Today was spent running a single errand which involved taking the train to the Hague, then the tram to the ass-end of the city (it was beyond my city map) and slipping along ice fields to the closest DHL to send an envelope bearing a health insurance card. Not counting transport, this stint cost fifty-eight mother-lovin' euros. For an envelope! ( Read more... )

Life: Productivity was reached! I'm half-way through making maps of all the lions showing their home ranges. Tomorrow, calculating areas and, hopefully, getting the maps presentable with all that fancy stuff like legends and titles and shit. I hope to get some writing on the discussion done this weekend, or at the very least stick on some error ( Read more... )

Today's morning was pretty much wasted, although I did manage to get an international student card. Getting said card involved ( Read more... )

Sickle's Day, Cliff-Notes Version:

- Day started off with routine self-loathing due to latelatelateness. Things were better than yesterday, though, in that supreme concentration was not required for menial tasks and the morning's routine was not interrupted by senseless weeping. (Translation: Fail, but not Epic Fail!)- Biked over to Plexus to ( Read more... )

...and hope that it leads to more good work.*

Wowza, I've been social this week! ( Read more... )

First you must learn to play by the rules, then you must forget the rules and play from your heart.*

This afternoon my brother, Yasmina, her ex-roommate went to a delicious Chinese restaurant in Chinatown - mayonaise shrimp ftw!.

Later the three of us went to a modern dance show, HomeBody, presented by Chicago Dance and Music AllianceThe first ( Read more... )

Went out yesterday with Elisa to Einstein's for the Sinterklaas International Student night thingy. There was much drinking of fermented drinks and I have confirmed my love for G&Ts. Got quite tipsy ( Read more... )

Meme: Ten Things That Make Me Purr c/o some awesome SPN ficcer I can't recall at the moment. I changed it a bit so it's neither ten nor a list. Instead I had fun with Flickr's mosaic thingy. ( Look closely and/or interpret )

My Geektastic Life
Today I went to a public lecture by Richard Leakey.

Who?

Born Dec. 19, 1944 in Nairobi, Kenya, Leakey is a politician, paleoanthropologist and conservationist. He is second of the three sons of the archaeologists Louis Leakey and Mary Leakey, and is the younger brother of Colin Leakey. ( Read more... )

Work, work, work.Taking a mini-break from staring hopelessly at Technology Transfer Assignment after having fixed huge stupid mistakes due to huge stupid oversights of helpful equations ( Read more... )