tomorrow i will present three posters, which i guess could have been one big poster, but are three small (A1 and A2) ones.
it’s the end of the crazy first term when i have learned that there are people who think visually. like to the extent that there’s little point in jotting words down. i have learned at least a little bit of this thinking. ways of thinking of forms and other stuff by examining and working with images. taking a pen in my hand and drawing… this i’m still reluctant to do, but at least i give it a try sometimes. for instance when i need to explain what i have in my mind.
i arrived here as a professional, as we all did. now i feel i’m a non-professional. which makes it perfect postdoctoral training. who would have though i’ll have so much fun learning something new. a new way of thinking about the things i think about anyway.
pretty much convinced this is actually contributing to my research. being able to do a set of posters on my own research topic enables me to rethink it in a new way. next time i also need to get more stuff on paper. also to turn my posters into publications. perhaps with pictures, however.
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on the less work-based note, i’ll be off to finland on friday 2 march to see the friends and family there. great thing!
lately, i’ve been catching up with old friends over the skype: argentina, england and israel. a lot of baby stuff going on!
i also saw my hungarian family last weekend, when i made a conference visit and met up with friends in budapest too.
it will be funny, however, to leave this 24-hour life where i’ve been living and working with the colleagues and friends at the kolleg and at the ‘carrot’. it’s an absence of over two months: i’ll be back in dessay on 6 may.
