Archives for December, 2007
Winter Wonderland & new dSLR
Sunday, December 23rd, 2007
My new Canon EOS 400D arrived just in time to capture these scenes in Leiden and Voorschoten:
see the entire album (14 pictures) here:
Winter
The good stuff of nightmares
Thursday, December 20th, 2007
I got these small foam Santa Clauses at the swimming pool yesterday and they look innocent enough when you hold them in your hand with the almighty power to crush them, but when you reallyhave a look they’re actually really really scary! From up close the proportions are all wrong and there’s a kind of eerie [...]
Cigarette dreams
Sunday, December 16th, 2007
Even though I rarely crave a cigarette anymore since I quit smoking 5 months ago, I still sometimes dream I am smoking a cigarette. I’ve had a few of these dreams, in which I lavishly inhale and exhale (but even in my dreams I do this hunched away in a dark corner where nobody can [...]
A walk in the park
Saturday, December 15th, 2007
As I was working from home yesterday, I took some time out to drive to Voorschoten and walk around one of its parks for a bit. I’d seen that park a few times before, where I noticed a stairway that looked quite good from afar. Sadly, it didn’t look very good from close by; [...]
Got a part in “Desire Under the Elms”!
Thursday, December 13th, 2007
I’ve been to audition at Toverlei Wednesday evening, and got the part I really, really, really wanted in Eugene O’Neill’s full-length play “Desire Under the Elms” (1925)! My part is Eben, the youngest son of a farmer. The story is a little too complex to give a synopsis here, but it’s a family drama that [...]
A night of games
Sunday, December 9th, 2007
I went to see John and Anik yesterday evening in Zoetermeer, and with two of their friends we spent a very nice evening playing a dictionary game. One person would look up a word that nobody around the table knew, and we would each write down a meaning. That same person would then read them [...]
Zwarte Piet!
Thursday, December 6th, 2007
After postponing it year after year I finally succombed to the pressure of the Sinterklaas organisation at Toverlei: I’ve been a Zwarte Piet last night! Together with Lorien and Joop (as Sinterklaas) we visited three families. The first family had two children, a 5-year-old boy and his 10-year-old sister (who was a little shy but played [...]
My name is Marco Hokke. My blog is about the things that interest me and things I might forget if I would not blog them.