To look life in the face

A whole week with students. What nostalgia! It is almost like teaching a bunch of ourselves three years ago! I'm so tired. I'll go skiing tomorrow.

Still have yet to find the time to make that truffle honey… it's been sitting around for almost two months now.

Sometimes, love is not a good enough reason for two people to stay together. Well, in our case, love is the reason why two people should not stay together. Or should I say, the absence of 'love'. I am glad I am pulling my emotions out of the game. Am I being too dreamy when I say I will finally find 'the one'? Does 'the one' actually exist? 

I was so pissed today because I lost my scarf. A cashmere scarf, but not just that - it was given to me by my dad. He might not remember giving it to me, but it was a very warm scarf that meant A LOT to me. I cannot believe why someone would want to steal it - in a photography museum! That is simply uncultured! What did I do to deserve this?

Does it pay to be good? 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7689554.stm

Too complicated?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7670313.stm 

I am so afraid. I actually dread tonight, I dread the next few weeks, I dread the coming months. I hate, simply detest having tears. 

Our ideas today differ so much from what they were yesterday. They are shaped by events that have occurred along the way. When judging a certain person, we should put ourselves not only in their shoes, but also in a suitable context.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7669252.stm

For me to hear Jean-Yves Thibaudet perform and Lorin Maazel conduct at the Proms would cost me a mere 15 quid and I would catch the performance on my way home. 

For me to hear Jean-Yves Thibaudet perform alongside the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra London at the Festival de Musique Classique Montreux-Vevey, I would need to pay 25 quid for a ticket and a return train ride to Montreux.

If the tendency towards excitement, novelty and risk-taking is associated with risk of promiscuity, and if the same factors are associated with type of career, then isn't there a relationship between personality type and risk of promiscuity?

Peeking at the fireworks of the fete de Geneve from behind the spectator seats, between bars and picket fences. It reminds me again of where I stand in society.

Should we be honest & true to our feelings in our way of action, or should we choose to consider "the big picture"?

As children, why are we expected to return? Why do we have to live according to standards imposed by others upon ourselves? 

Is there necessity in emotional attachments? Is there necessity in building relationships? Are relationships not the result of two intertwined selfish ideas? 

I like the look people show on their faces when I introduce myself as a scientist - especially at a bar, or at a party. Cool! They say, and then start drifting away… Yes, really, it is cool, like some Dan Brown novel, or even Michael Crichton. But today I finally realised the implications of the term 'occupational hazard'. 

Chlamydia psittaci - Hazard group 3 organism:

http://www.walkersafetycabinets.co.uk/hazard.htm

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/bv.fcgi?highlight=chlamydia%20psittaci&rid=mmed.section.2166#2170

Will need a serology test - hope it was just a cold. 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7253933.stm