I wrote
- “I GOT THE VISA, LOL” (it was a very desperate “LOL” though)
- Too many texts
- About friendship
- “Actually, it’s about ethics in software development.” – “… … … !!!”
- “I have no idea about Christmas markets. Every year, I try to be out of town before that’s a thing again.”
- “stoptimezones2017.com”
I read
- The email I’d been waiting for.
- A very pretentious SMS
- A Time for Refusal
- How Meetup ditched its Boys Club
- The Good, Racist People
- Leonard Cohen Makes it Darker
- Six Months Later
- Makronen! Meine Fresse!
- Useful new texting acronyms
- Confronting Racism in Berlin, One Offensive T-Shirt at a Time
- How to keep going
- “You had me at ‘Hello World.'”
I found
- out how amazing a tea of fresh ginger, a little bit of fresh mint, and lemon juice is
- A supermarket
- Summer
I watched (or saw)
- Good Girls Revolt
- easy
- Modern Family
- The super moon
- Rocky Horror Picture Show
- Verdi’s Un ballo in Maschera
- The sea at night (euphemism for: total darkness)
- Gilmore Girls – A Year in the Life
- A skyscraper during sunset
- Rainbow-coloured flowers
- The two prettiest dogs (and they both looked a bit like sheep)
- Brooklyn Nine-Nine (actually, I didn’t really watch it – I fell asleep every time I tried watching it)
- Up
I said
- “I’m waiting for you at the dog parking space.”
- “Read more of my unsolicited advice in my upcoming book ”The audience doesn’t know what you don’t know’ and more speaking advice I should never have given”. In a book store nearby in spring 2017.”
- “I’ll take any reason to get my friends together for drinks.”
- “You can’t just mess up our schedules like this.”
- “If I were a superhero, I’d be SUPER TENSE WOMAN.” – “………”
- “Aaaaaaaaall byyyyyyy myyyyyseeeeeeelf…”
I was
- On a train
- Relieved
- At the Opera
- In full on panic mode
- As ready for a vacation as one can be
- There
- On a plane
- On another plane
- IN STRAYA
- On the internet again
- On the most cluttered taxi I’ve ever seen
- At the coworking space
- In the park
- At the most pretentious place on Earth
- Sad
- Extremely unrelaxed (or super un-chill, or so; English is hard)
- Worried
- Relieved
- Lonely
- In the back yard under a tree wearing sunglasses and enjoying the fact that I could see the sun
I did
- Rearrange my furniture (again)
- Bring pizza
- Write a packing list
- Reschedule meetings
- Try to chill
- Burn the tip of my thumb while trying to light a candle
- Google signs of jetlag
- Dress up as Luke Danes from Gilmore Girls (yes, I had the shirt, the base cap, and, of course, the beard)
- Make plans
- Toss all plans out of the window
- Take a skyscraper selfie
- Not see a Quokka (and I’d like to thank everyone who did not point out to me that what I had seen was definitely not a Quokka; thanks for leaving me these 15 minutes of joy, until I googled and found out that it had been a Possum :'( )
I did…, although it was a bad idea
- Not sleep
- Go shopping
- …on a Saturday
- Decide to re-write a 30-minute-presentation from scratch ?
- …less than one week before the conference ??? (yes, we all knew it was going to happen)
- Try to take a 30-minute-nap (and wake up 4 hours later) ???
I had
- Another cold. (This winter is hard.)
- More hot lemon juice
- Meatballs
- Aioli
- Thom Kha Gai
- Pizza
- Sweet Potato Pancakes
- Scotch
- A drink with Haribo (I kid you not; and it was fantastic)
- A Bagel on the longest day
- Toothache
- Soup
- Garlic bread
- Granola on the balcony
- More Meatballs
- A bagel
- No coffee
I heard
- “Let’s get married.”
- “Stay away from the Koalas, they get you Syphilis.” – “????!”
- Some very good news.
- The first person who approached me about plans for new year’s eve
- “I broke my ice cream cone.”
- “I don’t think there are sexually prolific koalas… thats a sentence I never thougjt I’d ever say.”
- “It might be time to harvest sloth hair for the future of medicine.”
- “This article says that it would be the best solution to kill all koalas.” – “??!”
- “Sloths know something that the rest of us don’t.”
- “Do you know this amazing website www.youtube.com?”
- “I’m too relaxed.”
- “Let there be nothing but our love – Estinto tutto, tutto sia fuorché l’amor.”
- “Boarding complete.”
- “I know you said you wanted to take a break. But… don’t.”
I learned
- I can make people fall asleep by telling them about my experiences in server administration.
- How to say “mate” like a proper Australian. … Ok, that was a lie.
I listened to
- Leonard Cohen – Hallelujah
- Someone
- Mystery Jets – Someone Purer
- Woods of Birnam – I’ll call the Hamlet
- The Perennials – Miss Marionette
- Kid Kopphausen – Das leichteste der Welt
- Antonio Vivaldi – The Four Seasons: ‘Winter’ (Concerto in F Minor Op. 8 No.4): Allegro non molto
I thought
- About moons
- About big life choices
- About career plans
- About the concept of home
- About ways to get a Wombat to come home with me and love me forever <3
