What an incredibly busy life I have been leading here at the Bauhaus. No chance for blogging (apart from in Finnish…) and I feel bad about this.
Nevertheless, I have happily started the new year. There are good and bad sides. Having my bike stolen is on the worse side, having finished an application for a postdoc last week, arranged for a conference to take place in Helsinki and finished first stages for two interventions in the European Capitals of Culture 2007 are on the positive side.
The field-work periods were fascinating, but totally hectic. We managed to do a lot of work, which we try to engage with now, but there seems to be so much of it. I try blogging on the two cities later. 
promises…
I had a lovely Christmas break with some travels in Germany, meeting Dagmar and Ole in Hamburg, being ill in Dresden with my mother, flying off to the generous Xmas table of my brother and his newly wedded wife (and baby Ilona) on the 24th, going to Lapland to work on publications rather than do ski between Xmas and new years, and finally opening the 2007 with our Helsinki-originating gang of five girls and their boyfriends. Three of us, me and two couples live abroad, so this complete setting we hadn’t seen for years. I spent lovely time, while working on publications and applications, at my second-mom Tiina and her two lovely kids before heading back to Dessau on the 14th of January.
It’s great to be back, too. The only thing I regret is that I can’t find time going to meet my friends abroad. Not even in good old England. A shame. But at least I got in touch after years and years with Golde, my good good friend from the MA year. A while back, that is. And all thanks to the Skype, and the fact that Little One was explaining how Golde too, had had it for years. It was about the time to go and find ourselves on it. Same would apply to other people, hopefully some the old friends will bump into this blog.
Happy 2007! A bit over a month late. At least the new year has already been tested and prooved ok, until now.
