It's a new year and we are encouraged to make a new start. Friends, family, and pretty much the whole internet demonstrates some serious motivation regarding new year's resolutions. That's nice, and inspiring. But I know myself better than that — a lot of us do. I hate Christmas, but I love the new year
These heavy boots are not made for walking As mentioned before, Wonderguy gave me Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer as part of my "Goin' to New York" vibe. At first I was skeptical because I'm not particularly interested in child protagonists/narrators. But Oskar is a very special kid and we got
When I’m in New York, I just want to walk down the street and feel this thing, like I’m in a movie. — Ryan Adams Life has been busy these last few weeks. I booked a flight and my Dad found me a nice hotel conveniently situated between the university and the rest
Sanity is overrated. — Gustav Hasford The Short-Timers No fun times Periods when I have to be highly efficient are often followed by days on which I can hardly get out of my mental mess; days when I ask myself why there is so much pain and suffering in this world and why so many of
Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm. — Winston Churchill (as so often, Winnie knows best :)) "lol best conference fails" As some may remember, I'm about to give a talk in London six weeks from now (nevertheless, let's feel stressed out already). Now, some may wonder how to prepare
London calling A few weeks ago I sent a conference proposal to the organizers of an upcoming event; I finished it hastily, of course having waited until the last possible moment to get it done, and Wonderguy did his best revising it even though he generally only edits German papers. Mainly, I just wanted to
They say you should start a new blog by writing something about yourself and the main stuff you want to write about. Don’t ask me who “they” are, but there are plenty of smart people out there who know much more about blogging than I do. So let’s just roll with it for a while.