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• Cosmopolis (film)

  

  Today my husband and I took the train to Amsterdam to see Cosmopolis. Kriterion is the only cinema in Amsterdam that currently shows this film. Read more

  Posted on 22 August 2012 SELF EXPRESSION

• Trust

  

  While my dog is sleeping, I step over his dreaming body. He doesn’t stir, or even looks up. I’ve stepped over him countless times and once in a while I have... Read more

  Posted on 21 August 2012 SELF EXPRESSION

• I’m a Horrible Person That Writes Poems

  

  I wonder if this is something that happens to other people: my mind is overbooked. Thoughts are occupying every nook and cranny inside that brain of mine and I... Read more

  Posted on 20 August 2012 SELF EXPRESSION

• Feeding Pigeons in Square, 1986

  

  This picture was taken by my mother while my dad and me were feeding the pigeons on a square. I don’t remember the location of the square. Read more

  Posted on 18 August 2012 SELF EXPRESSION

• Destino

  

  The production of this short animated film started as early as 1945 and was a collaboration between Salvador Dalí and Walt Disney. Read more

  Posted on 17 August 2012 SELF EXPRESSION

• A Dangerous Method

  

  Oral fixation?Since I started university I have been interested in psychology. The subject actually started to intrigue me once we had started a course called... Read more

  Posted on 16 August 2012 SELF EXPRESSION

• Plasmacytoma (2)

  

  Good news!The vet just called us to tell us that the removed tumor was indeed a plasmacytoma. When it concers a plasmacytoma on the head or in the oral cavity,... Read more

  Posted on 16 August 2012 SELF EXPRESSION

• Laundry Hormones

  

  I think the heater in our dryer might be malfunctioning, so the clothes I put in there just won’t get dry. Now, this of course happened at a most inopportune... Read more

  Posted on 12 August 2012 SELF EXPRESSION

• Plasmacytoma

  

  Thursday I got some – more or less – good news. The vet had managed to remove all the affected tissue, so there are no ‘bad’ cells left on my dog’s chin. Read more

  Posted on 11 August 2012 SELF EXPRESSION

• Histiocytoma (2)

  

  At 9 o’clock this morning we were already at the vet’s office. Rufus’ growth was going to be removed today. We could collect him at 2:30 this afternoon and he... Read more

  Posted on 03 August 2012 SELF EXPRESSION

• Histiocytoma: the Moment When the Earth Opens Right at My Feet and Threatens to...

  

  So, this is it. This is one of my deepest fears come to fruition. My dog, a flatcoated retriever, has some kind of small abnormal growth beneath his lip on the... Read more

  Posted on 02 August 2012 SELF EXPRESSION

• Buy Three Tyrants and Get the Disappointment for Free!

  

  About a week ago I thought I died and went to hell. I was just packing up my groceries when a group of three guys that couldn’t have been more than 20 years... Read more

  Posted on 31 July 2012 SELF EXPRESSION

• “Pain is Weakness Leaving the Body.”

  A friend and colleague of mine, who’s an athlete, told me that “pain is weakness leaving the body”. I agreed with him until this morning. Pain is not weakness... Read more

  Posted on 20 July 2012 SELF EXPRESSION

• Book Review: The Fault in Our Stars

  

  The Shakespearean title of John Green’s #1 New York Times bestseller not-so-subtly hints at the dramatic romance that is the core of this story for young adults. Read more

  Posted on 18 July 2012 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Our House (3)

  Finally, after quite some back-and-forth all the required paperwork came through. Yesterday we found a letter in the mail stating that we are officially... Read more

  Posted on 14 June 2012 SELF EXPRESSION

• Sonnet 40 by Shakespeare

  Take all my loves, my love, yea, take them all;What hast thou then more than thou hadst before?No love, my love, that thou mayst true love call;All mine was... Read more

  Posted on 31 May 2012 SELF EXPRESSION

• Cycling With Your Dog

  

  For the last week it has been extremely nice weather here in the Netherlands: a lot of sunshine and around 24 degrees Celsius. Read more

  Posted on 28 May 2012 SELF EXPRESSION

• A Little Over Four Weeks Ago I Started with Daniel “Dan” ...

  

  A little over four weeks ago I started with Daniel “Dan” Kern’s the regimenagainst acne as explained on acne.org. It’s a three step programme that you have to... Read more

  Posted on 28 May 2012 SELF EXPRESSION

• Cannes (11)

  Ellis and Neckbone find a guy near the Mississippi river who they call Mud (which is also the title of the movie). Mud (Matthew McConnaugheuy) tells the two boy... Read more

  Posted on 26 May 2012 SELF EXPRESSION

• Cannes (10)

  My personal favourite (due to a combination of Don DeLillo and Robert Pattinson) of this year’s Festival de Cannes is Cosmopolis. Read more

  Posted on 25 May 2012 SELF EXPRESSION