Today in the news (my news)
When you get the chance to speak to somebody I think you should, rather than avoiding it. It's easy to avoid, for any number of reasons, all of which make sense if you say them, yet the one that doesn't make sense is not talking to people. Because we are all in here together, and how will you learn things if you don't bother sampling things that are different from you - things that you don't already know about?
I spoke to a man today. I didn't have to, since he has only met me a few times and fairly certainly didn't remember me, but I was asking how things are and he says his son has died recently and he was only 35. So I could easily have passed him by. I'm not saying it's necessarily a good idea to talk to me about your problems, maybe it will just make them worse, but still I'm glad I could try to be helpful at least once. Next time, say hello to somebody! You can, you know.
In other news, there is a new winner of the Gaudeamus Interpreters' Competition, called Małgorzata Walentynowicz. As you can see, she is Polish and congratulations to her and good luck for your next success! Here is the video about it.
You see, we aren't the kind of people who have enemies in the same line of business. I don't mind that there's more than one winner of Gaudeamus - of course there will be! Good luck to all of them, they all deserve success if they try hard. Sometimes people get jealous, even of me (which is pretty amazing) but I think that's because they feel they aren't really that good. It means they'd like the people they think are good to fail please. Well that certainly is comprehensible but it doesn't make a lot of real sense, sorry. If people are better than me, wonderful. I seriously hope they are. If I'm the summit of excellence, we're in trouble!
Last of all, Marks and Spencer is the name of a shop in UK. They are mainly known for clothes but they also have a food wing or branch. The food wing or branch sells quite nice food, all of it very expensive and very over-packaged, however it is of quite a good quality at the same time. So sometimes I give it a try. Anyway, they previously had quite a good selection of salads that were well made. But all that has suddenly changed! Now every salad, no matter what it is, no matter what are the ingredients, has potato in it. Everything has potato. Why? Is there some sort of glut? Are the fields awash with potatoes?
Well I can tell you another thing. It's not nice. The one I just ate tasted like something they found in a ditch. The recipe made no sense and I hardly ate any of the potatoes. Well, they should think on that.
Please note: I said the salads were good previously. I have nothing against potatoes or their use in cuisine. It's just a question of mad recipes or sane recipes. Take your choice, Marks and Spencer.
What we learned today is: help people if you can, let them win if they can, and don't allow any more of this potato insanity. The end!
I spoke to a man today. I didn't have to, since he has only met me a few times and fairly certainly didn't remember me, but I was asking how things are and he says his son has died recently and he was only 35. So I could easily have passed him by. I'm not saying it's necessarily a good idea to talk to me about your problems, maybe it will just make them worse, but still I'm glad I could try to be helpful at least once. Next time, say hello to somebody! You can, you know.
In other news, there is a new winner of the Gaudeamus Interpreters' Competition, called Małgorzata Walentynowicz. As you can see, she is Polish and congratulations to her and good luck for your next success! Here is the video about it.
You see, we aren't the kind of people who have enemies in the same line of business. I don't mind that there's more than one winner of Gaudeamus - of course there will be! Good luck to all of them, they all deserve success if they try hard. Sometimes people get jealous, even of me (which is pretty amazing) but I think that's because they feel they aren't really that good. It means they'd like the people they think are good to fail please. Well that certainly is comprehensible but it doesn't make a lot of real sense, sorry. If people are better than me, wonderful. I seriously hope they are. If I'm the summit of excellence, we're in trouble!
Last of all, Marks and Spencer is the name of a shop in UK. They are mainly known for clothes but they also have a food wing or branch. The food wing or branch sells quite nice food, all of it very expensive and very over-packaged, however it is of quite a good quality at the same time. So sometimes I give it a try. Anyway, they previously had quite a good selection of salads that were well made. But all that has suddenly changed! Now every salad, no matter what it is, no matter what are the ingredients, has potato in it. Everything has potato. Why? Is there some sort of glut? Are the fields awash with potatoes?
Well I can tell you another thing. It's not nice. The one I just ate tasted like something they found in a ditch. The recipe made no sense and I hardly ate any of the potatoes. Well, they should think on that.
Please note: I said the salads were good previously. I have nothing against potatoes or their use in cuisine. It's just a question of mad recipes or sane recipes. Take your choice, Marks and Spencer.
What we learned today is: help people if you can, let them win if they can, and don't allow any more of this potato insanity. The end!
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