being Edinburgh...

how do you make big decisions in your life? Decisions that will influence the next couple of years... staying or leaving a town, going back to your roots, job security or none, leaving new friends behind or building new relationships abroad...

It turns out that almost all the people i have met here in Edinburgh are in the same situation... not really knowing what to do with your life... everybody is on the verge of a big change in their lives... but nobody is really undertaking action... Some will go to live on the carribean, others want to go on ski-season, others want to go and live and work in Germany, others starting up a company in Italy...

we jokingly named this feeling "being Edinburgh" - being in Edinburgh and loving it but planning to leave but not knowing when, where to and how... and most of the conversations end in "aah well, we'll see..."

it's a kind of magic

Tonight in Edinburgh Castle J K Rowling will present her new Harry Potter book for an audience of only children (and the world press of course). I just read this morning that she is the second richest woman in the UK (Nr 1 is the Queen - it'll be probably hard to beat that one).
If you could do magic, what would you do?

G8-fun

what a bizar feeling - to walk to work and pass hundreds of police officers securing the area around the office building. At this moment helicopters are flying over, sirens are making a lot of noise, and protestors are just told that the March on Gleneagles today is cancelled - not much to their joy...

And this morning I almost won two tickets for the Live8 Concert here in Edinburgh tonight - I was in the final round on a radio Show this morning (they were going to pick somebody who texted) and got a phonecall from them to say i was in the final group of people out of which they would select the winner. But... unfortunately i didn't win... :-(

It would have been nice though, because besides all the musical artists (s.a. Travis, Snow Patrol, Annie Lennox, James Brown) also George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Bono, Susan Sarandon and Bob Geldoff off course will be here tonight in Edinburgh...

Today I read something interesting - that the leaders teaming up together don't have the power to "change the world" as some people like to believe. Chirac's and Berlusconi's popularity is below zero, Schroder faces new elections and possible defeat, Putin is widely criticised in Russia, Blair started his last years as a PM, and even if Bush wanted to sign the Kyoto agreement, it would mean nothing because the American Congres voted against... only the Chinese leader (elected with only four votes against him in parliament) is the only one who can change things - but they are wisely staying out of the media attention...