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I've spent most of today battling raging nausea. All I've eaten today is an extremely rich chocolate cookie provided by the French (I love the French). Tomorrow I go to London and forget about raging nausea and think about shopping instead.
This is as long as this post is going to get frankly, since this computer terminal has turned into something of a hot commodity. There's only the one in the building now and there's pretty well a constant line-up. Not to worry, there's nothing very interesting going on, so you haven't missed a thing. London, baby, London! posted by Alleen at 11:08:14 AM
Tuesday, May 14, 2002
So I'm sitting in an Internet cafe in Amsterdam right now, a huge and efficient looking place called the easy Internet cafe. It's completely automated. I have 16 minutes on my card, so here goes.
After getting some bizarre news form back home while checking my e-mail at work, I hopped the train to Amsterdam to meet up with Vivien who is currently visiting me. I was sitting on the train brooding, when these two Israelis guys came and sat with me. I don't know what it is about me. Maybe it's this completely blank expression that I cultivated in high school that I can't seem to get rid of now, but everyone I meet wants to teach me something. Yesterday, I sat in a restaurant next to a French couple who lectured me for an hour about the nature of racism, revolution, and Terry Gilliam. Today, I sat on a train with two guys from Israel who tried to convince me that Israel was in the right in the Israeli-Palestine conflict. I got to hear about children being blown in pool halls by suicide bombers, whose families profitted from this. Says me: "Dude, do you have any idea what I've been listening to at work all day? What makes you think that you're going to convince me of anything on a 50 minute train ride?"
But they were cute, so that made it okay. It's always nice to have hot guys about to distract you from brooding and I have to say, they did their job pretty well. Sadly, they were hoping I could give them some insights about what was so exciting about Den Haag, but frankly I was blank. If there was anything exciting about Den Haag, why would I be on a train to Amsterdam?
Alright, I have about nine minutes left. I met up with Vivien in Amsterdam and met her friend Helen, a lovely Irish lady who was Vivien's boss when she lived here. We sat in this wicked tapas bar called Convivio and ate too much delicious food.
Vivien and I wandered Vondel Park afterwards, and then made our way here. One big bonus of this place is that it's right next to the Tuschinski, this wicked art deco movie theatre. It's pretty cool from the outside, so I've made definite plans to check out a movie here.
I found out today that Sonic Youth is playing here next month, and DJ Shadow is playing in a couple of weeks. I'll be buying tickets as soon as I can find out where.
