Entries Categorized as 'Alexander Meyer'

Spring, disillusion and something like zen

Date April 9, 2013


The new semester began yesterday and it already feels like it has been months. I spent those two days struggling to get some actual work done – I succeeded for about 3 hours, which is not so bad. I remember not being able to cope with the distribution of my work time between administrative tasks, [...]

Things you cannot see

Date February 21, 2013


Let me tell you about some progress and why I miraculously managed to put a new letter online yesterday (all by myself). While I have not been able to work on the digital edition for a while, Alex has been developing much of the non-visible part of it. He created an internal work interface, which [...]

Our digital edition moving on without me doing a thing (almost)

Date February 13, 2013


Having returned from a week in a continuous snowstorm in a beautiful mountain setting where one might, in other circumstances, have been able to actually ski, I found my self in another kind of storm – one where one might, in other circumstances, be able to actually work. No mountains there though, just flat Brandenburg. [...]

Wish list

Date December 21, 2012


While the people I follow on twitter seem to be going offline one after another, I am starting to feel strangely lonely. It will be a busy vacation on my end, having to give Sabine and Christiane a hand to finish the Boeckh volume until January, 7th (a real deadline if there ever was one). [...]

Seeing the edition with new eyes

Date October 18, 2012


The room was full, it was dark outside, the light went down and the show began! The presentation itself really was a moment of joy for me, seeing things take shape that we had been working on so hard for a year and half. Every one of the 6 speakers (including me) had about 10 [...]


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