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  2. If you live away from your country of citizenship/birth/whatever you consider to be home, do you identity as an expat or immigrant?

  3. Yawn. Yesterday was again one of those days when I started doing stuff way too late, and I finished way too late. I should really learn to put stuff aside to finish later. To be fair, at least for painting, it would be easier if I had a desk where I could just leave my painting stuff until the next day, but my desk is currently occupied by zucchini, pumpkin, cucumber and god knows what else seedlings, and my cats would just walk all over the stuff anyway.  

    I also noticed that my phone camera absolutely doesn’t work for orange. [Here’s](https://imgur.com/a/mwfpvnP) what I painted yesterday. The top photo is made with my phone, and the bottom one with my husband’s crappier camera, but it’s much more accurate. I tried playing with the hue, but it doesn’t really work. [This](https://imgur.com/a/IDLZB1b) is the most accurate version, taken with a real camera after playing a lot with the white balance. I wonder if scanners are better.

  4. Today is the 200th anniversary of the world premiere of [Beethoven’s 9th Symphony](https://youtube.com/watch?v=HljSXSm6v9M) (if you have 75 minutes).
    Alternatively here’s just the [Ode to Joy to sing along to](https://youtube.com/watch?v=E_Sb8oS_mks&t=4038).

    Fun fact:
    >Beethoven stood by the conductor Michael Umlauf during the concert beating time (although Umlauf had warned the singers and orchestra to ignore him), and because of his deafness was not even aware of the applause which followed until he was turned to witness it.[164]

    [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._9_(Beethoven)#Premiere)

  5. Inspired by a comment on one of the Italian subreddits:

    (for eurozone countries)
    How often do you see 100-euro, 200-euro, and 500-euro bills in your everyday life?

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