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Hello dear friends,

Finally I remember to update the blog. It has been a while. How are you all doing? Well well there is a lot of things that have happened since the last time I wrote here, so I am just going to make a brief summary of the summer...

I have done quite a lot during the summer and have had visitors here from previous supervisors, friends, friends supervisors and even had the chance to get to know new friends. I have also visited NYC twice which really was a blast. The car is still running super and I just love her, but she is kind of high in maintenance. I have also had the chance to go to the mountains for hiking and to watch the wonderful fall Foliage here in New England. It has been a great summer with plenty of fun but also a lot of work. I am trying to work as hard as I can since I start to fell the pressure for results now. Things haven´t been going as I would like at work but well that is a part of it too I guess. I am still learning a lot.

At the moment I am just working and working and looking forward to some home for christmas. I so need a vacation now and are logning to see all of you at home. But before that it will be a tough time with plenty of work. The worst thing is that I need to start thinking about what to do when I will move back home to Sweden and start applying for jobs next year.

Ok that is if for know since i need to take care of my cells and I hope that you are all doing great..wherever you are.

Many hugs
Dr. Do

The Real thing!!!!!

Finally the real thing!!! I picked the car up on saturday morning and it was soooo exciting. She is sooo beautiful and drives wonderful. As many beauties, the car is pretty complicated, it will take some time to get use to all the features and the functions but this time I really will gladly learn :). Soooo nice to finally have a companion :). Now I can tick one square off on things I need to do here in US before returning back home.

I just realize that with this, I probably need to cut down on a lot of other things, as a matter of fact I just finished off makign lunch for tomorrow.

Anyway, I also met up with Marion, my previous supervisor and Jin-Ping, another senior scientist in my previous lab in Uppsala. I had a great time showing them Boston this weekend before the headed off to the Gordon Conference today, always fun seing familiar faces again. Tomorrow Jens Forsberg will arrive and it will be a blast hanging out.

Ok thats it for now...just to let you know..I am soo happy...poor now but happy!!! :)
Hugs
AT

Ok, enough with the slacking....time for some news..

I am sorry that I have been so bad in updating the blog this year. It has so far not been the best year ever but hopefully the second half of the year will be better than the first, but well at least it is getting lot better.

So far this year I have not been to active, been sick a lot and had some injuries. Been bothered by a bad shoulder and later injured both wrist, stopping me from doing a lot of exercise for 2 month. Once that was passed I had the the worst pollen allergy I have ever had making me double dose allergy pills and knocked me out for another 2 month. Once it got over I of corse cot sick for another 2 weeks!! But at the moment I am feeling great, since the last 2 weeks at least so it feels good. However wok is slow again and and I hope that will pick up as well!!!

So some news then, well I have finally pulled my self together to go back to the dance classes after a long time absence, a bit rusty but it has been so much fun attending the Merenge and the Bachata work shops the past 2 weeks. I almost forgot how much fun it was and last week I even met a cute psycologist from Madrid that thought we should have a coffee. But of course everytime I get surprised..I forgot to ask for her phone number or e-mail or whatever...we will see if I will meet her again.

Another big news it that I have finally start doing car shopping and well at the moment it seems like it will be the car I show a picture of above...we will see how it will go, I hope so since it is a wonderful car .)

Ok that is it for now and I will get back soon with some more news.

Hugs !!!
Dr. Do

March and a Little bit of the Big Apple...

..and I still wonder where spring is?????? We are now in the middle of march and the temperatur here in Boston is around 5 degrees centigrade....sucks!!!! I think I am getting a bit tired of winder and darkness now...I don´t really mean to complain but I am just sooooo ready for sunshine and a little bit of warmth.

Anyway...life in Boston is moving along as it should be I guess. Finally my experiments are on the go, although I do not have any results yet it feels like things are going. Well alot of focusing on work at the moment...feels kind of nice to be a bit back on track like the old times when it comes to work.

