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Just got off the phone with my administrator at the German Science Foundation (DFG). It seems chances are very slim that my Emmy-Noether II grant will get funded. And that despite a science paper, two invited reviews and two more papers on the way. I also have a related grant application with the Human Frontiers Science Program (HFSP), a renowned international, highly prestigious organisation, that only funds about 4% of all applicants. If the DFG grant really fell through, and our HFSP grant would get funded, the DFG would have produced the embarrassing result, that they didn't want to fund research, that the much more restrictive and competitive HFSP funded. Another typical example of German Science on the decline?[ Read the rest ... ]
As if the move wasn't turbulent enough with the floods and tornadoes and all, now my truck wanted to go on fire!I had just signed the title over to my mechanic who bought it from me. He had paid me half the money and I had agreed to bring him the truck the next day for the other half of the money. A few minutes later, cruising along, I felt the putrid smell of burning plastic. I was just wondering which of the guys in front of me was driving with his handbrake on, when I noticed thick white smoke from behind me. I pulled over, opened the hood and thick, billowing smoke came out of the alternator.Seconds later, there were flames shooting out of the alternator! Luckily, I had pulled into a dealership (Chrysler Jeep on Kirby and 59) and they had a fire-extinguisher nearby. I extinguished the fire just in time: the only damage was to the alternator and one of the plugs going into it. I unplugged the other plug from the alternator and could drive the truck to my mechanic. Phew, what an adrenaline rush!
Now I'm at my parents' place in Würzburg and will continue to Berlin in a few days.
Finally, the container is loaded! After a weekend of packing, yesterday was the day to get all my stuff, including the Miata, into the container to be shipped to Germany. Of course, I had to have a horrible cold I brought with me from the Neuroscience conference in New Orleans all week. Of course it had to be the day that 13 tornados would touch down throughout the greater Houston area. Of course it would have to be the day with the worst flooding since "Allison" shut down most of the city in 2001. But miraculously, we somehow managed to get it all done. Check out the article I wrote about the move (many pics!).
Phew, the IRS issue is solved, everything went fine. I just got back from Neuroscience in New Orleans, it was a blast. Not only did I get to hear about new exciting research, the evenings were also rather entertaining. No wonder, on Bourbon street 
Now I need to get everything packed so I can load the container on Monday/Tuesday!
While it seems the problems with funding that arose because the DFG decided to postpone the decision about my Emmy-Noether phase II, are solvable, now the IRS forebodes trouble.At a visit to the local IRS office to get my "certificate of compliance" I was told I should've filed the form a lot earlier, plus with a whole bunch of useless paperwork. Sigh. Now I'll have to get all that done in no time at all and file it one week in advance, instead of 2 weeks. We'll see what they have to say about that...
Ok, I caved in and also started my own blog. Always thought my site was enough but after installing e107 on so many sites I finally figured I should install e107 on a subdomain and get my own blog started. So here it is. I'll try to post stuff as they happen, we'll see how this develops. It'll probably be a few months, before the whole thing goes online, anyway.For now it'll run the BlueSteel theme, until I can get myself to make my own theme
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