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Sister doesn't like doin' it for herself

I’ve been professionally translating for a while now and I’ve had my business since June 2009. Ever since, I’ve been longing for a job with regular pay and benefits like a pension and the ability to fall back on welfare if I have to. It’s not that I hate running my own business… well [...]

Charlatans

This morning I got quite pissed off by an article I read in Sp!ts. After a report in the dutch TV programme Zembla about how medium Char Margolis (apparently only known in the Netherlands) uses cold reading to ‘speak to the dead’, it would seem that she’s back for more. This time she talks [...]

Why Twitter drives me nuts

Twitter is actually quite awesome. For me, it’s the middle between IRC, MSN and text messaging. You can see it as public texting: say you want to go out, well you can tweet that and other twitterers read it and they can decide to join you. For me that works great, in a number [...]

In Alk Maar kunnen ze ook niet spellen

FW:FW:FW:FW: Kettingmail

Sinds ik op Hyves actief ben (en ook eigenlijk daarvoor al een beetje) heb ik hier last van: mailtjes van vrienden/familie waarin gevraagd wordt dingen door te sturen aan zoveel mogelijk mensen die je kent. Vandaag had ik weer een nieuwe, dit was de aloude Hallmark Hoax, al in alle talen over de hele [...]

That darned road

It’s my 25th birthday today, so I figured I should give an update.

Birthdays always make me think of how old I really feel. I can’t actually call myself a girl anymore (though I still do), but I’m not exactly a grownup either. At this point I’m sortof in between everything. I have [...]

Home is where the food and pettings are

Wow, some things are too good to be true. Our big (no, huge) tomcat Yoda just came back home after he ran away about two months ago. I only saw a glimpse of him two weeks after that, but he just ran off again. We thought he was lost forever. Since he never lost [...]

De betonnen muur… van rook

1 juli gaat bij mij de vlag uit. In mijn hoofd dan, niet op de voorgevel, want mijn ouders zijn kettingrokers. Net als mijn broertje, die hard op weg is beide ouders te verslaan. Zo trof ik hem laatst om drie uur ‘s nachts in een duistere huiskamer aan, het enige licht afkomstig van [...]

Halal-pesten

Ik was op het werk dus een beetje ingestort en ik had besloten om naar huis te gaan, want op het werk was ik even waardeloos. Stap ik in de tram, staan er twee van die halal-meisjes naast me. Je weet wel, het type ‘gebrekkig nederlands, arrogante houding’. Van die allochtoontjes met allure, truttige [...]

*BEEPBEEP*

I honestly need a new alarm clock. As some people might know I have a few weeks off to take care of my brother, and part of that means getting up at 5 am to see him off to work (in case you’re wondering: my brother is 21 but at a mental age [...]