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Sunday, July 31, 2005
Saint Helens
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Science
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Furthermore I am trying to schedule the road to graduation. I got my working with animals licence course scheduled for december and I might do an online course on conscious and unconscious perception with the University of Amsterdam fom september to the end of november. This would only leave me with a thesis and a graduation presentation in the new year and I might be ready to start my job in march instead of april, which is benificial for all of us.
Well there's some interesting stuff coming up about volcanoes and birthday parties, but I guess I'd better put that in a new post because everybody will have stopped reading even halfway my explanation of a search coil system..
Saturday, July 23, 2005
Downtown Portland
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Thursday, July 21, 2005
New layout
I couldn't sleep last night so I started making a new layout for this blog. Didn't finish it though, but I managed to do the last bits in some lost minutes at the lab... So here it is. Less standard than the previous layout. I had to do quite a little bit of html, but that's not too difficult. Comments turn up on this page now too, rather than opening a new one and the text is lined out nicer. Let me know what you think about it..
Wednesday, July 20, 2005
Don't Panic
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Tonight after dinner I went for a swim again. I did 1500m this time since I was later and the pool closed. It went way better than last week. I adjusted my starting speed so I could go on longer without resting. It's still not even remotely like it used to be but it's getting better. I hope I can keep up my weekly kilometers in the pool. It's a nice workout, altough at the moment my arms feel like lead and I'll probably pay for my efforts tomorrow.
Sunday, July 17, 2005
the Pacific
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On thursday night I went to the recreation centre and swam 2 km. Ouch, that's a lot, I know. And all the time I was fighting against the memory of how easy it used to be. For all of you that don't know; I did competitive swimming for about ten years, but stopped about six years ago and didn't really swim during those years. So at my thursday night attempt I was getting tired so incredibly fast..... But still, I took my time, did a fair distance and took a short stay in the sauna afterwards. Pretty nice altogether, but the pain in my arms and shoulders made it clear they weren't used to something like this anymore. But it' s a nice kind of pain...
Friday afternoon I took off a few hours early because we were going to the beach! We would be at the Inn at Spanish Head in Lincoln City for the weekend, were we would meet my parents again and get our fair share of Pacific breeze. At the moment I'm sitting in our living room, posting with the wireless connection the Inn provides and I'm looking straight at the ocean. This picture is the view from our balcony. We're on the seventh floor and if you take the elevator down to one you actually get out on the beach; fabulous!
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Yesterday we went to Newport to see the Oregon Coast Aquarium; Otters, sea lions, stingrays, sharks, jellyfishes turtles and many more. The biologist in me enjoyed himself thoroughly, but hardly as much as Max and Bella, who had a fantastic day (we did too, but you just can't beat the enthousiasm of a 1 or 5 year old). We had dinner at Mo's were they sell the world famous (their own claim) Clam Showder, my dad's so lyrious about. And I must admit; it was GOOD!
On our way home we also stopped at Otter Crest, from which you have a great view over the Pacific and Devil's Punch Bowl.
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My stomach has almost recoverd from the champaign brunch my parents just treated us on. An incredible amount of delicious food and they keep filling up your champaign and coffee (or something Americans like to call coffee, but is more like warm coffee lemonade). In an attempt to taste as much I could, I kind of overdid it but now, after an hour of easily digesting I am fine again.
Counting the days right now. Not that I am getting bored with the USA or life around here, not at all, but it's only three weeks before Sita (bird girl :P) gets here!! Wow, looking forward to that...
By the way; I added some very nice pictures to my photoblog. Check 'em out!
Saturday, July 09, 2005
Multi-compartmental long story....
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The electonic trouble department has been cleared thoroughly. After 2 formats my iPod's working again. I have lost all my music but it's still on my computer back in the Netherlands and for the last 4 months (time flies) in the USA I have my sources that have provided me with some nice music. Thanx Bo and thanx Martin. Good thing you guys have a proper sense of music... I am writing this post on my OWN laptop. After three months I finally got it back, with a nice new screen..........and an erased harddisk. I don't really get why you need to erase the harddisk to replace a screen, but it's all working now, so I will not mention it again.
Sita has her ticket and stuff arranged as well and she will arrive 3 days after my parents leave. August 8 I will see my girlfriend again... that'll be great!
Enough for now. I wonder how long I'll be able to postpone the next post.. we'll see...
Saturday, July 02, 2005
I accepted...
Thought about for a day and a half, slept a night on it so to say... Of course I knew about the project for a while already, so it wasn't really that hard to decide. Guess I needed some people to show some enthusiasm about it for my final decision to arrive. After all accepting means I know what I'll be working on until 2010. It also means I get to do what I like (and studied for), with people I like to work with in an international prestigious project and get paid for it (wow, I'll have my weekends back). So I did it; I've just send out the email accepting the job. I will get my PHD in Neurobiology at my very own Utrecht University.....
Friday, July 01, 2005
Job offer aka my future
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