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And then I went to work to exchange samples in my current measurement and I furtively crawled around the offices looking for used cardboard boxes, to stack together and make a standing desk.

Today I went waterskiing for the first time! Courtesy of my graduate school.

The first time I fell at the first corner and had to walk back a painful rocky path barefoot for ten minutes, so it was very motivating to learn quickly. Afterwards I got a fealing for it and I was able to do several full turns of the lake without falling unless getting distracted.

My officemate made a video from me starting my third turn!

Home!
Owning both a rain jacket and rainproof shoes is: amazing.

I have been tasked to start writing a paper draft but also I'm very distracted, so that sounded like the perfect moment to learn emacs and how to use it to write latex.

I saw too much emacs in my timeline the last months, now I want to know what all the hype is

I wrote to the french embassy on Friday, and today they replied that I should send all my files by post first, so then I can bring any missing paper for the appointment .

It's good! Less stressful about possible incomplete file.
But that means I have to gather all the pieces already now and *this* is stressful.

Good way too early morning

My boyfriend will be here this weekend!
So I'm on my way to the airport with a thermos of coffee and almost not burned pastries wrapped against a heat pad.

Ready to rescue this dweller of warm places from our uh… 3°C.

I already receive my birth certificate. So uh, I guess I need to quickly ask for an appointment in Berlin.
It's happening quicker than I expected, it's a bit scary.

I painted the shelves upside down and I don't have enough paint left to paint the other side now.
But it's ok! At least I can store things on the top shelf and they won't fall.

Current status: rushing back home from work because I forgot the work laptop I had borrowed over the weekend to monitor my measurement and know when I have to go change sample, and I'll need it for a remote meeting in two hours

I guess I only said super obvious stuff and I'm sorry for any non-white friend who read me and facepalmed.

And if I'm feeling that way about looking somewhat androgynous since a few months in pretty accepting Hamburg, I can't imagine actually spending your whole life black in an openly racist place, it must be orders of magnitude more stressful.

Actually that was when I was about to answer than sometimes being self-conscious is a matter of safety.

I was talking with my boyfriend about being too self-conscious, and then I realized that me being stressed out of doing things in public because I can't easily hide anymore than I'm queer in some way and maybe somebody someday might react wrongly, gives me a tiny idea just of how tiring it must be to not be white in public.

I'm also trying a new techniques to keep my tomatoes happy longer: to keep the stem in water.
I'm not sure anymore where I read they should be kept out of the fridge and stem down so that their humidity doesn't escape, so I guess with the stem actually in water if should be even better? Let's see.

The trainer was pretty subtile in his confusion of which gender I was, he indicated me both changing rooms (but I took care not to need to change anyway) and just looked where I went. I heard him hesitate a bit the first time he had to chose a pronoun, but then it was all normal.
At the end he asked me if I was a high school student (I finished high school 9 years ago).

It's funny to probe how strangers perceive me now when I don't say anything!

And I all did it in German