Category Archives: Cities

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

Holidays… suck! [update][update]

Copenhagen

damn… well that’s a start!
I am sitting at the airport in Copenhagen waiting for the flight that was scheduled 45min ago…
and even better… now its scheduled for 13h50…
yap, right… four hours late

13h50… that’s also roughly the time when my connection coach is about to leave Stansted…
I am really enjoying my holidays so far…

[update]
well, now it has been cancelled!
the best alternative they could offer was Sunday morning…
honestly that’s what they offered looking at my ticket with return flight on Monday morning…

I AM PISSED! and not going to Oxford btw!

[update][update]
I wont get back the money for the coach I booked in advance…