Notes from Antwerp.
In less than a week I have managed to get some seriously lost time. Both by bicycle (took me 30 min to find my 10-min-away-home) and by bus, only to end up in a place called Heist-op-den-Berg which really doesn't sound like the place to be. Ever.
I haven't started working yet. And being that I haven't really taken summer vacation since I was 14 years old (except for a 2 week graduationtrip to Crete in 2003), I am feeling very useless. In discussions with swedish students about their summerplans many are not working at all and just vacationing.. I have a lot of hows and whats and whys and whens about that...
WHAT do they do all day???
Yesterday I even went driving around whole Belgium with Marlous to take pictures of church windows, for her work. I felt a little less useless to the world.
Then again, this is a good time to catch up on some reading. Again I am head over heels in love with the writer Bill Bryson. This is from his book Notes from a Big Country:
"...Consider this intriguing fact: almost 50,000 Americans are injured each year by pencils, pens and other desk accessories. How do they do it? I have spent many long hours sat at desks when I would have greeted almost any kind of injury as a welcome diversion, but never once have I come close to achieving actual bodily harm.
So I ask again: how do they do it? These are, bear in mind, injuries severe enough to warrant a trip to an emergency room. Putting a staple in the tip of your index finger (which I have done quite a lot, sometimes only semi-accidentally) doesn't count. I am looking around my desk now and unless I put my head in the laser printer or stab myself with the scissors I cannot see a single source of potential harm within 10 feet..."
Heating up for Rock Werchter..
Radiohead - Reckoner
