X-MAS TREE

My X-mas tree 2010: a 9V battery with a click-on plastic tree with led lights. Ella Fitzgerald, the Dresdner Kreuzkirche choir and Sarah Maclachlan singing in the background.


- Posted from my iPhone

FOOTBALL UNDER COVER

Yesterday I watched the documentary Football undercover, a wonderful report on how "an amateur female soccer team from Berlin goes on a nerve-wracking journey trying to carry out the first female soccer match in the history of Iran." (www.imdb.com). My favourite scenes are those during the soccer match outside of the stadium. Only women are allowed in and so officials, husbands, brothers and journalists, all men, gather outside of the stadium. They can hear the(ir) women cheering, but they don't know what's going on. Meanwhile, inside the stadium, Teheran women are thoroughly enjoying a match of football and let go of all restrictions they normally have to bear in live. They sing, they dance, they cheer and some of them let go of their head scarves. It draws an unusual picture of Iranian women doing what they want, leaving men powerless for 2x45 minutes...

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BIRTHDAY EVE

On my 33th birthday eve I
- downloaded a mindfulness and Nike+running app
- ate green chicken curry with three kinds of beans
- tried not to over-think the past year too much (even though perhaps I should)
- wanted to take time to process my therapy session of the afternoon
- decided what to wear tomorrow (red skirt and bright orange sweater)
- doubted about whether or not to skype Mr. (I didn't)
- watched a bit of RTL blvd and DWDD
- got annoyed with my computer as it is soooo slow...
- drank tasteless supermarket white wine
- sat and stared at nothing a lot
- did not pity myself, but wasn't too happy either
- went to bed at 22.20h, saving a sleeping pill for tomorrow night
....yeah...