Well, I am now semi-officially a Uni Bremen alumni: my professor today leaked the information that my Masters Thesis has been graded a 2, which awards me with an overall final grade of 1.9 (on the usual German scale of 1 to 6, 1 being the best). While my inner perfectionist is complaining that I could've done better, my brain tells me to be happy with such a good result. To further my brain's opinion, I will shortly have a glass of champagne with one of my best friends.

Apart from that, my tutoring job is keeping me much better than my studies did most of the time. I am currently responsible for the teaching of 15 students (each one once a week, individually) so that usually, when I'm not at the private school actually tutoring, I'm at home - or more precisely at my desk - preparing materials for the following days.
While I am busy as hell, it's quite pleasant work, and oftentimes even fulfilling; sometimes it actually is possible to make a difference.

Unfortunately however, this busy schedule makes it impossible for me to do any requests I had planned. I am considering offering commissions as a kind of "last resort".
Also - though not directly related - I am considering switching over to OSX and finally abandoning (or rather selling) my Windows laptop. Though it is a rather trusty machine, Win's annoyances are starting to really get on my nerves; at the same time Vista gets the fan running at all times, forcing me to work in Linux quite alot (while still a better system than Windows by far, it is still not quite the optimum for me).

Anyway, enough of the useless rambling for now; it is time to finish my coffee.