I fly to Birmingham for a interview to do a post-doc with Kuhn and Osthus.  I have not been doing much extremal graph theory lately, having somehow transitioned to graph homomorphisms, but I could certainly stand to get

During a Sunday afternoon run I solve an open problem. I'm a genius. I get home and put on the coffee. I stand in the door frame basking in my cleverness. I notice a drop of

I get a offer for a one year post-doc at Sungkyunkwan University in Korea. The money isn't very good, but this is without teaching, so I could make it work. More importantly, it would make my

I submit a paper. In early versions, the paper had a figure in it that looked like a cow, but in the submitted version, we had to redraw the figure. Life isn't perfect - things don&

Professor Rodl, one of my PhD advisors, is in town for a week. So while most of the department is off at some cabin somewhere for a clinic on Ergodic Ramsey Theory, I stay in Prague. We both

I get in in the morning, and Mathias has usurped my desk. The rest of the day, whenever he says "Let n be an integer," I belligerently refuse, insisting that it is very clearly a letter.

I wait on platform 7 of Berlin Haustbahnoft, the central train station in Berlin. Mathias, for whom I am waiting, has already left, from Berlin Ostbahnoft, to the conference we were planning on going to. Deciding, after an