On holidays
This year was in many ways unique
and special. So the same stays true for my Christmas holidays. I usually end
my lab work on 20ish of December and plan to return to the lab no sooner than
New Year’s day.
Well, this
year I accumulated bunch of vacation days, that I had to completely use up
before the end of 2019, as I am moving to Vienna to work as a synthetic chemist
at BOKU. With this excitement of taking my skills and passion to Austria, I had
to quickly close the projects I was involved at the Institute of Microbiology,
Czech Academy of Sciences. Long-long hours, sleepovers at work, moving to
Bratislava, finalizing lab reports and paper to publish, passing my know-how to
my substitute, long-distance relationship with my wife and daughter. Uneasy,
but we made it and are alive!
Baking-my other synthetic passion
Well, some of the work did not terminate as I
left the work with bags of stuff my last day (Dec. 12th, 2019). I
continued to finalize our about-to-be submitted paper from home, but it was
rather a pleasure, as I got plenty of sleep and I could slowly move to my other
passion – baking! Making “medovníčky”, type of
gingerbread,brownies and “oblátky”, thin wafers spreading vanilla, cinnamon,
honey , chocolate smelling fumes can be certainly seen as a valuable
replacement of all the vapors found in a hood of organic chemist. Taking my
nephew Samko to play with fluorescent dies found in highlight markers was also
one of the things, I will remember.
Family matters
Over the Christmas, I spent very precious time
with my family. I value this, as I do not see them more than once in 6-8 weeks.
Certainly, this Christmas are never to be forgotten as we welcomed our baby-girl
Anetka to the world this fall. Our 3-month old was absolutely adorable and everyone
loved her presence. She was truly the best gift, we as parent could ask for
last Christmas.
Enjoy the rest of the year and see you in 2020!
It will surely be a great one.
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