1. L. was here the whole week - it was amazing but I am all talked out and want to not communicate again ever. She is still in the area (but in a hotel not on my couch anymore :() because of a conference so we plan a dinner on Tuesday. And then other friends arrive on Thursday and stay over the weekend, partly at my place.
2. So much great food this week. French-inspired great food and Indonesian great food (
rijsttafel) and Dutch pancakes-great food and fondue-great food and great cocktails and great beer/cider and great fresh stoopwaffels.
3. We had a post-colloquium dinner with all women, two of them faculty, another one with a signed tenure track position contract. It was a first for all of us. (It also made the most liked facebook post of mine ever.)
4. Ooof. That's the overall feeling today night looking over to France. (Did you know that Paris is just three hours by train from Amsterdam? I still find it somewhat mindblowing.) Also reading Houellebecq again. (No, that particular restaurant does not exist on this street, at least not anymore, but I've actually been in two of their other locations. Yes, his freaking society analysis is to the point. And if you haven't read anything by him, you totally should.)
5. There isn't a single position I could apply for out this month. Not a freaking single one.
6. It took me several months to work up the nerves how claiming works with my health insurance (we have to pay first before we get the money back) - of course it is totally painless, but gosh, did it drive home that I hate dealing with this stuff. I want my German health insurance back just to never ever have to deal with the money side of it.
7. Are the Sunday Seven going to become a thing? Likely not. But right now they seem a good idea.
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