experimenting

Haha just as easily as it is being annouced that you are going to do an experiment, it is cancelled again :) There is no more time, because Francesco and Fabrizio have to go to Stella Maris (the other fMRI institute) and then Adriana and Fabrizio have to take a train back to Napoli again, so Francesco just annouced that we are going to discuss my experiment by phone.. I am kind of relieved though, because this gives us a little more time to make a good set-up.. Besides, we don't even have stimuli yet, so what were we going to do?? I do wonder whether I should have discussed something with someone this morning, or should have been here earlier (than 9.30).. I guess I am not really used yet to the way things go around here and what is expected of me. Not so strange after two weeks :D So I am just going to think a bit more about the design of the experiment then.. And there is lot's of reading to do..
I couldn't help but thinking this morning (when I was wondering why I felt so terrible yesterday) that I absolutely love my work, but that it is not the most important thing for me. It doesn't make me happy (ofcourse it does make me happy also, especcially when things are going well, but it cannot be the only thing..). I will just have to work like crazy and look forward to the times I will spend in Maastricht, or the times my friends will spend here :) Although that is not really a way to live hehe.. I had to think of Fabrizio yesterday that he heard about my little goodbye "party" ( I wonder from whom.. :P) and that things here are not like that.. Doctors don't have time to hang around and eat pie.. Haha Marieke, I am not at an research-institute, but maybe a hospital is even worse! But I will get used to everything I guess and make the best of it.. But for now I am still looking a bit forward to my time back in Maastricht :P
Did everyone survive/enjoy the carnaval? And do they also celebrate some carnaval up in the north? (either Groningen or England :P)