Today, I took a thermometer with me to work. I don't have a job which requires any physical activity except for typing, writing and thinking. But thinking becomes increasingly hard, as does typing, when your arms stick to your desk ( Read more... )

July turns out to be another busy month. Next week I'll be off on another short-term notice business trip. To Paris again. Not that I'll see much of Paris. And I dread the prospect of having to face customers dressed up in proper clothes in the tropical temperatures we have at the moment. And then there is the project deadline in the middle of ( Read more... )

Since juno_magic kindly pointed out to me that I hadn't updated in 9 weeks (and said nudge was already a week ago) I think it is high time that I post something.

Though juno_magic suspected that I was simply swamped with work (which was true for some but fortunately not all of the nine weeks), here is my long overdue account on what I've done these past weeks. And no ( Read more... )

It's official: I am stupid. Yes. Incredibly stupid. That's the only way that might explain why I agreed to take over a lecture at university for the upcoming semester. It's not that I am bored or something. Or have too much free time. I should have known that holding a lecture involves lots of preparation. And, of course, stupid me threw out all ( Read more... )

That must be my first meme ever. Gacked from juno_magic and mooncross.

fliewatuet --

[noun]:

A person who has the ability to be invisible

'How will you be defined in the dictionary?' at QuizGalaxy.com

That's oh so true. Especially when I sit in a restaurant and try to attract the waiter's attention, or when I stand in a shop and try to attract a clerc's attention

I haven't done that in ages, and I blame juno_magic for dragging me into it ...

Needless to say: they all feature Aragorn.

( muster, legion, infrastructure, imagine (though I forgot 'imagine') )

Just a quick note to let whoever is interested in my life know that I'll be vanishing off the face of the virtual earth for about a week or so. One business trip blends into another, so I won't be coming home in between but will take a day off and spend the time with my family ( Read more... )

So now we are proud owners of two new sofas. Furthermore, we treated ourselves to a video projector. Now we can watch super-sized movies at home, each of us comfortably lounging around on their own sofa. And there even was a movie starring Viggo Mortensen on TV last night (Young Guns II: Blaze of Glory), a wonderful reason for extensive test of our ( Read more... )

I have a day off, which is in itself quite nice, since the last weeks have been somewhat hectic, to say the least. The only thing that's just a tad bit annoying is the reason why I have this day off. We ordered new sofas at the end of last year and they should have been delivered today. Which lead to a somewhat frantic but productive weekend of ( Read more... )

My muses are cooperative, at long last. Which does not mean that I am finished with the revisions, but at least I am making progress. The new version of the first chapter is so far only posted to a workshop at HASA, which is only accessible to HASA members and members of that workshop. So if anyone is interested and willing to put up with an unbeta ( Read more... )