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Fête de la musique Genève 2007

Geneva, Music

Another music festival in Geneva…
sort of saved my weekend from being totally spoiled by working too much ;-)

Quite a number of different stages with artists ranging from interpretive dancing, over hip-hop (which is sometimes funny in french), to electronic music… guess were I spent most of the time!?

Made another “You have to see it once on your own”-experience…
ever heard of Max Tundra? Amazing! I guess “experimental” would be the best description of his style… you can have a little impression at the official Max Tundra webpage or his myspace page.

Now I am gonna do some more work, then head for the lake and maybe some more Fête de la musique afterwards…

New Poster

Berlin, CERN


Finally one of my birthday presents made it up the wall (right in the middle of the sleeping/working room)… well okay it has been there for some days now, but I only managed to express my happyness using this blog now!
It was pain in the a to actually get hold of the poster since it’s only sold in the states and the international support sort of doesn’t exist…
anyhow… isn’t it beautiful?!

New apartment

Berlin

Yes, it has been a while… some strange long silence in the blog!
But now I am almost back…

Today we handed over our old apartment and I am still busy setting up the new one… but there’s some progress…

Due to the moving my internet connection was down for a while and is still not up by now… have to wait till Friday, dammit… I admit, I am a junky…

Now I am sitting in the NewZealandCafe close to our new home using the free WLAN connection to at least do this post… not that you think this blog is dead…

Well… hopefully I’ll be back on Friday, when my internet is back up…
btw I am starting to teach by Friday as well… looking forward to it…

Cheers
Sascha

Decision

Berlin, DESY

After treading water for a too long time, I finally made up my mind and came to a decision concerning my (near) future! I guess it probably was the hardest I ever had to take.

Not to put you on the rack for too long…
its not Copenhagen,
its not Paris,
its not Freiburg,
its BERLIN!

Right! I’m gonna stay in Berlin for (at least) the next three years! It was a tough decision and took a while to be made.
Anyway… now I’m gonna do my Ph.D. at Humboldt-University of Berlin and DESY Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron in Zeuthen.
It will be about top-quark physics and data-quality monitoring using the higher-level-trigger of ATLAS.

And since this is not enough!
I’m also moving, since we already cancelled our old apartment, due to the fact that I would end up in Freiburg according to the original plan.
The new apartment, located in Berlin-Friedrichshain, will of course be opened with a little house-warming party… I’ll give more details!

The snow is after me [update]

Copenhagen

Is it an omen?
Last night we got heavy snowstroms in the north-eastern part of Denmark… unfortunately including the airport in Copenhagen…
Which implicated that my Supervisor couldn’t get the flight he intended to :-(
We’ll see if he gets here until tomorrow…

I seem to have a problem with snow this winter… hmm

[update]
after some (or maybe a lot) delay, Heike, my sister and father and Troels are finally here