It won’t surprise most of you, but my life these days is an extremely precarious balance between: trying to finish my dissertation by mid-winter, getting ready for two upcoming conference presentations, preparing to give up the Bremen apartment and live full-time in Berlin, getting myself in PR-shape for 5K and 10K races in the early fall, …
This past weekend, I attended my first ever blog conference — The Hive at the betahaus in Berlin. I’ve been thinking a lot lately about why I blog, what my goals are for No Apathy Allowed, and how much free time I want to devote to it. And the Hive turned out to be the …
Thanks to Pfingsten (Pentecost) on Monday, it’s a long weekend in these parts, but I’m working anyway. Because in the next handful of days, I have: two big work deadlines, a doctor’s appointment to try to get rid of this knee pain that’s ground my half marathon training to a halt, and a funeral to …
Yes, I’m officially behind the times in posting this, but whatever. I remember the old days, back when I bookmarked all the blogs I loved and would click through all of them each day to see if there were any new posts. Tedious, but there wasn’t any other way! Once Google Reader came along, …