August 2, 2012
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(written on 14 March 2013)
In the morning it was raining badly still so that meant I took a metro to work. Wouldn’t want my hairstyle to get ruined of course.
Yesterday’s discussions on Facebook on the topic of same sex marriage in the US continued overnight of course and they really have a big impact on me. To cheer myself up I watched a video clip of Dame Shirley Bassey singing I Am What I Am repeatedly on YouTube. Amsterdam has a big party weekend coming up, namely Pride, and when you look at that it seems as if being gay is just one big party. It’s definitely not that case and actually, when things happen such as the Chick-fil-A saga in the US, it really affects me badly. Some deep rooted feelings of anger and fear mix and make me lash out. This will take some time to settle down.
The picture was taken as I was walking home from work, when suddenly Amsterdam’s skies were blue again. It shows the advertisement tower at the RAI congress centre, very close to where I used to live. In the evening, Günter came over for pizza, wine and chatting, and it was very nice to see him again and catch up with all that had happened in the past weeks. That calmed me down as well.
