Fire?

I was just on this four hour fire extinguishing and safety course. It was quite interesting plus it kind of got me off work even though it of course is really handy for work like in case there's a fire. The fun part was that I got to extinguish a fire using a fire-blanket and a foam extinguisher. It was quite scary to start off with really since the bucket had quite big flames and I had to go really close to use the blanket. And like if it was kind of scary to do it under the supervision of firemen then I could imagine it being loads more scary in an actual emergency. Now at least I've tested out that fire blankets work. (Surprising?)

Now I'm sort of annoyed that my head hurts since it gives me a good reason not to go to the gym. Of course if I shift my way of thinking and go home first and then to the gym instead of going straight from work then I might have a chance at actually going. I really should start going again. Though it's not like I don't do anything else. I'm still quite busy "all the time". Of course I think I can start blaming the bnd for that. Going to the gym was so easy when there wasn't really much else to do with my time and less people to see.

Oh I went climbing yesterday and got up like a meter more of this one wall I haven't gotten up yet. Doesn't sound like much but it's getting there. :) (Hands sweating...) Only a few more meters to go.

Due time?

Well, not really. Almost. This will surely jinx it, but luckily I'm not that superstitious. *knock on wood* -Official notification to follow. - I've been seeing a boy and I like him. - End of notification. He's cute and fun and will be referred to as "the boy next door" ("bnd") from now on.

I actually got to measure my first crystal today. How exciting. Only that I'm quite sure it's nothing new. We just let it run for me to see the whole procedure. But maybe the next crystal will be something new or maybe the one after that. One never knows. That's why the research has to be done.

Lunch lines and table tops

In the lunch line today I asked the person in front of me to pass a message that they were out of glasses. The guy acted like he didn't hear me when he must have. It was way weird. I'm quite sure I said it clearly and loud enough. But who knows if he was like really shy. I was at the physics department anyways. There's also a possibility that he was foreign but he didn't look like it and most foreign people would probably have said something like "excuse me".

In the bathroom at work the table top next to the sink gets really wet since people take soap with wet hands and everything. I have this huge need to dry it every time I wash my hands. I think I'd be sort of embarrassed if someone saw me do it. "But the table might get ruined." I don't know how they ever did anything around here without me drying the bathroom table tops.

I've been looking at the new powder instrument they got at the inorganic department today and yesterday. I can't wait to get my samples on it. The instrument is really fast and you can set it up in different ways and so it's sort of like a puzzle. Way cool.

I'll be trying to take it easy this weekend since I think I'm not sick any more with the actual illness passing in just one day, but I have to take care that I stock up loads of sleep for next week when I think I finally have to do loads at work. I'm sort of not feeling like starting anything today anymore even though I really should since there's two more hours to go.

Sort of sick

I think I may be sort of sick. It's sort of annoying. Well I do now have a good reason not to go to the gym today but that's sort of bad too. I haven't been there in like two weeks. Not that I haven't been doing all sorts of other sports and other things so I'm not like "getting in bad shape" or anything. It just seems like I haven't been there properly since I came back from Zürich and that's like ages ago. I just haven't gotten "back on track" with going there and to make things more difficult, they actually renovated the place a bit and moved my machines. I feel like if I don't start going there like two times a week for at least a few weeks very soon I'll just stop going altogether. Not that I would since I'm paying for it but it simply feels like something I could do.

I think my calendar is starting to look a bit emptier. Well not this week yet but like next week. There's been loads of things happening lately so I've been quite busy. Well most of the things (or all) are self-inflicted like me wanting to see friends and do sports. Luckily some sports and friends are connected so they can be combined but sometimes it would be nice to see some of those friends in other situations.

