I have been quite busy… no really, that’s a real ol’ English understatement… I have been overcharged with work, a congress that needs help in organising, a book, a new project, some reports that need writing, articles… contributions for the congress in question and of course thinking about the wedding and all the family stuff that is going on around me… And of course: I have started to make a new (professional) blog which is supposed to help inform my peers of the upcoming congresses and publications: Mediaevaliter.comI wont deny it, it has been a struggle, it still is. As a complete noob in questions of PHP and MySQL is has been quite a challenge to set this up and lets not even start talking about the design which of course needed to be something really special. Visitors are slowly dropping in and we still haven’t gotten round to telling everyone about it! Of course it will ruffle some feathers, just as always. People will find it too amibitous, not enough informative and of course some superiors will think we had no right… well, tough, here it is and it IS useful, whatever anybody else thinks 
Now, all we need is some more authors keeping up the work and I’ll be satisfied when the people over at WordPress will end up fixing all the bugs with the latest version 
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Have you ever wondered how some people seem to never be able to decide what they really want to be ?
It’s a basic truth that the world is divided in wolfs and sheep. 99% sheep and 1% wolfs. Someone told me once that the art of living would consist to decide which one you want to be and then be it.
Now, I wonder how some people act one thing, but really are ashamed to be either sheep or wolf. It’s like picking your neighbours lunch in 3rd grade, but being to ashmed to tell the headmistress “Hey, I am a wolf… Wolfs do things like that every day…”
So, if someone is trying to doublecross you or someone close by but feels kind of ashamed of having done said doublecross, just tell them to get a grip and confess to being a wolf… because worse than being a sheep is a wolf in disguise of a sheep…
So much for the thoughts of the day…
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I actually do feel ashamed looking at the long time I have spent without writing anything. The sad trith is that I simply cannot find the time or even the leasure to have a nice sit-down to write anything interesting or even substantial. This goes for the Community, the Blog, my stories and the poems.
Work has been a real hassle and I am still no more closer to another paid job than I have been three months ago. So the plan is simply to push on as hard and fast as possible to get the PhD-thesis finished and then redecide on any future jobs and plans. Oxford is still an option, so is Rome. Who knows, maybe somewhere along the way something else might present itself…
… well, things have changed quite a bit since I have opened this blog while being in Paris. I am of course not talking about the French who are still protesting and immobilising a whole country,… nothing much changed there I must say. I am just glad I am not living at the Bastille anymore and don’t have to go anywhere near the Sorbonne for at least another month. But when I think back at the time I spent in that city and all the changes it has brought me, I feel quite confident that things will turn out right, either way.
And then there is a small thing to be really happy about: J. has asked me to marry him and… I have said YES. It does feel strange in a way. Me the solitary wolf that could never fit anywhere, fitting right beside someone else. But the happiness is – for once – all that counts. And apart from the work issue and the fact that we don’t know where we will live in a years time, or what work we will be doing: the happiness is absolutely complete and it, darn, it feels GOOD. 
To the folks reading this (especially Bart): I have tried to contact some of you and it seems harder to tell this on the phone, over skype than writing it here. On the other side, we don’t want to send out cards to announce our luck officially, since people will only think that we’re after some gifts. So I do hope you understand me putting this here. We haven’t got any date yet due to obvious reasons, but once we do, you all are first to know (after the family of course :*.
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