Year: 2008

Bye bye mole, bye bye happiness…

Bye bye mole Nah, not really bye to happiness, but my mole is gone (yes, this IS exciting news). This mole was part of me for I don’t know how many years, I can’t remember NOT having that mole. It’s been getting a little bigger (not in size, but in “sticking out”) and it was annoying.

On Friday I went to the dermatologist and he said the only thing he can do is cut it out. I was lucky to get an appointment for my mini-op that same day. He injected the mole with anaesthesia and then stabbed around in my face 🙂

Now I’m wearing a huge band-aid (the cut is two centimeters long) and people are staring at me 😀

Current Lifestyle Phase

Well, not so current.

After I get up, I go online. I surf while drinking coffee. I go to work (where I write my thesis), work until 17:00 or 18:00, meaning, that’s about 8 hours of PC, I then come home, go online again and I’m on the computer until about midnight. And that’s my lifestyle, for months now. It’s been better in the summer, I love spending days outside, but now?

I had to organize my field trip a few weeks ago, it took about three weeks for me to organize (creating all kind of maps, getting the instruments…) and I was in stress. The Lover was the one who was allowed to experience my lovely moods. During that time I wasn’t in the mood for sports, I just didn’t have the time.

And now? I haven’t done sports in WEEKS! I haven’t had sex in WEEKS (or was it months?)!! I don’t like this lifestyle of mine at the moment, I’d love to change it, but somehow I can’t. It sucks 🙁 Boo!

I once had a phase where I came home from work and didn’t go online the whole evening, because I just wasn’t in the mood. I wish I’d be in that phase again…

Thanks for all the sweet comments on my layout 🙂 I got the flower brush from 4shared.com, it’s only the contour you get. I liked it so much, I started filling it. This time I wanted a totally different layout seeing the last layout was pretty much “standard” nowadays. I knew I wanted the “asides” again and so I started creating a layout around the flower. This is what I came up with 🙂 I still need to work on the subpages though (about, domain, misc).

Photo Post

The last few days I’ve been taking more pictures again. I always have phases where I take pictures daily for a few weeks, then I get bored and don’t take photos in weeks or months.

A research assistant at Uni is a big hobby-photographer (fishes mostly) and has all kind of lenses which he lends me.

Last week I had the Canon 50mm macro and shot photos like the ones below:

The Branch
Orange Dahlia
Friedenheimer Brücke München

This week I’m running around with the 100mm macro, which is bigger (and more expensive) than my camera. I’m able to take great close ups like this photo below

Lily

It’s fun!

Surveying the forest was good. Very time consuming, but fun. We had luck with the weather, it only rained in the mornings. Here are some pictures:

Our "Hotel"

We focused on surveying areas ruined by the storm “Kyrill”, which “flew” over Germany in January 2007.

Ah, I should have studied surveying, it’s so much more fun to work outside than in the office infront of a PC all day…

Just busy

I’m just dropping a few lines to say I’m very busy. You know, the same lame excuse everybody uses when they don’t blog 😉

I’m leaving for field work to Thuringia next week and a lot of things have to be planned and they just take time. I need to organize PDAs, GPS equipment, I need to get all the software running on the laptop and the PDAs, this weekend I will do some testing and run around with GPS and survey around Munich.

In Thuringia I need to survey forest areas, subdivided in deciduous and coniferous forest. It’s for my thesis, to get ground truth.

That’s what I have been doing the last few weeks – preparing for my field trip. The thesis isn’t going too well at the moment, I have major software problems. The satellite I’m working with is so new and that data hasn’t been tested that intensive with the software I’m working with so… I’m stuck. A little frustrating.

Reading about first school days makes me sad, seeing I’ll never have one again. Well, unless I continue with educating myself. I think it still didn’t hit me yet though, that I won’t be a student anymore soon. Aw 🙁

20 years from today was the Ramstein Airshow Disaster. I read through some very sad stories the last hour. And now I’m going to bed.

Take care!