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it is also key to step back and have a look at things from a distance.
Or to lift oneself up and have a bird’s perspective.

it is absolutely key to leave the context and do something else.

the Tour de France was a major event. i used to watch TV, when they were climbing the Alps.
Nowadays, after all those doping scandals, I tend to think of it as a nuisance.
Nobody in the field can be trusted.

apologize to a class where I really was very nasty on Friday – I was upset about the 30 minutes’ drive – that is: 60 minutes out and back – for just 45 minutes in class.

a good friend’s advice:
he said, I should rather take care of myself (body and mind) than strive for a higher post in the schoolsystem.

The former would save me a couple of years.

bothers me:
http://www.spiegel.de/panorama/0,1518,634271,00.html

Thunderstorms with heavy rainfall, causing damages all over.
And I suspect that this was only the beginning.

soaking in the great architecture in various cities I visit, and my trip to Milwaukee this weekend was no exception. I stayed at the Ambassador, which has a great Art Deco lobby. And here is a clock tower right next to the Marquette University law school.

Michael Jackson died.
But here are news that bother me more, e.g.:
“Vater vergisst Baby im Auto: tot”

I am curious what people do. Not all people, of course. But those who I had met at earlier stages of my life.
Class-mates, of course.
Former girlfriends, or just colleagues or acquaintances from university or meetings or seminars I had attended.
The other day I was informed that one of those had died, aged 53.