Internal Dialogue

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I can’t say that the near daily sessions of loud talking – sometimes shouting – and things falling and apparently breaking hasn’t caught my attention. As I wrote in an earlier blog here, the public safety in this part of the neighbourhood is on the decline. The situation is clearly not yet out of control, [...]

In an earlier journal at my anonymous location I wrote about moments of total clarity. Moments in which the things that might have kept you awake at night become totally clear. Moments during which you suddenly understand everything you were wondering about during the past few weeks or possibly even months.
There is, however, a complete [...]

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[entry in Dutch due to quotes and, well, just because it is]
Uit het dagelijks leven.
Stoptrein Utrecht Centraal – Baarn, ~23:00:
Omroepen van de conducteur / machinist:
“Het is lang, het is recht, station Utrecht Overvecht!”
Gelach.
“U zult het niet geloven, station Bilthoven!”
Meer gelach.

A little over a year ago I wrote a blog entitled “Why I Believe” which detailed my belief in the existence of extraterrestrials. Reading back, I see someone who’s incredibly enthusiastic about believing in something that he cannot prove. Someone who does not believe in government conspiracies or wacky UFO-stories, but does believe in something [...]

I kind of destroyed my feet yesterday playing DDR! I don’t think I’ve ever played that much and intense in an arcade since I started playing late last year. And although I’m feeling a few consequences today, I really don’t mind. It was a lot of fun and totally worth it: I even cleared one [...]

I don’t accomplish very much on hot days like these. For starters, I wake up pretty early – well, before the alarm goes off that is – sweating because of the sun that’s shining directly into my room. The curtains don’t help much, either. They don’t even stop the daylight from coming in that well.
Not [...]