0kin1 and #thingsisawtoday

30kin35

So , twas a bad day for 30kin35 (30,000 words that I’m trying to add to my first draft in 35 days for those not in the know (and really, why would you be))…I managed zilch. Partly because I moved apartments today to my more permanent sublet (more of below), partly because Thursdays is when I do the bulk of #WoMentoring Project work and also…because I took a two hour nap this afternoon. But guys, if you take a two hour nap you’re very, very tired yes? If you’re tired you should sleep…so says me and my body even at the expense of words today. So tomorrow is the day to pull it back…

#thingsisawtoday 

Largely what I saw was my new sublet. Smack bang in the middle of Kreuzberg and above an excellent coffeeshop - it’s pretty sweet. My room has polished wooden floors, white walls, a white sofa, giant desk and a bed…except for all the white (I am a spiller, I just am) it’s perfect for working. Also the window looks out onto this busy intersection which is perfect for people-watching (just behind that tennis court there is an open air cinema…yes!). 

Otherwise I went to the library via the ice-cream parlour of my dreams: Fraulein Frost. I’m sure a psychoanalyst would have a field day with my love of ice-cream but, quite simply, it takes me back to the sweetest, simplest pleasures of being a kid. This parlour is also filled with adorable kids in beanies having highly entertaining sugar tantrums…which is a bonus.

The last thing I saw was an accident on one of the busiest roads here. Only a little one…I heard the usual screech of tires and felt the note of alarm in the air as people stopped to stare but the cyclist was already getting up from the busy road, smiling, clearly feeling foolish. When he reached my side I asked him if he was ok and he put his hand on my arm and said ‘oh yes’ he waved his other arm around his head ‘I was just thinking about…so many things’ and shrugged…I looked down to see if his bike was damaged…but no, no bike…it was a fucking unicycle he’d fallen off while ‘thinking about so many things’. Only in Berlin.