#ikbensalome
1 maart 2015
Dennis zag het he-le-maal zitten. Vanuit de regiebus sprak hij Elle opgewekt toe: “Vergeet vooral niet de J-Factor te pluggen!” Elle zuchtte. Dennis kon haar gestolen worden, ze wilde haar eigen show redden. Haar omroep was dan fan van families, Nederland bleek moeilijker te overtuigen. Haar laatste troef was live gaan. Daar kreeg ze één
If it smells cheesy, rethink your priorities
28 februari 2015
Life and work of an indy scholar part 7 – In 1933, the Flemish author Willem Elsschot published the novel Kaas, later translated into Cheese for the English market. The hero of this story, Frans Laarmans, works at the docks of Antwerp. He doesn’t like his job, so he accepts the offer of a friend
Yeah Bobby, tell me another joke
26 februari 2015
Recognize the carnivalesque as normal life
21 februari 2015
Life and work of an indy scholar part 6 – On Friday the 13th I moved to the south for a couple of days—the main reason why I skipped last week’s blog. My brief remigration was caused by carnival, that outburst of festivities that Catholics traditionally use to bolster themselves for a period of 40
Toepasselijk
8 februari 2015
Don’t leave your clients floored
6 februari 2015
Life and work of an indy scholar part 5 – The week was steady as she went. Not that nothing exciting happened, I’m just unsure if it’s exciting for you to read about my daily routines, exciting as they are to me. Not every week is a new adventure, this is not Hollywood and most
How university delayed my indy scholarship
30 januari 2015
Life and work of an indy scholar part 4 – Last week I announced that I had planned a shut-up-and-write day and I’m sorry to say that I failed to deliver. I shut-up-and-wrote on two late afternoons for a few hours, but I advanced far less than I had hoped to. Sill, having many irons
Me in a getting-things-done mode
24 januari 2015
Life and work of an indy scholar part 3 – How to summarize this week? I guess it would be with ‘tying some loose ends’. Some days-in-a-row-off lend themselves perfectly for a mini sabbatical, that time off from work to get work done, and I seize those opportunities to finish things. I had a few
A brief bio of my latest tattoo
24 januari 2015
The thing with tattoos is that once you get started with ink, you easily want more. At least, that’s how it turned out for me. But I like to think things through and none of my tattoos are the result of impulse or drunken spontaneity. I started thinking about getting tattooed when I was 15
Many ups and one down for this indy scholar
17 januari 2015
Life and work of an indy scholar part 2 – It’s been a week with high professional ups encircled with a deep down in my private life. Literally encircled in time, as last Sunday I heard the sad news that one of my closest friends had suddenly lost her beloved husband the day before, and