Fly me to the moon......

Gone to a better place (with Tito) until further notice. Just imagine 40 degrees, white sandy beaches, palmtrees and me relaxing in a hammock nipping to a coconut drink.

Happy Summer Holidays!

P.S. Blogging might be scarce for quite some time.

Questions produced by an overloaded mind

Was that really it? Did I just hand in the final paper before the summer? Did I actually hand in the last paper the university is ever going to get from me? Does this mean I'm done? Have I really become a live flesh-and-blood librarian? Wow. Who wants to hire me?

A real treat

Lying in bed for hours, watching the rain. The view consists of red brick roofs, nineteen chimneys and several treetops. Light green, green, dark green. The occasional helicopter and a few stray seagulls fly by. The sound that rain falling on window makes has a meditative effect. Breathing slowly, thinking about everything and nothing. The mind flows just like it wants to, without anyone noticing. The essay written on the computer has nearly been finished. Lying in bed watching the rain for hours.

Tears

Tears. Melancholy. Missing the only person capable of filling her life with constant magic. Tears flowing down her left cheek. Her right cheek is dry.

The left eye is closest to the heart.

On the tube

Two beautiful, fashionable teenage girls were entering the tube one late Friday night. They were chattering in Arabic about the party, new people they had met and hairstyles. The ride on the tube was also spent to change their clothes entirely, making sure not one strand of hair could be seen. As the sliding doors opened, they were already fully prepared to enter a different world.

Being part of the world

There comes a time, when one has to move away. An era ends as a new one begins. It was under such circumstances I needed a place to stay for a night. I asked a very good friend of mine if it would be ok to crash on his sofa for a night, and he told me "sure, as long as there is no invasion in Burma." I never thought that the political situation in a far away country would ever have any influence on wether or not I would get a roof over my head for a night. That's when you feel that you are part of the world.

Mondays...

There's something utterly demotivating about starting a Monday morning with an essay that has to be written. The weekend seems so far away, yet the date for handing the essay in seems a lot closer. This in spite that there are still three weeks to go.

Magnolias

It was a sunny day in a garden resembling paradise. Couples were walking slowly around on narrow paths, enjoying themselves and the warm hand to hold. The bees were buzzing and the birds had been up since 5 o clock. There were colours, smells, silence. And there were beauty. "When we get married," the handsome young man said, "I want you to wear those." The young lady smiled at the beautiful pearls he had picked out for her. They were magnificent magnolias.

Librarians' must-read list

The 30 books listed below are the ones that topped a World Book Day poll conducted by the Museum, Libraries and Archives Council in Great Britain, in which librarians around the country were asked the question, "Which book should every adult read before they die?"

Let's see what this future librarian has already read.

1. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
2. The Bible
3. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by JRR Tolkien
4. 1984 by George Orwell
5. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
6. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
7. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
8. All Quite on the Western Front by E M Remarque
9. His Dark Materials Trilogy by Phillip Pullman
10. Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
11. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
12. The Lord of the Flies by William Golding
13. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
14. Tess of the D'urbevilles by Thomas Hardy
15. Winnie the Pooh by AA Milne
16. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
17. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Graham (waiting on my bookshelf)
18. Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
19. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens (waiting on my bookshelf)
20. The Time Traveller's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
21. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
22. The Prophet by Khalil Gibran
23. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens (waiting on my bookshelf)
24. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
25. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
26. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
27. Middlemarch by George Eliot
28. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
29. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
30. A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzenhitsyn

14 out of 30. Not too shabby, I should say. Still there are a lot of good books to be read, both on the list and outside it. How did you do?