Sorry Lise, we suck...

So my housemate's play was pretty good.....I think. We did not actually make it in time to see it though. Big time SORRY for that. For compensation this is a picture of there acting group and this is their website.

Seems like our total and utter lack of planning did not work out this time. The thing is (brace yourself, here come the lame excuses...) that the housemate that convinced us to go see the play, celebrated the last day of her course a bit to enthousiastically and was not able to go. Then there were the three of us that planned to leave the house at 6.15 pm and be at a restaurant in Amsterdam at 7.00 pm (which is impossible when you think about it). So we were in Amsterdam at about 7.15 pm, cancelled our reservation at the restaurant, met up with Bas who was already in Amsterdam because he works there these days and tried to make a plan to save the night. We decided to go to the street the theater is in and get a quick snack. Bas thought the theatre was the same one he visited last year, but it wasn't, which left us with as much information as "it's somewhere in the Spuistraat" which is a whole lot of street. So we went to the Spuistraat entered a café and got a quick bite. The we walked all the way down the street to find the theatre. Of course the theatre was at the far end of the street, basically across the street from central station we left more than an hour before that moment. Then we discovered that we misinterpreted the start-of-the-play-time for the doors-open-time, so the play was already in progress for over 15 minutes and were not allowed to go in anymore. It's a good thing we didn't pick up the reserved tickets yet. Altogether we failed big time and I feel sorry for my housemate we screwed up.. To make something of the night after all we went to Waterlooplein and had a few beers.

Before this lame adventure I spend all day at the University Medical Centre in Utrecht for the neuroscience symposium day, had some nice discussions during the poster sessions and listened to some interesting talks. It was pretty tiring to keep alert and listen from 9 am to 5 pm, but it was cool to see all the projects that my fellow students participate in.

Repairing my laptop will cost 380 euros (crazy!!) which is 40 dollars to much to just let it repair. Now an expert of the insurance company has to examine at first which will probably take another couple of days. It is getting less and less likely it will be repaired in time. Bummer!!