Pff is all I can say. Vacation was definitely what I needed and I am still recuperating from my trip. My jetlag is still not gone, but I haven’t tried very hard either. There was no need, so I will have to put some effort into getting back into the swing of things again. Here’s what I’m up to in the next few weeks.

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(This is what I’ve been doing mostly these past few days)

Anywho, just a quick note to let you know that I will try my best to post something on a daily basis again as of today. I can’t promise anything yet though as I have quite a few things going on the next couple of weeks. I will try to write blogs in advance, but I’m not sure whether I’ll succeed so just a heads up on infrequent posts to come.

The main reason for this is because some major things are starting to happen. First of all, I will go to Pukkelpop, a music festival in Belgium. It will be my first festival and I’m super excited. But that does mean that I will be gone for 3 days and I highly doubt that I will want to write blogs while I’m there. I will make sure to write an elaborate blog post about it when I get back though.

Only 2 days after returning from Pukkelpop, I will get on a plane to Berlin. This time the trip is not leisure oriented though. I will be attending AND presenting at the 19th bi-annual Sociolinguistics Symposium. It is the most important conference on Sociolinguistics and my paper has been accepted. This is kind of a big deal for me, seeing that I hope to have a career in research one day and to just be accepted is an honor. I spoke to my supervisor/ co-author on Friday and he deems the presentation good enough, now the draft needs some tweaking and we’ll be good to go. I will be presenting my research on emoticons and superdiversity on a forum on Dutch social media site Hyves.

Again, I don’t think I’ll have much energy to blog while I’m in Berlin. The plan is to try and squeeze in a bit of shopping if possible and of course I will tell you all about my experiences afterwards. Following the Berlin trip I will attend my grandparents 60th wedding anniversary dinner and that’s also all around the same time I am starting my new job in Amsterdam. Once that gets going I’m sure I’ll be able to settle into a more of a routine, which will make it easier to blog regularly.

Right now I will just focus on taking it easy and not doing much of anything. Well except blogging that is. How is your summer coming along?