Yes, yes, I am coming!“RRrrrrrrrrrrriiinnnngggggggg!Where on Earth is that thing?I pick it up… But I am too late already! They have hung up… At times like this I would love to know the number of the caller. If I knew who it was I could [...]
Rest at last
A few days off from work, my 29th. column sent to Gendertalk just in time, the next deadline for my translation work not until January 9th… Is it possible to find some rest now? An opportunity to sleep in and… Oh, yeah! Work on my blog, finish my course, clean up the mess in my [...]
Twenty-ninth Column
This December was a very difficult month for me and I found hardly any time for posting entries to my blog yet. But of course “The show must go on”. I need to post an entry for Gendertalk every two weeks. So here it is… Tonight my twenty-ninth column was broadcast in Gendertalk #542.You can [...]
Twenty-eighth Column
Tonight my twenty-eighth column was broadcast in Gendertalk #540.You can find the complete program in the Gendertalk archive.Or you can find just my column at:http://eveliensnel.nl/audio/POOR01.mp3A full transcript of the text is below: Poverty Last week I got a very surprising email from someone I have never met in real life. I have only met this [...]
Work and Work
The T&T-evening; had a slow start this month. I was already hoping we wouldn’t have to work too hard this month at the bar, but as the evening proceeded it did get quite busy and we had a very good turnover in the end. Julia and me were both on duty this month, I was [...]
The first day
I got up at 6 AM so that I would be able to leave home a 7 o’clock. The A2 freeway was as I had expected it: Traffic jam, traffic jam, traffic jam… Fortunately I managed to reach my new work place just before nine, as agreed.I hadn’t met my new boss yet, not even [...]