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February 5th, 2006
09:56 am - HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Ithilwen!
Hope you're having a good one.
Current Mood:  cheerful
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December 22nd, 2005
01:24 pm - out of LJ for good
This will be my last post. No drama intended, just wanted to say a "proper" good bye. I've started keeping an offline journal and simply do not make the time to maintain my LJ. But because of you, my friends list, it has been a fun time.
Well, I wish you all happy holidays and all good wishes for the New Year.
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September 14th, 2005
08:30 pm - Time to remember a damn good song line
So don't let the world bring you down.
Not everyone here is that fucked up and cold.
Remember why you came and while you're alive
experience the warmth before you grow old.
Current Mood:  calm
Current Music: Incubus
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December 25th, 2004
11:37 am
Happy Holidays, everyone.
May you have some days of peace and rest to spend with family and friends.
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November 8th, 2004
07:02 pm - NYC Marathon - I LOVE NY!
I did it!!
Net time 4:28:37
Ranking 18.566/36.544
Wheeeee!!! It was wicked awesome. Thank you New York, thank you spectators for cheering us on, thank you organizers, thank you fellow runners for all the kind, inspiring, touching and funny moments.
When we started on the Verrazano bridge from Staten Island, the sun was shining, Manhattan was glistening in the distance, "New York, New York" was playing from loud speakers. I got goosebumps all over and teared up. There were so many amazing moments. Coming over the Queensborough bridge. Entering Central Park. So much. Again and again, amazing people. It was the experience of a life time. And I am talking to my body now, I am saying things like, thank you legs, for running so nicely.
I think I am still a little out of it all.
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October 30th, 2004
08:30 pm - Halloween
Wheeeeee, we had so much fun!
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October 21st, 2004
08:57 am - SOX WON!!!!
Sox won! Sox won!!! Wohooo!!! Wohohohooo!!!
Yeah!!!
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October 6th, 2004
10:35 pm - Tippiti-tip-tip
Gawd, my carpal tunnel is killing me, I just finished a looooooong email to my bestest, loveliest girlfriend who is right now in Japan. We used to hang out and talk until we would pass out in the early morning, one or two bottles of red wine on the table. That was good. Now we write these emails, where we pour our soul out, that we both write in a feverish frenzy and with strange tongues that come over us, no, that come from within us. After such an email, both writing and receiving it, I feel both drained and refreshed, if that is possible.
I want to recommend a book that touched me like hardly any other book. That made me laugh, that made me cry, that made my soul tremble and shiver, that expanded my horizon and sharpened my mind. Yep, all that. It is "Doctor Faustus" by Thomas Mann and it is intense, spanning a most powerful narrating ark wider and wider, never loosing its tension force. I bow before his lucid analysis, his account of Germany and how it tumbled, no, marched into its ultimate collapse, truly the apocalypse, the second world war. It is also about the loneliness of the genius who perceives his gifts as a pact with the devil. About humanity and about music. It is wonderful. Go read it.
I go home, now. Grateful for a thrilling lab day. And the fact, that I will call P. and tell him about it, while walking home.
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June 17th, 2004
09:26 am - W00T!!!!
I'VE BEEN ACCEPTED TO THE NYC MARATHON THIS YEAR!!!
YAY!
-omg-
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June 10th, 2004
11:43 pm - W00T!!!
My brother got his official record from high school, which, in Germany is like high school + 2 years of college, if you strive to go to university.
He is the best of the entire class, with his score being a perfect 1.1!!! His majors are mathematics and English.
I was best, too, and had 1.3, majoring in French and German literature. Hach, I am so happy for him. Especially since he is living a healthy and is determined, but not doggedly so.
Says me, of course.
I can't wait to go home and hug him until his face turns green.
Nice little run at dusk today. And then, back in the lab, I actually motivated myself to run that sequencing gel overnight. I think I am returning to my original single-mindedness, instead of asking myself, whether it is normal to enjoy measuring radioactive samples at midnight I accept, that this is me and there are worse ways to spend my time. My friends in Germany respected that, I will find peers outside the lab here that accept it, without asking again and again why I cannot make more time. I think P. accepts it.
I am really starting to enjoy my intellectual freedom, that I can do a row of pilot experiments on any kind of subject that interests me and pick whatever is most promising to follow up on. Instead of complaining, that my PI shrugs his shoulders when I ask his opinion and says, when you think it's worth it, do it, I do the experiment. I can really ponder about finding a meaningful question, according to my thinking, kick it around, discuss it, test it, it is wonderful.
Uh, fire alarm!!!
Have to go.
:-)
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