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An old country interlude
Helena and I are in Belgrade (Matei joining us later on today) where we have been frolicking in the heat and having a wonderful time despite watching Djokovic painful loss at Wimbledon yesterday. Helena incidentally only proved what astar she was by entertaining herself while adults were glued to tennis, and then going around patting us on the head ( Read more... ) -
10 years and counting
10 years ago : I was living in Liverpool, struggling with my MSc and with my flatmates habit of having raucous parties weekly and loudly singing melancholic Greek songs (daily). I was deeply deeply depressed walking a precipice so steep that it's only by the grace of God that I managed to keep putting one foot in front of the other. And while it ( Read more... ) -
Statements my husband has made, otherwise known as ways my life has been impacted by television
Z: "I would really like a Samurai Sword. They look cool and also in case of the Zombie Apocalypse."
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Z: "You know, ever since we have been watching Hannibal I have really been feeling inspired to cook." -
My review of "The fault in our stars" by John Green
It is 2am. I'm sitting up in bed reading and weeping so hard that it startles Z into consciousness ( Read more... ) -
Confucious say woman running to catch a train sometimes falls down the stairs instead*
In an uncharacteristic bout of trend-setting I managed to do in the ligaments of my left-leg just before the snows and have since been fighting for priority seats on public transport with a seasonal drove of other crippled ones. This only reinforces my earlier suspicions that I am not made for running and that no good comes of it ( Read more... ) -
The Pictoral Book of Grievances
In the absence of being able to write* Matei has been turning to drawing in order to document the violations of order and propriety he witnesses on a daily basis (mostly ones done by his sister). He has taken to this project with the commitment and dedication of a Stasi and usually collates the evidence and presents it to me on a daily basis ( Read more... ) -
testing
greetings fiends!
i have a thrilling new phone and tbe possibilkty of social connectivity if i manage to overcome the multiple choice russian that is the lj app
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Applied mathematics
Today my mum accompanied Matei while she fruitlessly attempted to get her prescription filled, and returned home very impressed by the new vocabulary he had heard.
"We met so many wankers today!" he informed us brightly. "First we met two, and then we went to another shop and met another one!"
"How many wankers was that in total?"
"Three!"
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less like a victorian lady, more like a myotonic goat
Well, it turns out that despite my best intentions working 45+ hour weeks continues to be the death of my internet habit ( Read more... ) -
the happy hour
When Z and I remember the antics of Bedtimes Past (featuring one Matei who did not begin sleeping on his own in his own bed until the age of 4) we look at each other in the disbelieving way of two people who have come through a wartime and shake our heads as we reminsce over anecdotes ( Read more... )