Jacob Christensen

Just a brief update to say that a I 1) am still alive, 2) doing better compared to February and March, but 3) still a far way from my normal level of energy. Recovering from stress is a long, slow process. Consequently, I do not expect to do any blogging on politics or political science or the like until after the summer.

In the meantime you may catch me on Twitter or Facebook which are still relatively undemanding formats.

PS: Comments are closed so that I don’t have to check and clean spam comments.

Regular readers will have noticed that postings have become more and more infrequent during the last months and that there have been no updates since February 18.

The reason is not that the blog is dead or abandoned but starting some time in the late autumn I have suffered from bouts of fatigue, a condition which worsened dramatically in February. The fatigue was due to stress and unfortunately I had to take sick leave at the beginning of March.

Obviously, my main priority right now is to get back to a situation where I can begin working again, sort out the reasons behind my condition in order to avoid repeats and consider my future.

Following Danish politics on a systematic basis and blogging about it is definitively at the bottom of my list of priorities at the moment and so the blog is on hiatus until further notice. I am still around on some less demanding formats (Twitter, Facebook) even if I prefer to avoid all too Political or PolSci discussions.

If you need to get in touch with me, you are welcome (see details on the relevant page) but please respect that I may take my time in answering and that I don’t take any requests for comments, etc. for the time being.

Moving offices is drawing ever closer.

I managed to run my head against things (or have my head run against things) both literally and figuratively. At least the physical wounds were superficial (but unpleasant)

Obviously, it is from Steven Paul “Steve” Jobs:

Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

Provided there are no technical hiccups, I will be live (and later available through a podcast) with Messrs Guan Yang and Steffen Christensen at 20:00 CEST at http://podcast.dk/live discussing the Danish election. The conversation will – AFAIK – be in Danish.

I’ve had the day from Hell with flooding in my cellar, so: Apologies but I’m not really up to something today.

Nothing happened.

No, really. Weird.

Obviously, three weeks is too long time for an election campaign. Well, maybe Debatten on DR2 will bring some welcome entertainment.

Weatherwise, this photo sums up the summer in Denmark pretty well.

The July weather is unimpressive (unless you are into deluges) but it makes for some pretty impressive sunsets.