Okay, greetings from Amsterdam. I’m writing this one from the Sloterdijk bus station sitting outside in front of a café, waiting for my connection to Prague. Sun is setting, planes are touching down in the distance, clouds have those orange tones, it’s not a bad view. My three-week adventure is approaching its end and I feel good.
Let me start by Never Let Me Go. I’ve finished the book and it’s so fucking beautiful, it nearly made me cry couple of times. So far I’ve read two books by Kazuo Ishiguro and it’s two for two. Klara And The Sun was spectacular, too. See, when I read things like that, it feels like magic to me. The fact someone can put words together like that, create all these moments, say just the right amount… Keeping it simple, yet so complex. Create something fictional to touch something so real. Granted, this guy is a superstar but I’m happy I finally got to him and I’m pretty fucking excited about proceeding to the rest of his work.
The week itself flew by fast. I was back to my work routine, I got back to my workouts (both indoors and outdoors), I ran. We went out couple times, too. We grabbed dinned in this Xian Chinese restaurant in Central Hague. It was my second time and they are still awesome. Yesterday, we went to this dome projection of a trippy South-American music and stories, followed by some fractal work. The venue is called Omniversum and it vaguely resembles the planetarium in Brno. It is bigger tho (and bigger dome means bigger screens) and since you can’t recline seats, it’s all oriented a bit more forwards. In Brno, you can almost lie down and you look upwards. It was nearly empty, it was super cool and since we micro-dosed some shrooms (bought in a store, paid for by a credit car, delivered in some proper branded packaging with a bar code, taxes paid – you gotta love The Netherlands), it was extra enjoyable.
Today has been a bit slow. We did breakfast at my favorite café in the neighborhood, Quench, hung out on bikes and then took it to the station. I got a little over an hour before my next bus goes, then it’s going to be Prague for one day, Brno for two and then fucking Japan for two weeks. Which means that for the first time in like 5 years, I’m gonna go dark for a bit. For the fist time since I started teaching online, I’m taking an actual break. No traveling with laptop, no classes, no nothing (which also means no blog). So yeah, the next one is coming at the beginning of October. Thanks all of you for following; it’s cool that you still give a fuck for some reason. Sending love to everybody out there, shout out to all my vegans and everybody fighting the good fight. And some extra love to the Czech Republic which is now facing some of heaviest rains in a really long time. People being evacuated, floods coming to different regions… Stay safe and keep your head up. One!
Highlights:
- The Hague.
- Had another conversation on whether fish is meat or not. That was fun. Btw, fish is most definitely meat. Because they’re animals.
- Pretty much everything over these past weeks.
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