Funny thing, blogging. For the last days, I could not think of a story to tell you guys that would be somehow interesting - although the weekend was full of great stuff: I graduated! Saturday was full - starting out at 9am in church, followed by the graduation ceremony at 11am (where Mr. Ackermann (CEO of Deutsche Bank) was the special guest speaker), a trip to Wiesbaden, and then at 7pm until late at night the graduation ball in the Kurhaus Wiesbaden (which is one of the fanciest locations in a 300km radius at least).
Maybe it is the winding down after that eventful weekend that made me tired of posting.
Anyhow - today, still in holidays as I am, I am filling my time with supervising mechanics who had to fix a window, continuing my quest at GTA-San Andreas and installing Ubuntu to the old computer I got from my dad to use it as a fileserver in the future. It is a proper geek-day!
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I did it!
Yesterday my colleague Julia and me handed in our thesis, titled
Here you can see me, giving a copy of the thesis the official stamp of our university
After a great BBQ party yesterday, now my days studying at WHU are really coming to an end - though the official end will be the graduation ceremony on September 15th. Today I am driving up to Hamburg, where Tine and me will take over our new apartment! We will move in her stuff this weekend, and my stuff the weekend afterwards.
Memorize our new address:
Christine Preuß &
Florian Hollender
Lübecker Str. 82
22087 Hamburg
There is a big housewarming party on September 1st - if you want to come (given that we know each other or you think we should get to know each other), send me a short E-Mail (florian [at] floho.com) and I’ll get you on the guest list.
While spending almost all my wake time in the PC lab of university, finishing the thesis, I still had time to complain about my not-existent flat tummy. This complaining got me some sympathy from my girlfriend… and a training plan.
So now I am having lots of fruit and vegetables instead of cookies and chocolate-filled everything, and I have been jogging yesterday… AND today. You hear me right. Second day, still going strong. Maybe I should try the Seinfeld way: Don’t break the chain!
What are your tips for sticking to new habits?
This day has become better from the moment I woke up. Unfortunately, it was a really crappy day when I woke up: Storm, rain, cold, and just in time to get to university to meet with Julia and to get to work.
Since, though, it has improved tremendously: We finished our categories, we got them approved by our supervisor, I had food (important!) and diet coke (more important!), the sun came out for a while, I got what I wanted at the supermarket (surprise for my girl), a little child smiled at me, I finally mailed out some stuff that was due (Brandi - books are on the way in a big yellow box!) and now, at 8pm, we are still at work, but begun coding the text - and it is sorta fun, because there is a visible response whenever you code a piece of text (it gets a coloured line beside the text passage you marked based on what code it is), and it seems to make sense. Not bad at all!
I have never typed so much and so long ever before. Because of some delays in my workflow (and the attendance of the absolutely essential Leidhecken event yesterday), I have condensed some of my weekend work to Sunday. This has been going on for thirteen hours now, and I guess I will need all the time until the deadline (9:30 am).
What is so damn stupid about it? The fact that you can NOT do anything else. No listening to music. No TV. No nothing in the background. You have to sit there, listen to a recording (which I put on 60% speed, so every voice sounds like it comes right off a vocoder, beautiful - but at least I can keep up with typing) and type your fingers off. I wish computers were just a wee bit more intelligent by now… I’d like to delegate that to my machine. Maybe I should have used amazon’s new mechanical turk for that… nah, I am too cheap to outsource my diploma thesis’ work