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, [...]
Entries Categorized as 'Alexander Meyer'
Spring, disillusion and something like zen
April 9, 2013
Things you cannot see
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)
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
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
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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