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percival... and why no material has been posted on the linguistics filter yet:
I've been on a business trip to Germany together with a colleague of mine, casting new speakers for our speech synthesis system. Headed off on Thursday at 4.15am (taxi to airport), came back yesterday at 9.30pm (taxi home). We went to Cologne (Thursday) and Berlin (Friday & Saturday). The trip was spiced up by us narrowly missing our connecting flight to Cologne from Amsterdam. Since we had scheduled three castings at 2pm in Cologne, we could not accept them rebooking us on the 4pm flight. So, we waited for three quarters of an hour for our baggage, which had to be extracted from the system, rented a Corsa, rescheduled all of the castings to start at 4pm, and drove to Cologne. The next day, we had a quick breakfast before catching the 7:19am tram to catch the 7:51 InterCityExpress train to Berlin. In Berlin, everything went smoothly, and we managed to take in the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church, the Reichstag, and the Brandenburg Gate. On Saturday, I met with some people who work for a company that we collaborate with, and caught the return flight to Amsterdam at 4:50pm. Luckily, this time, connections at Schiphol were smooth, even though the plane back to Edinburgh was a tad late.
Today, I prepared the lecture I have to give tomorrow, on psychoacoustics, and still have to put in some work on an OVERDUE report (as in three weeks overdue. Harumph.) After dinner, I'll put in one more hour on that report before heading off to the cinema to catch Belleville Rendezvous.
That is also why my birthday greetings to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
bucketgirl are a SPECTACULAR four days LATE.
Argh. Woe me!
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Interesting observation no. 1: I didn't go to the Quaker meeting this morning because I wanted to work on my lecture. The morning was very unproductive. The afternoon, to the contrary, after a trip to Starbucks, was highly productive.
Moral: It would have been better if I'd spent some time meditating or an hour at the meeting. It would have focussed me and woken me up.
Interesting observation no. 2: When I get upset because my report is late, I can rein myself in quite quickly by
a) breathing
b) reminding that the report does not get done any more quickly if I get myself into a tizzy. On the contrary, my faculties will suffer and I will not be as sharp and keen as I need to be
Interesting observation no. 3: Interesting work does not feel like work, while daydreaming and lounging saps more strength than it restores
Interesting observation no. 4: A nice sweet Starbucks latte perks me up no end
I've been on a business trip to Germany together with a colleague of mine, casting new speakers for our speech synthesis system. Headed off on Thursday at 4.15am (taxi to airport), came back yesterday at 9.30pm (taxi home). We went to Cologne (Thursday) and Berlin (Friday & Saturday). The trip was spiced up by us narrowly missing our connecting flight to Cologne from Amsterdam. Since we had scheduled three castings at 2pm in Cologne, we could not accept them rebooking us on the 4pm flight. So, we waited for three quarters of an hour for our baggage, which had to be extracted from the system, rented a Corsa, rescheduled all of the castings to start at 4pm, and drove to Cologne. The next day, we had a quick breakfast before catching the 7:19am tram to catch the 7:51 InterCityExpress train to Berlin. In Berlin, everything went smoothly, and we managed to take in the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church, the Reichstag, and the Brandenburg Gate. On Saturday, I met with some people who work for a company that we collaborate with, and caught the return flight to Amsterdam at 4:50pm. Luckily, this time, connections at Schiphol were smooth, even though the plane back to Edinburgh was a tad late.
Today, I prepared the lecture I have to give tomorrow, on psychoacoustics, and still have to put in some work on an OVERDUE report (as in three weeks overdue. Harumph.) After dinner, I'll put in one more hour on that report before heading off to the cinema to catch Belleville Rendezvous.
That is also why my birthday greetings to
bucketgirl are a SPECTACULAR four days LATE.Argh. Woe me!
*** *** ***
Interesting observation no. 1: I didn't go to the Quaker meeting this morning because I wanted to work on my lecture. The morning was very unproductive. The afternoon, to the contrary, after a trip to Starbucks, was highly productive.
Moral: It would have been better if I'd spent some time meditating or an hour at the meeting. It would have focussed me and woken me up.
Interesting observation no. 2: When I get upset because my report is late, I can rein myself in quite quickly by
a) breathing
b) reminding that the report does not get done any more quickly if I get myself into a tizzy. On the contrary, my faculties will suffer and I will not be as sharp and keen as I need to be
Interesting observation no. 3: Interesting work does not feel like work, while daydreaming and lounging saps more strength than it restores
Interesting observation no. 4: A nice sweet Starbucks latte perks me up no end
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Date: 2003-09-22 04:32 am (UTC)"Interesting observation no. 3: Interesting work does not feel like work, while daydreaming and lounging saps more strength than it restores." How true!