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the Utrecht University library! I kicked myself today and went to the library to dig for literature for my thesis. Only three more months before the deadline, I need to set the theoretical framework in january. Yesterdays christmas dinner/party at work was great, after the obligatory speech from the director and handing out prizes for publications, we got to digg in on delicious Italian food and chat with our colleagues. This year, they hired a DJ and put a small dancefloor with colored lights in one of the rooms. Nothing fancy like John Travolta's dancefloor, but it did the trick. By nine o clock the floor was full with people having fun and dancing around! Joyce was there too and together we did fun stuff while dancing. She's also a dance fanatic, though more into ballet and modern dance. The traintride home took half an hour longer then ususal due to the snow, so we used it to talk. She might drop by tomorrow during our birthday party. We got our chirstmas present from HEC: a box with fair trade goodies. If you're visiting for our birthday tomorrow, you can enjoy water from a glass bottle made in brasil :) It's my birthday today but I don't feel like partying. First find and read some more literature, then go home and prepare for party tomorrow. We already did a lot of stuff this morning, getting groceries, an extra trip to the liquor store (the dutch word slijterij sounds way classy compared to liquor store) and cleaning and decluttering. We decided to give away books that we like but don't want to keep to friends so our bookcases remain uncluttered. Sort of, anyway. We put everything in a big box, let me know if you're interested in a particular style and I'll see if I have something you like. Lots of English books in there too. Swas, thought that you might like Twilight and other vampire novels. Hanging on to the sookie stackhouse novels, I want to reread those a couple of times the next year. Tonight we're going to make stuff: apple pie and several quiches. Jeoffrey is in charge of those, so I can clean the bathroom. I'm excited because the christmas holiday is finally here!
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Tomorrow is the end presentation of the 7th course: Europe and e-governemnt. We'll get graded depending on our presentation, then four more weeks for the next block and then six weeks free of university on friday!

Things seem to be moving along in my project too: we've determined a kick-off date and I tried to book a location. However, the location that the person from SZW wanted turned out to be too expensive (1600 euro). So I did a lot of searching around for other venues, while in the meantime trying to get through to her that booking a location within two weeks is hard. Ah well, we'll see about that on monday. Turns out the other options are between 1000-1200 euro, so in the end she might go with the more expensive one.

We're supposed to organise this 'together'with SZW. However, this is a core part of my project, so I'm doing a lot of the running around and planning things. It's highly annoying that the SZW people don't call back, or inform us way too late about a change of plans. Or simply don't tell their boss what's going on, so we have to repeat stuff over and over again. To me it seems like they like the idea of getting this thing started, and participating and acting is a minor thing you'll have to do to get it over with. Wondering what I was like when I worked for BZK. Did I act like that? Yes, a little bit with the organising of the workshops about creating forms. Then again, I was not judged on the content of the workshop, but on wether we could create a nice article around the workshop and tell the Staatsecretaris how we were doing.
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During our fieldtrip to Brussels, we visited the European Commission.I promis you that it isn't boring )
mekyria: (chandelier HEC)
As of tomorrow, I'll be working at HEC, writing a new concept for renewal of the part of the website about the traineeship.  Hopefully a new project will present itself in the next weeks, untill then I'll be doing stuff at HEC. Like gazing at the crystal chandeliers .Like writing important stuff.

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