Ok, the phone call was difficult the second time, but I got through it and it was all good. :-)

Meanwhile, I've been a bit busier at work, trying to prepare some big presentation till the end of November and working on tutorials 2 days per week... so far, my students are kind of nice.

Oh, and I've turned into an independent music artist... check out my songs here:
http://www.last.fm/music/Not+A+Number/Jigsaw+Music

The first one is a very experimental guitar piece influenced by "drone" music. The rest is kind of synth pop / techno / electronic music. I really like the songs myself, I listen to them on my mp3 player walking around. It's a nice feeling having produced something like that myself that I can take with me. It's somehow far more satisfying than most other things I do...