Weeeeeeeekend!

And it's nice and sunny! So: life is good... :-)

The past week was the week of the final policy workshop of my main project, and it was great! We had about 25 people there, including representatives from the German parliament, the World Bank and a bunch of Embassies. It was a good way of getting some policy feedback regarding our results and we were shown lots of appreciation (it was also a big ego boost, which is pretty cool). After that, I took a few hours of on Tuesday morning, because I was absolutely exhausted: the workshop was stressful, we're having some debate on a different policy report, which was also very stressful and Fedor's brothers were visiting last weekend, which wasn't so much stressful, but quite alcohol-infused.

This weekend, on the other hand, is visitor-free. So we took the opportunity to go drinking with friends yesterday, will do so again today and tomorrow. Enjoying the weather, doing groceries, finishing the tax forms and all that boring stuff. But that is fine, because we ARE boring...

Anyway, in other news: I do not have a new job yet! But I am sending out lots of applications, so I have some hope that I will soon have some news to tell you. Oh, at least there has been some other good news: my publication in the Journal of Development Studies came out (it was accepted last year, but there is always a lag before it gets published) and the German journal KYKLOS accepted another paper of mine. So good news all around!

Let's hope the coming week will bring more good news... :-)))

Tschüßi,
OJ