News from the School.
Still laughing my head off. Got this from the Guardian’s backbencher newsletter – they did not yet feature it in the alumni newsletter ;). Congratulations to Monica Lewinsky, who will begin an MSc in social psychology at the LSE next month. Regrettably, the option on Gender and Psychology, which includes a unit on workplace relations, [...]
read onSummertime.
Just as Doug mentioned over on afoe, and as you might be experienceing yourselves, my gentle readers – it’s summertime. And summertime means that most Europeans enjoy the easy livin’, particularly during August, when entire countries seem to relocate to the sea. Unfortunately, the Air France flight that crash landed in Toronto a couple of [...]
read onLeft behind what?
Spam is almost always annoying. Comment spam is the worst, because it requires additional attention, not rarely amounting to more time than it take to write a blog post. But there is also the rare instance where spam is fun or prompts reflection about its underlying social meaning, as in today’s case. “Don’t get left [...]
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Quality of Life.
Sometimes, life is a beach. Even in Germany, even in this politically exciting year.
read onSaving Toby?
I’m at loss for words. Those of you, my gentle readers, who know me, will be able to certify that being in that state is a rather unnatural condition for me. However, I just found out about a website called savetoby.com. Being a Toby myself, I felt the need to inquire what was going on [...]
read onBy the way…
it’s somehow become summer over here. And my sister has actually posted another entry in her blog.
read onCollateral Damage.
I’ve noticed that all those subscribing to the rss feed of almost a diary are probably unaware of the changes in the server configuration that took place over the last couple of weeks… well, at least my bloglines account told me that it’s still January in the old rss feed. That’s because the old blog [...]
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Sarcasm.
For those not familiar with German brands, “Granini” is higher quality fruit juice brand… though I love the sarcastic use of their glasses to sell a glowing poisonous something…
read onGetting There.
Hello again! I know it has been a while since I’ve posted more than the occasional photo or a brief message to all ye faithful out there. Well, I’m not promising anything, but as you can see, I’ve redesigned “almost a diary” with the intention to write more frequently again. There’s also a new blog, [...]
read on35 degrees
It’s -5 degrees at home. It’s snowing. In Rio, it’s 30 degrees. Sun’s shining. That’s about 1,5 degrees shift per hour for me until tomorrow evening.
read onGreat Expectations.
See? There’s always something to hope for in a new year…
read on- 16%
That’s how to stimulate the German aggregate demand: cut the VAT. Media Markt did just that – if only for a day. Consequence: queues unheard of since the end of communism. Unbelievable.
read onAdvertisement.
Ever wondered why you might need contacts but never dared to ask? This horrible advertisement in the Hamburg S-Bahn thinks it has the answer…
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Homeland Security.
One day, someone needs to write a book about the things one can discover in pub toilets. Really.
read onMoving (towards 2005)
As this year is slowly approaching its final hours, you should be grateful that I have decided to spare you yet another “bottom line of 2004″ post. Not that there would be much to sum up with respect to “almost a diary” anyway. But I wanted to tell you that at some point in the [...]
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The Ninth Day
Oscar-winning German director Volker Schlöndorff discusses his latest movie “Der Neunte Tag” (The Ninth Day) at the FilMZ movie festival in Mainz.
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Texan-friendly staff
It seems the Mexican restaurant I am having dinner at tonight is serious about the spirit of ‘reaching out’ to Texans after George W. Bush’s re-election, and is accordingly only employing Texan-friendly staff.
read onAlice S.
Well, I suppose it had to happen one day. And when it happened, it was not quite like you imagined it would be – sound familiar? Well, I am of course talking about meeting Alice Schwarzer.
read onDis-Gus-Ting
Well, tomorrow I’m going to attend a little talk and discussion about the hijab with Germany’s most prominent feminista, Alica Schwarzer. So I’ve been reading up a little on the web about her and the history of feminism, and feminist positions on a variety of things… so – click, click, click – I find myself [...]
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