Well, mere weeks remain of my thraldom to the state of Finland, and after that, an uncertain future awaits ( Read more... )

This has been, surprisingly, a somewhat eventful month, with some archaeology, a visit to an international conference, as well as two big Finnish conventions. Specifically, I gave a presentation in a proper international conference for the very first time, which (as these things usually go) wasn't quite as exciting as I might have expected - and, ( Read more... )

Still not M.Phil. Oh well ( Read more... )

So it's a week off from university, and I'm going to Russia. Thankfully, not Siberia, but St. Petersburg, Lake Onega and the White Sea. That's actually pretty cool! I'm going to see a lot of rock carvings in the next eight days or so ( Read more... )

Well, so I was looking forward to a quiet week-end of working on any number of things I might have liked to work on, TMT figuring prominently among them; especially so after the last week-end, which was mainly spent playing tabletop RPGs and other vigorous and strenuous nerditude at Ropecon ( Read more... )

Cool, there's wireless Internet at the airport. Slow as all Hell, but ( Read more... )

Things are looking up, as it were. Today, when I came home today from university, I had the distinct feeling that, for once, all things were more or less where they should be. Why do I feel so happy when it's raining? It was moist, thin, light droplets coming down in soft, dense mats, the kind that glitters beneath streelights and pours down stairs ( Read more... )

Well, so I'm back from Krakow ( Read more... )