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sometimes…

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Well, the plan was to get up early, get my ass on the bike and go to the station, taking the train at 8:30 and being in Amsterdam to meet Anna at eleven.

Training was quite hard yesterday so I overslept. Nothing new, yea.. but then, the part with the bike got difficult. It wasn’t there anymore.

And of course it was raining hard. Well, whoever god is responsible for this is not nice.. but he/she has style and takes care the setting is correct. :(

— 3 days later —

well, I have to take back some of the things I said :)
Amsterdam is the most crazy, colorful, intense.. I don’t know what else museum to walk in that I have ever seen. I wonder if you can get bored there at all…

It was an incredibly beautiful weekend with Anna, I wish we could walk there more often.
Monday I was depressed ;)

it’s done!!!

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As of today, we have a new Doctor in the family.
Anna today successfully defended her thesis and has been awarded her Ph.D.
Cheers~! :D :D :D

during the defense after the defense
it's over proud? ;)

Sander, thank you for the B/W picture, it’s just wonderful!

Siepke and Servers

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God, I am so happy this cat is back.. I don’t know what I would have done without him.

feet

Anna is writing another summary of her thesis for the press and I am typing my thermodynamics-lecture into the laptop. I decided to do this from now on to memorize the lessons better.

My friday night I spent in the biology-department setting up a new webserver because I accidentially deleted the whole /dev directory by issuing rm -d -r /dev/ instead of ./dev (note the small but fatal dot!)
At 0:00 I arrived in Maastricht, Anna being very mad at me having spent the evening without me once more.

Lesson of the day:
“Never touch a running system!”
Or as the IT-department says:
“Never touch a running system on Friday after 14:00!”

autumn surprises

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Autumn, the time of falling leaves and wonderful colours. Time to take long and exhaustive walks through the forest and enjoy the relaxing effects of the indian summer on the mind. (after all we had a lot of stress the last weeks)

While at it, pick up some of the wonderfully coloured leaves and flowers that grow now, they definitely make a nice decoration in your window at this time of the year.

Just never, ever collect any of these things:
rohrkolben
Even if they look beautiful between autum-flowers, after 2 days at the window (especially if you are away for these days) they explode into a huge mass of seeds that you’d never expect to hide in these 20cm long things… and they cover your house, your PCs fans, your shoes, everythigng in the house is covered in a layer of this foam-like seeds. And your cat then drags them all over the appartment.

my vaccum can’t handle the amounts that these things have produced, I will have to buy extra bags now.
And also ignore tips from gardeners/relatives to spray them with hairspray to prevent from opening, it DOES NOT WORK! ;)

let me at them!

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my first day at the machines… setting up a destillation.

busy chemist
(damn, these protective glasses look silly ;) )

I think I lost 1000 kilocalories just being nervous there. I am so afraid of breaking some of these incredibly expensive devices.. of course I Immediately broke a petri-dish :D
Then the destillation didn’t work due to a malfunctioning thermometer.. *sigh*

but after these 2 weeks.. I will be a mad scientist ;)
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Dutch sky

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Well, after a really exceptional summer in Maastricht (don’t laugh, it really had more sunny days than any summer I have witnessed here in the Netherlands) the dypical Dutch sky has returned.
outside 0800
Whatever happens and no matter how much I like it in the Netherlands, I will _never_ get used to this layer of clouds that usually stays like this for at least one day.. in the morning it looks exactly the same as in the evening and only the watch will tell you what time it is.
If you are somehow weather-sensitive you will understand what this does with me… *shivers*

I better go back to the books and make this day useful, there’s 2 exams upcoming and I still don’t feel the way I want to feel about them.