A tall redhaired german moving to Madison, Wisconsin? Now that could develop into an interesting story, ay?! Any resemblance of the blog title to movie titles is fully intentional :)

Friday, March 14, 2008

March Madness

In march traditionally a good portion of the inhabitants of the north-american continent are going crazy ... figuratively speaking. Which is not (only) because they have been holed up at home for too long or because the annual burst of hormone production connected to spring approaching BUT because of the College Basketball Championship tournament held in march aka march madness.

I have my own march madness, originating from trying to finish 3 research projects until the end of may and writing publications hopefully, trying to figure out how to do the moving back to germany and some other organisationally demanding ... stuff.

Friday, February 29, 2008

Lately ...

... I haven't been in a very good mood ... which is also why I didn't post nothing new here. Because today my mood is exceptionally bad and nothing seems to make sense, I will not write much but post pictures mainly. You get the picture *harhar*

Christmas and New Years was actually nice once I decided that I tried hard enough contacting and meeting my "friends" back in Konstanz, who never seem to make much of an effort to get in touch with me (with exceptions of course ... hello Nina and Kresi, maybe you don't contact me, but at least you are almost always available).
I spent most of my time in Frankfurt anyway, with Nadine. For New Years two friends of Nadine came to Frankfurt ... it didn't quite turn out the way we expected but I am not gonna elaborate on it.
I also had an interview at a chemical company close to Osnabrueck but got rejected because they felt like I would have a hard time adapting because I never had done polymer chemistry before. Looking back I don't really understand why I was invited because from my CV it is obvious that I never did polymer chemistry ... so wtf? Thanks for stealing 2 days from me and Nadine!

Old Opera House in Frankfurt.

Panorama from a bridge across the Main river.


Random things from the last months: we got more snow. It got quite cold quite frequently (amazing, huh?). Annie got her PhD and is now living in San Diego (envy!). My car died. I visited Tom G. down in Charleston, SC.
Spending a couple of days in Charleston with Tom was a nice trip, but coming back into snow, ice, freezing rain ... winter in general was a let-down.

Shelly sells sea shells at the sea shore. At the sea shore Shelly sells sea shells.

Beach panorama (stitch assistant screwed up on right part).

Dumbass with beer and a bucket ... other dumbass (invisible) taking the foto.

Dawn.

Panorama at the Charleston Battery feat. the incredible Thomas G.

Shem Creek: drink beer, eat "roasted oysters" at the icehouse, watch pelicans and dolphins.

Wednesday, December 05, 2007

Winter Wonderland

Been awfully quiet here, no? Yeah, I will try to blame it on my broken camera and the generally unexciting fall in Madison.
I did buy a new camera though and here's some pics from Olbrich Gardens when Frank was visiting me (notice there's no snow!).




The butterflies didn't want to let me take pictures with unfolded wings though -.-

I still have to "learn" what the new camera can do, i.e. play around with it's settings/options. Some accidents yield nice pictures though ...

... like this overexposed snapshot of an oldtimer on Regent St.

I also traveled a bit myself, visiting Stef, Frank, Andrew and their crazy dogs in Pennsylvania. Unfortunately the weather was quite bad, so I didn't to get to take many pictures. Still, here's a few ...

Andrew and Stef.

Pennsylvania hind posing for the camera.

Andrew on a small airstrip next to a small winery that makes vinegar they sell for wine ;)

So why winter wonderland? Well, we got about 10 inches (25 cm, please can anybody explain, wtf(!) the US is immune to the metric system?) of snow since last saturday and supposedly there's more to come. Occasionally I might beat my lethargy and take some pics while it's still white and pretty ... that's no promise, though!

Friday, September 28, 2007

self awareness is a good sign

read!

Monday, September 17, 2007

Nuts ...

Did I ever mention that I like the suirrels here? Funny what they would do for some nuts ... That's a lots of nuts actually.

Friday, September 14, 2007

Remember Ogg Hall

Have been very inactive during the last weeks not only because my camera was broken, but also because of general lazyness ...

Maja and Chris visited me already more than a month ago. About time to show some of the pics that Chris took during that weekend.
After picking them up from Milwaukee on friday we had a quiet evening at my place and set out to take a walk thru Madison on saturday.

Maja & me on State Str. ... of course Chris is also there, but he takes up my usual position. Behind the camera that is.

Somehow I always think the sign reads "Saliva sold here".

On sunday we drove up to Devil's Lake, hiked along a ridge from northern to southern shore, had a quick dip and made our way back to my place for a little BBQ.

Chris fondling my hula girl ;)

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Chris got turned into a tree by one of the forest witches. He obvioulsy didn't mind much.

Devil's Lake southern shore.

Assembling a $9.90 grill was a tad more complicated than expected o.O

Then it was monday again already and Maja & Chris had to make their way back to Milwaukee to catch their flight to Boston ... which is were this post ends ;) They will be relocating back to germany were Maja will start her own research group at the EMBL in Heidelberg, while Chris could transfer his much beloved job at BOSE. Good luck, don't loose your hearts ...

Thursday, August 09, 2007

Don't scam on my Squirrel

Whoever wants to understand wtf the title of this post is about, should have a look at this online web series of (imho) funny video episodes ;)