Life day by day / Viata, zi de zi

Buy one get one free. You do not even need one, but you are going to buy 2, because it is cheaper that way. You do not need it now, but they want you to buy it now, and you do.

You just won a free cruise for 2. BUT: to maximize your gain pay us for a week at this stupid resort that no one wants to go to, and pay us for a trip to a nearby casino, and you can have a free one night cruise. Somewhere you did not really want to go, on a time of the year you cannot really take vacation, and you HAVE to enjoy all this extra stuff you do not really want to, or cannot possibly enjoy, just to get this tiny little "free" (about 100$ for taxes) thing. When you could just buy a cruise when you wanted it, where you wanted it without all the hassle. But also without any freebe.

The same thing happens at the lab, we get these awesome offers for stuff we just order last week, of stuff we only need to order once a year, or stuff that you can only order in small supplies because it goes bad, but if you order a whole lot of it is cheaper, except that in the end for you it is still the same because you end up throwing away half of it.

I am just a little upset right now, but soon I will get home, eat my chocolate muffin, look at the Christmas tree while listening to Christmas carols and everything will be ok again, specially with George by my side.

Rule: If SDS in a 20% solution precipitates it is too cold.

All my friends are having babies, especially girls. I want a girl too. But unfortunately it is not yet the right time to have a baby. I need to wait until I finish my PhD and figure out what I want to do with my life. In case you are trying to make a case about "it is never the right time you just have to do it" I have an infinite list of reasons for why not now. So no comment on that subject.

But, I must admit I do want a baby, some time, and I am a little jealous and sensitive on the matter.

So now, let me pour my "anger" onto someone who will not read this blog, and even if she does she will not knot it is about her. There is this Chinese woman. She started the PhD along with me. 2 month into the program she realizes she is pregnant. She had no idea when she left China that she is pregnant, but non-the-less this pregnancy, although it takes her away from her studies and makes her life a lot harder, gives her a very good reason to bring her Chinese husband to USA. When the baby is born, she (the baby) is sent to China to live with the grandparents because the parents are both students and do not have time and money to take care about the baby. The woman is happy about the baby, but also happy to be over with and continue her studies. All the time she has this attitude of a victim, she did not really plan to have a baby, but now that it is here she is welcome, but she will never have another baby. One is more then enough. Plus, Chinese are only supposed to have one child, because they are already to many. Guess what, 3 years later she is pregnant again.

The moral: both kids are American citizens, they cannot take both kids to China because they are only allowed to have one child there, therefore the parents need to stay in USA to take care of the kids.
Pretty smart, and slick.

Everyone is reading the net today to find out where the 2016 Summer Olympic games are going to be. (Just for the record this is year 2009). But I bet not even half of those people know when or where the next Winter Olympic Games are going to be.

Congrats Rio de Janeiro! Chris, can we stay at you parents house for the games?

For the record: 2010 Vancouver Canada

Yesterday George picked me up at school and we walked home. At one of the crosswalks, while waiting for the green light we kissed, a couple of times. Then we heard a honk. Then I kissed George again on the cheek, honk again. Another kiss, another honk. The forth time I did not even get close enough to kiss him when we heard the honk. I started laughing so hard that I was not able to kiss him anymore.

I though it was hilarious!

I wonder if I would mind seeing people kissing on the street?!? But I do not know cause that does not happen in Oklahoma.

(Actually there are no people on the street to begin with, but that is another story.)

I guess there is a reason why they call Oklahoma the buckle, the buckle of the Christian belt.

last song is coyotes.

Was Werner Hertzog trying to tell us something?

Husband and wife at a restaurant, where you give your order and later have to go pick it up when they call you. They are sitting at the table when they hear their names called. Wife gets up to go get her food but husband doesn’t. Looking angrily at him she says: Are you going to let me go by myself? He gets up and starts going towards the food. Then wife says: I guess if you are going I do not need to!

Q: Why are remixes made?

A: To be used as background music in aerobics classes (hence the rhythm).

Some americans are so patriotic that they would:

- paint their toe nails as the american flag