All things material, be gone!

Well, except my jewelry. I mean, it does come from all over the world... and the board I made for my earrings to hang off of. That's a piece of art, really. Gradma's head scarf is the background for it, can't leave that behind. Nor five boxes worth of books or a trillion suitcases worth of clothing, every last piece of a deep sentimental value, of course.....
This is not gonna be easy.

I'm moving to The Hague. And if I defend my bloody dissertation before I go, I'll even be excited. In the meantime, I am trying to Reduce Everything. I started a big trash bag in the middle of my room, thinking I'll just throw in it everything I don't need, mercilessly. Off it will go to the Good Will. It now sports an old bike helmet with a torn off strap and a hair dryer with a torn off switch (a pattern?). Nothing more.... Unacceptable.

Meanwhile I am trying to decide if I want a gemeuvemefeldet apartment (or whatever) or whether that might be a bad thing, trying to see through the photos of various studios and apartments online whether I'll feel at home there.

Thus the journey begins.

Oh yes. The dissertation defense first. Meh.

Oooh, found a pen that doesn't work! Off to the trash bag! There is hope.

Den Haag!!!

"It's all downhill from now..."

And I sure hope so! Shouldn't that be a good thing? All downhill from now, weeeeee!

Anyway, so many expressions have almost the opposite meaning than they logically should have.

"It's all but done".... Well, my imagination suggests that it was left alone, swept under the rug, delegated to someone else who died a sudden and gruesome death... it suggests many things except for "it's almost done".

And the good old "horrible" and "horrific" - both a bad thing.... and "terrible" and "terrific" suddenly being quite the opposite of one another. Gah! I think it's a plot against the foreigners really. Nobody likes us.

I shall not be subdued. I will follow my common sense and use the words as I deem fit. Even if people will think I went off the deep end (not sure where or why).