I've survived the long journey!

The logistics of our trip were a bit challenging; we went cruising around Portugal and were constantly packing/unpacking, checking maps and hoping to manage everything in time, so it was a tiny bit more stressful than my usual vacation. Also, on the second to last day I've got smashed against a beach full of seashell ( Read more... )

[sorry for the double entry, I'm a "Trottel"!]

The last few weeks I spent in a Radiochemistry lab - Radio as in Radioactivity not as in walkie-talkie (sadly... My dad made a radio set once. I'm well versed in frequency calculation and waves interaction with material, but I have no idea how to actually build a radio ._." Maybe I should develop a ( Read more... )

No, I’m not dead. Despite spending lots of time in the same room with quite sinister tombstones. Well, ex-tombstones. That’s what happens when a research-group is full of creative ideas but poor on financial support. They needed something big and stable, something to dampen the vibrations from the other rooms (which would disturb the measurements ( Read more... )

It shouldn't amuse me that much. And yet it does.

How is it possible that I have never heard of majestic custom male suits 'Crawford' before? Shame on me.
(also, does Crawford use lipstick in that one? Please, no.)

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The week has barely started and it's already stressful. The apartment-hunting was so far quite unsuccessful, and thus, rather depressing :(
And it's raining. It's been raining for days now and does not look like it will ever stop.

Summer rain is actually quite nice but it also brings a certain lazy, sluggish feeling with it. The light outside seems ( Read more... )

Generally speaking, a frustrated spin glass is a disordered magnet system with conflicting interactions between the spins. Diverse forces prevent the spin glass from reaching the energetic minimum (which is the longed-for destination of all systems) - thus, making the system frustrated.

Applying the phenomena to one certain lokuro-particle, one might ( Read more... )

I still have a few minutes left to congratulate you on a Happy
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Merry Christmas a là Sherlock, with a small touch of horror and black humor ;)

(Can't wait for the second season *_* Dominatrix Iren, creepy Moriarty behind bars, worried British Government and MI6, naked Sherlock in the slipping blanket of Doom, John punching his not-a-friend Sherlock in the face and much more to come!)


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Today morning was one of the strangest wake-ups I ever had - two police officers asked me about the last time I have seen my next door neighbour. I was still a bit drowsy and they were so serious, all handcuffs and uniforms, and that guy next door went missing and ... well, let's hope, he escaped to South America and is not laying somewhere in ( Read more... )

Since yesterday I'm back in Germany.
Grey, rainy sky. Thunderstorms. High wind and yellow-orange leaves drowning in almost endless puddles. Someone had already switched the weather from summer to autumn and I had totally missed the moment.

(Don't mind the grumping, I still love Göttingen. The town is my soulmate and either Moscow nor Paris could have ( Read more... )