This is a short report on one of those examples of situations I probably would never have ended up in if I hadn’t asked what that blue stuff below was…
‘Cause I’d met this lovely lady at the opening of LOFAR and she invited me to visit her in The Hague. She works for the Ministry [...]
Category Archives: Work
Aug
19
2010
Visiting The Hague
Aug
04
2010
Lecturing again
While the Summer holidays are officially here and I’m not even thinking of teaching much at the moment, my other “job” still continues. The Voorwerp-related one.
Recently two of my friends mentioned how remarkable it is that I also still find time to do ‘all of these other things’, while I didn’t think it would come [...]
Jul
31
2010
It’s the end of the year as we know it and I feel fine
Yes, it’s an end of a year for me. And I’d say those July endings are almost always more crucial than the endings of the calendar years in December. Those might have fireworks, but nothing else changes much. My diary goes on, until I and my teacher colleagues ‘close’ the end of a school year. [...]
Jun
30
2010
Update
Yes, it’s been a while. Today it’s already a month ago since I turned 27 and there’s only two-and-a-half-weeks left of this (school) year. Time for a quick update.
First of all, I had a lovely birthday. I spent it with new, old and new-old friends on my balcony, with pizzas from the barbecue and some [...]
May
03
2010
Galabal
Time flies. Eleven years ago, when I just had my last lesson before the exams, we had a disco evening in the canteen at school, which we called ‘beach party’. Nowadays we do it ‘prom night’ style, in a café. And two weeks ago that night arrived for our final year’s students.
My colleagues and I were [...]