I think I may have to leave the workplace and go home. I also have to go by the city center to have a talk about my aquarium filter. See I am feeling sort of sick and I have to be all up and about early at work tomorrow since I get to learn how to use the new powder diffractometer that arrived last week. It should be interesting. I think I'll be using it quite much for my research project. Oh and I just checked and I think I may even have some single crystals already. I'll have to wait a bit more for them to form properly and then I get to try out some measurements. Finally. :)

Organic chemistry and lifeforms

Uh oh. They had this link to "Blogger Play" (play.blogger.com) where there's this never ending slide show of pictures being uploaded to blogs. Don't go! I watched it for like a minute and I think I may be addicted. It's just like pictures but there's no guessing what will come next. But I guess the internet is full of potentially addictive sites.

I've been studying all day. It's nothing hard really. It did sort of seem hard when I learned it the first time around like 5 years ago and I got like the worst grade one can get without failing. (Though I do blame the stupid exam that just was nothing like one would have expected and I have to say that actually passing the course was not so common.) Well anyways. Now it's seeming way more logical. It may be the new book (much better than the old one), the prior knowledge I have now or the fact that I'm actually studying. (I took the course in the fall of my third year when there were loads of other things happening...) I may actually learn enough to go teach other people how to do the problems. At least I sincerely hope so. And I do think studying the things is good in other ways too.

I removed my internet dating profile, again. This time it wasn't because I was getting addicted to the attention, but because I was getting kind of annoyed about it. I needed to slow things down since I really don't want to be seeing more than one person at a time. It just would not work and did not work earlier. I get sort of overwhelmed. And I do have to admit that there is also another cause behind this action. This cause is a particular person of the male gender whom I happen to have developed a crush on, but I shall say no more in order not to jinx it. All in due time.

Oh and if you are reading this and have not yet been invited to my graduation party then now you are... Welcome welcome. Contact me for details. People whose e-mails I know have most likely been invited already. It should be a great party. Too bad it's like two months away.

Food and games

I'm munching on seedless grapes. I always buy them because they're good but them end up almost not eating them. These I just bought yesterday so I might be changing my ways. See I rarely eat at home anymore. Well I eat breakfast and something in the evening but that's about it. I'm not saying that I don't eat (period) but I eat out. I have lunch at the university and then it seems like I'm always off somewhere in the evening and I go to like Subway or, well, Subway. And during the weekends I eat out like at my favorite Indian restaurant again on Sunday. I really should start cooking at home but I really don't have that much time during the week like when I go to the gym or climbing or someplace else.

And I think I started out with some point to the last paragraph but I lost it on the way. See I'm sort of tired. Had work and afterwards, since I was too lazy to go to the gym, I went skating around the lake and then some. After that I went to play board games. It was quite nice. The skating was nice too. I think today might have just been one of the last days one can go skating so it was great that I thought of it. I even wore my helmet and felt like a dork really. But I have to wear it since I have one because the moment I didn't something would surely happen. I'm not being pessimistic but I do have to take care of my brain. "I like my brain." And it's my livelihood. I was just thinking today that if suddenly they did not want me to continue my studies then I'd be totally crushed since I'm all into living here for the next few years and there would be like no other job for me I'm sure. I think I need to shape up my act at work and actually do more and better.

But this is not going anywhere so I'll stop. Only wanted to let people know that I'm all good. Having a fun time really. Being busy. Wanting more nights in a week and more hours every night.

Friday, Friday, tral laa, laa la la

So I'm having problems working at work. I don't want to leave yet as that would be leaving early and I did that yesterday. Though if I'm not going to be working then there really isn't a point now is there. But hey, at least I have time to write in my blog. That's sort of smart. At least it might entertain someone.

People from my old high school came here today. I said a few sentences to them. It would have actually been nice to tell them more about this city and the university but there really wasn't any time. It was funny seeing some of my old teachers. It could have been fun to talk to them more too, now that I'm more grown up and can. But maybe next time they come I'll show them my machine or something. :)

I'm going to play badminton with a friend today. I haven't seen him all summer if one doesn't count the times I just about had enough time to notice him as we were skating the lake in different directions. Should be fun. I haven't played badminton all summer. I hope I still can since I didn't play much last spring either.

