I have been to a lot of conferences over the past years, some of them being really comfy workshops for a very closed community and others being huge machineries with thousands of participants and attendees. My first international conference was a mixture of a closed community and attendees from all over the world. The name of the conference is Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing and in 2011 it was organized by the Stanford University in Palo Alto. This conference has a reputation for very strict peer-reviewing, therefore, my boss was against my applying there with the topic of my current project. He didn’t want to take chances with our common work, so I decided to apply on my own with the topic of my MA thesis. As it was not work-related, I also could not get the funding from the DFG in case I got accepted. So I also applied for a conference grant at the Academic Staff development and eventually won it.
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My Hair Care Favorites
Actually, I love my hair. This is the second part of my body that I am completely satisfied with (I’ll tell you about the first one sometime later). I mean, of course it could be thicker, heavier or whatever, but I love it as it is. Although it doesn’t really need extensive care, from time to time I love to do something special for my hair. Looking for a special treat, I came across two hair masks that are just perfect for giving my hair that famous last touch.
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The Material Tally
My mother was always trying to buy me linen clothes but she always failed to put them on me. I can’t even imagine why I was so prejudiced against linen – I just couldn’t stand it. As time passed by, I managed to find some trivial explanations to it, such as “it wrinkles easiy”, “it doesn’t iron easily”, “it’s too rough for my skin”, and so on.
New Year’s Celebration
We had to stay at home for the New Year’s celebration. The little predator got sick, and was roaring at us all the time threatening to employ his favorite cartoon characters if we did not stop trying to feed him. Thus, the family council decided not to invite any guests and not to become guests ourselves, so that our dear friends and family stay safe and sound for the beginning of the 2014. I guess it’s not polite to spread infections at the New Year’s Eve.
This is the Beginning
Which day is the best day to start something new? Right! Right now! The procrastinator that I am, my “right now” has been put off for over more than a year: let’s wait till I’ve submitted the first paper/ written the Introduction to my doctoral thesis/ found a good photographer/ made some free time… There’s never going to be the best suitable time for anything. We are the ones to decide where and when we stop and start doing something else, new to us, no matter how scary. So, I decided it to be the first day of the New Year 2014, so to say, the welcoming of two Newborns.
Here you are, Ladies and Gentlemen! Meet “The Artsy Scientist Diaries”.
Happy New Year! Let all your dreams come true!
