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Back to school

School started again this week. Went well so far. Tuesday I had the first lectures and problem session for my course about C*-algebras and today (yes, it is still kind off Wednesday) I had my first lecture and problem session for my Java course. I forgot to bring the obligatory coca-cola soda, but to keep in touch with the computer science roots of that course I was wearing my old Red Alert t-shirt, but I don’t think anyone noticed – it’s still to cold here to walk around in just a t-shirt. Although it is getting warmer almost day by day…

I started the weekend with some heavy drinking with Joe, which left me quite smashed for the next days Kapi-Lab, but I got “through”, and I would like to think that it gave me some new insight into some of the topics that were discussed. Finally Saturday I got up late’ish but drove my MC to Malmö (first time over the bridge – was kind of a let down, it’s quite flat and there was low visibility when I was driving across) to see Joe’s and his brother Anders’s new apartment over there. It still needs paint, furniture etc., but it looks really nice and big, and Malmö (or what I saw of it) seems like a real nice city.

So, tomorrow is my day off (although I think finding stuff to do won’t be a problem, among other things there is always reading), and then it’s almost weekend. And I think this weekend might also involve a bit of drinking… time will tell.

They talk the talk…

Everyone who has a opinion about the future of our society (especially almost every member of the parliament, business leaders etc.) here in Denmark keep saying (among other things) that we need more young people to study science. They may or may not be right, I can’t see into the future, so I can’t tell, but if they really feel that is the way to go, they should put their money where their mouth is!
I went with my flatmate Esben to the gym Saturday, and then went to see his “office” at the CBS. I know a direct comparison between the CBS and my school, the Institute for Mathematical Sciences at University of Copenhagen is not possible. The CBS has a lot more students, is financed in a quite different way etc., but when I saw the leather bound hand railings, student group room after student group room with new furniture, flat screen TVs I could not help but thinking, “where do these money come from?”.

I’m not as such jealous or have a grudge at the CBS students (or any other students for that matter) and it’s not that I don’t enjoy the physical surroundings at my school. But to some extend I’m sure the physical surroundings do play a big part in the joy and quality of learning… so why are we at the faculty of science not walking around in futuristic hi-tech architectonic wonders, with great acoustics, lots of group studies rooms etc. when others are? Am I just whining like a little kid here, or is it that a lot of people have a lot of great words about science students and what should be done for them, but don’t really want to follow the golden words with cold hard cash? I begin to suspect the later…

That being said, spring has really hit Copenhagen. Saturday was a great day for being outside, and the evening was even warm enough for casual’ish cloths. Sunday I got a phone call from David. He has gotten his own MC finally, so we met up, and drove to Langelinie and then a short trip north along the cost, before our paths split, David driving home, and me going to my uncle for dinner.

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Aktiv? Mig? Nej, vel? Men jo, det har jeg faktisk været lidt. I dag meldte jeg mig ind i et fitness center. Var derude i eftermiddags sammen med Esben og Mark. Bagefter tog vi så også ud og spiste nogle gode burgers og drak nogle øl, lige for at vise at det der helse/fitness ting ikke skulle tage overhånd. Så nu bliver det spændende at se om pengene er givet godt ud, eller om i dag var sidste gang jeg sætter mine ben i det center…

Så lige nu er jeg lidt øm og træt i kroppen.

I sidste weekend var jeg aktivist til SUF‘s landsmøde. Mødet gik vist godt, taget i betragtning at det var nogle ret tunge politiske ting der skulle behandles. Men det mærkede jeg ikke så meget til. Det meste af min tid gik med at slæbe øl kasser, vente og så køre bil og tage kopier lørdag nat. Jeg fik alt for lidt søvn, og kunne da også godt mærke da jeg kom hjem søndag eftermiddag at det nok ville tage lidt tid at komme ovenpå igen – men heldigvis har jeg jo ferie, så det passede jo alt sammen fint.

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So, it’s 2006 now. Newyears went fine – good food (sushi) here, and then off to rhk for drinking, dancing and general partyiing.

I finally got around to applying for my masters, turning in the application that is. Don’t know how long they need to do the paper work, but I guess they will contact me when they accept (or reject!) my application. I did that thursday. Same day as Esben returned from the states. After 15 hours of traveling, he sounded like he does when he is drunk, but all in all I think he was ok with comming home. The appartment looks like someone put a wardrobe into a blender and forgot to put the lid on – Esben is unpacking, Thomas hasn’t quite picked up all his stuff and there is generally a mess. (I’m not trying to be holy or anything, I have a lot of stuff laying around to.) But I guess that will all be cleaned up in the comming days. No big deal.

I should be writing just a little bit today, but as well as I know myself, I will proberly waste the next 4-5 hours and then go drinking with Esben and Mark. But who knows, time will tell. Maby I will stay at home and write the last 4-5 pages I need – blaah, who am I kidding!

New Years eve comming up? Why was I not warned?

Somehow new years eve tomorrow managed to jump me by surprise, but in last minute I ordered some sushi for tomorrow, and Rasmus has promised to bring some desert and some salate, so all in all I think the three of us (Thomas being the third) will have fun eating and drinking, before we hit the town (the town being rhk). Let’s hope it all goes really well, and that none of us get to drunk and fall in one of the lakes on our way to rhk.

My project is getting more and more pages day by day, and hopefully soon it will be in a state where I can ask others to have a look at it.

But baby – it’s cold outside

Det er møg koldt indenfor, jeg tror jeg er ved at blive forkølet, og om lidt har jeg tænkt mig (frivilligt…) at bevæge mig ud i kulden for at komme op på Søren Hs kollegie køkken, hvor der er fest/julefrokost.

Jeg har kun fået skrevet en halv side på mit projekt i dag. Jeg havde ellers sat mig for at jeg skulle skrive en hel side hver dag. Jeg fik skrevet en side i går. Jeg fik den skrevet i går nat – gik først i seng kl. 4 om morgenen. Sådan kan man også bruge en fredag aften/nat.

Ellers sider jeg og stresser lidt over at skattevæsenet vil have kopier af nogle papirer som jeg ikke har. Det er jo surt, men forhåbentligt kan jeg få nogle kopier fra banken eller et andet sted, de må jo have den slags. Men sådan som jeg har det nu tror jeg hurtigt min aften kan blive rigtig rigtig hård for mig helbred… hvad man ikke gør for snaps.

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My dad and I had a talk some days ago about summer. We are planing on riding our motorcycles down through Europe. We havent (and I don’t think we will) planed any exact route etc. And it’s not like we have set a goal that we have to get to the mediterranean or anything like that. But we will see how far we get in the few weeks we will be going. A casual guess would proberly be that we end up somewhere around southern Germany.

My new years eve this year also seems to finally be falling into place. Søren H has invitede me (and some friends) to join the party at his place, so that’s cool (or, hopefully, going to be cool).

I’m still writing project, and I’m still not writing fast enough to make myself compleately happy. But I guess I should just get on with it instead of writing random bloge entrys or listening to music or playing computer games or…, well, I’m off to write some more – right after lunch!