Trychydts in English

I had to make a complaint at a Vodafone office, so I went in and asked for the office manager. After a few minutes, Pinocchio came forward from the back office in a red Vodafone shirt. Although I was quite angry, I could hardly bear not to laugh, and became relaxed in an instant. I have never, ever seen such a long nose in my life. I wonder how he drinks champagne. Probably from a mug. He had a really nice, polite, positive and professional attitude, however, and he came up with an excellent solution for my problem in two seconds.

My temporary job in the publication of the letters of the famous Hungarian cartographer, Manó Kogutowicz is coming to an end. He lived at turn of the turn of the 19th century, he was the founder of the Hungarian Institute of Geography, and a real pioneer in Hungarian cartography. Working with his letters was a really interesting and challenging task; I could immerse in that age — I never new so much about the life in the late Habsburg-Hungarian Monarchy. It is the age of the early capitalism in Hungary — Manó Kogutowicz himself was the director of one of the first cartographic firms in Hungary. As an editor myself, I could also see that despite the century between us, editors seem to have very similar problems every time. Authors have absolutely no sense of deadlines, procurers want to dictate while don’t know or care about basic rules of publication.

He did have a lot of financial problems, though — although I suspect that he complained a bit more to his business partners that would have been absolutely necessary.

I ate home-made hot dog for supper. Veronika used semi-finished rolls which had to be baked in the oven for ten minutes. Nice and easy.