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Christmas Letter

Dearest friends,

O ne thing is always remarkable: how fast we get used to things and how they become part of our everyday life. In retrospect this year seemed rather dull and uneventful to me. But just a short reflection showed how many important changes it brought about. Yet again I am drowning in work, but it is the time of advent after all and maybe it does us good to pause for a moment this once in a year and think of our friends and what we achieved.
A t the beginning of last year, I sat in a cafe one of many times and read up on relevance theory and implicatures. The great trembling about my doctoral examination in February lay still ahead of me. Though the beautiful self-made doctoral cap my parents gave me made all the trouble worthwhile. And even if the joy about the conferred title has long faded since, I will admit that I still like to introduce myself as Dr. Lorenz to public authorities and difficult people.
T he men of my affection have become two. With Olaf I am still as happy as I could wish for. On our weekend trip to Paris the poor thing had to be ever so patient with me, because I wanted a French SIM card for my mobile and as you would expect with the French, the thing didn't work and everybody was very much at a loss. After we also survived our stay in a pensioner-filled sanatorium hotel at the Baltic Sea in late summer, we are now determined to move in together in spring, just to answer the old question 'Where are we tonight?' once and for all and to find a new home for my 386 DVDs.
With his one year and a half, I love him almost to the same degree, Konstantin, of whom I am now a godfather. In a minute I'll grab the little rascal and fulfil my official duty to buy him all the candy the Christmas market has to offer and which his parents wouldn't buy him in his lifetime.
W orkwise my life still resembles a lottery where every six months it is newly decided what I'll be working the following months. But I managed a great leap forwards, as this month I start work as a trainer for the agency Expert Executive. If you ever wondered who trains the big bosses of the Telecom, Siemens or other big companies, before they make public announcements, well, that would be them.
S o I have my first training just after Christmas in Kitzbühel and I take the advantage to celebrate the New Year in Austria and with my friend Clau in Innsbruck. Should you have plenty of wishes for me, please direct them to my Austrian mobile: +43 650 4124903.
I n this sense, I wish you a contemplative time of advent with many trips to the Christmas market, loads of free time from Father Christmas and a colourful bunch of fulfilling wishes for next year, when we will hopefully continue to be part of each other's lives.

Frank | @LRNZ.de - 020 3051 2666