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Marcel

We successfully built everything. Let’s just not mention how, a couple of days later, a real handyman had to come and bolt it all to the wall properly.

Marcel

My journal entry from two years ago (just a classic text-based journal) ended with me promising myself I wouldn’t spend my birthday alone the following year. And I didn’t. Last …

Marcel

I turned 37 on that day! That number doesn’t remotely reflect the age I feel I should be, but who am I to argue with Chronos?

Marcel

This was the first vacation I never wanted to end. But I was also glad to be back with the cats.

Marcel

We had quite a social day. Notting Hill is unbelievably beautiful.

Marcel

Big Ben is far prettier than I expected. I thought it would be just a boring old tower, but it’s so detailed!

Marcel

I later discovered that Waterstones is just the starting point. There are so many incredible bookshops in the UK. What a paradise!

Marcel

Packing is the worst. I’m not even bad at it, it just isn’t fun. It’s like a puzzle where the result will never be perfect, and you just have to live with the compromises. …

Marcel

Keeping up a long-distance friendship requires sacrifices. Mine is spending the last 30 minutes of Cecilia’s and my regular FaceTime session in agony because I drank way too much …

Marcel

You can tell how often I cook by how long it took me to get these.

Marcel

I’m trying, once again, to become a bike person. It’s easier to get to Anna’s new apartment by bike than by subway or bus.

Marcel

I haven't watched a single episode of Naruto in my life.