Halloween Weekend

Halloween was a lot of fun. It’s not a holiday that I’m all that into, but I love a good party, so even though I had had a rough day, I put on a costume and went out with some friends to the school party. I went as “Little Bo Peep” in a dress that I found at Goodwill for $9. Here is a picture of me with my friend Andrea and another picture of my friend Peter (tall with the white sailor hat) and Veit in some real US Navy uniforms that I borrowed from my friend John so the German boys would have something to wear to the costume party.



The next night I was at my friend/mentor Eicke’s house for a going away party for our friend Veit. Veit has been a post-doc at UMass for the past 2 years and on this coming Friday is moving back to Germany as a professor. Eicke and his wife and his au pair prepared a fabulous dinner and we hung out and talked and drank wine and celebrated Veit’s stay here. I will really miss Veit. He’s a great brotherly-type of person to have around in the lab... he’s serious when he needs to be, but likes to joke around and be funny too. But I am happy for him. He and his wife Julia and daughter Clara are moving to Bonn (they are originally from Munich)

My friend Cathrine and I had accepted an invitation to a masquerade party that very night before we had been invited to Eicke’s. So we left Eicke’s place around 11pm and headed to the other party with the masks we had made. This is a picture of us with our masks on.

Where Have I Been??

I took a look and recently realized that I haven’t written anything in a couple of months... like since August. Life has been more than crazy, but that isn’t why I haven’t updated. To be honest, I am unsure if anyone reads this anyhow. But I had begun to think ‘why on earth would anyone want to read about what’s going on in my life?’ mostly because nothing is going on... except school. Still. So I’ll update you: I’m still in school.

I love my job. I’m there all the time, so it’s definitely a good thing to enjoy what I do. I really enjoy working long hours, late at night and on weekends. I like it because I like the good feeling of knowing that I am giving it everything I’ve got... so if it’s not good enough, well, there’s nothing I can do about it. It’s really hard to meet people and many of the people that I have met that I enjoy are home with their families on weekends and evenings, so I mostly just work. But like I said- I love my job.

I’ve have had some good times recently. I have made some really good friends. Most of them- unfortunately- will be gone by Christmas. They’re moving back to their homes in Brazil, Germany and Norway. But the good news is, I’ll get to go to those places someday to visit them. But I still ache a little bit to be losing them. I don’t like losing friends that are a lot of fun to hang out with. In the up-coming posts, I’ll talk about them a little more and put up some pictures.