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 invest my own thoughts in ontology matching, before I could get the important things they talk about. Words in some corner of paragraphs I roughly had skipped suddenly hold hints how I can turn things around. 3 hours studying flew by and in the end I had a lot of notes and ideas for programming and writing. I even have plans how to rewrite some chapters of my thesis to finally get everything in a storyline. Maybe I can hold the deadline of end November.Although this day was a "normal study day" (for me a great success), the other days of the week stood in queue with the monotony of the former week. It happened that I did not leave the room for more than one walk and a few times grocery shopping. Those are times when I can hardly stand myself. But this weekend all flatmates are here and we are having fun. Last night we wanted to go out, but somehow we forgot the time and sit in the kitchen until late at night only talking. Great. We plan to rearrange the kitchen a bit, because currently we are almost never using the couch.
Oh, we have also been in the new Jams Bond movie on Monday. Cool movie, although it more feels like a bond-in-between. Tonight I went to the cinema again and watched Krabat, the German attempt to make a thrilling movie. The story is very good, but the movie feels more like an extended trailer where the story is happening somewhere between the short takes you see as highlights. An instant-fantasy movie. After the movie my flatmates and I went for a few beers to a pub. We tried some Belgian beers. Surprising, but awesome taste. And quite strong. However, since we were experimenting anyway, we ate fried Mars and Snickers, too, just to try it. It tastes very good, too.
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