PC problems + BBQ

After returning from the DFS meeting in Nyborg is was in such a good mood to actually fuck up my computer by playing a little bit too much with the linux kernel. damn.

but finally after a long sleepless night, some football and a BBQ in the park and some more hacking my computer is runnig again. yeeha. (thanks to Knoppix)

New home in france

It’s done. I got the confirmation that I’ll get a room in a recently restored house, together with two other students and a nice kitchen/bathroom. (I guess everything will be better than in CPH… anyway)
My new room will be close behind the border, a little bit north of CERN. The town is called Versonnex and has the funny postcode 01210 (isn’t it lovely… anyway).
So I’m looking forward to July…

DFS Meeting

It’s a little bit late… but anyway!
As some of you might know, I was on a meeting of the Danish Society of Physics (DFS) in Nyborg/DK from Thursday to Friday. Unfortunately only two days… it was just awesome.
We stayed in the Nyborg Strand Hotel having a full 4 star service and some intresting talks and posters by physicists from all of Denmark. Which means it was not just enjoying the multiple serving meals and the little snacks in between, it was also some serious physics from geophysics up to biophysics, unfortunately no elementary particle physics…
Anyway it was nice having a room with ocean-view seeing the big bridge connecting Fyn and Sealand and so on… I can just recommend it…

btw
I have to thank J.D. Hansen at the NBI for making this possible (which is not normal for non-danes/non-members).

The trouble of finding an appartment and plans for the summer

First of all some good news according to my plans of going to CERN this summer… I’m definitely going! The bad news… I have to find an appartment that’s affordable, cause all the rooms in the CERN-hostels are taken by the Summerstudents. And looking at the prizes of accomodation in and around Geneva is a pain in the … But finally I have found two places that would be acceptable! I hope I’ll get accepted on Friday!? If that works out I’ll still have some of the money I’ll get left… which means that I could actually live without a loss. Yeeha!
So what are the exact plans:
I’ll go to PSI in the end of June (22nd-29th) then return to Berlin for two days, visit my sister in Frankfurt and then go to CERN from July 4th to September 9th. During this time I might visit some friends working on a vineyard near Aix en Provence (greetz to Barry and Richard) for a weekend and definitly a friend living in Geneva (greetz to Lorric). After my stay at CERN I’ll hopefully visit another friend in Aix en Provence (greetz to Julie) for some days. We’ll see…
If someone wants to visit me just let me know… dependent on the room I’ll get I might have a place to sleep?! Otherwise there is a YouthHostel in Geneva. Anyway Easyjet is flying from Berlin to Geneva!