Claire's stories

1 avril 2008

Are you feeling well?

Delft, rainy, not too cold Yesterday and today I stayed home to work. Yesterday I made an effort in going to University (my conscience dictated - stupid isn't it? I work more and faster at home but somehow I feel guilty not to go to work, and this guilt...

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30 mars 2008

Bruges-Brugge-Brügge

Forget bokmål and nynorsk, I have better: belgian language. Since a certain discussion during Easter, I was curious to know the correct spelling of this city we visited in Belgium. It seems that there are three official versions: Bruges (french -sorry...

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6 mars 2008

Land van Ooit

Delft, sunny, cold Always fancied to have your own "iron pink giant-table, diam. 250 cm, height 175 cm, total height 260 cm, incl. pan and chicken , with fundation, 1 iron pink giant-chair, height 247 cm, and 1 iron green giant-chair, height 240 cm" (cost:...

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2 mars 2008

La Bougie du Sapeur

Delft, sunny but windy (there was a storm the last two days) Two days ago was 29th of February, a date that occurs every 4 years. More precisely (I checked): years that can be divided by 4 and not 100 or years that can be divided by 400: 1900 had no 29th...

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25 février 2008

Shopping

I went shopping for milk, meat and washing liquid... and got out with my grocery shoppings AND a SMURF. Everyone who spend more than 15 EUR gets one at Albert Heijn. Nice. Just what I needed after a looong day of miserable calculations :-) Aha! Coincidence:...

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25 février 2008

From Space

Spaceship Commander: I don't understand how the tangential complex conductivity comes in the Clausius-Mossotti-type Shell model in the Appendix of Chapter 2 of your thesis? Crewmember: heuuu... we just identified with the analytical formula we derived...

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24 février 2008

Bruxelles

Yesterday was a day that started at 5:50, when my alarm clock told me it was time to begin Saturday. At 6:33 my train would leave from Delft to Rotterdam. From Rotterdam I would go straight to Brussels, and there have a breakfast with Cyril who would...

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16 février 2008

Talking to Earth

Delft, sunny but 5 degrees and wind There was a small documentary on the french news about the guys that are currently in the space station (ESA) somewhere far above our heads... The journalists were asking them questions about what they are supposed...

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11 février 2008

Working Sunday...

Delft, sun, nice weather Tonight it was nearly spring here! And guess what: I had to WORK. Spent all day making slides for my presentation on next week. Next week will be quite busy:Monday-Tuesday: conference where I present a poster Thursday: talk for...

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31 janvier 2008

Royal birthday!

Today is the Queen's birthday. She is 70 years old. In the streets, on the official buildings, the Dutch flags are out with wimpel. The wimpel is an orange ribbon that is only allowed on the flagpoles for royal (= special) occasions (birthday of the Queen...

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