Oh, I've been way too busy to actually talk about what I'm doing. Last weekend, I visited a friend of mine who currently studies in Dublin. I went to high school with him for a year, and it was undoubtedly the best year I had at school. Although, if I remember correctly, I wasn't that good friends with him back then; that sort of developed a few years later. Yet, he's one of the few people I'm still in quite regular contact with from back then. He is also quite different to me, but that's really refreshing. Anyway, we talked about the good old times a bit (a bit too much for my taste ;). I cannot believe that it has been almost 10 years that I had long hair and was young! Oh my, what happened to me!?! My friend still uses the nick name for me which they gave me back then — "Jason" (don't ask). My friend is in Dublin for a year as an exchange student and from the impression I gained during the 2 days he has a good time there; he mostly hangs around with German people, though, so I'm not sure if his English will improve too much.
During the week I was busy as usual. I'm trying to respond to all the mail I have, and I actually responded to all the mail in my inbox, and only two mails are left in the NM Front Desk and DPL folders. Also, by convincing some AMs that they can handle another applicant, I have been able to reduce the queue significantly. It has been too long for months now, largely because people advocate applicants who are not ready yet (have no package in the archive, haven't contributed anything yet, etc).