Climbing was fun yesterday. I went with a friend I haven't seen for at least a month of possibly more. It was fun since him and I are both pretty much as good at climbing and thus there's this challenge to do better than the other. There were also like loads of other people there. It was really weird since usually there is no-one else or just a few people. This time there were like 15 people there. It seemed like all the people that usually climb outside had decided to come inside yesterday. I guess it has been a bit cold and rainy lately. It was a bit annoying that there were so many people since we had to like take numbers to get on the walls but the nice part was that it made people be social and such. Like I could really get into the climbing circles here. All the people just seem really nice too. Oh and they played like reggae music, which I liked, and that made the atmosphere really relaxed and fun. So yeah, it was great. I'm going again next Thursday.

But maybe I should just head home now. I need to eat something before badminton anyways and figure out what to do afterwards. Hanging out at home alone is not an option and I'm quite sure that's not what will happen. Have a great weekend!

Presentations

My brain is just totally not wanting to work right now. I'd have to plan my experiments for tomorrow since I'll be talking with my boss but I really can't. I've talking about the diffractometer to first year student all day. I had five groups come in and I did like a 20 minute presentation for each. The presentations themselves went quite well I think. Not perfectly but it was a really nice experience. Some groups even had some good questions and they seemed genuinely interested. I even got them to try out some little things by themselves like cutting crystals into pieces under a microscope. It doesn't sound all that interesting but it's more difficult and at the same time easier than one might think.

The only problem was that by the time I'd talked to two groups in a row and the third one came in I got totally confused about what I had told them already. See I was sort of going with the flow of information as it seemed to fit into the explanation and thus explained some things at different times. Then in the end I was like "have I told you about this already...". It would have been kind of embarrassing had I told them one thing many times. Luckily I had a lunch break after the first three groups so I could figure it out again. So all in all it went really nicely but I am now really tired. I just had coffee but that's not helping clear my head at all. Coffee never does clear my head so I don't know why I even think it could have helped. Taking a nap would do it. Perhaps I will just leave work early to clear my head before going climbing today.

But that's it for now. Weekend is not far off anymore. I am so waiting for it. Should be fun and interesting. Seeing friends and all. Getting more sleep. I also have to go bicycle shopping.

New calendar and a voice

I started using a new calendar yesterday. I just had to since the old one ended and I was totally lost. I got this whole week sort of full right off. Sort of fun. But it's since there's all these things happening with the university semester starting and everything. Personally things are also starting to look a bit busier socially, which is always nice.

I went to hear information about this technology business studies minor I could do. It's just something I got an e-mail of and with my "corporate experience" it just seemed I might get something out of it if I want to truly work in industry. It still sounded sort of interesting though I'm not sure it's smart starting something totally new when I should be researching and I really should concentrate on that. But the funniest thing was that when this professor talked it sounded just really weird. Like first the things he was talking about sounded like way out there first and it seemed weird being in a chemistry lecture room with someone talking about some economical "nonsense" with a few pictures of molecules, which just made a whole lot more sense, on the blackboard. The other thing is that he had one of "those" voices. You know like some fortune tellers and such have, the kind that just makes your head tingle listening to it. Well at least that's what I experience once in a while. It just felt quite nice listening to the professor. Like someone had massaged my head and it made me feel kind of calm though not really sleepy. I wonder if he knew that he has one of those voices. It might come in very handy if he knows how to control it. Oh even now thinking about it my head tingles. Actually I think all the other people I've noticed have it have been women.

Otherwise nothing special really. Or little things but nothing major. I had a really nice weekend. Laughed so much at two stand-up shows in a row that my smiling muscles actually hurt afterward. I had fun helping out with giving keys and info to the new student coming to live in the student village. Also had a great time at a friend's birthday party. Went climbing on Sunday and rather spontaneously to eat at my new favorite restaurant afterwards. They serve Indian food and you can pick how hot you want it and they have a really nice selection of vegetarian food. And I think the waitress recognizes me and my friends so we get really nice service.