Source: http://cagle.com/news/Halloween06/main.aspAlso for those of you from Georgia, would it be possible to elect a guy who allows Fat Tire to be sold in the state. Pleeeeeeaaaase.....
Monday, October 30
It's election time
I can't open my big mouth and I can't vote but I just wanted to remind you that (among other things)...
Source: http://cagle.com/news/Halloween06/main.asp
Also for those of you from Georgia, would it be possible to elect a guy who allows Fat Tire to be sold in the state. Pleeeeeeaaaase.....
Source: http://cagle.com/news/Halloween06/main.aspAlso for those of you from Georgia, would it be possible to elect a guy who allows Fat Tire to be sold in the state. Pleeeeeeaaaase.....
Sunday, October 29
Did you ever wonder how many planes are currently flying above your head?
Source: http://flightaware.com/live/airport/KATLThere is also an awesome animation of the Air Traffic above the US here: http://flightaware.com/analysis/allflights_movie.rvt
This is this time of the year again....
when Pumpkins have this nasty smile and kids see ghosts everywhere.... Talking about ghosts, I discovered that my RE has dead students in her backyard and skulls in her living-room. Not to mention the volcano on the top of the house... Serioulsy considering switching schools now ;)
The remaining of the pictures is here.
The remaining of the pictures is here.
Wednesday, October 25
The week in numbers...
- 1 project
- 2 midterms
- 9 hours of sleep in the last 3 days
- 1 sinus infection for the last 10 days
- 58 days before my Tartiflette
- 64 days before being on my snowboard
- 69 days before my Fat Tire (well maybe less than that, you never know....)
- 4 months that I'm waiting to receive my birthday present (Maaaaaaaaaaaaaax?)
- 2 midterms
- 9 hours of sleep in the last 3 days
- 1 sinus infection for the last 10 days
- 58 days before my Tartiflette
- 64 days before being on my snowboard
- 69 days before my Fat Tire (well maybe less than that, you never know....)
- 4 months that I'm waiting to receive my birthday present (Maaaaaaaaaaaaaax?)
Friday, October 20
Random thoughts on a Friday night
It was a tough week: me being sick and having tons and tons of work to do and not being able to do it as well as I wanted to. Frustrating. We had an extension for our aircraft design project (2 more days) and I'm glad we did. So I basically have till monday to finish typing my report. It's going to be a busy week-end as we also have two midterms next week. Plus I need to keep my PhD research going. I pull an allnighter this week because our aircraft stuff was originally due this afternoon. And I realize that I don't recover from it as well as I used to. Some time ago I could sleep 3 hours a night for 5 days in a row and would still be pretty much OK. I can't anymore. I don't know if it's because I'm getting older or because I'm still recovering from this crazy year, but damn, I feel like a wreck. As painful as 2006 was, I learnt my lesson and I don't think I want to put my health and life at stake as I did so many times this year. Is it really worth it after all? I always put work before everything else, because I enjoyed it so much. I still do. But is it making me a better person? I'm not sure I want my life to be "work and die". I want to keep travelling, experiencing new things, get to know people and still be intellectually challenged. I don't want this to stop. That's probably why I'm still at school ;) I just have a tendency to push things too far sometimes. I'm just so enthusiastic about almost everything! Maybe I should learn to let go a bit... Damn so many questions and not a single answer! I'm not as afraid of what I'm going to do with my life as I used to be. I think I got some self-confidence (it was about time). My concern now is to find somebody to share things with and get some kind of balance. Somebody in Oregon would say I'm asking myself waaaayyy too many questions. And that person would be right. I guess the trick is not to forget about the big picture, which for me would be: "Be good, do good, feel good" and to accept the fact that things rarely happen the way you expect them to.
Hey Rocky, about the email you sent today. Yes, it happened, it wasn't a dream. Yes you lived in France, went to school with a bunch of crazy folks, had Tarte Flambee to the point you got sick of it, lived with a giant Canadian and a crazy French girl. It was the heck of a life experience. I feel sad some time too when I go through our pics or remember what we went through. But don’t make the same mistake I made when I came back from the US a year ago. Don’t lock yourself in the past. Build on it. Keep moving forward. I know it's hard. I miss you.
Hey Rocky, about the email you sent today. Yes, it happened, it wasn't a dream. Yes you lived in France, went to school with a bunch of crazy folks, had Tarte Flambee to the point you got sick of it, lived with a giant Canadian and a crazy French girl. It was the heck of a life experience. I feel sad some time too when I go through our pics or remember what we went through. But don’t make the same mistake I made when I came back from the US a year ago. Don’t lock yourself in the past. Build on it. Keep moving forward. I know it's hard. I miss you.
Monday, October 16
Thursday, October 12
Taking off, really...
There won't be any work at all this week-end. I'm leaving friday after school and won't be back before sunday night. I'm going to see how Fall looks like in Georgia and if all goes well and that the weather is nice there should be some cool pics ;) So the backpack, tent, hiking stuff and camera are ready and in a few hours I'll be out of here! Have a nice one ;)
Tuesday, October 10
And the game of the day is....
