{"id":127,"date":"2016-01-31T19:05:27","date_gmt":"2016-01-31T19:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christowski.de\/blog\/index.php\/2016\/01\/31\/january-thermal-underwear-100-essays-and-berlin\/"},"modified":"2018-11-24T20:29:07","modified_gmt":"2018-11-24T18:29:07","slug":"january-thermal-underwear-100-essays-and-berlin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christowski.de\/blog\/2016\/01\/january-thermal-underwear-100-essays-and-berlin\/","title":{"rendered":"January: Thermal underwear, 100 essays and Berlin drawings"},"content":{"rendered":"
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One of the hardest months of the year is coming to an end. The darkness of winter is eating me up, I want to hide inside and just wait till it\u2019s over. Neuk\u00f6lln is not a pleasurable place to be during the winter months \u2013 I hate spending time outside after 5pm, which leads to a lot of home office days and me temporarily moving to my friend\u2019s home in Prenzlauer Berg.<\/p>\n

Something that helped my dark mood and misanthropy: Avoiding public transport. I stepped up the cycling game, buying thermal underwear, rain clothes, and made a DIY ass-saver (who would buy a bicycle without mud guards?!). When it was -10\u00b0C, my most important purchase was a pair of really expensive Roeckl gloves, which I lost one week later. By then, January was well-disposed; temperatures almost spring-like.<\/p>\n

Also purchased were too many books this month: Brian Christian\u2019s The Most Human Human<\/i>, Sarah Ruhl\u2019s 100 Essays I Don\u2019t Have Time to Write<\/i>, and a couple of novels I want to read this year. The latter \u2013 100 Essays<\/i> \u2013 is just a pleasure to read because it consists of really short, really fun musings on theatre. I tend to buy a lot of books and never make it past the first 80 pages, and for a long time I thought I am just not the smart book person I wanted to be. In fact, my attention span is<\/i> very short when it comes to reading, but oftentimes, I also just choose the wrong ones. I had maybe two or three books last year that I read in one go, for example Mr. Penumbra\u2019s 24-Hour Bookstore: A fantastic novel with simply the right amount of zeitgeist and magic. I bought it at The Curious Fox in Neuk\u00f6lln, which you should pay a visit if you\u2019re into english books.<\/p>\n

Other findings of joy this month: This set by Robag Whrume<\/a>; I did not listen to anything else. Elisabeth\u2019s weekly writing<\/a>, especially this text after the first week of January. I fell in love with the drawings and paintings of Sholem Krishtalka<\/a>: An intense capturing of the city and queer clubbing scene in Berlin.<\/p>\n

Two more months to go until spring is back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the hardest months of the year is coming to an end. The darkness of winter is eating me up, I want to hide inside and just wait till it\u2019s over. Neuk\u00f6lln is not a pleasurable place to be during the winter months \u2013 I hate spending time outside after 5pm, which leads to … January: Thermal underwear, 100 essays and Berlin drawings<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1197,1203,1206,1200],"tags":[140,222,44,42,41,40,3,39,2,43],"class_list":["post-127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beobachtungen","category-berlin","category-christels-corner","category-gefuehlslagen","tag-140","tag-books","tag-christels-corner","tag-diary","tag-english","tag-newsletter","tag-schreiben","tag-tagebuch","tag-text","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christowski.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christowski.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christowski.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christowski.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christowski.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/christowski.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1816,"href":"https:\/\/christowski.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions\/1816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christowski.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christowski.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christowski.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}