I bought these snow-white Urban Ears headphones to celebrate the end of my probation period at Berlitz and the confirmation that I would get the uni job. At first the idea was simply to listen to podcasts on my way home from work without letting the clamour of cars and people quell the soundtrack, but progressively [...]
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Product placement
Posted in Shopping, Work, tagged headphones, music, podcasts, style, urban ears on September 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
ZINEage years
Posted in Shopping, Studies, Work, tagged PhD, punk, snowflake-patterned adhesive tape, Studies, teaching, zines on June 3, 2010 | 7 Comments »
I’m not sure whether Geneva’s calvinist seriousness and reverence for the demands of business are starting to get on my nerves or if it’s only about these amazing adhesive tapes with lots of different patterns I found in a hip little shop in Berne, but lately I have been listening to female punk bands from [...]
Wrap-N-Mat is setting a trend
Posted in Food, Shopping, Work, tagged eco-friendly, lunch, Wrap-N-Mat on November 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Last spring, I became so enthusiastic about this fabric-and-plastic device that I persuaded some of my housemates to make a group order from the United States. One of them even chose the eco-print, which is one of the most ridiculous things I have ever seen – and I am attracted to ridiculous things. The concept [...]
Café Livresse
Posted in Home, Work, tagged bookshop, Café, Geneva, Livresse on October 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The best part of working in Geneva is discovering lots of new cafés during lunch breaks. I knew Livresse before I started the research project and consider myself very lucky as my office is only five minutes away. Getting used to the virtual inexistence of lattes in the city and opting for cappuccinos or renversés [...]
Rösti and the Federal Counsel
Posted in Blog, Home, Work, tagged Geneva, job on September 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Summer’s gone, along with the idea of going back to England this year (no unknown dead rich relative mentioning me in their will so far), and I’m back on Scones and the Queen. I’ve briefly considered renaming it Rösti and the Federal Counsel in order to be more in tune with my country of residence [...]
