yipes--as it really been more than two weeks since last I posted? Oops. Life has been busy. Really, really busy. With nearly no leisure time on the computer.

Before I forget the details I should type up the little holiday lord_kjar and I took last weekend ( Read more... )

Friday morning I worked & had a meeting with my boss. Was reasonably happy with what I accomplished, but have tons more I want done ASAP.

Friday afternoon mom and I drove out to Schnals Valley. When I went there at the beginning of Sept for the Textile Forum it took 4 hours on train + 30 more minutes in a car. In a rental car it takes only 4 ( Read more... )

Yesterday during the day I didn't accomplish as much as I would have liked to have done. This is hardly surprising--thus far every time I've had Monday/Tuesday scheduled on the microprobe I tend to be slow-starting on Wednesday. I spent way more time reading LJ & Facebook than I should have done. I did manage to get to the bank to do the paperwork ( Read more... )

Today's uni-related progress report: I took a train to Zürich for the course on Successful Scientific Writing. We also obtained tentative permission for clovis_t to join the course if the number of students present would otherwise be an odd number (which is what the pre-registered list shows). This is because we are meant to do some of the assignments in ( Read more... )

Today's uni-related progress report: I took a train to Zürich for the course on Successful Scientific Writing. We also obtained tentative permission for clovis_t to join the course if the number of students present would otherwise be an odd number (which is what the pre-registered list shows). This is because we are meant to do some of the assignments in ( Read more... )

On Friday evening, just before leaving for the day, one of my colleagues mentioned to me that two of them would be heading on a field trip on Monday, and would I like to join them? For that sort of question there is only one answer possible, and I was given this much advance information: Meet the other colleague at the Milan Central train station ( Read more... )

I fell in love with a roof-top this morning. Not just any roof-top, mind you, it is the roof of Milan Cathedral ( Read more... )