It was snowing here last week. The days are getting shorter and darker. There seems less time in each day than the one before.

Last week, on Friday we went to visit Thomas at Bagsværd Sø. The students put a lot of work in to making sure that their prototypes all worked and could be tested with Thomas and the rowers. After an intensive week like that, the tendency is sometimes to relax and recover a bit. I hope the students don’t do this, because next week is the final week for the course and there simply isn’t time to rest right now. What I need to help them do this week is very quickly transform their experiences and feedback from the visit into an improvement on their design that they can implement in time for next week’s exhibition and exam.

Now that User Experience Design is (like the year) drawing to a close, other projects are rumbling and grumbling back to life. The edited volume with Wendy needs to be given an initial shape, and the Delphi survey with Trine and Carsten (and soon Tamim) requires a push through to completion. And somewhere deep down (growling, howling) is the thesis. It needs to be brought back to an everyday-work-routine.