The thoughts & opinions of Sassarella, the Queen of Sass as she cavorts in 's Gravenhage & beyond. Brought to you by CES's (Chief Executive Slaves) of Big Skanky Ho Inc.
Pookie, you should define a nickname for yourself. Then, when you post, there isn't a big scaaaary space after 'posted by.' Also, I didn't know that it was Den Haag, not Der Hague. I'll go fix that right now.
Also, I made you an administrator today, since this is, after all, *your* blog. posted by Rocketbride at 11:35:07 PM
Tuesday, April 16, 2002
Why didn't someone tell me Brandy was pregnant? How did this happen? I have a whole entry on Amsterdam coming. Really I do. It's quite surprising, but all I did of note today was open a bank account. They actually required my passport and proof of my employment in the form of a letter. Apparently my work pass doesn't qualify as proof of employment (even though it says 'staff' on there, and not 'some loser from Canada who likes to hang around the ICTY while apparently seeming to work'). I thought maybe if I just threw a whole wad of Euros at them they would be so impressed that they would do whatever I wanted. I guess banks aren't impressed by money. Still, I do have a Dutch bank account. But...with nothing in it. Baby steps, I tell myself. Baby steps. I decided today to take advantage of the cheap prices on flowers here and to buy myself some blooms. Sadly, instead of doing that I got lost. Which is not all bad, as I discovered parts of Scheveningen (which is the part of town that I'm currently living in) that I had hitherto not explored. (Hitherto. Too much lawyer talk.) Like in every beachfront community, Scheveningen has a bunch of bars and restaurants that are crazy expensive and basically suck. And also like every other beachfront community, Scheveningen has a bunch of stores that sell stupid things and are crazy expensive and basically suck. Today, I found them all. I suppose nothing will ever compare to the grandeur and majesty of Scarborough or Koreatown. Sigh. Since work today basically consisted of proofreading court transcriptions and listening to the French team crack jokes that didn't translate well, that's pretty well it. I can't really talk about work in general because it's all classified. And I don't want to kill all the damn people who read this...blog, is it? I actually had to go and check. Maybe the Dutch word for it is better. Then again, probably not. Yesterday, I discovered that the Dutch also have a Temptation Island. Which kind of makes me wonder if the entire Caribbean isn't swarming with film crews and half-naked beach bunnies from all over the world trying to resist the temptation of Temptation Island. I have yet to figure out how the game works, but let me tell you, it's a whole lot more amusing in Dutch. And with way more ass. posted by Alleen at 5:59:07 PM
Sunday, April 14, 2002
Oh, actually I did do something exciting, but yesterday not today. Yesterday I took a trip to Amsterdam. More on that later. posted by Alleen at 7:14:53 PM
God I'm funny. One-trick pony. That's a good one. Hmmm... what did I do in the Netherlands today. To be honest, the Netherlands shuts down on Sundays (well, at least Den Haag). You can go wander the empty streets of downtown or go shopping in some of Den Haag's less interesting stores. So, today, I wandered around downtown Den Haag some, then came home and had some soup. The packaged Asian noodle soup in the Netherlands is quite tasty. For example today I had Kip Oriental, which means Oriental Chicken. And it had all sorts of fun and tasty flavours in it, flavours like ginger and garlic. I think I was just surprised that it didn't just taste like MSG. Ah, sweet MSG.
