Category Archives: Life

Come and See

Posted on February 9, 2007 by Emmanuele Bassi

Decemberists: Yesterday evening, The Decemberists were in London, and made a wonderful concert at Shepherd Bush. I’ve fallen in love with the band after vieweing the video of their song Sixteen Military Wives and I started getting my hands on … Continue reading →

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Shake Your Groove Thing

Posted on July 11, 2006 by Emmanuele Bassi

Still in Italy, for the next 48 hours at least The wedding went incredibly well: the ceremony itself was so short (twenty minutes) that I don’t remember much of it. We were married in a beautiful building in Milan, with … Continue reading →

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Precious

Posted on June 5, 2006 by Emmanuele Bassi

Saturday, Marta and myself finally went to choose the wedding rings. We asked to get engraved, after our names, the date of the wedding in a format of our choice, and we gave to the puzzled guy a note with … Continue reading →

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London

Posted on May 2, 2006 by Emmanuele Bassi

Well, it’s been a full week since I moved to London, and everything is coming along quite nicely. The house is really cool, with a big bedroom and an even bigger dining room. It’s still missing some bits of furniture, … Continue reading →

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Feeling yourself disintegrate

Posted on April 21, 2006 by Emmanuele Bassi

life: In the past 24 hours I’ve had: a bad cold a sore throat some lines of fever water spilled on my laptop’s keyboard thus, a broken Ctrl key that would not disengage itself and, finally, a broken Ctrl key … Continue reading →

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ChangeLog

Posted on April 17, 2006 by Emmanuele Bassi

moving out: Marta has been in London a couple of times, in these two weeks; she has found a nice house in Crystal Palace, and began to buy furniture and stuff, and preparing it for us to move in. Next … Continue reading →

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Third-graders

Posted on February 9, 2006 by Emmanuele Bassi

This is a comment I left on Philip’s blog in response to Ross’ blog. question: what are we, third graders that we must do all this touchy-feely, “we must not make comments” stuff? ross’ comment was a bit on the … Continue reading →

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Transfer

Posted on February 1, 2006 by Emmanuele Bassi

Marta got accepted for a MSc at the LSE, and she’d really like to move to Good Ol’ London – with me coming along. So, in the next months I’ll have to find a gig in the UK: time to … Continue reading →

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Snow

Posted on January 27, 2006 by Emmanuele Bassi

It’s been snowing since yesterday morning, here in Milan. Waking up with 20 cm of snow and watching it grow has some sort of hypnotical beauty, which vanishes as soon as you realize that: two of the major national airports … Continue reading →

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There And Back Again

Posted on January 11, 2006 by Emmanuele Bassi

There (to Berlin) and Back (to work) again. Continue reading →

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