7 April 2002
1 April – 9h04 –
Partly sunny.
Today is Easter Monday, the second day of Easter.
Everything in town is closed today (as well as yesterday). Even the grocery
store!
According to Sky News:
11h23 – “The Pink Panther Strikes Again” is on. I
love Pink Panther movies.
I love that it’s warmer out. This means I can hang
my clothes outside after I do the laundry instead of having to hang then inside
the flat. Life is good.
2 April – 4h01 –
Madeleine Albright is on Larry King Live. She called on the current Secretary
of State to go to Israel and Palestine and get involved. She also said that
when she was Secretary of State, she used to be in contact with former
Secretaries of State for advice on how they handled many situations and said
that the current administration doesn’t want to do that.
4h15 – Judge Judy is on Larry King now. I saw her
show last summer when I was in the USA and didn’t care for it, but right now
she actually said something that I agree with: the Catholic church should turn
the names of priests involved in paedophilia should turn the names over to the
police.
Judge Judy gave a good interview. Larry asked her
about many different legal issues going on and I agreed with most of what she
said.
5h24 – Back to bed for a while.
8h24 – I’m up. I think I’ll do the Saturday thing –
use the internet, go to the grocery store, etc.
15h – Sharon has offered Arafat a one-way ticket out
of Palestine. I don’t think that Arafat will accept it.
3 April – 6h40 –
It’s a wonderfully sunny day! I love it. I hope this means it’ll be a warm
spring.
All good things must come to an end. Back to work
today. Only 27 more days until my next holiday.
It’ll be a busy month. On top of all my regular
work, I’m giving a practise FCE exam on 13 April and a practise CAE exam on 20
April.
7h39 – HA HA – According to the CNN weather map,
it’s raining in Mediterranean Europe (Spain, the south coast of France and
Italy)! After a long winter, we deserve a good spring!
11h02 – Dan Rather is on Larry King Live, reporting
live from Jerusalem. I usually don’t watch programs about the happenings in the
Middle East because it’s usually only people seeing their own side of the
story, however, Rather is a good reporter, so I’ll watch it.
11h58 – It was well worth watching.
12h27 – I just stepped out onto my balcony and
realised that the sun is still deceptive. It’s quite cool outside. The last few
days we’ve had sun have been quite warm. No longer.
20h35 – The weather according to channel PULS:
Tonight clear - 6°C, tomorrow 6°C,
Friday 4°C, Saturday 4°C and Sunday 8°C.
On my way to work, I cut through a park. Today, I noticed
little blue flowers coming up! I also noticed one tree that was staring to bud.
Hooray! Signs of spring!
It was a good first day back.
20h45 – There’s a show on PULS called Resurrection
Blvd on. It’s been on for a couple of months now and I’ve caught a few
episodes. Now I’m getting more interested. It’s basically a nighttime soap
(like Melrose Place or Dallas) and has Hispanic actors.
22h – American, British and Italian journalists have
been evacuated from Bethlehem due to it being now under control of the the
Israeli military and is under indefinite curfew.
22h15 – Time for bed. I’m beat. Getting up at 6h30
makes one tired quite early in the evening.
4 April – 7h05 –
Another great sunny day!
7h39 – According to Sky News, there’s a processional
at around 11am tomorrow (Britain time) for the Queen Mother. It’s going from St
James’ Palace to Westminster Hall.
10h03 – It’s cloudy now. Oh well. The sun was nice
while it lasted. Hopefully we’ll see it again some day soon.
5 April – 6h25 –
Cloudy again.
Yesterday, NASA scrapped a space shuttle launch due
to a hydrogen leak. I’m still confused as to why the money used for one launch
could be used for much better purposes. USA needs the space program when there
is poverty on the streets of the USA
7h20 – According to BBC World, there is a book that
has been published in France saying that the plane that crashed into the
Pentagon never existed and was a government plan. I highly doubt it.
7h42 – According to EuroNews, LOT has become a
partner with Lufthansa! I wonder what that means about my flight from Warsaw to
Zurich in August.
11h50 – This is a great episode of Miami Vice. They
just showed the bridge to Key Biscayne. I love Miami.
11h58 – I’m on Sky News. The service to move the
body of the Queen Mother is not quite underway yet. They’re position the
vehicle that they will carry the coffin on at the place where the casket is.
The vehicle is called the “gun carriage” and is an open carriage specifically
made for carrying caskets and is drawn by 6 horses.
They told a story from when the she was still queen
during WWII. The king and queen went to visit a military installation in
Plymouth that had been bombed people, and there was a very large fragment of a bomb
that was dropped by the Germans. A soldier asked his commander what he should
do with it, and the queen over heard and said, “Put it in a bomber and we’ll
drop it on them.”
I probably won’t be able to watch this entire
processional because I have a lot of photocopying to do before work today.
It’s a nice sunny day in London.
12h15 – The royal family has arrived and gone into
the Queen’s chapel for a private prayer service before the coffin is moved.
12h24 – The coffin is being brought out to the gun
carriage. There’s a purple pillow with a purple crown on it on top of the
coffin. I wonder if it was one of hers? The royal family has lined up behind
the coffin.
12h30 – The procession has begun.
12h40 – Strange, I don’t see the Queen marching in
it.
12h43 – The queen has just left Buckingham Palace in
her car. I wonder why she didn’t march?
12h47 – The queen has arrived at Westminster Hall to
away the rival for the coffin.
The Marchers are marching at 70 paces per
minutes.
13h – The arrived at Westminster Hall just as the
clock struck midday (British time). I have to go to work.
6
April –
6h34 – partly sunny. I forgot to buy my newspaper yesterday! The first time
this year, I think. I’ll have to walk to the supermarket and buy one.
We
had a hard freeze last night.
According
to the CBS Evening News:
·
A
second American was caught in Afghanistan. This is the first I’ve heard of it.
He was born in Louisiana to Saudi parents who later returned to Saudi Arabia.
It’s unclear if he is still an American citizen.
·
A
Catholic priest in Cleveland, who was accused in the sex scandal, killed
himself.
·
There’s
an economic boycott of Cincinnati due to the shooting death of an unarmed black
teenager by a white police officer.
13h
– I picked up a copy of yesterday’s paper at the market in the centre of
town..which is great, as it meant that I didn’t have to go to all the way out
to the supermarket. Daylight report (a day late): Sunrise: 5h02 Sunset: 18h16.
20h41
– I’m soooooo tired. I’ll stay up until 21h to see if Jay Leno is on. If he is,
I’ll watch the monologue, if he’s not, I’ll go to bed.
21h
– Oh good, Jay Leno is on. Interesting..his opening doesn’t just show scenes of
Los Angeles anymore, it shows scenes from all around the USA. The show was from
29 March.
21h21
– I’m absolutely beat. Time for bed.
7
April –
7h15 – Partly sunny today.
15h30
– This week on Inside Africa:
·
Arusha,
Tanzania – Trial of the people accused of genocide in Rwanda. Also, the
difference between the “popularity” of the Balkan trials in The Hague and these
trials in Tanzania.
·
The
end of the war in Angola
·
The
possible formation of a common African currency
·
Handel’s
Messiah sung in South Africa’s 11 official languages
·
The
attempted prevention of the extinction of Bonobo apes in the Democratic
Republic of Congo.
18h30
– BBC World’s Holiday program was in New Orleans tonight. St Moritz
(Switzerland) and Corfu and Devon (England). I’d die for a roast beef po boy or
a great plate of red beans and rice right now!
19h32
– Muppets Tonight is on TV4. It was a late 1980s attempt at a revival of the
Moppets Show. It didn’t go over as well as the original Muppet show.
