Packing... (or tying to... :-/ )

Just for the records.... I HATE MOVING!!!
I have to pack everything and think about what is necessary and what is not... the weight and SIGHS!!!!

It would be sooooo good if I could just move and buy everything new!!!! hihihi

...sighs...

Playing with Gimp

I've put linux (ubuntu: http://www.ubuntulinux.org/) in my computer (in fact, Pieter did... the partition and the installation...)... well, in the process I also lost my windows, but okay it's fixed already... (with the exception of the musics that I didn't save and are lost now :'( ).
Ubuntu is a very nice (well, it's a linux...), (nice when does it work... because, of course it takes a while to set some stuffs up, stuffs that i don't know (and I am not very much, to not say not at all, patience and I set all - not all and not that easy also, only with reflexion exception... anyway now I remember like a easy-fast setup in windows, hummmm ))
Anyway... ubuntu is a very nice system and I am spending my week (trying to work... I don't how I was able to do my presentationS for today... in office, not ppt... but still, a very nice one!) playing around in my new system... drawing... doing new backgrounds...
And here you can see a screenshot of my desktop... I've made my panel bars light pink and this nice background is also my creation with Gimp!!! a image editor...

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yep... in the end I've put linux in my laptop and I have to say, I like it!!!!

Panera bread

Monday I went to Panera bread... is a sandwich kind of coffee place very nice...
The sandwiches are very good, the cold ones, like salads and specially the panini ones... heat... hum... so nice... and they also have a very good cuban black beans soup!!!!! And you have the option "you pick two" so you can have half sandwich and a bowl of soup for example... DELICIOUS!!!!

The side for sandwiches were chips (that I love!)... and for the soup bread... but sadly if you decided for the "you pick two" the side was always bread... it made me so sad, because I like so much that chips (in fact, chips is my second vicious after coke, that I am trying to cut... sighs...)...

BUT NOW!!!!!!

you have a choice of which side do you want... bread (and what kind of bread), chips or apple!!!!

hm... Definitely... Panera bread is a place that I will miss!!!

PhD life

I remember the first time that I saw this cartoon... it was last year... still in the beginning of the year and my life here... I was still in my first office (hihihi, I had a door and a window... now I don't have none of those... *sighs* ...) ... anyway...
I though it was pretty funny, even more because it is true!
So, during my daq shifters (NO, I don't miss them), more precisely during the owl shifts, when everyone is sleeping and you can't but also can't not fix in work, I spent time reading these comics (http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/comics.php) and I got this one for me... it is in my office desktop! ;-)

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Well, today, one of my friends asked me in which step was I and my first instinct was answer "before the first one"... but then I though and I realized that this is not quite true!!! I in fact already pass through those steps... in fact all of them, even the last one (:'( ).

Ok, ok... not with all the years and I still have one last year...

So I've realized that I am in some intermediary step!!!! And this gave me a great satisfaction... (another PhD student will understand... sighs...) that yes, I can get stuck sometimes, but it is going ahead and yes I will be able to finish it!!!

Oh happy day!!!

Step it up / Tropicalia

Last week I went to a step class... I though "oh, I did some step classes when I was in Rio and I liked so much... and I did other day, so nice, vibrating... so step it up..."

So, I step it up to the Lifetime fitness center, all cute and full of energy and... well, and, I will describe the class...

-Teacher: march, march... right foot... basic right... now left... basic left... all over the step...

And I am like "ok, that's nice, this is easy..."

-T:mambo, basic right, all over, mambo, basic left... turn all over, step on, out, jump, all over, turn...

Ah? What? Ops, is everyone to the other side?
Ah... ok, now I got it...

-T: Now, let's do the combo (combo?) left, right, turn... again, faster.. mambo... right, turn, all over (argh.... what now? flight? oh my God, is everyone on the other side again? :-( hm...)

-T: Now, let's all dance together... put the steps in a line... (oh no!!! Dance together? why aren't we going to flight? it is easier, I can bet... :'( )

And so, I did step it up out of the class...
And this "step it up" cost me a whole week with hurting legs... sighs...

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Friday night we went to an exposition in Chicago (ah... sweet Chicago, it is so nice there... I will miss this city...) it was a Brazilian exposition, Tropicalia... I hated!!! Bad art, with some few exceptions, bad food (nothing Brazilian typical) and bad music...

After some hours standing in high heels some people decided to walk forever till some bar... I didn't last till the bar (this means that Pieter also didn't...), I needed to take out my shoes and we came back with me without shoes...

But it was very nice... in fact much better than continue walking till I don't know where... we stopped in a cafe had some tea and then did a tour by the lake with a carriage! Very nice!!!

Once more a very nice weekend! ;-)