Virelai @Virelai@octodon.social

I'm late to the #introductions, but here it goes. I'm 30, she/her, from #Germany. I work as a environmental scientist at a university, pursuing a PhD degree. I need some #python #programming skills to do that.
I'm fairly into #crafts, especially #fiberarts like #knitting and #sewing.
I enjoy #boardgames a lot, I also started playing #shadowrun about a year ago.
#games like #citiesskylines or #civilization5 have quite a few hours on my steam account.
Plus: Trying to improve my #french ;)

This is me, yesterday, with the balloon my favorite ex-colleague gave me for my 30st birthday. I turned 31 today and that balloon is still alive?? Almost seems like it has more air than a year ago!

Does it suprise you that no other colleague organized something for the PhD hat we need to have finished on friday, no? Saaaame. It's me again....

My Birthday is here!! Just if you like, I don't know, need a reason to celebrate or something! Cheers!

There is a cake in the oven! For my birthday!! <3 The boyfriend has put it there!

Hey everyone, does it make a difference from which instance I'm starting a hashtag #search and why? #mastodon #meta

I was annoyed with my boss that he wanted to send the finished presentation to all people involved daaaays before the talk but it's good now, I'll have a less stressful week AND a less stressful birthday (tomorrow!!) and I can focus the time I have to focus on what & how I'll explain

First I was super relieved to have this presentation off my back yesterday and I was quite satisfied with what I came up with. Come night I was terrified that my boss, who I couldn't really talk to about my results before now would find it unacceptable and he got back to me hours later than I expected fueling my fears but he told me twice now that it's good! Phew.

Ha, why am I so bad at googling suddenly? I was pretty sure my current audiobook mentioned an existing autobiography of one of the female ENIAC programmers and I googled twice without finding something but third time is a charm! "Pioneer Programmer: Jean Jennings Bartik and the Computer that Changed the World" - that's it! Thought of nominating it for #nfbookclub but the copies are pretty expensive :( Anyway I am pretty fascinated by this at the moment!

#nfbookclub
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou) [Memoir]
- A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea: One Refugee's Incredible Story of Love, Loss, and Survival (Melissa Fleming ) [Syria, Migration]

Sunday, 6 pm - I finished my presentation for Thursday (that my boss wants finished tomorrow...) - let's get this weekend started then!

I should have this printed out and handy at all times.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BRZeTiljM-T

These are only called "violinplots" because vulvaplot or labiaplot wasn't appropriate enough, right?

Maybe those things are different depending on where you grow up in Germany as well. I know some schools have a class for muslim students now too. But looking back it just struck me how normal those things are, while it's also normal that most of Germany's population doesn't go to churches at all (~55% are christian though)
Since religion is a big part of this crazy world, I think learning about it does make sense, but I would prefer one single class for everyone, regardless of religion.

We never prayed together or anything like that, rather discussed different parts of the bible together.

What I find odd in retrospect now is that in my village at least, we had a first day of school service. Everyone walked from the school to the church, other kids made a play for us and we had a little kid friendly service.
On Ash Wednesday, catholic kids went to the service accompanied by teachers. When we graduated, there was also a non-mandatory service to celebrate.

I've read that religion class is not really common and highly debated in the US, but here in Germany it's a normal class.
As I grew up, we had a protestant and catholic class, you went to either one or opt out completely. I don't remember much because most of it was boring and I opted out some years (had ethics or philosophy class instead). What I think did make sense was to learn about religions other than your own, we were thought about Islam, Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism for example.

I was thinking about something and since this is such an international place I might ask what it was like for you. Did religion play a part in your (public?) school life? Did you have religion class or religious education? Did it focus on one religion, where people separated into different classes? What if you weren't religious at all? Did your school ever take part in any services or organized some? Was religion addressed in other classes (biology, politics, history etc.)?