Autumn

Three weeks back in Brissie'world. What happened so far? Don't blame me for no supply of any pics and interesting stories. Nothing exciting here! I just try to settle down. There still almost 3 years to come. :)
First maybe, I am back in my world of Perl, Proteins and Linux! Got my own DELL machine last weekend. I am not a big friend of RedHat, but I will try to fight. That's what my shaggy-hair-friends from Freising taught me! ;) I found the way back into the data I left in January, and I even think I understand them again. But now it is important to find the big question I want to answer during my PhD, or maybe I look for a lot of small ones. I am not sure yet. Conclusion is: reading papers! It is still exciting, but don't ask me after six months! The administration way is a miracle here. It works, it just takes its time. I am finally enrolled since yesterday and I got my student ID card. This is quite important here, because travelling becomes now cheap for me, half of the normal prices!!! Yeapeahhhh! I have to travel, because I am not living just around the corner of the office anymore. I actually take the bus every morning. This reminds me of the good old days in Cambridge. The earliest bus I can take is at 6:33am, so I arrive at the office around 7:20am. It is quite late for me. If you want to suggest to buy a bike, I am sure you haven't seen this region here before. The streets are fine and drivable, but it is extremely hilly here. I can give an example to (Ex)-Weihenstephaner: You remember the path from the BIZ to the Loewentorgebaeude? This I would have at least 10 times on my way to the IMB. I am not sure, if I really want this. I'll keep you up-to-date which way I will choose. I should mention that the bus station is just 50m from my house!
Yep, my house. Since more than one week I am living with three other crazy people in a nice Queenslander house in Chapel Hill. Chapel Hill is a quiet suburb of West-Brisbane. When I say quiet, I mean quiet, except Hannibal, our Possum! :) I overtook one room from Markus (from Tirol), a Postdoc at UQ. I live now together with Ben, an original Brissie studying International Relationship, Anja, funny Austrian girl, just finishing her PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience at the Brain Institute ( I hope that's right!) and Markus (or Mucki) from Austria, second year PhD student here at the IMB. You might have noticed that I am learning two languages now, easy-going English with an australian accent and hardcore Austrian. :)
My room is still a bit empty, but I found an IKEA catalogue, so there must be an IKEA here. I am quite happy with the house, with the room and with the housemates! We have a huge veranda at the back side of the house. So almost every evening we sit outside with our wooly jumpers and covers, some glasses of whine and some menthol cigarettes. We have nice discussions about any issue you can imagine. That's fun! I really like it!

Anyway, why did I call it Autumn? Yep, we have autumn here, that means 12 degrees in the morning and only 26 over the day. So quite chilly in the evening! To be honest, I am bored to go on writing here without any pics and real action. I don't have proper internet at home yet (and I am still alive, hihi). But we are heavily working on it.

Hey guys, I keep you definitely up-to-date! Take care and hope to hear from you soon!

Jo