Current Music: Marco Borsato - "Afscheid nemen bestaat niet" (het nieuwe liedje... mooi!)

HAHAHAHA… Everybody go to Google right now and type in ‘miserable failure’. Then either click “I’m Feeling Lucky” (Ik doe een gok) or just search and look at the first result. LMAO!!!

Nothing else to say except: Máxima had her baby! And it’s a girl, like I hoped! The rumor is that her name will be Catharina Amalia. I hope not… that’s too much of a mouthful for someone so cute. I also heard that Emma was a possibility – I like that better. Anyway, there were orange flags and a Dutch flag on the Dom this morning, and there were 101 shots fired in 4 cities. And this little girl has no idea all the hullabulloo that’s going on just because she was born. Wow.

Anyway, I’m amazed by how personable the royal family seems to be – Willem-Alexander, at least. He came to the press conference with no guards, with his newborn baby in his arms (in a cloud of white satin) and answered questions and joked with the press. Someone asked about the possibility of the baby’s becoming queen (she’s second in line) and he looked down at her, paused, then grinned and said, “Uh – vanavond niet!” (“Not tonight!”)

Bedtime now… again, it’s so late as to technically be the 9th. So I have my Boswell exam *today*, at 9.15.

So I’m supposedly fluent in Dutch now. Hmmm. Okay.