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Thirty-eighth Column
Tonight my thirty-eighth column was broadcast in Gendertalk #557.You can find the complete program in the Gendertalk archive.Or you can find just my column at:http://www.eveliensnel.com/audio/SMOKE01.mp3A full transcript of the text is below: Smoking This week I had the usual appointments with the gender team specialists in the VU-hospital in Amsterdam. I have to go there [...]
Railroad traffic controller (2)
Today’s subject: Malfunctions. Sometimes the system reports a section of the track is occupied, although there is no train at all. This can be caused by many things: A broken wire, a short-circuit between the rails or sticking relay contacts in the security system.The only way to find out what the real situation is, is [...]
Railroad traffic controller
Suddenly my phone starts to ring. I pick up the receiver and try to sound like this is routine for me: “Boxtel traffic control…““Hi, this is the engine driver in train 5223 on track 504. Why can’t I proceed?““O, I’m sorry. We are just moving a freight train to the side track. It is blocking [...]
Thirty-seventh Column
Tonight my thirty-seventh column was broadcast in Gendertalk #555.You can find the complete program in the Gendertalk archive.Or you can find just my column at:http://eveliensnel.com/audio/MIRROR01.mp3A full transcript of the text is below: MirrorI think most of us M2F-folks spend a lot of time in front of the mirror doing our make-up, checking our clothing or [...]
A Personal Gift
This week “esta” magazine came with a personal gift for me! A dispenser for sweets to put in your coffee with my name on it. What a nice gesture from them. Or did this gift have something to do with the TV-series “evelien”?Evelien, the woman who has everything a woman could desire but is bored [...]
Thirty-sixth Column
Tonight my thirty-sixth column was broadcast in Gendertalk #554.You can find the complete program in the Gendertalk archive.Or you can find just my column at:http://www.eveliensnel.com/audio/TRUE01.mp3A full transcript of the text is below: True Love I have some good news for you this week: My spouse Julia and I have decided to come back together again.As [...]
Talk, talk, talk
This month we had to do without DJ Silvia on the T&T-meeting.; She is suffering a lot of pain in her legs and wasn’t able to come. The result was this evening had a totally different atmosphere from all the usual T&T-evenings.; I missed the music. We couldn’t dance now. And I missed Silvia herself. [...]