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Category Archives: Work
Book launch Bastiaan Ragas
Last Wednesday I went to the book launch of the first book written by Bastiaan Ragas. The book contains stories about his fatherhood. Bastiaan has four kids, so he knows where he’s talking about.
Everyone entered the location of the book launch on a red carpet with many kids’ toys laying around on it. [...]
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The Royal Library
Today I visited the Royal Library (KB) in The Hague to search for two specific articles about a famous Dutch woman. When you enter the library you have to put your bag and jacket downstairs in the wardrobe. The stuff you want to bring into the library (your papers, a pen, [...]
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Sint at work
Today, Sinterklaas and two of his Pieten visited us at work. It’s been a long time since I saw Sinterklaas, so it was nice to meet him again.
Sinterklaas knew everything and all the children (and I) were impressed by his knowledge. Together with the Pieten there was singing and dancing. I even learned [...]
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Valentine’s gift
Yesterday at work I received a huge red rose from one of the authors. He came by to deliver a proof of his book. I just went to the lunchroom, so I didn’t meet the author. But when I came back to my desk, I saw this rose with a little note from him.
It said: [...]
Tagged Author, Colleagues, Jealous, Manuscript, Rose, Valentine
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No, I won’t
Today I learned that sometimes I have to say: ‘No’. Normally, I would try to avoid to say no to anyone, but now that I have been home for too many months, I know I have to chose for myself.
At work somebody asked me to coordinate an interesting but also big project. I thought: [...]