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Gesprächsfetzen / conversation snippets
(English version follows below) “Schatz, der Kleine bräuchte ganz dringend mal eine frische Windel!” – “Warte, ich kümmer mich gleich drum. Ich muss nur ganz schnell noch die Rhizobien im Garten verteilen!” Was man halt so sagt. ************************************************************************************* “Darling, the hobbit … Continue reading
geschafft! / done!
(English version follows below) Es ist vollbracht! Diese Woche hat der weltbeste Ehemann seine Doktorarbeit verteidigt, und das trotz Aufregung locker, flockig und charmant. Wie auch sonst, wenn man statt eines Jackets sein Lieblings-Shirt von XKCD anhat. Damit geht ein … Continue reading
this moment
A single photo capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment to pause, savor and remember. Inspired by SouleMama. !!! Happy Sunday everyone!!
Kriechend auf der Zielgeraden… /crawling towards the home straight
(English version follows below) Zwei Wochen. Nur noch zwei Wochen, dann muss der weltbeste Ehemann mit seiner Doktorarbeit fertig sein. Kurz danach steht dann nur noch die Verteidigung bevor. Und dann noch die ganze Aufarbeitung. Wir sind also auf der … Continue reading
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this moment
A single photo capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment to pause, savor and remember. Inspired by SouleMama. We hope you had a beautiful Sunday!
this and that…personal challenges
The last days have been rather exhausting for all of us as each and everyone seems to deal with some personal challenges. My beloved husband, for instance, is deep into writing up papers for his Phd while applying for post-doc … Continue reading
milestone
Celebrating Karsten’s milestone: three exhausting field seasons, two stays in Finland, hours and hours working with R and two children later, a French chocolate cake with no less than nine eggs seems appropriate for his first publication 🙂 (“Looks about … Continue reading
life of a PhD student
Excerpt from one of Karsten’s messages: “…and I entered my office and thought “Ok, I need a pen and paper!”. Finding paper wasn’t a problem, there is paper everywhere on the desk. Finding a pen went like this: opening drawer … Continue reading
May I present….
Often in the media with negative connotations, but this time serving science by recording data of Karsten’s field: eBee! (Yet another proof that scientists do nothing else but playing around with cool toys every day…:-))
this dreaded thing called…
Last week I was asked by a friend if we are honeymooning. haha… no. See, there is this dreaded thing called field work. It’s the little child of Karsten’s PhD. And the reason why we haven’t had any summer vacations … Continue reading
familial entropy 