As some of you will know, I recently moved back to The Netherlands from Bulgaria after finishing my placement with the Bulgarian National Radio. This meant that I was moving from a GMT +2 timezone, to a GMT +1 timezone, so in Bulgaria it’s always 1 hour later than here. I had no trouble adjusting, but my laptop did. Every time I put it an hour back, it would jump an hour forward. It annoyed me, but I didn’t care enough to actually figure it out and really do something about it.
So then something started happening. I would actually get tired earlier, I would actually start doing what I should be doing at an earlier time (read: stop procrastinating sooner) and for a while, every day had an extra hour to it. That effect has worn off, but still, time is less ‘fixed’ as it is when your clock is telling the right time. Time’s such a strange thing, isn’t it?
As with the former website, I have enabled email subscriptions.
When I came back from Bulgaria, I got drowned in school work, so the only thing I’ve really done besides that is set up this website as a continuation of the former one. Although not officially, yet. The course I’m doing is about the evaluation of internal communication processes and what’s most exciting is the lecturers involved; Dr. Guido Wolf, from the conex. Institute, and Dr. Nina Schuppener, from Hering Schuppener. It almost feels like it’s the first time I’m actually learning something in my university, or at least motivated to learn something.
Anyway… I just spent four days in Germany, meeting students from the University of Duisburg/Essen, and setting up a way to start working together to analyze the internal communications of one out of four selected companies. The group I’m in was assigned to carry out a rather specific research with a big, German energy company. Very exciting!
This Sunday I’m playing a couple of DJ sets at the DUPLO Festival in dB’s, Utrecht. There will be six bands performing between 3 in the afternoon until 10 in the evening… Between the performances, I’m taking care of the music and I have a set of an hour at the end (unless everyone leaves of course). To check out some of my work, go here.
I should also be writing an article for Rethos.com, a website with articles dealing with activist and ideological topics, which will probably be about an organisation an acquaintance of mine has set up, called Live-Build. Keep a close eye on my Twitter updates if you’re interested.
But for now…
I'm Bas, 24, an International Comm. Management student from The Netherlands. Since the summer of 2007 I've lived in Sofia, Bulgaria, for a total of one year and Istanbul, Turkey for half a year. I'm currently back at home in The Netherlands. I write about the future of music, living abroad, traveling, all things 2.0, the future, and a little activism. I love photography and making videos, so my posts are often accompanied by those media. More on me? Check out my social media profiles:
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