Post random stuff (only serious matters, no bullshit)

thrilled by President Obama’s performance at the White House Correspondents Dinner.
So funny, so full of irony and self-mockery, absolutely hilarious:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlJG5mpsyvI

new perspective. I had to renegotiate a credit agreement with my bank.
And as we have quite a few contracts, I needed a look at the whole package – thus the end of payments needed to be taken into consideration. It will be only another ten oe eleven years till my professional life will come to an end. And by that time the payments should be terminated as well, as less money will be coming in.
Having to deal with this fact really was new and somehow disconcerting to me.

Monday, I had to feeling of a lot of accomplishments:
co-organized the class reunion, organized an event at school with a politician, finished my pile of final gradings, had an afternoon coffee with my mother, and a really most enjoyable walk with a friend and my wife.
So I treated myself to a round of golf this afternoon, and I made some really good shots (and some not so good ones) and ended up with – a for me – reasonable score. Still I need in golfing the company of co-players who are not too pushy and tolerate bad shots without getting impatient.

it makes sense if you let people raise their objections to plans and not react to them – time will show that these objections just aren’t justified.

last week I completely forgot about an appointment at my bank.
Very embarrassing, but this clearly tells me that I was somehow focussed on a lot of other things.

my 3rd KIVA loan – I am not ready yet to raise the sum above the original 50$.

how my students will react if I present them with poetry.
There are quite a few poems about NEW York that are really remarkable – if they might appeal to them?
I wonder.

been granted permission and the money to hold the golf course with 12 of our students on a real golf course.

means empathy.

about piles is not that they take a lot pf physical space but rather mental space.