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  • carrying Zora, the fluffy little white dog, and feeling her warmth through my t-shirt
  • cooking and storing away the left-overs
  • raspberry & coconut sorbet. great combo!
  • making real chia pudding that actually has a pudding-texture, following this.
  • the BBC Cormoran Strike series is going to air on 27th August!
  • the trams with black & white stripes and Sephora print
  • finding Emma Cline's The Girls and Terry Pratchett's A Slip of the Keyboard on sale at Thalia. And the brilliantly written prologue in The Girls: "Sleek and thoughtless as sharks breaching the water."
  • watching Friends in bed, drinking orange juice and 43-liqueur (which together tastes like solero split), eating sour cream & onion corn crisps, living my best life
  • the lovely Hayley Webster on twitter, e.g. her porridge with muscovado sunk to the bottom and syrup on top
  • my mum picking me up at the publishing house, so i could show her around, spending a really nice evening with her, and then randomly meeting Meike late at night on my way home
  • a star-speckled night sky over the countryside near Bochum after the wedding of old friends
  • reading about Vienna and all the deliciousness in its cafés and bistros in my Lonely-Planet-travel guide, which was worth absolutely every penny
  • plumble (plum crumble) & rhumble (rhubarb crumble)
  • mushroom risotto, popcorn and "101 Dalmatians"
  • Walter Moers has a beautiful new novel out!
  • thinking of the search for my own flat as Meike described it: i have a box of treasures in front of me and just need to look for the thing i want and grab it.
  • feeling possibilities open up: Alina from work asked whether we could go for lunch sometime, Svenja from Bastei/ Emons and i can go for a coffee, i met with Meike today, ...
  • that honey-lavender-rye bread from Joseph Brot
  • finally seeing the bookshop "Hartliebs Bücher" for real & buying Wolfgang Herrndorfs 'Arbeit und Struktur', which the booksellers greatly approved of me buying, and the first Harry Potter in English
  • drinking wine in a beautiful vineyard just outside of Vienna, with a glass of wine and some traditional Austrian sandwiches (pumpkinseed spread and Liptauer cheese spread), watching the twilight, the view over Grinzing and Vienna and the tiny bats flying over our heads, occasionally stealing some grapes straight from the vine
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