Archive for July, 2006

Forty-fourth Column

By Evelien - Last updated: Sunday, July 23, 2006

Tonight my forty-fourth column was broadcast in Gendertalk #568.You can find the complete program in the Gendertalk archive.Or you can find just my column at:http://eveliensnel.com/audio/QUE01.mp3A full transcript of the text is below: ¿Que Pasa? “¿Que Pasa?” is Spanish for “What is happening?” And last Tuesday I had no idea what was happening to me. Just [...]

Flickr

By Evelien - Last updated: Sunday, July 16, 2006

nothing melts quite like your eyes Originally uploaded by unrest. Isn’t it nice, all those pictures? But they do take up a lot of storage space on the server. That is why I have been looking for a free hosting site for my pictures. And I have found flickr. By the way: There are loads [...]

Duchess from Eindhoven to Knegsel

By Evelien - Last updated: Saturday, July 15, 2006

I have always wanted to go sailing in a balloon and today it finally happened. If you remember Eindhoven Ballooning you know I made this decision last year already. This time I wanted to experience this event from the inside, not as a spectator. So Julia had enlisted me to fly on Saturday July 15th [...]

Smoke-free day at work

By Evelien - Last updated: Tuesday, July 11, 2006

Soon I will have to go to the VU hospital for the quarterly check-up. Last time that was an unpleasant experience, because three doctors told me it was of vital importance for me to stop smoking. Hey, yeah… I know! But I have been a smoker for thirty years! It is not that easy to [...]

Forty-third Column

By Evelien - Last updated: Sunday, July 9, 2006

Tonight my forty-third column was broadcast in Gendertalk #566.You can find the complete program in the Gendertalk archive.Or you can find just my column at:http://eveliensnel.com/audio/INDEP00.mp3A full transcript of the text is below: 4th of July On the fourth of July it was exactly four years ago I started my coming out at work. Therefore I [...]

Beauty, Brains and CMKRNL

By Evelien - Last updated: Tuesday, July 4, 2006

I was working, looking for some information on the OpenVMS operating system on Internet, when I was suddenly distracted by this button. I hadn’t seen that one in years! Let me try to explain what it means: Have you ever seen someone in a T-shirt with “Got root?” printed on it? That was probably a [...]

Outside

By Evelien - Last updated: Saturday, July 1, 2006

We had such beautiful whether that hardly anyone felt like staying inside on this T&T-evening.; I was chatting on the sidewalk in front of the building with a few people and meanwhile we were looking at two transvestites who were taking each other’s pictures. Out on the street, where everyone could see them! They dare [...]