August 08, 2004
Back from Vacation
The first few vacation days I had severe withdrawal symptoms. I woke up early in the morning, got up and did all the little things that didn't require internet or access to my arsenal of articles: corrected figures, wrote on my last chapter and read through some old chapters. Then I actually started enjoying my vacation and now after two and a half weeks of Danish country summer I am back to finish up.
I spend most of my vacation hanging out with my family (the greater one extended with half-siblings, cousins, half-aunts, and then of course my parents and two brothers). We barbequed on the porch every single night, went swimming in the ocean almost every day; we went shopping one day including a visit to the local 'cafe' to sooth my latte abstinences. I lay down on the grass, smothered with factor 30, reading my workshop article and writing an abstract for a new article. I did the dishes at least 25 times (being 13 people creates a lot of dirty dishes) and I beat the guys in pool one Saturday night at the local bar. Thanks to my gadget collecting brother we had a video projector and load full of DVDs, so the few hours of dark (wonderful bright nights of Denmark) we watched movies and when it started raining the last few days I sat in the middle of the living room writing, among four other people playing playstation, reading newspaper, chatting and drinking Campari/orange juice. I really hope chapter 9 makes sense...
I uploaded the pictures at [usual website]/summerhouse04.html (sorry no comments yet) and I updated my thesisometer (if you don't know what I am talking about you don't need to know either). Now I just wish for a bit of peace and quiet until August 31st were all my friends (yes that probably includes you) are invited to 'open house' here at ITU. It starts at 16.30 and I will very likely serve some champagne in my new office around 18.00 to celebrate that I finally got a decent office and that I am suppose to hand in my thesis the next day (according to my wonderfully ambitious and belated plan). Please join me, especially if you have once been a student at ITU, you will be surprised to see the new building and how nice it all turned out.
Posted by Louise at August 8, 2004 06:10 PM