I offered a reward of EUR 100,- today, the local radio stations and newspapers are informed and I will print 100 more posters and hang them on every fucking corner of this city. I want Siepke back, and if it is the last thing I do in this city.
I can’t sleep unless I know for sure that he is either dead or back.
Siepke jumped out of the window yesterday… ever lost your cat? what a dull, empty and helpless feeling..
I put 100+ “Wanted” posters with his face all over the city,
posted to all local newsgroups, informed the asylum and informed all neighbours (they actually did not really want to know that but that’s another story).
Too bad we did not make him a chip implant or a tatoo…
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It’s done…
on Thursday last week, 350 copies of the Thesis of Anna have arrived here in Maastricht for distribution.
several years of work for Anna and lots of stress for me finally paid off as we hold fresh copies of “The Very Lo-Density Lipoprotein-Triaglycerol Pathway and the Metabolic Heterogeneity in Familial Combined Hyperlipidemia” in our hands.
Today we went to deliver them to the participating people, professors, colleagues of Anna, to the University and the libraries of the country.
On November 3rd, Anna will have to defend it and then she’ll be a pround Ph.D. in Medicine. Actually I think I am more proud than her, sometimes but anyway ;)
A lot of work comes to an end and finally we will be able to do other things in the weekend than proofreading and fighting with Microsoft Word.
If anyone ever asks me how to write a scientific paper I will have only one advice: Don’t ever think about using Word for it!
It might look nice but it’s inconsistent as hell and these auto-format/ auto-correct/ auto-sex-me-up-functions drive you crazy if you try to do a decent layout of a paper or a thesis.
For reasons of completeness, here the link to the thesis:
I’ve gotten myself 2 new jobs while I was busy with chemistry in Aachen. I will be working at the University’s helpdesk and I will do the customer service for UniDSL, a freelance DSL project for students. Both are jobs to dream of, free distribution of time, shifts, workload, just perfect and they even harmonize with each other.
Problem: I have to cancel my work at Mercedes, where I spent the last 3 years working and hating the job. Now that it finally happened and I can get myself a better job (where I actually CAN help people and don’t have to use phrases someone else wrote) I am afraid. Afraid of what? Since 6 months I stress Anna that I want another job. Since one year I am bored by working for the arrogant Mercedes-customers.. and yet, it feels like I am betraying them, Am I already that deep inside? Am I that attached to them? Or am I just getting old and afraid of the changes?
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I think I never appreciated a weekend that much in my life..
*goes to sleep again*
~~~ 24 hours later ~~~
It seems I really needed that :)
After sleeping the whole Saturday we went to the Thermen in Aachen and spent the whole day there doing good things to out bodies. Sauna, Thermal springs, cold water, hot water, over and over again :D
Now that there is national holiday in germany I will spend the day helping the biology-Fachschaft making posters for our next party.
Looks nice, doesn’t it?
It really pays off that we are not making the posters ourselves anymore but hired a graphic-designer ;)
Hopefully I can avoid doing more than that; I am not really enjoying student-partys anymore.. with 28 years you are one of the oldest there *grin*
so, let’s get busy, 500 Posters have to be put in the streets ;)