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'k Heb dus nu nieuwe kabel (Comcast Digital Cable) en tweehonderd kanalen meer dan drie dagen geleden. Dus ik bekijk de interactieve televisiegids om te zien wat er nu te kijken valt, en zie daar op het scherm "Dutch Soccer" staan in de lijst.

Nou haat ik voetbal, maar moest er zo op de Zondagavond toch even op af. PSV - Feyenoord. En de Amerikaanse commentator, heel bevlogen toch wel, schijnt te weten waar hij het over heeft, maakt toch leuk geen kaas van die Nederlandse namen. Schitterend. "Vaaaandenberk" komt er nog het beste vanaf.

3 - 1, btw.

Job Vignettes

1) It's come up twice in conversation last week, so I might as well make an entry out of it. When I went down to NYC to present a creation to the editor of PopSci, we had lunch and chit-chatted about our lives. He mentioned that his wife was a magazine writer as well, she was a reviewer. For a Travel Magazine. Specializing in spa's. The woman got paid to go to spa's, get treatments and review them. I, like everyone else, immediatly said it sounded like a dream job. Then, before he could mention it, I realized and he echoed that even that gets old. "Another warm stone massage. Ugh. Another aromatherapy bath."

2) Yeah, I am a slut, and in numbers I have forgotten most of the people I have had sex with. One man stuck in my mind, because, in the afterglow, he mentioned what his job was: driving. Professional driving. Professional driving of brand-new gorgeous cars, many of them high-end luxury models. And make them do things like slips and turns most of you would only do when things are going desperatly wrong. In fact, many of you have seen his works hundreds of times. Ayup, he's the guy referred to when, in small print on the bottom of a screen during on a car commercial, it says "Professional driver on a closed course" to discourage us all from trying to make these beuatiful dangerous moves in the advertised cars.

Those are real people. And when they have to slip the car to hit their mark, just so, in front of the camera, for the fitieth time that day, at 6 AM to get the best light, in that damn California desert, again, they feel they should diversify too.