Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Too much non-science ...

So! Mostly since last post I've been looking for flats in Munich. Yep, is a dammed expensive city.

We've spent last week there visiting the flats and found something, one that is "livable and affordable". Now we "applied" to it and are waiting for the landlord to say "yes, we like you ..."

Besides that just some application material. Tomorrow I'll be back to science.

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Friday, October 02, 2009

Too much at the same time!

So too many things at the same time.

A lot of work to do, as usual, now I really need to finish some stuff for good!

We are moving to Munich. Yep! Not because of me. Fernanda got a post-doc position at the TUM. So we are going there, then I can try to get something for me there (4 institutes, there's gotta be something :-)) ).

That implies in looking for a flag. A good one for an affordable price ... yeah, in Munich ... is like searching for cool breeze in hell!! Munich is amazingly expensive! Anything is at least twice the price of Göttingen.

We have been calling several adds and escaped a dirty con!! Yep! Be aware, it's happening in Germany and at least in Switzerland. Amazing flat for a good price, contact by e-mail, you are "chosen" from "several" applicants. Keys will come by DHL in a service where you deposit the "bail" and receive the keys. If you keep the keys the bail is sent to the landlord. But then the transfer would be make by Western Union ... opaaaaa ... short call to DHL was enough to learn the word BETRUG (german word for fraud). Then some more directed "googling" and many more indications of it. Some people believed and why not ...

Next week we gotta go to Munich to visit some of the flats.

About science. Updating information. Latest CAS results and working on the simulations. Not much time. Calling flats takes too long for me because I have to prepare myself for what I want to say and to what I expect to hear. Bavarian accent makes things a bit worse, but I'm handling.

Also got involved in some proposal, but no PI-ing, no time this round.

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