Arriving in Oaxaca, Mexico, was unnerving. In the end of October, Stockholm, the alarm woke me from a nervous half-slumber at three-thirty in the morning, and I rose to get ready for the long journey west. However, I arrived at the airport and was told I had been put on standby on two of myContinue reading “unravelling in deathly celebrations, part 1: Arriving in Oaxaca”
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managing my time, or, how to feed my inner list-maker
Just before Christmas, a researcher from the philosophy department came to talk to our PhD group. Her name is Åsa Burman and she has recently published a book about time management, or, “how to finish your PhD on time and stay happy in the process”. She gave us some simple, hands-on tricks for how toContinue reading “managing my time, or, how to feed my inner list-maker”
a brief pop cultural summary of my 2017
It’s been 2018 for two weeks now. Two rather good weeks, I must say. Preceded by a rather good last week of 2017 as well. I have been catching up on things at home. I went to museums. Sleeping. A lot of sleeping. Getting rid of that racing heartbeat. On January 31st, when I usuallyContinue reading “a brief pop cultural summary of my 2017”
for future reference
I went to Mexico, came back and the first snow both fell and melted. I promise to tell you about it, but first: In late October, I went down to Skåne, southern Sweden, to conduct my last preparatory stakeholder interviews. What I asked them and what I will use their answers for, I intend toContinue reading “for future reference”
returning
One night in Copenhagen, I met up with Rikke, a friend from when I went to school in Tanzania. I haven’t met her since 2002. Strange, but nice, to meet someone from such a long time ago. We have taken such different paths – and still being able to relate. We are really not thatContinue reading “returning”
other thoughts, on a German train
[Written on September 19th] There is a feeling that comes to me on German trains. Maybe I would get it in other trains too, under the right conditions – but on this trip, and on the one I did in 2013, it was mainly on the German trains that the feeling came to me. MaybeContinue reading “other thoughts, on a German train”
a rough diamond of Göttingen
Göttingen, being an old university town with biology and agronomy as two of their strong disciplines, has three botanic gardens. I managed to visit two. And I fell like a pine tree (as the Swedish saying goes). The old garden, situated on the edge of the old city center, is a slightly overgrown, wondrously romanticContinue reading “a rough diamond of Göttingen”
the perks of not flying
I went to Göttingen to visit Esther, a former trainee at SRC who now is doing her PhD there. It is a beautiful little university town, full of lively students and old, beautiful buildings. The view from the top of the Jacobikirsche church tower beautiful, and the Holocaust memorial both serious and hypnotically appealing allContinue reading “the perks of not flying”
thoughts about train-traveling
[Written on September 17th, on trains between Delft and Göttingen] Traveling by train in Europe: All the changes, I have seen many stations, waited on many benches. In some ways, it is stressful. It takes a long time, it is a hassle to carry my bags around, trying to figure out where to go nextContinue reading “thoughts about train-traveling”
a weekend in the Netherlands
After Belgium, I moved on to the Netherlands. I met up with my former roommate and good friend Lina by a canal in Delft and we strolled into the old town, rode a ferris wheel in the last rays of sunshine before the rain – the beautiful rooftops of central Delft drenched in a goldenContinue reading “a weekend in the Netherlands”
Katja Malmborg 