Renata!
Renata just got here from New York, and she brought chocolate!! <3
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Ant-lobster
This guy easily qualifies to the top five weirdest bugs I have found. 4cm. Red, curious, fast.
I felt like a horrible person flushing him down the toilet but I can’t have a bunch of these walking around in my room when I’m usually barefoot.
Anybody who knows what this is?
Done
Five years of cooperation squeezed into a 30 page document. I’m taking a lot of lessons learned out of this experience, new insights on work efficiency, hours of Spanish to English translation, a profound aversion towards copy pasted text, and quite a bit of satisfaction – I’m officially done writing this report, and it turned out beautiful!
Dank u wel.
Part 2
Second part of my day. A lot of exciting things going on in the office and I’m all blue!
(Yes I tried making the pictures look almost the same on purpose. Showing a little bit of my home vs. office contrast.)
Look at Orion!
The office is empty during half of the day today as well, so I’m working from home and spending time with my little speaker. By noon I will be meeting up with the rest of the office for lunch and then return to business as usual. I think I’m starting to get a hold of this work-life balance thing by the way.
Working from home has been a real pleasure, the air that was cleansed by the pouring rain yesterday and during the night has today been warmed up by the sun from a cloudless sky. As a huge bonus, Bibio just released a new album this month. Silver Wilkinson is England-based Bibio’s sixth album, released under Warp Records – and I feel it’s turning away a bit from the unpredictable electro and hip hop sampling I’m used to, and moving closer to a song-based folk-electronica feel in many of the tracks. It’s still deep though, still dreamy, and still intelligent, so while I’m not sure of whether I’m loving Silver Wilkinson the way I loved Mind Bokeh in 2011 it really doesn’t matter – Bibio is back and I’m happy about it.
Being able to do this, to really listen to and being inspired by an album while working, is a luxury in itself that I only realize now I have been missing.
I haven’t listened the album through completely yet, but here’s a tune that caught my mind:
Bibio – Look at Orion!
Silver Wilkinson (2013)
La office :)
Vino a visitarnos nuestro intruso favorito!
Oh Managua, why so mean?
I woke up early today to do my laundry before work. I could walk the four minutes it takes to get to my landlady’s house and pay the cleaning lady 3USD to wash my things in a washing machine, like most people do here, but I just don’t bother calling her and having to wait for my things.
Also, frankly, washing by hand and ironing are things I really enjoy doing. They are kind of like meditation – calm, detached and putting me in a state where I can’t occupy myself with other things and have to resign to thinking of nothing.
So I asked my landlady to hang some cords in my patio so that I could wash by hand and let my laundry dry in the sun – it takes only a couple of hours in this weather and has been a perfect solution where everything is dry when I get home from work.
Today, however, Managua suddenly decided that rain would be a splendid idea. My laundry couldn’t have agreed less.
At least the city smells beautifully now. I will open my windows, relax, light a candle and play La Femme D’Argent by Air to accompany the rain.
Office hippie
A boatride, flight and quick shower later – I’m in office again. And I brought a little bit of hippie with me. :)
Last night @ Little Corn Island.
“Dis run down be miekin I hot.”
New friends, new experiences, new stories to share, a lot of love for life.
(Note the monkey.)
Little Corn Island.
…and yet again, I am reminded about how much all those extra hours in the office are worth, about how lucky I am to live so close to beautiful places, and about how the essence of my existence is to always find time to enjoy.