The Froth

You would squeeze it but would it squeak?

13. May 2007

Having to make a class presentation on "TV in my house", my son, whose English is not that good yet, wrote on one corner of the big craft paper he used: "Favourite TV Show: SPONGE BOOB".

Supermarket drama

17. April 2007

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She was lurking behind the shampoo aisle Yesterday, in the supermarket, while daydreaming in front of the pantiliners shelf, a crazy looking, blonde woman around 50, approached me. They always do. "Do you know where they keep the incontinence pads?" she asked. I showed her. They were hidden away along with the baby toiletries, for some reason. [...]

The coy doctor

3. February 2007

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Last week I went to the doctor to have a second electromyogram. Somehow, the first doctor whom I had found on the internet didn’t look that credible to me. He had made a comment about husbands giving him more money to electrocute their wives. I laughed. A visit to the neurologist should be a somber [...]

The Man in Grey

21. September 2006

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Incidentally, I made pasta today: An irrelevant piece of information to attract readers You know how I carry my silly magnet with me at all times, so as to never miss a silly person that might be in proximity? I have a similar smelly person magnet, but I did not have it on my person today. [...]

La cucaracha

26. May 2006

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scary but not as scary as what followed We went for a beer to our favourite (not anymore) beer garden in the area. It was nice, and we also had a vegetarian schnitzel. As we were finishing our beers and I was starting to feel pleasantly dizzy, M shouted "let’s get out of here, NOW". Because [...]

Heel hell

17. May 2006

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Thank god for art installations I made a huge mistake. Huge. I met my friend Oni for coffee and a little chore we had to do together and wore new heels. After an hour of walking on the cracked pavements of Athens, I realized my feet had become two big blisters. When Oni -who [...]

Naked Truman

1. February 2006

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Benaki Museum, a building I love It’s a bit Zen on the inside costumes a miniature model This has been Cultural Week for me. I went to another exhibition. This was by a famous –in Greece- set decorator and costume designer, Dionysis Fotopoulos, who has more or less worked in most of the theatrical productions that mattered [...]