And I did it again… Precisely what I wanted to avoid when I created this came back at me like a dreadful boomerang. I did take to time to walk to the top of the hill because I wanted to climb a mountain.

In case my metaphor isn’t very explicit (it probably isn’t actually), I, once again, had in mind a major update and stopped updating my blog because I planned to update everything all at once. Of course, I couldn’t find the time to make my fantastic ground breaking update ‘de la morte’ and my blog remained dead for several month… I guess I suck but I’ll try to quit this nasty habit in 2009.

I also have to say that it touched me to get some comments about my blog not being updated. It means that some people really read it so I really should take a better care of it! So, I think the first thing I should do now is to give you the latest news about my situation in Utrecht because… well, some important things are going on actually.

First, I’m nearing the end of my Ph-D and things seems to go quite ok although I have a few busy month ahead obviously. I could use this as an excuse for not updating my website but I’ll save it for later. ^^

Secondly, I finally decided what I will do next! I took a long time to weight all the options because I’m fully aware that I was fortunate to be in a position to actually chose my next job among several very interesting positions. I guess it’s ok to be lucky as long as you don’t act like it’s matter of a fact due. After seriously considering a jump into the private world, I decided to remain among my academic peers for now. I don’t want to say to much right now because nothing is signed but my future appears to be in Utrecht for for 3 more years and I will work with someone I already worked with before. I think this should give enough information for those who can to read in between the lines.

Now, the plan for 2009, as far as I’m concerned is to finish my thesis as fast as I can (say, before May), spend one month of well deserved holidays in Brittany with my friends and family and, in June, start my new job! What about the defense then? Well, I guess it will have to wait until September but I swear that it will be a hell of a party you don’t want to miss!

I’ll tell you more later… seriously, I will!

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