Today is December 1st, it’s Romania’s National Day. If I were at home I’d be happy because it’s a bank holiday, yesterday was one too, so happy people back home had a 4-day week-end. I celebrated not by taking days off to run to the mountains but by wearing the traditional Romanian blouse (ie) and our office at work proudly has the Romanian flag on one of its walls, among lyrics from Kent, John Lennon’s “Imagine” and “Do You Hear The People Sing”, and we’ll keep it there all week.

Today I’ve attended my last seminar that was part of the Master’s Programme I am soon (hopefully) finishing. This feels strange and I am stuck somewhere between panic and joy. I think the little nerd in me feels like she’s loosing something. Yet that would mean ticking a dream on my bucket list, and a very important and dear one. I am not there yet, though.

I am not in the Christmas spirit, I think I forgot that in London, but I plan to change that with glögg and pepparkakor during the week-end. Until then I am really enjoying a late evening at work, fighting Excel files and counting broadcasts and protests, eating chocolate and drinking coffee. I think late evenings at work are part of my nature, just as days at the tennis courts or evenings at rock concerts or afternoons by the sea. And I am also listening to music because it helps me focus. Today’s treat: “Silent Lucidity”. I can’t remember how many assignments I wrote listening to this song. I discovered it during my exchange in Dijon, or re-discovered it to be more precise, as it’s a song I’ve known since I was little. And I am sure I worked on a lot of excel files listening to it, today it works wonders. Give it a try. And try to say the band’s name out loud.