The new apartment has a few nifty options for getting back into exercising after my post-thesis-coma/moving-prep hiatus. The apartment comes from a scientist who's left AEI to join his wife in their apartment in Spain, so he has no use for the apartment furniture and is passing it all along to me ( Read more... )

Greetings livejournal friends! I've been very neglectful of you lately, so I thought I'd ease into Germany stories with a short post from my new apartment, which is here:
( map! )

So, in ten days I get on a plane with a couple suitcases of clothing and personal effects and head over to Berlin, where I shall be spending the next year or three. It still doesn't seem quite real ( Read more... )

Current move-to-Berlin plan: I leave about a week into October, and stay at one of the Max Planck gueshouses till the end of that month. Uwe comes with me for a week of apartment hunting and then returns to Milwaukee to finish packing, sorting out boa-constrictor-importing and cyclocross racing season ( Read more... )

I just spontaneously booked tickets to head up to Seattle for the Penny Arcade Expo at the end of this month. I'm so excited! I probably should be saving money for moving but this'll likely be the last time in a while I'll be able to so easily jaunt across the States for it. And see many of my old UBC pals! I'll have a bit of time before and after ( Read more... )

I can't open my Leatherman scissors to trim my thumbnail because I let my thumbnail get too long and rough-edged to open my Leatherman scissors.

I'm a doctor. :)

Well I handed my draft to the committee, I gave my departmental colloquium, and now just revisions and edits and studying and a few research tasks until my defense in a week and a bit.

So here is that interesting three unique things meme!

Post 3 things you’ve done in your lifetime that you don’t think anybody else on your friends list has done ( Read more... )

Thesis thesis thesis. Thesis thesis? Thesis thesis thesis thesis. Thesis thesis thesis, thesis thesis, thesis thesis thesis thesis thesis.

Thesis.

(current pdf is 58 pages)

Uwe and I just spent an hour playing Carcasonne by candlelight (specifically, by the light of the Massive Candle of Love from our wedding) with all the servers off and everything. It was pretty awesome! He beat my by six points, but I kept not noticing my cloisters had been completed and leaving the little dudes on there, dammmit. We had a total ( Read more... )