- A day with Mama. She visited me in Munich for the first time and (after picking up my Russian visa) we spent a sunny day at Hofgarten, the Korean beauty store, ate ramen noodle soup and ice-cream at Ballabeni. We need to do that more often!
- Watching smoke wavering and wafting in the sunset. Beautiful shapes.
- Going to Maike's birthday party, very spontaneously. I enjoyed the company of quick-witted, intelligent film journalists - culturally knowledgeable and eloquent. I need more people in my life who can teach me something. Who challenge me.
- The school theatre performance. The kids were so nervous but so good. They can often do and be so much more than we assume.
- Clearing out the furnace - I love the transformation of the glazing in the heat and the first look at the sculptures after opening the door. I usually annoy the hell out of Doris by asking if the oven is cool enough yet to open it because I just can't wait. So impatient.
- We had a lot of fun with FaceApp at the board game night (it takes your picture and transforms you into a child, a wo/man or makes you really old and wrinkly - I look pretty much like my dad as a dude and my mum looks liker her uncle) and played Tokaido and AnnoDomini.
- Ryan Adams recorded a whole cover album of Taylor Swift's 1989! And I just found out about this! Of course I had to listen to Shake it Off first.
- Marteria - Das Geld muss weg / Alt-J - In Cold Blood (a hymn for coding?)
- Pretty shelves.
- Walking home from the tube in the middle of the night, watching a young couple kissing behind the bicycles.
- Michi told me I was beautiful. Or, well, at least he said that there is absolutely nothing wrong with my face.
- And personally I also think that I look pretty cute in panties and a tank top.
- Wow. Next month I'm gonna have 6 years worth of Things I Love lists.
- Taking pictures on the balcony with Lena and Lexi. All of us wearing summer dresses. A beautiful étagère with strawberries (Sash is a good étagère model), blueberries and Raffaellos. Unlimited birthday pizza. A good talk with Michi. Soap bubbles. Starting to deal books (graphic novels are a hit at the moment and I borrowed a Murakami and Ronja Räubertochter).
- Beautiful caramel pumpkin seed twix bars.
- A firefly with a big green butt, spotted from my balcony one night.
- Germany legalizing gay marriage.
- Reading about Saturn return.
- Ralf Nietmann (@Rosaistschlecht) - effortless and gorgeous... can I ever make art like that?
- Travelling around the Baltic sea with Mohana. Here are some happy memories:
- Helsinki: Going to the sauna on a nasty, particularly cold and rainy day; swimming in the sea pool afterwards / Karhu huurre (preferrably in the sunset on an outside-sofa because why the hell not) / Swedish subtitles everywhere / the picture-perfect trip to Suomenlinna / drawing on the ferry, in our window in Tallinn, on a rock in Suomenlinna / riding a proper ferry for the first time - might me one of my favourite means of transport actually / Tove Jansson's wall art and the fact that she sneaked her lesbian lover into the paintings / white nights, empty streets in almost-daylight at 2am / sunset over the Töölö waters, Sibelius park / Daim ice-cream with liquorice / Nidar Smash (basically Bugles covered in chocolate, SO GOOD) / a nice long-haired dude with an "Eat Pussy not Animals" T-Shirt //
- Tallinn: Lilac bushes everywhere / a street food market, truffle popcorn, candy sticks, lobster rolls / a spontaneous visit to a burlesque show - the lady dancing in hoofs to Rammstein was rad / having a sundowner on the rooftop of some mall / buying a bunch of lilies of the valley from an old lady / an afternoon at the Baltic Sea, having Russian ice-cream cones at the beach //
- St. Petersburg: meeting Gaio and Stefan, practising my French / Karaoke with Julia, Veronika and the Swiss - the Russians were SO good though / visiting a cat café with ex-employees from the Heremitage / Etazhi project / a canal tour / pierogi and borsht //
- Many northern souvenirs: dresses from Other Stories and H&M, a Suomenlinna poster, earrings, Mumin merchandise, an "Art is Popcorn for the Brain" tote bag from Helsinki Art Museum.
- Voice messages from Anika.
- Panama Plus festival at Kreativquartier! Seeing Pollyester and Ankathie Koi live. Meeting MONSIEUR!!! (Simon M.) Seeing Markus again, almost a year after meeting in Berlin for the first time. A book flea market. Craft beer. Stealing a poster from AskHelmut. A VERY pretty drummer.
- Food writing - for example everything ever written by Ruth Reichl, Sweetbitter by Stephanie Danler or this article by Bee Wilson. I think food writing might be one of my true passions, just like gender equality, for example.
- Meeting (seeing) Sofia Coppola at Filmfest München - she gave an hour-long interview on her new movie The Beguiled. I also saw Fatih Akin that evening and Horst Seehofer after having a good time with Lexi, Maike and her friend at the beergarden on Wiener Platz.
- A dream: Kilian and Ashley handstitched grey pearls onto my legs after waking up on big commputer/machine bed.
- Franzi and Ralf's wedding. It was a beautiful evening, I got my Patronus beer tag, everyone was so pretty. I loved the little speeches they gave for one another.
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