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RCC Calendar Oct – Dec 2022

December 30, 2022 by Steve Mentz

Sat 10/1 Arr Mun. S8 > Leuctering > S6 Grafing Bahnhof

Picked up by Moremi & Tina in Noe (red EV)

Sun 10/2 Harvest Market at Herrmannsdorf

Mon 10/3 Oktoberfest last day (with Nye)

Tues 10/4 Christof at Landhaus

Th 10/6 Noosphere conference; first day at RCC

Lunch Katie Ritson

Beers with Nye, Jonathan Palambad, & the Russians

Fri 10/7 Trip to Zugspitze

W 10/12 trip to Poitiers (4:30 am cab > flight to CDG > TGV to Poitiers

Stay in hotel near station 

Th 10/14 Poitiers Conference

Fri 10/14 Poitiers Conference

Sat 10/15 Return to Farm

Th 10/20 Symptomatic. Negative test

Fri 10/20 Feeling better

Sat 10/21 Positive test!

10/21-29 Covid isolation in Bavaria!

Sat 10/29 Fly to Paris; stay in airport hotel

Sun 10/30 Chateau d’Ige

Mon 10/31 Arles

Tues 11/1 Arles

Wed 11/2 Gemenos

Th 11/3 Gemenos – hiking in Calanques + gran menu

Fri 11/4 Gemenos

Sat 11/5 Nice

Sun 11/6 Fly to Munich

Mon 11/7-Th 11/10 Hotel am Markt

Fri 11/11 Train to Venice

Sat – Sun Venice

Mon 11/15 Train to Munich

Tues 11/16 ACS back to USA; SRM back to farm

Th 11/17 RCC Talk (Munich)

Fri 11/18 Lunch with David A. (Munich)

[4 days on farm]

T 11/22 10 am Uwe’s Seminar LMU

stay Novotel Munich airport

W 11/23 Fly Lisbon 6 am; bus to Peniche

Th 11/23 9:45 – 10:45: A Poetics of Planetary Water: Expanding the Blue Humanities

Su 11/27 Return to MUC, arr 23:10

[week on farm]

Finish Blue Humanities book (Mon – Th) 

T 11/29 Christian Schulz 4:30

USA beats Iran 1-0, advances to round of 16

Wed 11/30 Argentina beats Poland 2-0 (Poland advances bc Mexico beats SA by only 1)

Blue Humanities book submitted noon

Th 12/1 Aaron (me introduce)

Germany v Costa Rica (Germany wins 4-2 but is eliminated bc Japan beats Spain)

F 12/2 Poetry event with PhD students at Landhaus

Sat 12/3 Xmas market at Herrmansdorf

stay Novotel Munich airport – no US match on TV! US loses 3-1 to Netherlands

Sun 12/4 Fly Stavanger 7 am Lufthansa

Wed 12/7 Return STA 12:52; MUC 5:10; train / bus to farm

Th 12/8 Nye talk; Katie talk; gluhwein in the kitchen

[4 days on farm]

Fri 12/9 Football! CRO over BRA 1-1 > penalties; ARG over NED  2-2 > penalties

Sat 12/10. Football! FRA 2-1 over ENG (MOR over POR 1-0)

Sun 12/11 Landhaus dinner – only  dinner with everyone there! (I made salad but no one believed it was me)

Mon 12/12 7:27 bus from Westendorf -> 9:18 train to Bremen 

7:27 440 > Grafing Bahnhof 7:44 > RB 54 7:42 > Hauptbahnhof 8:15

14:45 Bremen (But DB dropped me at Hannover at 1500, and I had to wait an hour for a local train to Bremen!)

T 12/13 Talk at Bremen

ARG v CRO 3-0

Wed 12/14 9:15 Bremen > Munich 2:41 pm (back to farm for dinner)

FRA v MOR 2-0

Th 12/15 Tina  talk; RCC Xmas part 5 pm (stayd until 6:30 – really the best part of the RCC, Christof as Santa giving presents to the kids; huge crowd for dinner; no room for the Landhaus though Christof did press 50 Euros on me that I did not use for a cab)

F 12/16 Hotel am Markt overnight

S 12/17 7:34 am train to Venice; arr 2:44 – or actually 2:30 at Venice Mastre, not Santa Lucia – took the local to get there (but only a 5 min wait)

Su 12/18 Argentina over France 3-3 in penalties (4-2)

T 12/20 train back to Munich 8:26, catch 8:43 BRB -> 9:10 bus at Grafing

Train on time until Rosenheim – 20 min delay – caught the S6 at Munchen Ost

Ride from Moremi in Mercedes- I would have caught the 9:10 bus even though I arrived at 9:13, bc the bus was late (but I was happy to have a ride)

[Wed on the farm] Venice blog post, walk early morning to Blue Blaumen & Ark

Noon lunch solo at Wirsthaus

2:30 last coffee with Moremi

3 – 5:30 last walk to Steinsee (pretty dark by the time I got back!)

7 pm last Landhaus dinner – with Aaron, Tamara & Tudor, Mona

Th 12/22 Flight home at 11 am 

7 am taxi – arrived early at 6:53! (I was already waiting outside)

Flight delayed on the ground in Munich ~3 hours; navigation system error

We took off at 2 pm, but had to land in JFK bc pilots were out of time

Could not leave plane bc of customs; sat in JFK for 90 min; flew to ATL

Just barely got the last flight out of ATL to BDL – arrived 12:30 am on 12/23!

Members of the Fall ‘22 Landhaus crew

Top floor: me, Tina Gerhardt, Faisel Mohammed, Nye Merrill-Glover (4)

2nd floor: Akin O., Tamara Fernando, Nandita, Mona Bleiling, Aaron Katzman (5)

Ground floor Moremi Zell (1)

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