Christmas letter

Dear friends,

This year it is a miracle that you receive a letter from me for Christmas at all and it can solely be explained with my inveterate believe that I can still accomplish everything someway somehow. In fact, I am overloaded with work at the time, which becomes apparent when you look at the stats: I teach five different courses at a total of 26 hours a week, all of which are new for me. In all, I have 234 participants in 10 seminars, introductions and lectures plus some students at a school, who attend more or less regularly.

So this year ends just as stressful as it started. Well, at the very beginning there was a glorious New Year's party with partly hysteric incidents. Drunk out of my head at this occasion, I also burnt my hand with onion soup and it was only with greatest courage and body control that I was able to fry a breakfast for my guests the next day. Otherwise my employment would end two months later, I was still working on my doctoral thesis, which seemed to make less sense by the day, and on the whole many things went considerably wrong.

But still I managed to say farewell to Jena and Thuringia after nine years of living there and fulfilled myself a small dream by moving to Leipzig. I recall with horror the renovation work in my new flat and I'm sure the eager helpers are still grinning about how clumsy a single person, namely me, can be when it comes to handiwork. I myself still wonder how we managed to paint three rooms, kitchen and bath in two days and all doors within one.

Spring and summer were very enjoyable with some visits to the zoo around the corner and the cosmopolitan flair of the world cup, although the start of my business was progressing rather slowly. And sure, still not everything is how it should be yet, but I can say with good conscience that I got to where I want to be with my life, even though it is only a start again.

Another important start here in Leipzig was my boyfriend Olaf, even if it does not feel like a start at all, but like something that has always been and could never be different. I for my part know that I am happy and I think that is quite a big word.

In this sense, I wish you all a quiet Merry Christmas and I thank especially you again that you were by my side this year.

To a happy new one!

Frank ... fr@nkieboy.de