Tänään on ollut kiva päivä, ainakin niin kiva kuin töihin käytetty sunnuntai voi olla. Väikkärin 20 ja puoli ensimmäistä sivua on nyt kutakuinkin kyhätty kasaan. Jotenkin jännä fiilis. Kirjoitin niistä tänään neljä ja puoli sivua, mikä on varmaan oma ennätys. En pysty montaa sivua hyvää tekstiä yhden päivän aikana tuottamaan, mutta kaipa se oli tuo ( Read more... )

*I wrote about 100 words of my literature review. It's not that much but it's something. At least I'm getting there ( Read more... )

* The group of us from Manchester missed the train going to Lancaster because the platform was changed unannounced.
* There were 16 developmental researchers in the reading group meeting.
* The meeting took place in a relatively expensive restaurant - I paid £8 for a small Greek salad and lemonade.
* When we were back to Manchester, Stacey and I went ( Read more... )

I had my first meeting with my supervisors today. To sum it up very shortly, they want me to prepare some sort of a presentation of Finnish verb and noun morphology so that they would have a better grasp of what I should be looking at in my studies exactly. They also more or less lined out what I should cover in my literature review before ( Read more... )

Today was my first day in the office! Not that anything particularly exciting happened yet. Stacey, the other new PhD student, and I met up in front of the department to go in together in the morning. The secretary gave us the keys to our office, which looks like an old classroom from the fifties - there even is a blackboard with a selection of ( Read more... )

Dear Henne (for some reason she keeps misreading/-spelling my name)
I'm delighted to offer you one of our studentships to start in Septemer
2011. Please let me know whether you would like to accept this offer.
If so, Henriette Zeidler will contact you about the contract with the
Max Planck and I will be in touch about starting dates in September.
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