It’s been a little quiet here, somewhat unanticipated. I mean, right after New York, you’d expect me to at least have one post linking to the photos, no?
Well, it was quite a busy month, with a sad event in the family (and that’s enough of that in a public forum).
Other than that, more things happened (which makes it more weird): I went to a conference and won “Best paper” award (hooray me & my coauthors!), I organised a summer school, and me and my brother drove about 700km inside NL in one weekend on a “visit-the-family” tour. Aga’s bike broke while she was in the mountains (she survived, as did the bike), my bike visited Echternach and Germany, and at the summerschool we had a fight about the cheese with the other group staying at the same venue — one of my co-organisers was even pelted with a cork :) Nothing malicious, mind you, all good intended up-stage-man-ship :)
Well anyway, this is basically an intermediate post. I figured it’s been a while, and it’ll be a bit longer before I get round to having a non-meta-post, I fear. Life is finally slowing down, especially and also since I decided to take it easy this week. That has helped me to fight the “stack” of things to do, and even, slowly, make my place more habitable and such :) Not quite there yet, but the week isn’t out yet either :) (and putting stuff back in its place is fun — you find all these awesome clothes that were stuck underneath a pile, that you had been looking for for ages :)
This weekend, I hope to go to Echternach by bike. Again? No, yesterday I only got within 5km, not all the way. So I have something to make up for.
PS: Unrelated note: The Avengers movie was really cool, and I wanted to see it again. But it’s no longer in the cinema. I googled around, and imagine my disappointment: I have to wait to September before I am able to spend money on it again. Do you hear me, movie companies??!?! There’s a 3 month gap, in which I would like to give you money for your product, but I cannot. Seriously: why?