I haven't been posting much because of severe demands on my time: Thursday I'm having a presentation on empirical research in Cologne (not in front of a whole lot of people, admittedly, but in front of important people...), and today my headmaster came to see me teach to decided whether I can be a civil servant for life - as in 'end of probation'. ( Read more... )

The trip with my class was very exhausting, very intense, sometimes quite a bit of fun, sometimes not fun at all...

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The heading sums up my weekend pretty well - yesterday night and today I heard loads of Gamelan, mostly European groups playing Balinese and Javanese Gamelan, saw some dance and Wayang Kulit (shadow puppet show) and participating in a workshop, playing the male and female gong for Balinese procession gamelan. The South German Gong Kebyar group was ( Read more... )

Another day at school, yawn. Heck, is this going to be my life - waiting for the weekend, waiting 5/7 of my life away? Okay, working as a teacher has its moments, but most certainly its anti-moments, too. Today I've had my share ( Read more... )

Last weekend's larp was a lot of fun - I do love to be in charge. Most things worked out as planned, and suyetsumu had a nasty plot idea for my character. Now, partly due to the fact that unexpectantly, I got some money for an article I wrote (get this: I wrote something and received payment instead of paying for publication!!), I'm strangely eager to get ( Read more... )

Apart from the fact that I actually sat down and wrote an urgent abstract for the one conference I plan to attend this year (a morning activity, still in my bathrobe, eating cold pizza), this is one of the Sundays when I'm just doing nothing. I just had a bit of a fallout with F.: We are both a tiny bit ill, a beginning cold, not good considering ( Read more... )

Hm... weekend passed too quickly between school on Saturday (and that's an insult!), going to Hamburg with suyetsumu and zombieplatypus (visiting M-chan and Rin-chan, as I understand they are called by some, was fun) and my mother-in-law arriving about four hours too early for my comfort (or rather, earlier than I had expected ( Read more... )

Another one of these days spent in school. Okay, there's the piano and my computer to write on, and internet access. Still, between two conferences and band practise and some things I really want to do (e.g. on the weekend) but which still take up a lot of time, I'm never home, and it's starting to bother me ( Read more... )

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A lot of snow has fallen during the day. My e-mails, bookmarks and adress book are back for reasons which escape me. I can sleep in a bit tomorrow. And I transcribed the Stairway to Heaven recorder solo for suyetsumu. Yay me ( Read more... )