Nov 14 2008
Just Waiting and Waiting
With the shipbuilding museum getting into winter mode, I find myself with a lot of free time that I am trying to fill up with writing. Problem is I don’t exactly want to spend all this time focusing on my book idea - it is very tedious and so I try to get as much done as possible during those times of “inspiration”. As many of you probably know - writing isn’t something you can fake, you have to be in the zone. You can judge from this rambling post, that I’m not in the zone this morning.
Besides, the trip to Amsterdam is getting closer and I am still doing research on where to go, eat, visit etc.. I’m pretty much exhausted information on the city and I am going a bit overboard, it’s not like I haven’t been there before. However now that I’m in my 30’s I feel like I am old enough to do many of the things I was too young/poor/immature to do on my previous visits.
I recall walking past a warm cozy Dutch restaurant on a cold day in February of 1996 and thinking it looks so nice and comfy in there (gezellig) but I was with a group of teenagers and as a group we would rather spend what little money we had in coffeeshops or bars. That is exactly what we did. The other day I was thinking that “huh, I’m an adult now - I can finally try out these sit-down restaurants where people other than stoned tourists eat.
