Lady, Suit Up!

February 26, 2010 at 21:47 (Today, Tomorrow)
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I set the alarm for 6 a.m. I woke up, put the kettle on and looked in the mirror. Not too tired, looks like a good day for business. I took the suit out of the closet, skirt + jacket, all gray, added an orange scarf and matching lipstick , black boots and headed to the train station. One last journey for this week. Last Friday I went to see some Volkswagen autonomous driving cars, Tuesday was the one bringing the Carnegie Mellon news, on Wednesday I had fun with some industrial KUKA robots,  Thursday was DFKI day and now I am writing my blog post from a hotel room in Aachen, after a day spent with Microsoft Research. And next week I’ll be going to Copenhagen. Pretty dynamic, isn’t it?

Each day I add a new amber bead in my converging set of stories, the frame is getting filled, the plans are getting concrete. And what is more, I think my time has reached quite a peak in how valuable it is and how used it is. And all is covered with a layer of sheer happiness.

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5 Minute Break

February 25, 2010 at 09:02 (Today)
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… Or more about Taking-over-the-world issue

All you need to take over the world is a computer. And maybe some batteries to keep your machine running. And please, no Windows this morning. I just killed their updates forever. Can’t install updates and restart my machine gazillion times a day when I want to take over the world, can I?

Now about my plan… The following days have been insanely hectic and sleep deprived, but now, with some hours of extra energy, with spring struggling to show up, things seem to somehow arrange themselves in a partial order that raises my levels of satisfaction. Unless the world crashes or is being conquered by the Dragon in 209 days, unless I don’t get a visa or I decide that house-keeping fits me better, I will greet you next Fall from this place :D . Yes Sir! I am going to the US and I’m pretty enthusiastic about it. I didn’t even have time nor the context to enjoy my small victory, but here it is. My happy moment after a bunch of mad days. My train will soon reach its destination and I have to close this now, some more crazy days are about to follow, but I look outside, the snow has melted, there is a scent of spring in the air and I just know things will turn out okey :) .

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My, My, Time Flies!

February 21, 2010 at 12:55 (Music, Today, Words)
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No, I don’t have time. Not even to write this post. I shouldn’t. There’s a Latex design specs pending, there is one robot API waiting for my attention, a pile of yet undone homework, and trust me, I’ve been working on them since 6 a.m. I always thought about my to-do list as a stack, but it’s definitely a queue, the difference being that I could see the top of the stack, whereas the other end of the queue is somehow beyond my control. These tasks are like all those curious persons in the streets that join the larger crowds. Probably they think someone is giving something for free. Well, I’m doing my best to process all queries and not to lose track. But then you come across this cool song and the ideas start to shape up. A bit of inspiration. A bit of perspective. And at the end of the day, I am not complaining. I’ll deal internally with my worries, my thoughts, my processes and somehow things will work out. They always do, be it logical flow of events or divine intervention. I’ll be grateful to both of them eventually.

Until I put my threads to sleep for a while, I let you all enjoy a cool song about this eternal parameter that seems to model our finite existences: time.

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Snapshot

February 14, 2010 at 09:32 (Today)
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How I Resigned my Job

February 4, 2010 at 18:01 (Stories)
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I barely had told you the plan for this semester and I already made some adjustments to it. I resigned for the first time a job. Being constrained by German law to some official 20 working hours/week policy, I found myself in a short dilemma, for which however, the solution seemed quite obvious. The resource conflict was between my new job with DFKI downtown and being a TA for my kids in GenCS. The data paths to follow would’ve been, I either change one contract and have both jobs or quit the one with less hours. Considering that financially the situations yield the same results, the deadlock was solved by resigning from the TA position. The idea was fairly obvious and I didn’t hesitate. I must admit I enjoyed it very much working with the kids, but nevertheless, given the whole parameter set, this is the choice that maximizes the future outcome. Besides, I would have risked in doing two jobs poorly, so it’s better to have a safety net under your feet. Just in case.

And that’s how I resigned my first job.

P.S. My GenCS position needs to be filled… If you think you nailed this course and would like some bucks in your account, you can try getting it. Cheers!

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