Man, this stinks! It’s over. The Year. 2003. It’s gone! Completely! Okay, almost gone, probably completely gone by the time you read this. It had just started. Now it’s over! This isn’t fair. I haven’t even begun yet! What is this? I want my money back! A full year’s worth, no penny less! Can...
Read more →Information indicates that terrorists abroad and in our own back-yard are anticipating near-term attacks that we believe will rival, or exceed, the attacks we had to endure last year around this time of the year. Intelligence gathered in the past 3 and a half minutes indicates that a wave of Powerpoint Season greetings is...
Read more →We are back home, as of this morning. ‘t was brillig in Belgium. I don’t have the faintest idea what “brillig” means, but it was in Belgium, I’m sure of that. It was nice, sometimes even extremely nice, to see family and friends again — with apologies to those we couldn’t meet and thanks...
Read more →It’s done. Flight A3-540 leaves on Saturday 29, at 7 in the morning and we will land at Düsseldorf at 12:40, with one hour to kill in Athens. We will be in Belgium/The Netherlands for a week and a half. It’ll be a little busy probably, what with our presence required in the Greek...
Read more →Up at six o’clock in the morning today. Plenty of time for my morning rituals and at 8 o’clock sharp I climbed the stairs of the employment office, straight to the second floor, where the hundred or so of misérables had been queueing last friday. There was nobody now. I entered the office the...
Read more →I just finished my first attempt at fabricating my version of moussaka, the shepherd’s pie of Greece, a succulent combination of fried aubergines, delicately spiced minced lamb and rich cheese sauce. It’s the most traditional Greek dish and it also happens to be absolutely delicious! When done properly. This one was done by me....
Read more →When I entered the police station the second time, there were less people. I recognized 5 faces from earlier. They were waiting for something apparently. The officer whom I had spoken to before smiled politely and knowingly. He must have seen it a thousand times. When it was my turn I paid the €196,5...
Read more →Steaming white I had left the police station without noticing where I went. I was glad that I had done so, for I might have said things that would have only brought me deeper in trouble. Now I saw that I was close to Melba, Carola’s coffee place. It felt like a good idea...
Read more →While we walked back to were I had parked the car, as we approached that spot, I tried to see whether the car was still there and had not been towed away. It was with a sigh of relief that I spotted it quietly waiting for us. It was only when I drove off...
Read more →With the missing form we got from the emigration police we drove to the office where I work in the centre. With the help of Popi, short for Penelope, I filled in the form. Somebody needed to sign it and I suggested that she would do that. That was a little bit too much...
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