Found
- The BEST dog:
Wrote
- “I’m not sure if it’s a good sign that I recognised this place just from the furniture.”
- “I know this dog.”
Watched (or saw)
- Two performances I’ll never forget (and both for their very own reasons)
- A tiny mountain range in ice on a table
- Rogue One, twice
- Someone with a smiley balloon
- Beer forming small streams on the subway floor
- The sunrise above the sea
- A skyline at night
Said
- “Happy New Goat!”
- “Are we a classic case of customer loyalty gone a little bit too far?”
- “I’m carving out my own self-confidence like it was a pumpkin and I was making a Halloween lantern.”
- “I had a safety pin and vodka. What else should I have done?”
- “He needs someone for the long run and I need… curtains!”
- “It’s with nitro, it’s awesome!”
- “It had philosophy, vampires, Buffy references, stuff about smashing the patriarchy, and a feminist agenda. That’s all I need!”
- “You should really lower your expectations towards me.”
- “Make sure I can finally forget.”
- “I would like to assure you that, yes, I do have the look and feel of a giant pixel.”
- “I have a pizza reflux.”
- “Unfortunately, as we already know, calendars.”
- “I rarely say that these days, but this gives me a tiny bit of hope.”
- “I kind of want to get married now just to test how ‘quick and easy’ a divorce here actually is.”
- “I think my brain has given up on trying to understand where I am.”
Was
- In the theatre
- By the fireplace
- In Portugal
- In the cinema
- Desperate
- Asked to pick the music in the café
- In full-on panic mode
- In the US
- Jetlagged, maybe
- Overcaffeinated, likely
Did
- Have the last Pastéis de Nata
- Buy more books (in case you want to send me a present someday: I really like books)
- Return home to find flowers on the floor and get scared af
- Make birthday plans (already)
- Wear six plus one shades of eyeshadow for reasons. And mean it.
- Show up when it mattered
- Pet many great dogs
- Find the best place in New York (seriously)
- Wear a party hat
Did…, although it was a bad idea
- Count.
- Not recharge my camera battery in time.
Had
- Persimmon
- Pizza
- Bagels
- Donuts
- Pizza on my coat
- Coffee on my nose
- Coffee all over my face (only because of the rain)
Read the internet
- How Being Naked Challenged My Definition Of Self Love
- Australia Is Not as Down Under as Everyone Thinks It Is
- Das System Alice Schwarzer
Read Books
- rupi kaur: milk and honey
- Brooke Barker: Sad animal facts
- Between the Silence of Voices: An Anthology of Contemporary Ecuadorian Women Poets
- A Little Anthology of Portuguese Poems
- Lisbon Poets: Bilingual Edition
- Emily Brontë: The Night is Darkening Round Me
- Sandra Kasturi: Come late to the love of birds
- Rebecca Solnit: A Field Guide To Getting Lost
- Leonard Cohen: Book of Longing
- Albert Jack: Loch Ness Monsters and Raining Frogs: The World’s Most Puzzling Mysteries Solved
E se um dia hei-de serpó, cinza e nada,
Que seja a minha noite uma alvorada,
Que me saiba perder… pra me encontrar…
And if one day I’ll be dust, ash, and nothingness,
then may my nighttime be a dawn,
may I learn to be lost… so I can find myself…
– Florbela Espanca, excerpt from Amar!
Heard
- “Soooo… what’s the latest Lena-gossip?”
- “What are you doing?” – “Having coffee, sitting around, not thinking about the end of the world. The usual.”
- “I am just a creature of cheap snacks and air conditioning.” – “Add some gaffer tape to hold it together, and you get me.”
- “Today is the day of nothing.”
- “Vampire times time equals long-term decision making strategy.”
- “This drink tastes like pizza.”
- “You should wear a beard.” (We’ve been to this point before. This time though, it was repeated by several people independently (one of them weighing in from 10 time zones east); so it looks like this is getting serious.)
- “‘You should be cast as Ryan Gosling’, thats what I keep telling myself.”
- “Do you like Ryan Gosling?” – “No.” — “But what if he were pizza?!”
- “This is the first time I’ve seen you in jeans. Usually, you’re much more presentable.”
- “Are there Drop Bears in Spreewald?”
- “You’re likely not expecting that, but what if the date goes well?”
- “We have a problem.” — “No, we have a challenge!”
- “Blankets, coffee, pizza. Your place. Now.”
- “I look like I have serious problems.” — “You do, but I still hope they’re not as big as they look right now.”
- “The future has a dog sitting in a window.”
- “The best advice I can give you is: don’t follow your dreams.”
Listened to
- Tim Minchkin – Not perfect
- Antonio Vivaldi – Concerto No. 4 in F minor, Op. 8, RV 297, “Winter”
- The Boxer Rebellion – Pull yourself together
- Daft Punk – Veridis Quo
- H-Burns – Naked
- Jules Ahoi & The Deepsea Orchestra – Robinson Crusoe
- Muse – Knights of Cydonia
- Soak – Immigrant Song
- 7fields – The First Day
- Findlay – Wild & Unwise
- The Coral – After the rain
- Kid Wise – Hope
- Bear’s Den – Berlin
Thought about
- Versioning.
- Change.
- Conference speaking.
- Trash fires, the world and activism in the year 2017.
- Finality and how you can never be fully prepared for how sad it’s going to be when it’s actually over.
- All the things that still must end.
- On a scale from 1 to LOL, how likely is it to get someone’s consent for starting a relationship with them, only because one wants to hang out with their dog on a regular basis?
- And if it’s really the cutest, fluffiest, and overall best dog ever (and the person inquiring is at least trying to be a half-decent human being)?
You can always get your own dog, it’s much more rewarding 😉