No, it’s not an oxymoron. Listen to my day yesterday: 8:21 – Miss the train by one minute. Decide to instead do some housekeeping and go and officially register the fact that I am a resident of the Hague at the town hall. 8:32 – Park at the town hall, Read more…
Wow. I can’t believe I actually pulled it off. I mean, a long time ago I hit upon the realization that most of getting things done is just saying that on such and such a date such and such an activity will take place, and then convincing everyone you are Read more…
xcnl > en xcnl > en It’s always interesting when big changes come up in your life and you have (some) time to see them coming and reflect on them. Sadly, that’s not what I was able to do with my move to the Hague. Everything happened so fast that Read more…
So the Table of Contents experienced a first last night: we had six people on our team. Joining us for the first time were Ruben (poker friend), Gioia (pronounced Joy-a, the new German intern who I roped into replacing Julia to carry on the tradition), and Paul (Darien’s friend from Read more…
So, for the first time, my frisbee team (UFO 2, from Utrecht), will be advancing to the first division. The way the frisbee is set up here you play in divisions (there are four or five of them) and you play everyone in your division once and then the people Read more…
Been thinking about blogging about my fantastic Friday for three days. It started with the first truly beautiful weather I’ve seen in the netherlands: sunny and warm. Here’s how it went: I biked around to do some errands, get some photos taken for my new train pass that I’m going Read more…
What a night. From the very beginning we were just on fire. It was Darien, Ian, Ingrid and myself, and in the first three rounds we only got two answers wrong. We missed a few on the picture round (it was animals… who knew THAT was what a yak really Read more…
This is like the fourth speeding ticket I have gotten, and it really frustrates me because two factors have greatly reduced my chances of getting a ticket but STILL the Dutch government finds a way to send me a bill in the mail. First, my car is dying and I Read more…
So without a partner, living in Dordrecht isn’t much fun. Therefore, I decided to move to the Hague. Bigger, nicer town and I know people there and I know they have good Indian food. The good news is there’s a huge amount of supply of available apartments. The bad news Read more…
I forgot to post an entry after our last pub quiz two weeks ago. We finished sixth that time, only 4 points away from first place. Last night though we had a full team (thanks to the addition of Darien) and we started kicking ass right from the beginning. The Read more…