Fly the Copter! Play here. We have a friendly contest going on in the lab ;) An other contest has to do with guessing the class average of yesterday's midterm. It was some kind of a brain surgery without anesthesia. I had to sleep with an IcePack on my left wrist last nite... Couldn't move my little finger anymore. Not funny.
Saturday, October 7
It's a beautiful day!
Living in Atlanta is very challenging, especially when it's saturday, crazy warm and sunny outside and that you have to spend the week-end working :( First midterm monday... They call that "Judgement Day" here... Argh. Last night I succeeded in avoiding Jello shots (imagine the blue tablets you drop in the toilet but served with vodka) and other deadly drinks...
Next week-end I'm heading for the North of Georgia - South of South Carolina (hahaha) for a hiking, camping, picture taking 2-day trip.
Also I'd like to thank my anonymous internet provider and the guys who developed Remote Desktop for Mac. This is awesome ;) It took me 10 minutes to have that thing working and connect to my PC in the lab (in comparaison I have been trying to connect to the ISU network with VPN for more than a year and it still doesn't work....).
Peace, Love and Design of Experiments
Next week-end I'm heading for the North of Georgia - South of South Carolina (hahaha) for a hiking, camping, picture taking 2-day trip.
Also I'd like to thank my anonymous internet provider and the guys who developed Remote Desktop for Mac. This is awesome ;) It took me 10 minutes to have that thing working and connect to my PC in the lab (in comparaison I have been trying to connect to the ISU network with VPN for more than a year and it still doesn't work....).
Peace, Love and Design of Experiments
Friday, October 6
On my way home...
4 police cars were in the middle of the street tonite, with policemen everywhere, their hand on their gun and controlling every single car. I had a fun time explaining why I have a driving licence from Oregon, a license plate from Michigan and an address in Georgia... ;)
Tuesday, October 3
Tonite's mood
Something’s in the air tonight
The sky’s alive with a burning light
You can mark my words something’s about to break
And i found myself in a bitter fight
While I’ve held your hand through the darkest night
Don’t know where your coming from but your coming soon
To a kid from Oregon by way of California
All of this is more than I’ve ever known or seen
Come on and we’ll sing, like we were free
Push the pedal down watch the world around fly by us
Come on and we’ll try, one last time
I’m off of the floor one more time to find you
And here we go there’s nothing left to choose
And here we go there’s nothing left to lose
So I packed my car and headed east
Where I felt your fire and a sweet release
There’s a fire in these hills that’s coming down
And I don’t know much but i found you here
And I can not wait another year
Don’t know where your coming from but you coming soon
To a kid from Oregon by way of California
All of this is more than i’ve ever known or seen
Come on and we’ll sing, like we were free
Push the pedal down watch the world around fly by us
Come on and we’ll try, one last time
I’m off of the floor one more time to find you
And here we go there’s nothing left to choose
And here we go there’s nothing left to lose
I can still hear the trains out my window
From Hobart street to here in Nashville
I can still smell the pomegranates grow
And I don’t know how hard this wind will blow
Or where we’ll go
Come on and we’ll sing, like we were free
Push the pedal down watch the world around fly by us
Come on and we’ll try, one last time
I’m off of the floor one more time to find you
And here we go there’s nothing left to choose
And here we go there’s nothing left to lose
- Mat Kearney "Nothing left to lose"
The sky’s alive with a burning light
You can mark my words something’s about to break
And i found myself in a bitter fight
While I’ve held your hand through the darkest night
Don’t know where your coming from but your coming soon
To a kid from Oregon by way of California
All of this is more than I’ve ever known or seen
Come on and we’ll sing, like we were free
Push the pedal down watch the world around fly by us
Come on and we’ll try, one last time
I’m off of the floor one more time to find you
And here we go there’s nothing left to choose
And here we go there’s nothing left to lose
So I packed my car and headed east
Where I felt your fire and a sweet release
There’s a fire in these hills that’s coming down
And I don’t know much but i found you here
And I can not wait another year
Don’t know where your coming from but you coming soon
To a kid from Oregon by way of California
All of this is more than i’ve ever known or seen
Come on and we’ll sing, like we were free
Push the pedal down watch the world around fly by us
Come on and we’ll try, one last time
I’m off of the floor one more time to find you
And here we go there’s nothing left to choose
And here we go there’s nothing left to lose
I can still hear the trains out my window
From Hobart street to here in Nashville
I can still smell the pomegranates grow
And I don’t know how hard this wind will blow
Or where we’ll go
Come on and we’ll sing, like we were free
Push the pedal down watch the world around fly by us
Come on and we’ll try, one last time
I’m off of the floor one more time to find you
And here we go there’s nothing left to choose
And here we go there’s nothing left to lose
- Mat Kearney "Nothing left to lose"
Monday, October 2
It's October 2nd!
And... it's still 84F outside!!! Where are my flipflops??? Damn, I'm really starting to like this place. This and the guy who's playing the trumpet in the street every evening ;)
