From time to time we skip the big cinema and visit a small local movie theater instead: Lumieré - a Göttinger specialty with a bit of hipster flavor to it :3 This year they’ve aired several good movies, such as: the gorgeous, grunting “Mr. Turner” (so far my favourite from the 'smaller movies'), “How the wind changes” and now “Il Capitale Umano” ( ( Read more... )

I was just preparing a small parcel for a friend of mine and it occurred to me - I might as well send a few more postcards this year? So, if anyone would like to receive a postcard or some Göttingen's sweets or something like that, let me know!

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I have a distinct feeling that my English is getting worse with the time... That seems a bit inconsistent since I'm mostly consuming books/movies in English language (except for some old Russian movies on the weekends with my parents or the short German series "Im Angesichts des Verbrechens" which was surprisingly thrilling! [would definitely ( Read more... )

The remaining days of this year's vacation were spent rather quite at my parents home~ Aside from doing other things we watched a lot of old Soviet films - such a curious experience! And I really ought to confess - the older the films, the dumber I felt watching it. Normally, I would not complain that the plot was too high for me (even the most ( Read more... )

The last few weeks were a bit stressful, so I neglected all the internet and switched to a numb autopilot-program. My mind tends do go blissfully blank, when I have reached a certain level of tiredness. Thank you, evolution, for keeping me sane (if utterly boring) during the hard times :D ( Read more... )

My scales keep telling me, I am getting fatter, so the destiny arranged a workout. So very thoughtful of her. Running up and down and around the Chemistry faculty all day long - for free! Or if I considered that I was still doing my job, I was even paid for it. Unfortunately, I wasn't informed about my destiny's plans and thought today would be a ( Read more... )

It's been almost a year since I started doing the doctorate and so far I have been the one and only Ph.D student in the work-group of my supervisor. With all the benefits and side-effects of him asking me ten times a day, if I already have some new results to show him, or if I already did that one thing, or if I mind doing this another thing (just ( Read more... )

Action time! Tomorrow my co-workers and I are going to have a canoe tour! Near Kassel there are some nice routes for paddling and we spontaneously decided to give it a try. While I am an okay swimmer (no technique whatsoever but a lot of love for swimming and a useless ability to stay in water up to 5 hours), I have never, ever in my life tried ( Read more... )

Tomorrow I am going to attend my very first conference!
[nervous and excited]

It's called Third Infinity and all the talks and panels sounds utterly amazing. I'm afraid, my own poster is going to be a bit pale in comparison with all the others, but I'm still just a master student and, truth to be told, I'm quite proud to be invited there at all ( Read more... )