I have been silent for quite a long time, I know..
I was at a conference in Italy, than I had three days of vacation in Rome (pictures coming as soon as I can)..now I am trying to re-connect myself with Munich life after almost two months far from my desk. Hard job, trust me!

There is a strange atmosphere – air of autumn, I’d say. Not only because in the last few days it was rainy and cold. It’s something about changes, movements…You know the feeling you used to have the last days of summer during high-school, when is still hot but the air is saying cold is not far, the wind blows away holiday mood, the light gets somehow metallic reflections. And maybe is because autumn overlaps with the beginning of academic years and because I am still young enough to have not forget yet, that I associate autumn with end and birth, with changes.
Or maybe is just because nature changes, so it’s easy and not even original to have this mood.

But the point is: cm’on Silvia, is not even August, how could you have such this feelings!
I have been around in the last weeks,  disconnecting from Munich. I came back and saw the firs new faces here at the institute. That means that a new year is going to start, new students will arrive, old friend will leave, far away.
I am moving in few days, that means leaving the usual way and find a new one.
These are just a job and a life which are always changing, around you. You’ll change leaves, colors, always hoping everything’ll get better. Always searching for the warmer autumn you’d ever had, the whiter snow ever, the sparkling spring..and start again.

Is this gloominess or a shy smirk?
Are we all really looking forward for an ever-ending summer?