Privately I am not to happy with my self at the moment. During the past month I a have just felt so tired, heavy and not physically well. I have had a bad shoulder and left wrist for why I don´t know and also last week I injured my right wrist. I have also been slacking with the exercise lately....as you hear things hasn´t been as they should..why am I falling apart? am I really getting old? Well well..I just have to rest I guess and try to start to working out the legs and finally maybe I can get myself together to start running...

Enough with the negative things.....the past weekend I was great...spent it in NY as a boytoy ;) ...It was a great weekend with a lot for fun and nice company. Also spring seems to definately have reached NY. Saturday was just wonderful so we spent it by walking around in different areas of the NY...we saw Time Square, Brooklyn Bridge, ground zero and best of all shopping in SOHO...just such a cool and nice area that I definitely have to go back to soon. Except for all that we also had some wonderful Dim sum and ten some fanstastic mexican food in the evening.....what can I say..spring, nice things to lay eyes on and good food....all I need...and also hehehe what can go worn when sharing room with 2 fiery italian belle? ;) A very memorable evening I must say.........Sunday started late with a good brunch, a afternoon in MoMA, most recommended..very cool....and then Tiffany´s..I learned something about girls and jewelries I must say :).

Anyway a nice weekend followed by a tough week..totally exhausted but probably will have to work the whole weekend still...

So dear friends....I have not heard something form most of you for a while now...WHERE ARE YOU?????

I hope you are all fine anyway and take care.
Big Hug
AT

A great february so far...

...with a short visit from my brother last weekend to start with and a wonderful and fun ski trip this past weekend.

I was very glad that my brother manage to take the time to come by on his way to NYC. It is kind of strange that eventhough it was so short it felt really nice to see him....I do not remember to be that happy seing him normally hehhe. During the short time he was here we manage to eat vietnamese food, dim sum, "fika" with cannoli and tiramisu in the North end and enjoyed a wonderful american gourmet restaurant, had tea at the Tealuxe teahouse, sight seeing in North end, Harvard square boston downtown, Newbury street, Boston public and common..and what was mostly surprising shopping!!!!! I mean regarding me it wouldn´t be surprising, but for Paul? well well he had a blast doing that and went crazy..everything was so cheap apparently and he manage to by 2 blazers, 2 jeans, 2 shirts and 2 pair of shoes!!! and he still had more things he really stopped himself to buy. It was fun!!!! It was also very nice that Anh, my sis could come and join us exploring Boston..evehtough she missed our on the shopping :) which she regret hehehe...I guess the shopping thing might be in our genes after all... But whats up with the dating for dummies boom you gave me bro...are you trying to tell me something?

So to this weekend then what can I say...just great!! I think I never enjoyed skiing as much as I did this time..i think that is because I really improved a lot this time..for some reason..and it actually started to feel relaxing on the skiis!!!!...not worrried about falling at all!! The snow was also great to ski on..not as powdery as it was in Banff but still very nice....just a fun and enjoyable active weekend with nice people!!! A whole new world also opened up to us on the trip when going through the book my dear brother gave me....

Ok...again I will try to be better in updating the blog...so please let me know that you are reading it too...I do miss all of you friends out there a lot and cannot wait to see any of you as soon as possible!!!

Lots of love
Anh-Tri

Home with fever...

..i guess this is the time of year when this happen. I have been fairly healthy and free from flu since the thing I got when I first got here almost a year ago so I shouldn´t complain to much. I got the fever yesterday, not to bad but that might explain why I have felt so uncomfortable and tired the past weeks.

Well I hope that I will be fine soon, have two presentation coming up on the first week of Feb so i better get on my feet again as soon as possible. Except for that I am doing fine here in Boston. I am totally focused on work now to get some results. But I guess that work doesn´t really make so much excitement that I can write it here.

So some of the new year resolutions then....I will be better in updating this page...be a better person than I was last year...get in normal shape again...is that enought?

Ok time to rest again.

Lots of love
AT