Two weeks left before I return to work after 8.5 months of first maternity leave (Mutterschutz) and then parental leave (Elternzeit). Today I visited the “new” Datawrapper office in Friedrichshain: New for me because the company moved there last summer, a few weeks after I started my leave, and I’ve only been there twice so far. Old for all my coworkers, though.
It’s beautiful. I’m much looking forward to actually sit down there with my laptop and work.
I also visited the “Pablo Neruda” library, a great library here in Berlin. I’ve been there once before, for a manga event on a weekend (not a big fan of manga but I got invited by friends and came along), and got pleasantly surprised today that’s it’s basically around the corner from the Datawrapper office. Because I’ll be nearby often anyway, I spontaneously decided to make it my second go-to library and took some English non fiction books and BrandEins business magazines with me.
I know I’ll only skim the books, but I’ll read the magazines. Every time I’m trying to read non fiction book these days (well, weeks), I give up after a while. I don’t get into them as much as I get into fictional books. But I love to read shorter magazine articles, even these weeks. And BrandEins just has the best. I’ll tell you another time, why.