Zompist Bboard Again

Update: after I told her I wanted to cancel the contract, she offered to immediately refund me all the money that I've sent no later than Tuesday. She also came up with the "omg somebody stole my pictures" excuse, but I half wanted to say "bitch, those were not pictures of an apartmen...

The "landlord" claims that she's going to explain everything tomorrow [...] [*]The pièce de la résistance: the photos she sent "of the place" weren't even of a residence in Europe , but they were of an apartment in Québec. I can't believe I didn't notice the American plugs in th...

The "landlord" claims that she's going to explain everything tomorrow, so I'll hold off on the police report until I hear from her, but, to be honest, when you break my trust like that (and in such a flagrant way), I'm not sure how much more I'm willing to trust you. I've signed the lease,...

Start date in Luxembourg got delayed to 15 August due to the slugs at the HR not getting me the documents I need to apply for the residence authorization! [insert snarling noises] That's messed up. [joins in the snarling] Don'tcha love HR? [forms a snarling chorus with those already snarling] I kno...

Start date in Luxembourg got delayed to 15 August due to the slugs at the HR not getting me the documents I need to apply for the residence authorization! [insert snarling noises]

Vent: I'm supposed to begin a new job in Luxembourg on 1 July. To do so, I need a document called an autorisation de séjour temporaire issued by Luxembourg, and this is needed to be able to obtain the final residence permit after arrival. Because I'm not (yet) an EU citizen, I have to have this auth...

1) I found a place to live in Luxembourg! However, my bank account is quite nicely draining with all the expenses I need to pay in advance... especially since I'm temporarily unemployed and living off savings, but at least I have plenty of them (and I should get my severance payment from the uni thi...

Rounin Ryuuji wrote: ↑Sat Apr 13, 2024 9:40 pm Today I've learnt what apostilling is.

It's a bit of a niche thing that doesn't often come up, indeed. At least I don't need to apostille the documents for my upcoming move to Luxembourg...

Ah yes, I've had a lot of fun experience with this. My favourite part was trying to get Cook County to stop sending my dead husband jury summons. I called the office and they were like, "You need to send us a death certificate." I was like, "I got the death certificates from you. If ...

Yay for Science!

I've been through two total solar eclipses (but naturally only remember one): Hawai'i in 1991 and Southern Germany in 1999. That said, with this one, a professor who came to visit from where I did my Master's mentioned that it was quite chaotic in Kent in terms of people coming in from out of town,...

I've been through two total solar eclipses (but naturally only remember one): Hawai'i in 1991 and Southern Germany in 1999. That said, with this one, a professor who came to visit from where I did my Master's mentioned that it was quite chaotic in Kent in terms of people coming in from out of town, ...

Perhaps an unsurprising thing that I finished up this week. https://images-wixmp-ed30a86b8c4ca887773594c2.wixmp.com/f/368fae4f-fdc7-4cbb-b7a4-709ac40d3198/dh296va-abc40db5-41df-4118-a7ee-e4b5e95b2ca2.png/v1/fill/w_1280,h_1297/ilia_2500_denar__2024_edition_by_requindesang_dh296va-fullview.png?token=e...

Last Master's student defended his thesis yesterday (with a very high mark: 9.5/10, which is very high by Dutch standards), and the paper that said student is a co-author on (along with two of my other M.Sc. students) also just got accepted! (Still a bit until it goes online.) Very happy with this o...

Small happy: back when I lived in France in 2011-12, there was a song I heard on the radio that kinda got stuck in my head, but I couldn't make out any of the words to it; only the melody line. I heard it again in 2016, but, same deal: couldn't make out the words, but remembered the melody. On a whi...

My last working day of my contact where I work now is tomorrow. I do enjoy working there, with mostly fun coworkers and lots of fun (and liquid crystally) Science happening... but, at the same time, I have my next adventure lined up starting from June/July which I'm very excited for.

Big news on my side: I’m going to Paris! Specifically, for the Université Paris-Saclay, where I’ve organised to do a research internship for four months. I may have mentioned this once or twice already, but now I have my visa and it looks like everything’s confirmed, which is nice. Of course, I’m m...

So, for some reason (today, of all days), the Google Chrome version I have decided to act up: images now are grainy and totally unusable. And it happened all of a sudden! Since I have an older Macbook, I can't update it to a newer version, nor can I repair the install. Okay, no worry: I have Safari!...

You haven't gotten a haircut in many years, and you weren't expecting your coworkers to say something about it? Do you work at the factory that makes autism? I was expecting some coworkers to comment, especially the ones I work with a lot. Not, as it turned out, practically everyone. Random: I rece...

Random: I recently got a haircut (my first in... a large number of years), and have been now getting a lot of comments about it from coworkers. Was not expecting that.