What made you smile today?

I finally bought "Forrest Gump" on dvd. For 9.99!! It was 29.00 and then 21.00 for years but I was determined to hold out until it sold for under ten bucks. Now it is and I finally own it. yay!

Why does this not surprise me?

Somewhere downstairs there's a conference going on - about "Scotland and Central-Eastern Europe in the 18th Century". Jointly organised by the Eighteenth Century Scottish Studies Society (ECSSS) and the Hungarian Society for Eighteenth Century Studies (HSECS). Wow.

Seen:

"WE SURVIVED THE DOT COM BUST
and all we got was this lousy banner"

Just looking up in the dark street and seeing a five-story, old, building, the streetlight hanging from a cord across/above the road - knowing I live in a city like Berlin, Prague or, well - Budapest - having gotten out of Utrecht!

Also, I went into this cute, sidestreet cafe around the corner thats tiny out in front but has another room in the back (that in turns opens out to an unexpected East-European-looking set of random grass, fifties tenement building and obscure gasstation/factory type building, with an actual cat in it - dont know why you never see cats here - but that on an aside). The place is a more downmarket, no-nonsense type of bar, Guns'n'Roses on the stereo, and yet alternative or arty-looking, a Captain Beefheart type of place, filled up with random found-object furniture (the barman was just repairing an old ventilator they'd found on the street), some kind of wall painting going on. Just a few regulars in, talking, saying hi to the new ones arriving, a group of four in the back, family or friends, and safe the lone guy drinking his beer and smoking his cigarettes in silence by himself for twenty minutes people are actually like, acknowledging each other and stuff. Just themselves, no fuss. Just a neighbourhood caf, except it looks like its for alternative types of previous decades who never made it.

I liked it. I was heavily out of place, editing papers like I had to (which I didnt wanna do at home), and I only chatted a little bit with the guy repairing the ventilator (well, how much can I say, in Hungarian), but it made me realise that, enough with the fancy places with suave youngsters and English-speaking expats already (they're not tourists, you know - just so you know). The glamorous over-the-top hipsterism of Leroy and the like is one thing, but even Sark (which I have the luxury of living across the street from) or Szimpla and the like are all hip too in their nonchalant cobbled-together way - it's still students and expats who wont look you in the eye and stuff. I'd forgotten that my favourite Utrecht cafe was Ledig Erf, not Lust.

OK, now I got myself looking up pictures on the web, for no reason really (not feeling particularly sentimental): here's a couple of Cafe Lust in Utrecht, loungy suave and fancy indeed; and here's a few of Cafe Ledig Erf there (and another cute one) - from before it was bought up and restyled ( )

OK, so in terms of how it looked Ledig Erf was actually pretty similar to Sark over here across the road. But there were more ordinary folks there (OK, and assorted loners/losers). Then again, perhaps I should go to Sark some time when they have a concert or DJ, and the basement is open. Okay, true, Sark is OK too.

(I've been planning to start a thread on "Cafes and Restaurants in Budapest". With the prices here its not always worth cooking, so I tried out a few).

OK, someone else post now.

A suggestion on another thread (that is now locked & will not be mentioned further! ) that a certain Oz rabbit & my good self & others had no idea of of what was actually happening in the world because we are too far away .... & that we receive the news the next day!

But hey, there's this thing called the INTERNET! We catch on quick!

Let's join hands, folks & sing lustily!... A one & a two & a three ....!:

It's a world of laughter
- A world of tears
It's a world of hopes
- And a world of fears
There's so much that we share
- That it's time we're aware
It's a small world after all

It's a small world after all
It's a small world after all
It's a small world after all
It's a small, small world


There is just one moon
- And one golden sun
And a smile means
- Friendship to every one
Though the mountains divide
- And the oceans are wide
It's a small world after all

It's a small world after all
It's a small world after all
It's a small world after all
It's a small, small world

I found out that the cute guy at my sister's office asked if I was single. He followed by telling my sister that I was pretty.

I think a visit to your sisters office is on the cards ....

Heeven! That's filt...


Oh, wait... You said office... not orifice.


Ne'mind.

Reading an old NYTimes review of "The Godfather" (Brando's possessions go on the auction block at Christie's next week) and the reviewer said that Al Pacino's performance was '...worthy of having Brando as his father'. That made me smile.

You dog!

'sides it wouldn't the sisters !

Went to the "theatuh" today and saw a performance of the Don Quixote ballet (I'm a ballet fan). This is a ballet that was choreographed by the legenday George Ballenchine. It was performed by the Suzanne Farrell ballet company (she was his last, and one of his longest-lasting mistresses - or "muses" as they euphemistically say in the ballet world).

It was ....beeeeautiful...And if there's one thing you can always use in this world..it's a good dose of beauty.

Heeven, I've seen him there over and over again for years. I think I better be seeing him out of the office.

Tell him to get busy and ask you out!!!

If I had his contact info, I would have by now.

First date you have with him -- be sure you get that info!!

I don't know why it takes these guys so long to make a move -- even when you know damn well they're interested!! But don't worry -- I'll bet he asks you soon!!

Thanks, Stray, This happened last year. He asked about me, but never approached me. I'm not an easy woman to read, sometimes.

Here's a thought:

You: Know why phones were invented?

Him: Why?

You: Coz' Alexander Graham Bell wanted to ask somebody out -- and he was too shy to do it in person!!

cute!

I could call the receptionist at his work and ask her to put me through. But, I'd rather do this outside of his work place.