after a short break

hello hello.
i'm back in bloggerland.
you may have thought i was on an exotic, internetfree holiday. or bed-ridden. or worse, just not interested anymore.
truth is, i was lazy. actually, i AM lazy. i also had an essay to write, on politics in the middle east. and due to some changes in my professional life (aka *career*) i revived my 7 year old laptop with windows me. that one took a while to get going with the novelty that is blogging.
but before my birthday and after that german film about the stasi (= east german secret police) by that very tall director with the very long name won an oscar, *hurra!*, i decided to come back.
did you miss me?