Early mornings and late dinners

This is perhaps the best thing about going to work so early. That and a quiet office for a couple of hours.

In other news, there isn't much really. All I can say is that it's hard being a fan girl because it's really an irrational thing and irrational things are tiring. On one hand I care because I'm a fangirl but on the other hand I can't stop asking myself just why the hell I care since in the end it has no real impact on my life! Ah. Fandoms and the joys linked to them. Still... in the real world I'm back to my "summer" schedule which means that now instead of scheduling the times when I go out, I actually have to book a day a week when I stay in. I make it sound like I'm the person who goes out all the time and really that's not true, it's just that I like to plan things... and I like to have days when I can just do nothing. Just when I have tons of things to do for work everyone decides to want to be social. But that means that often I come back home and I haven't really eaten dinner and I now have a new favourite (and very easy) comfort food. It's based on this recipe except my recipe has nothing in common with it besides the rice and egg.

( +2 of what comfort food looks like )

A walk in the park... or more like Nanjing Road.

Given the lack of light, I got some great shots with the Diana Mini in Shanghai. Here are three of my favourite ones... I'll post my very favourite some other time. ( +2 ) And now for the real content, let me just tell you something it seems that my writing motivation is absolutely gone. I have three things to write and one conference article to correct and I can't get any of it done. Actually the conference article is all marked up but I just can't bring myself to making the damn changes on the computer. It's as if I've developed a phobia of typing up any of my work. I think I'll cancel all of my plans for this evening and tonight and just hole myself up with some distracting background noise and a glass of peach syrup and Grand Marnier (best combo ever!) and face this phobia. I know what you're thinking, "Gali you're just a damn lazyarse person, stop making excuses!" and I guess that's partially true but dammit why can I do all the calculations and write huge paragraphs in my notebooks but I can't get them onto the damn computer. Can I have a typewriter? Maybe that'll work! Allez bon je me motive! Je vais y arriver, je vais y arriver, je vais y arriver. I can't even imagine just how bad I'll be when my whole PhD thesis is due before the reviewing... one should count about six months for the review process so that means if I want to finish my whole PhD in three years I have to have the thesis written by April of next year. Fun times. I think next winter will be tons of fun... at least I'll be back in the south for that. And now, fill in the blanks friday! 1. The first thing I do in the morning is turn off the alarm. The song that's been my alarm ringtone for the past year or two years is Hello Goodbye by Aiba (from Arashi). I know it's weird but for some reason it's my wake up song! 2. Every night before bed I take out my contact lenses and brush my teeth. 3. My favorite thing to do when I'm having a bad day is indulge my love for crappy films and/or dramas. I have a stock of crappy stuff I have to watch on bad days. It's quite brilliant. 4. Something that makes me cringe is people who try to hard to impress others. I just have this terrible second-hand embarrassment for them, especially when the person they're trying to impress clearly thinks they're stupid. 5. Social situations tire me out, especially if there are too many people. 6. I like to collect cute pig related things and anything that catches my attention and is shiny. 7. Weekends are for trying to have at least one half day to do nothing. Absolutely nothing! Edit: for those who didn't know I'm supposed to take a plane on Sunday to go to a conference to present a paper. And now all airports are closed in Finland... In a way, if I can't fly there I get extra days for work but on the other hand, well, I wouldn't get to present my paper, although that really wouldn't be my fault. Blah. Still not sure if I want the cloud to be gone by Sunday or not.

Day 163

Day 163 - 16.04.10

After the snow season, the rainy season has started.