HARVEY
Why don’t you ask me those questions?
KATE
Which ones?
HARVEY
You know, from the airport. When I wouldn’t stop.
KATE
Oh, the questionnaire.
(beat)
Ok. Name?
HARVEY
Harvey Shine.
KATE
Place of residence?
HARVEY
I’m in transition.

How working for a large 50+ employees UK (as they have offices all over the world too) creative agency is different from working for a small 6 employees communications agency.

It’s one of those memes that force you to think about your year a bit. So here is my year in words. How was yours?
1. What did you do in 2009 that you had never done before?I saw whales in their natural environment. I biked the Golden Gate bridge.
Both very memorable experiences. And both very [...]

I am taking a break from this blog. I am sure I will return but at the moment I don’t have any energy for it. Sometimes life gets in the way and asks to be sorted out first.
I still have the intention to do the non xmas card exchange but it won’t be before January [...]

It looks a bit cloudy at the moment

Thanks a lot for all the encouraging comments on my previous post, it really makes me feel less alone with this.
I had the talk with my boss this morning. He basically confirmed it all, I will get paid until the end of January after that I am on [...]

Regent’s Park

The weather is so incredible in London at the moment that I decided to bike to Regent’s Park after work, to catch the last sunshine. I think that Regent’s Park has become my favourite park. It is often peaceful, I love to watch people struggling in the boats on the boating lake and today [...]

Maybe I am just way behind, but I had no idea I could listen to most of my music online for free on Last.fm. It means I no longer need my iPod at work.
And better – most of my iPod songs are free for you to listen to too: here is my personal radio station. [...]

Moving house …

I told you I was going to move right? And that one of my flatmates was going to be Angus, the 39 y.o. friendly Kiwi.
Well that still is the case. I have packed more than half of my things in boxes, booked a removal company and sent out the first change-of-address notifications.
However I [...]

Firstly – and this will be the last time I write about it – my dizzyness is gone. I am not quite sure how well my ear is hearing, but I do hear with it. I just tried to listen to my iPod for the first time in weeks, and it seems that the music [...]

New York state of mind

I have three questions to you today dear readers:

1. After how many pages is it allowed to decide not to read the rest of the book? I recently stopped reading a Zoe Heller novel just because it bored me to death. Should I have hold on or is it OK to [...]

Wall-E – what do I know?

I know it has been a while.
Apart from a flu I also had some serious thought about closing the doors here for a while. I have no inspiration whatsoever at the moment. There is not much exiting to write about and it feels like the plot is seriously lost [...]

Just a quick update in list form:

Here is my new logo. I love it, it is simple with nice colours and it works well on both a dark and light background. I received 125 entries for this logo and must say that many of them were pretty bad, but there were a couple of [...]

Love Seaweed actually

After five and a half week I got the results of my operation today, it’s good news I am fine. And relieved. And after having it nagging about in the back of my head for that long it might take a while before I get used to not worrying about it anymore. [...]

Dear readers!
I just want to give you an update on the plate as I am even starting to get emails from very friendly people around the globe about this.
People I don’t even know! The wonder of the internet.
The thing is that I have been thinking. Yes I was very attached to this plate.
Because I [...]

Indeed

(I will spare you the rest)

On Friday I stepped on the plane to Aarhus, 24 hours later I was back in London. This was a final visit to clean up the 12 boxes of Danish life I still had left there. After not having seen their content for 2 years now, it was time to sort it out and move [...]

Crawling up

When I walked to the tube from my corporate monkey suit meeting in Euston, I noticed those 3 spiderman wannabees climbing up the building.
Now that demands some skills.
Skills on toast – if you have seen Son of Rambow (if not, you should!)

I am off to the Netherlands for a couple of days. My grandfather (94 – and don’t dare to say that that is old because he will tell you he is not) broke his hip recently and my grandmother has had a tough time alone while he was in the hospital so I felt the [...]

Dreaming with a broken heart

I feel mean. In my script I have to break up two people and while the woman doesn’t truly love the man she is with, he has been kind and true and he really loves her. What did he do to deserve this? Nothing really. Life just can be cruel sometimes.
But [...]

It always seems impossible

One of the editors of the Chicago Tribune turned 50 and made a list of 50 things he has learned throughout the years. it’s a nice list, and there are some points on there that are spot on for me too.
6. The most valuable thing to have is a good reputation, and [...]