June 15

Now start the weeks with only three or four meeting a week! Hooray!

February 5

I have to complete one of those screening online interviews for a position and it’s Sunday evening and I have been putting it off for a week.

January 20

November 18

The problem with working remotely from home is that I tend to forget to go outside while it’s still light.

November 6

Prepared props for the food system course I was teaching, ended up taking nothing in.

October 17

May 23

I wonder how many more times these types of campus shots will be taken – if I go to Viikki, it’s usually for day-long meetings and I don’t feel like going for a walk later to take a better photo for the day.

March 7

This my obligatory monthly post acknowledging how much I dislike the “other” office.

January 18

We have that hot desking thing going on at work and I have to admit that I wish we had assigned desks and offices. Although mine would be covered in papers, so maybe that’s not such a great idea.

January 14

All day meetings and work dinners will be the death of me. How can anyone handle more than 2 of them a year?

December 5

Had a work meeting at the airport. Interesting, I guess. Save an hour or so of travel to those arriving by plane.

October 4 (1)

Was there no one to point out that scare quotes don’t work in this context… or are they low-key stating about they really think of JRC’s work?

September 2 (2)

I get overly excited about tangentially related stuff, even on holiday.

August 24

Someone remind me to update the French tax office with my new address in November.

July 27

Today I get to announce to my boss that I’m leaving a couple of months. While I am looking forward to working on new stuff, I am not looking forward to talking to my boss about it.

May 29

There should be a rule that if you insist on rereading something “quickly” and making comments, you should be required to reread the sentence/paragraph you’re commenting on twice before leaving the comment. I got a presentation back with a comment asking which products are covered by a certain sentence… listen, I don’t know, how about the ones listed after the “e.g.” literally 2 words later? Ah. Monday mornings.

May 8

I’ll try a new rule at work today: fewer than 50 emails in my main inbox. This will require me to reply to some stuff I’ve been putting off because of urgh reasons.

February 20

Ah, being able to wear almost any type of shoe to work – this is why working in research is great. I actually just realised I didn’t really have “decent” shoes to wear to a fancy meeting next week as my Chucks are all very colourful (besides boots)… so I ordered some grey-ish Vans shoes.

February 19

I try to rarely bring work to do during the weekend but there are weekends where I just feel productive… and now that I can easily connect to my work computer from any other computer, ah well, sometimes the temptation is huge!

January 28

Friday, Friday, Friday, one more report to get done… maybe by the end of today, but we al know that it will happen by the end of Sunday night.