My Mom and Dad and I go to Zurich for a couple of days. We go by train with a bag-full of sandwiches. For the four hour trip I work on a paper. For the first two hours,

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I take my parents Vysehrad. Vysehrad is the 'other castle' in Prague. In it there is a very nice Cathedral in the neo-gothic style, rebuilt mostly around the late 19th century. This is nice, because it

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My Mom and Dad come to visit.   With all the visitors I am having, I haven't been in the office much, and am falling behind in the coffee race. Worse than that, Tobias Muller is drinking

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Rich, Jayda and I go out to eat while Mal and Brad stay at the Hotel with Jack. Rich and I are standing on the street while Jayda is looking at the menu in the window of a

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Richard, Jayda and Jack, as well as Jayda's sister Mal, and her boyfriend Chris (or Peter or Brad or something) come to visit. Jack is the only one that I invited, but he brought the others

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I go hiking south of Prague with Dirk, Attila, Mandi, and David. We walk for two hours, have lunch at a small village restaurant run by Michal Karonski, and then walk for another two hours. Attila is whining

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This month, the coffee in the office has changed from putting five crowns in a cup every time you have a coffee, to putting a tick by you name on a list stuck on a wall beside the

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Keevash gets the Birmingham post-doc. I get a NSERC post-doc fellowship.  It easily beats the Korean one, but how do I convince Eunjoo of this? I will spend 2 years at SFU. Turns out that Eunjoo expected this,

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