I’m obviously a masochist..

Sorry for not posting anything this month so far, but I’ve been rather busy with university and work. Well mostly university, but I’m adding “work” to make it seem like more.. (and to have an entry to file under that category.. )

Anyway, physics is just great. I’ve taken something like 5 extra courses already and am enjoying a solid 60 hours week or something.. to put it lie this: I’m either sleeping, drinking coffee or doing maths most of the time. I am actually solving some equation right now. Honestly.

All the same I wasn’t actually planning on using a whole paragraph complaining about my workload ’cause I’m really having fun doing that stuff. We’re doing very much maths right now (four out of five of my lectures are maths lectures) but that’s mostly fine (ever proved that sqrt(2) isn’t an integer? and two days later that it is actually a real number?) and I’m really looking forward to the physics courses later on during my studies.

I was actually planning to make this a really long post, but I just looked at the watch and I need sleep more than those 15 minutes of fame I’m hoping to get through your combined lobbying efforts due to my enormous volume of posting.. (this is the moment I noticed that I was begining to write nonsense.. I digress.. )

Hope you all are having a great time as well. Catch you later..

Paris, France

yay! I picked up my ticket to rennes, france (actually my tickets to paris, rennes, paris and back to vienna again) today.. going to visit my family who is on a three week vacation there atm and looking sooo forward to it. Only staying for a week, but I’m in urgent need of a week of pure nothingeness.. and books of course..

Yes, I remember promissing a picture entry a (long) while ago and yes I have indeed bought a shiny new digicam for myself (a wonderfull Fuji FinePix F10 with 6.3 MP and a chip to reduce noise significantly apearantly.. stupid thing uses xD-cards, but I suppose you can’t have everything.. ). The only problem is that I haven’t made a single picture with it as yet. Well apart from the 50 trying to figure out the ultimate setting(c). On the other hand I was able to make a colleague of mine give me her photopage-url and am hereby posting it (my previous post was written after our visit at the “angelibad”, btw.

Anyway- I really need to stop reading the MIT blogs and website seeing as I will get another chance at the earliest in two years as a transfer and obviously my chances of being admitted there are very very slim.. might as well try though and I’m anyway certain, that I don’t want to stay in Vienna for any longer than necceassairy. Any suggestions where I should try my luck (yeah, going to ask in person as well )? So far I’ve got the Free University of Berlin on my list (cause Berlin apparently rocks badass!), ETH Zürich, Caltech (“’cause not everyone can go to MIT”) and MIT of course.. I must admit that I haven’t really been searching and those were just the more or less obvious choices..

I need to really get a life soon now about which I can blog.. the whole point of starting a blog was after all to get an interesting life. I hereby promise that the next entry will be an interesting one with many pictures that will all be awesome. Awesome! Yeah.

Pic^H^H^H Just a short one..

So seeing as it’s late and I do need to sleep at times, I still haven’t bought a digi-cam (I want a cheap, well fabricated, thin, water-proof, many-megapixel, durable and preferably well designed model.. any hints? ) and I’m still trying to find out the URL of the photopage that a collegue of mine uses (no, it isn’t flickr) I won’t be able to write about my day out with the kids swimming (summary: short sleep then water on my newspaper, even more paper on my t-shirt and pants, change to a more suitable costume for the day (yeah – trunks ), very much water all around me and finally a few crying kids due to the sheer amount of water (or the lack thereof.. this changes from minute to minute.) pictures follow. promise.).

Anyway – the reason for this post a question to my barely existant but still highly valued readers:

Do you personally know of any geek without gmail?

To answer it for myself: I don’t (k, I’m making assumptions about one of my friends here, but I just can’t imagine him not at least having an unused account.).

the joys of childcare..

Yesterday I volunteered to help two interns with the kids.. I mean – they’re really sweet.. just..

chaos!!

No, to be honest: It was really nice - played football for about two hours at first and then I spent most of the time pushing various kids on the swing, picking them up from the floor and generally just being used as a pony.. well, until the goddess of wrath’s (or someone else’s) anger turned upon me: two girls started fighting about something, resulting in one torn neckalce, one crying girl, one complaining girl and about 18 screaming kids.. so much for a peacefull conclusion of our otherwise really cool outing.. BUT I enjoyed being screamed at and carrying kids around the place so much that I volunteered for another 4 days of childcare during the next two weeks..

On another note: Here’s a great big thank you! to the guys at C&A (link opens in new window) – they’re curently looking into their stocks to see if they can help us out with maternity clothes for a woman living at our home with nothing more than what she’s wearing. C&A is apparently involved in quite a few campaigns having to do with social institutes so their willingness to help us out so unbureaucraticly is extremely nice.. I’ll keep you updated about this.

You know.. while writing blog-entries I’m increasingly often find myself checking whether I’ve written enough.. (I’ve just written two full entries so far – talk about early writer’s block!) I think I’ll start pulling Sams and adding pictures to my entries.. gotta get a digicam to do so though.. any suggestions? Compatibility with GNU/Linux is, as always, taken for granted.

foreigners..

Recent reply to a post of mine (in german):

aba vü zu vüle ausländer sans trotzdem
zumindest de de was nix hakeln
de de was brav ernere steuern zahln und net in staat zur last fallen san halt leider de minderheit . .

rough translation:
but still far too many foreigners..
at least those not working
those working and paying their taxes and not living of state-support are sadly the minority..

god, how those idiots get me angry.. i ought to really stop visiting this sort of websites..

1. most of “them” are asylum-seekers who aren’t allowed to work! they are given the possibility to help in our refugee home and are more than willing to do so..
2. as soon as you let “them” work half of austria will go round complaining about “the foreigners taking away our jobs”..
   and
3. f***ing stop generalising! of course a few people are not willing to work! of course some will be too traumatised to work and of course most of the people fleeing from a country for economic reasons won’t be a member of the upper-class, but they’re just humans.. I mean what do you expect?!

arg..

to anyone bored enough to read this..

So even I was finally pulled into teh blogosphere!!1! great..

well, ok: wordpress is obviously a neat piece of code (standard compliant and free above all.. ) and I’m reasonably satisfied with the current theme – no, I certainly won’t design a custom template (anyone who’s seen my homepage will know why.. ).

Anyways.. from now onwards I hope to post some anecdotes from my life in here.. for all who don’t know:
atm I’m working for the Caritas in Vienna in a refugee home and enjoying it immensely. I’m going to study physics at the university of Vienna as of octobre, but I plan to continue my work for the Caritas.. any other details can be found on my homepage (atm it’s still german-only, but I hope to change this sometime in the near future.. )..

so with this I leve you to browse this blog.. have a lot of fun..