- A spontaneous overnight trip to Salzburg with Lexi. The Austrian supermarket. Peach toilet paper. Way too many calories (Kaspressknödel, Spinatknödel, meringue with whipped cream...), a spa night at our hotel (sauna, steam bath, watching the neighbours in their fancy penthouse, selfie session with fruit), crisp sheets, the BEST Sunday breakfast, interesting exhibitions at the modern museum (items dipped in the Dead Sea so they'd crystalise; art to commemorate the moon landing).
- Watching Un plus une with Jean Dujardin. It's set in India. They filmed in some of the exact spots I visited, too. Weirdly triggering. I loved learning about Amma, too. And the female lead in that moving is fascinating, too.
- Alice Boman - Waiting / an old favourite I came across in Toni Collette's Wanderlust television series.
- Combining sweet and savoury taste. The best snacks. Like my Nidar Smash substitute: eat some Bugles and a piece of milk chocolate at the same time. Basically the same thing. But obviously I appreciated the two bags Lena and Obi brought me from Norway!
- A plant order from the Netherlands. Syngonium Clavinervium and Dragon Scale. I hope they won't die on me.
- Lemon cola / apple flavoured lollies.
- Taking a really good train selfie. And a second one using a butterfly wing lash filter. Gorgeous.
- A sleepover at Lexi's place in Freising. Taking a long walk, trying to find mushrooms. Taking pictures of the sunset, walking along the river. A playground. Slipping in the mud with white trainers. Semmelknödel and creamy mushrooms at Huber Weisse. Pizza date. Sunday breakfast. King of Tokyo. Oh, and the Unstable Unicorns!
- Borrowing the first Buffy seasons from Yanic.
- Early morning subway thoughts at Odeonsplatz: "Gerade stieg ein Mann mit Weintrauben und Panzertape in die Ubahn. Ganz nach meinem Geschmack. Ein Romananfang?"
- Schafkopf. Online via phone app and offline - with Lena, Obi and Frank at an actual Wirtshaus in Schwanthalerhöhe. I lost but gosh, I love card games.
- First place at the pub quiz! For the first time ever. We won 167€... Well, the picture round was on celebrity cats so go figure. I love being the Natural 20s' substitute player.
- Burlesque Night with Margit at Drehleiher (That unicorn costume? The Doomsday Stripper? Aurora Galore? OMG.) and late night shopping at Ostbahnhof dm.
- Tapping on the unopened NYX opalescent jelly tub. Nice ASMR sounds.
- Learning about tropical circles.
- A super luminous sunrise on morning in all shades of yellow, orange, pink and red.
- An extra big cup of unsweetened, chilled coffee to go. And the 1€ coffee they sell at my subway stop. I don't know what makes it so tasty. I've even started bringing my reusable mug again.
- Listening to Loredana - a tip from my students; that's Deutschrap I can actually listen to. Occasionally...
- Making a list with ten recommendations for female authors #autorinnenschuber
- Finally responding to Lena's letter. Eight handwritten pages in red ink. Dramatic.
- The scenes with the Twisted Sisters in Macbeth, as usual. This time in a graphic novel.
- Reading about climate change, diet, toxic masculinity, consent.
- Plum Tuxedo lipstick. A green cardigan. The Buffy T-shirt. A new necklace from &otherstories.
- Opening a new box of coloured pencils. So pointy. Still in rainbow formation. Yesss.
- Playing DrawSomething with Lexi. She's really good at spot-on verbal and visual communication, especially when it comes to out-of-the-box thinking.
- Sweet and savoury waffles at bean batter with Lena.
- Memes. Talking cat videos.
- Being so engrossed in a trashy YA book (the Daughter of Smoke and Bone trilogy...) that I missed my stop one morning on my way to school.
- TEDxTUM - unfortunately not as interesting as it could and should have been. They addressed important topics but they only talked about the surface of the issues and frankly I just didn't like most of the speakers. Still a really great opportunity to learn about new ideas. I talked to the woman who works with mental health issues; perhaps we can get her to work for PI Munich to offer teacher training there.
- Marks recommending The Power of Now by Eckart Tolle to me. He's 16. He actually read a book. That book. Ha.
- Sash making pasta, bruschetta and sugared lemony oranges for us as a b-day dinner. Lena and Obi picking me up because #MVVapocalypse
- Frank trying to cheer me up by inviting me over to bake cookies and drink spiked tea (I actually had spiked cocoa with rum). Which didn't entirely help and didn't prevent me from being a bitch either but was a nice enough gesture.
- Discussing important stuff with Jonathan. Real talk about being a victim of one's own feelings. Him opening up about that was actually quite nice because I often feel like I'm the only one having issues. Oh and I met his wife and son and he even showed me his apartment before we went to the workshop together.
- Cooking, baking, making. Crisp bread, salad bowls, banana bread. Eating more greens, less trash. Shopping at the health food store more often. Actually lighting a candle (and almost burning down the house when I accidentally threw a piece of paper over the candle). Starting with yoga again, slowly. I feel so immobile and stiff. It's kinda scary how quickly your body loses its form and shape when you're having a hard time.
- Having a super bad day (too much coffee on an empty stomach triggers my beast mode), being super depressed, lying awake at 2am. Starting to sing along to songs from the Grinch movie. So there IS something I still feel passionate about. My green spirit animal!
nov 17 2019 ∞
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