positives

[pax_athena]

• Yoga makes me wide awake. Which is annoying on one side given how the yoga courses I can attend are all from 6 to 7:30, I only get home at 8:15 and actually want to be in bed, reading, by 10 PM. And cool on the other, because I do feel awake and good.

• Dutch museums are the best (things to remember: the white melted styrofoam sculpture; visitor reactions being incorporated into the exhibition; the 1000 years old ship; the man with the swan and the different readings of the same artwork). Also, the museums-card is the best because it allows all those wonderful short visits.

• Utrecht is indeed pretty! So much Art Nouveau! Such cool more modern building, such harmony between the different ages! And has a feminist academic-flavored bookstore that I may be a bit in love with. (Got two novels and did not get a book on linguistics although I was very tempted.) Thank you so much, luna_puella for realizing that I would love it!

• My new hand blender is the best. After the first I bought turned out to be such a failure, I got a 600W one. And oh, frozen kiwis? Give me 20 seconds and they are wonderfully incorporated into a smoothie.

• Also, I now have a partner in crime for Michelin-star adventures in Amsterdam. I guess I am at the point in my life where I do have special friends for going to expensive restaurants with. Now we only need to figure out when both of us have free - we have already agreed that weekends are a no-go and are likely harder to book anyway.

• And to counteract what people keep telling about Dutch food: it may be often breads and salads, but I haven't had a bad salad (i.e. the typical pile of iceberg lettuce with a few tomatoes and something that resembles meat on top) here yet. I am very happy. (That said, I do find my colleagues eating bread with chocolate and sugar sprinkles for lunch ... strange. I do get it as a desert from time to time, but not for lunch every day.)

Comments

[sighnomore.livejournal.com]

Laut meinen Yogalehrerinnen beruhigen Vorwärtsbeugen das zentrale Nervensystem, sodass man danach besser zur Ruhe kommt. Was da wissenschaftlich dran ist weiß ich nicht, aber ich bilde mir ein, das es funktioniert ;)