I finally found a non postdoc job!

I’m 59.

Freiburg not moving? Awesome, we’ll have so much more room for activities.

Karl gefällt dass.

That’s “Ze Gewehr” thankyouverymuch.

I live in an area with “good” roofs so we get a lot of breeding sparrows. It’s a great area for birbs in general, I get storks, buzzards and kites flying past my window. And I get yelled at by a black redstart when I park my car.

Cheep cheep, motherfuckers.

I used to take a life drawing class and we had one model who was this shape and I loved drawing him.

Especially when you’re removing the names of women who actually achieved something.

Fun fact: many shelters in Germany won’t allow you to adopt a cat if it can’t go outside freely.

So I don’t have a cat. Do I worry about extinct birds or anything like that? No. Cats are native in Europe and I have shit tons of birds of prey (and storks) around here that catch way more birbs than the local cats do.

But I’ve had cats for years, and they’ve been poisoned (rat and antifreeze), hit by cars, hit by trains, and even shot by farmers. I kept my last cat inside.

My apartment and balcony are big enough. I’m looking at rescuing a couple of cats in Bulgaria because those rescue organisations insist you keep the cats inside. Sorry, German kitties.