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- Author’s note of ‘You Must Be Very Intelligent -The PhD Delusion’
- PhD graduation! Why on Earth would you want to celebrate that?
- Monday Madness
- The contract tragedy
- 220 Shades of Grey
- Run away (a short poem)
- When to stop?
- With mother-in-law to the conference
- The Dutch girl that does not belong to any nation
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Author’s note of ‘You Must Be Very Intelligent -The PhD Delusion’
/0 Comments/in Stories /by 73041354Ever since I finished my PhD, or maybe even before that point, I knew I had to write this book. However, this is not a diary of my time as a PhD student at the University of Edinburgh. Having said that, it is not quite a work of all-fiction either. If it were, I would […]
PhD graduation! Why on Earth would you want to celebrate that?
/7 Comments/in Stories /by 73041354My parents are sitting opposite of me at an authentic ceramic table. We are in their new garden. They moved into this urban environment quite recently, leaving behind the economically dead village in which I was raised. They rather like it here. We drink wine and talk, about their new neighbours, their jobs, my travelling, the […]
Monday Madness
/0 Comments/in Stories /by 73041354“No scanning, please!“ There is heartfelt outrage in the voice, which belongs to the woman in front of me in the supermarket queue. The cashier at the checkout was just about to scan her first item when she let rip with the hysterical shriek. Now he looks at her, just briefly, then at the clock, […]
The contract tragedy
/0 Comments/in Stories /by 73041354Wednesday afternoon, 4 PM. Just after teaching a third semester molecular biology class I notice in the corridor that the light is on in my boss’s office. Professor Lous has been travelling so much that her presence in the department is a rather rare event. I don’t want to talk to her but I don’t […]
220 Shades of Grey
/0 Comments/in Stories /by 73041354Wednesday 5:45h, Munich airport. I am at gate 16, Air Berlin. Life is grey, blue, black. Mostly grey. So many men. So many suits. So many shirts. So many shiny shoes. A few pairs of jeans, below a practical Jack Wolfskin coat. Tech staff or engineers I presume. I am sitting, staring at the passengers […]
Run away (a short poem)
/in Stories /by 73041354When I saw you at the party I wished we could just run away together
Run away from the lunatics