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Last day of our short stay in Rome today.Nice sunny morning, not too hot…23° at 9am.
Going to my favourite Chinese street food place for lunch today.Its a tiny hole in the wall that does great rou jia mo.
There is actually some pretty good non-Roman food around in this city these days, very different to what it was like even 10 years ago.
[Two tomatoes merged into a 💚](https://imgur.com/Mf4qC5W) it’s adorable. Let’s see if I can bring myself to eat this (I will).
I got a grant for a research stay at another institute next year, for 2,5 months. It was a bit of back-and-forth, but now it looks like the deal is sealed! I am very much looking forward to it. The colleague whose lab I will visit is one that I like a lot, and I am sure it’ll be fun. It will also be interesting to be (partly) supervised again 🤣😅 but I am kind of looking forward to it as well.
There’s a long weekend or two coming up in October. I am considering going somewhere (like the Elbe Sandstone Mountains for hiking), but that time of the year the weather is always a gamble. I guess since we would go by car, we can decide on shorter notice.
I found some old videos of US government scientists testing VX nerve agents on rabbits. It’s fascinating how the antidote could bring back to life a half dead creature that couldn’t even stand anymore due to the tensing of its muscles.
Last weekend we had 30°C+ and blue skies, right now it’s 12°C and heavy rain – but not as heavy as is expected for Austria, Czechia and surrounding regions: I heard something about 200-500 l/m² over a couple of days? Geez.
They’re eating the dogs, they’re eating the cats.They’re eating the…pets.
Be careful all you American pet owners…