Broken

At the moment I have:
A broken door
A broken bike
A broken washing machine
A broken relationship
A broken me

Which ones of these can be fixed, remains to be seen. The plan is to bury myself in work in the mean time.

People are nice here

I just went out to get some coffe from the employee lounge at the university when I walked by 4 masters students having a barbacue on the balcony. They waved at me and offered me a garlic bread.. so I sat down with them and talked for a few minutes, then helped them clean up.

:)

My plan is to stay up til 4 in the morning, studying and then to go and watch the sunrise on the beach. Im about halfway through the material so I think I will finish at just the right time for that.

Shiny happy people

People around me are really happy today as quite a few of them had a large burden lifted from them yesterday. There was a submission deadline and three people (Dominik and Tomas included) stayed up until two this morning to finish their papers on time. Rikke (pronounced Regge) finished her status report (the midway mark for PhD here) and I just finished writing up the last bits for Sharemind protocols.

Dominik turned up today especially happy - besides finishing the paper, he also managed to finally get Internet installed at his new house, and to get a CPR card.. and a new telephone. He thought life could not get any better until we told him that today the Friday bar is sponsored by a private company, which means free beer for all. Seriously, I have yet to see the guy this happy :)

As for me - Im doing fairly ok. In some sense, I literally cannot wait to get back to Estonia. But it is nice here and as I have been doing a lot of work for the past month, I am going to try to take it easy for the remaining week and a half and try to look around and take in a bit more of the culture here. The weather is still good and will hopefully remain so for at least this weekend.