01 January 2023
Where were we? Ah, yes, the new year. This 2023, the rest of us will have an extra national holiday day, but my birthday will be on Holy Saturday (which I am not very happy about). Date Day of the week Bank holiday 2 January Monday New Year’s Day (substitute...
01 August 2022
This July was also tiring because of that week when we almost reached 40 degrees, and then the temperatures plummeted (about 10 degrees). Between the heat and the increased workload, I feel exhausted, and for the Holidays, those with a capital H, I will have to wait until September. Meanwhile,...
08 April 2021
This semi-prime number, 51, is a bit like that, neither meat nor fish (my anguish does not subside).I don’t really want to party, and anyway, the restaurants and pubs here reopen after 12. Since January, we have been in a hard and pure lockdown; perhaps (perhaps) after May 17th, we...
01 August 2015
A year ago, my forced leave began on the first of August.A year later, I can say it: in July, I had changed jobs, still a project contract, for one month, and even before signing, I had asked if, provided there was the will to continue the collaboration, the new...
10 August 2014
This blog usually reaches a number of visits close to ridiculous, but in the last two days, one can count them on the fingers of one hand. It is a bit like what is happening to the city, which has emptied wonderfully. Somehow, in Italy, still in 2014, most people...
02 August 2014
As of yesterday, I am officially on forced holiday until the end of the month (or maybe not, we will see). In other words, I am not on holiday (holidays tend to be that beautiful period where you rest, maybe go somewhere that is not the city where you work...
13 December 2013
I only realised last night that the last time I had a permanent contract was precisely three years and eight months ago, that famous contract for which I am still in litigation.This in itself would not even be such a big deal if it were not for the fact that...
03 September 2012
Some events seem small but make you practically question your whole life without much of a reason.Then you add to that the rain, the cold weather, the people who have the terrible habit of coming back from their holidays all at once, the Indian neighbour who plays loud music at...