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Now, it is official: I will go back. For one last time I will go back to Sundsvall, for presenting my master thesis on the weekend before Christmas. Was I first looking forward, I now have mixed feelings about it. It will only be two days there. Luckily the presentation is on Saturday morning, so I will have Saturday afternoon and whole Sunday to catch up some memories while I wait for my plane back to Germany. It will be dark the whole day and it must be cold then. A walk through the woods once again would be nice. All alone, only with snow and firs. A place where you actually fill in some space.

Stefan, my flatmate, wondered about me and described my life of the last week: "You must have increased you efficiency by 300%". I think, that is even underestimated. He refers to my effort on the thesis. Before last week I was very inefficient. No chapter seemed to belong to the other and although I was writing and programming, the amount of pages did not grow, because I mostly rewrote everything. But last week it changed. Since then I am sitting from the morning until the evening and write and program. And it is even fun. Although this might be my last academical paper for a long time, I started to like it. Maybe I can continue paper research at Atos. However, I am starting to feel the side effects. I only eat, because I think I need something, not because I am hungry. I never am. My flatmates are so kind to cook, because I hardly leave my room, for I always need to finish the last thought which usually leads to another. Because of my limited space for activities, I left t

Time is flying. Did I first plan to finish my thesis end of November, I more and more believe, that I will use the December, too. Atos already extended my thesis until end of December. If I really need longer than end of November, I can burry the plans to see Sundsvall this year again. Then I will need to make my final presentation some time in between when I work next year. But it was not going at all during the past weeks. I was writing and programming, but somehow... without any real goal. The thesis seemed so pointless. Maybe it was the staying at home. Because today I spent the afternoon with my flatmates at the university's library. They needed to study for exams and I just did not want to stay at home again and went with them. However, reading chapters from my book and a few scientific papers again, I got totally different things from my sources than when I read them before. I read all this before at home or at work. Maybe I needed the atmosphere of a library or the time to

Is it already 2 weeks ago, since I posted the last time? Man, time is flying... The thesis is growing slowly. Most of the time I spent with designing graphical user interfaces (GUI's). It did not really take so long, because I wanted to let it look perfect, but the GUI editor sometimes crushed the complete design. In between I wondered if my own GUI would stand the critics of my last thesis which was about user friendly GUI's. I guess, it would not pass, but since I am the only user, it does not even has to. It looks pretty cheap. But now it is working. The first test results are a disaster, but since I know why, I can already write things down in a new chapter. Today I got my contract at Atos in Aken. I will start in beginning of February as software architect. It sounds pretty good: high chance for traveling around the world, cooperation with several departments in different countries, and insight into all kind of different projects. As far as I know, they are still looking