It's 74 degrees in Jacksonville. I just saw that on my Comcast start page. *wistful sigh* I could be at the beach, or swimming with N, or doing something outside... but it's nasty here - high of 12 (Celsius... no clue what that is in Fahrenheit but trust me, it's cold!). And it's raining and gray and windy (Dutch: 'guur') and I of course took my bike anyway so I sat through a linguistics test with wet pants. And my umbrella blew inside out like 10 times. Sigh. Oh well - a true Dutch experience, I guess! :)

Further... not much to tell. I just ordered some books off broese.net - Het Achterhuis, which is Anne Frank's diary in Dutch (the original language), The Color Purple, which was highly recommended to me by... someone... ??? Forgot who, but it sounded good and I'm dying for something to read. And then The Little Friend by Donna Tartt, which is finally, after all my waiting, out in paperback. I should get them within 3 days. YAY!

I am so glad to be at a normal computer again! (Even if it isn't mine. *sniff*) S (wie gisteren jarig was, trouwens - 24 jaar) swears by Macs but I hate them. I use his sometimes because it's better than nothing, but I like my Delete key, thank you very much, and my Ctrl commands, and being able to open more than one IE window with just a click. It just goes so much faster...

Anybody want to go to a concentration camp? I've always wanted to see one, and then over the summer I read this memoir called Rena's Promise, about two sisters who survived 3 years in Auschwitz. Ever since then I wanted to see it and I have a long weekend so I think I'm going to. I'd like someone to go with me, but it's not exactly a 'fun' trip - two night trains and a day at a concentration camp - so I don't mind going alone. It'll be an adventure. :) I'll have to skip a day of Boswell, but what's one day? Now linguistics, that would matter, but Boswell really doesn't. So I'll leave Wednesday (the 15th) afternoon, take a night train to Oswiecim (Polish spelling and pronunciation of Auschwitz), get there around 8.30 on Thursday, see the camp then, take another night train back, and get back to Utrecht around 14.00 on Friday. And then D and I had tentative plans to go to Warner Bros Movie World in Germany on Saturday if he's free from work... we'll see. I hope he is because that sounds like fun!

OK, I need to get off this computer while the rain is still holding off - hopefully I can get home before another deluge begins (but I somehow doubt it). It better not rain tonight - I'm supposed to meet P and maybe M at 22.00 at the post office and I do NOT want to ride through the rain again. OK, think. What do I still have to do? I have to look up the weather at Auschwitz, e-mail M, stop by Hema to look for bed linens and black-and-white film, go to Edah (yes, again)...

Enne... nu hoor ik donder. Right on cue. *zucht* Tot ziens, allemaal...