Expatriate, not Ex-Patriot. Adam in Berlin. elmada.com
Happily now that I’ve been working for just over a week, I actually have work to do—this makes me very happy. My first real work came last week and I decided to work on it over the weekend—specifically Sunday morning. And I had a cunning plan… Late last week I’d walked back to my current [...]
Today was the first day of work at my new job and it went as well as it might: I got a key to the door, got my office, met my boss, and discovered that although I was assigned a phone number, the phone on my desk did not, in fact, work. That was discovered [...]
It’s hard to explain but I am really feeling fragile right now. I think that I’m back to square one on my apartment search, plus I need to acquire a ton of paperwork, including my Schufa—the German equivalent of a credit report. To get that I need to get my Meldebescheinigung from some office somewhere [...]
It’s official: In the near future I will vacate my dream apartment in Weimar for new pastures in Berlin. I’ve been offered a job in Berlin and after a brief moment of consideration (three-tenths of a second), I’ve accepted. However in keeping with my policy of not discussing work on my blog, I will only [...]
Yeah, it’s what I expected: a lot has dropped onto my agenda this week and I’ve suddenly gone from the prospect of having nothing to do to being behind. All this in the course of two and a half days! This explains my silence. I’ve devoted about 9 hours over the last two days to [...]
Today was the first day back at the office for a number of colleagues who had resisted the lure of the office (unlike me), and so when I popped into an office where several of my colleagues were talking, I was greeted with an unusual question. “Adam, are you sick…” If the question had ended [...]
It’s always surprising to me how the little of things can sometimes throw me off. Take, for example, the Weimar Office. Now I know that I bitched earlier this year, threatening to find a new Weimar Office because the incumbent was having a bad patch. Ultimately I discovered that Weimar lacks decent competition—at least competition [...]
If I’ve been vacant from blogging and the holiday season there are two good reasons. First I opted to stay in Germany rather than travel to see my family this year. It’s less stressful and more relaxing to visit my family at other times of the year—like October when one doesn’t have to cram events [...]
Right now I’m working on 4 projects simultaneously: Massive Project is the one without an immediate deadline. It needs to be done before Christmas, but not all the components are yet in place. I have pieces that need attention, but there are three other things needing attention Annoying Project is one that should have been [...]
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