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boom.

it’s friday, 7pm, dark and rainy outside, the road is soaked and packed with traffic. we were on our way to porto for a nice weekend when the car in front of us stopped abruptly. we tried to stop too, but our fiesta just… slidded. as if we were ice skating on xmas holidays. it kept going and going and going and i closed my eyes and covered my ears but with no way out, there was really nothing else to do but wait for the impact.
in the end, we damaged the front part of it a bit, but we’re both in one piece, joão and i – and i even got to wear the fluorescent reflective jacket. how cool is that? :)

we didn’t make the euromillions jackpot though. bummer.

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the lobster paradigm

“The trouble with being the Prime Minister’s sister is it does put your life into rather harsh perspective. What did my brother do today? He stood up and fought for his country. And what did I do? I made a papier-maché lobster head.”

(Karen, Love Actually)

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3 wishes for a grumpy rainy day


my kingdom for one of his kisses, a speculaas and a cup of celestial seasonings tea.

pretty please?

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breathing

“Then I thought about how for such a long time, I’ve been so used to coming home at specific hours to talk to him. how I got so used to walking on the street or going out with friends or noticing interesting things then make a mental note to tell him about it when we see one another on camera, and how right now, I don’t have to wait, I open my mouth and point out things as they happen, I don’t have to rush anywhere to see him cause he’s right there, with me, I don’t need to do anything right now, I know that will change soon with needing to find a job and start settling into a life, but now, at this moment, I don’t have to do anything, I just exist, I just am – being, living, breathing, I can do whatever I want at any given moment. I’m going to get off this chair now and give him a big hug from behind.”

(from lilly’s blog, here)

she’s from israel, he’s from new york. they felt in love with an ocean in between, connected with cables, webcams, microphones, depending on isp’s dispositions and techonology moods. but they fought for what they believed and they stayed together, regardless the distance, the timezones, the war. one could say they had everything against them, and still, they managed

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geek in the netherlands just life

42

“Forty-two!” yelled Loonquawl. “Is that all you’ve got to show for seven and a half million years’ work?”
“I checked it very thoroughly,” said the computer, “and that quite definitely is the answer. I think the problem, to be quite honest with you, is that you’ve never actually known what the question is.”

on The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.

they never asked me the question. today, i’d give them the answer (with units) in a glimpse.
42. 42 days. :)