bike satire

Haven't been in Denmark for 2 years and I haven't biked a single mile during that time. I am out of biking shape and lets face the truth I was forced to rediscover that hate biking.

I bike around 1h everyday. It is my transportation. And no argument about being green or healthy matters to me. I think it really sucks.
My butt aches and I am pretty sure that if I won't go to the gym from time to time to train my butt, I will become super flat butt-ed girl, because I sit whole day!

I sit while studying and now my motion of the day is also while sitting.

I feel tired from that biking. I arrive sweaty to the university, bus drivers do not care and want to kill me on the road.
And if it rains... that generated so much hate and laziness that I honestly rather stay home, skip work, classes or a party than bike to the destination! If I bike for a half and hour in a rain I have a small rain between my hat and glasses, I hardly see and well I still have to bike the same hard path as on sunny day...

Wind is always in my face. Do not even let me start about that one...

My backpack is heavy and or it annoys me on my back or it makes controlling the bike more difficult when I set it into the basket.

Even in flat Denmark there is plenty of hills to hate.

The only reason I bike is not because I think it is trendy, or because I think it will save our planet, or because I think it is a great way of being active...
I bike because I am too poor to get a car! And well I do not have driving license, but even if I had I do not have money for a car, so it doesn't matter.

And it is not only me, I have very slow bike and I look on other people while biking and they hate it too.
When it rains the view is far away from happy healthy people on pretty bikes, happily biking through pretty happy city.

What I am saying is, the moment I have money I am going to pollute our planet with fumes from my car!

The Notebook Came Back

Short follow up on my notebook story (notebook).

Well it was laying all that time under the bookcase in a room that I lived in for the last month.

Well who would have thought to check there?

Anyway, I got it back yesterday evening. And I am very happy its back ;)

new apartment

Well, I have just moved in to a new apartment.

It is very small, but cute. I obviously was very excited, and happy about it.

I knew that after hours of euphoria I will discover something that I won't be so excited about. And I did.
The moment I laid down in bed, the street lap was exactly pointed to shine its bright light on my face, how lucky it is?
Sad thing is that the place the bed stands at the moment is really the best place in this one room apartment.

Curtains solved the problem.

The street-lamp. 

There also is this mysterious noise coming from the kitchen.

It is something between knocking on a wooden door and water dropping into a metal sink. I tried hard but couldn't figure out what makes this noise.

But the extra door brought from basement help to ignore it at night.

About noises our neighbors make... In a apartment above a small running kid sounds exactly the same as raccoons that lived at the roof of the building I lived in US. And it actually made me smile.

Anyway... it is lovely and I like it!

p.s. I have no WIFI there, so I am cast away ;)

quantum trouble

Nothing more precious than a cup of coffee on a days spend in the library. 

Especially when you have to struggle with tough stuff as an explanation of our existence, of an existence of our universe.

Anyway, during last lecture from Quantum Mechanics we heard depressing news. I cannot stop thinking about it.

When we look at the world classically we can make statements that it has zero energy, in Quantum world there is always some energy. 

Systems always oscillate at least a bit. So now if we have a space and even it seems empty then it will have infinite amount of those small energies. 

We also know that the general relativity implies that all the forms of energy gravitate, and if we have a infinite energy then we have infinite mass which leads to infinite gravity. 

And BOOM! 

If that was true then our universe would collapse in an instant.

This collapse is not a problem, because well it hasn't happened.

The problem is that I am studying a theory that we successfully use in everyday life (all modern technology was possible because we understood quantum mechanics). But yet same theory cannot completely explain why our universe is still around.

I might have got it all wrong, but it bothers me a lot.

Well next week will bring me probably something new to worry about, since our universe if full of mystery.

look on the bright side

I really like "Life of Brian" by Monty Python but I wouldn't recommend it to those who do not like sense of humor that laughs at everything, religion including.

Nevertheless, the song in the end of this movie is great! 

"Bight Side of Life"

Always look on the bright side of life.

 [whistling]

 Always look on the light side of life.

 [whistling]

 If life seems jolly rotten,

 There's something you've forgotten,

 And that's to laugh and smile and dance and sing.

 When you're feeling in the dumps,

 Don't be silly chumps.

 Just purse your lips and whistle. That's the thing.

 And...

 Always look on the bright side of life.

 [whistling]

 Always look on the right side of life

...

Here is what happened in the morning that started very good day for me.

As always I was late in the morning.

It all started that I obviously slept too long, 

But then I were in a bathroom too long, 

I were dressing up too long, 

Eating my breakfast too long, 

Brushing my teeth way too long 

And definitely run too fast for my bus.

While crossing the street on which my bus stop is, I saw my bus!

I have speeded up, slipped and crushed flat all my body on the ground and my backpack landed just above my head. 

I thought, "That really aches."

Tried to stand up and continue to my bus that was just one bus length away from me. But couldn't and fall on the ground again.

I was very lucky and my bus hasn’t waited for me, even I am sure the driver saw me laying there. Anyway...

Thanks to that a man from a car that was stopped by my body on the ground asked me if I am all right and where I am going.

 I got a ride to the university even it wasn't at all on his way, he actually had to check where my campus is because he didn't know the way.

My Danish is not great but I had a decent 20min chat with that gentleman. 

I met a nice person that helped me even I wasn't in a hurry and it wasn't on a way, which is just wonderful, isn't it?

I have arrived earlier than ever to the university, and checked injuries. 

One could say that nothing happened to me, even my little accident looked pretty badly. 

I managed to do a lot of study before my class.

I had great day because I got great discussions with 3 people and I think understood and learnt a lot from them.

I heard about very interesting place and I might be moving to a new apartment very soon.

All my bones are in pain, but even for a second I haven't had a moment that I felt sad about my morning crush on the ground.

And...

 Always look on the bright side of life.

 [whistling]

 Always look on the right side of life

 [whistling]

...

mysterious notebook

My advanced quantum mechanics notebook with notes from 2 weeks of lectures went missing.

I have checked everywhere at home and it is not there.

Yes, I have checked my backpack too.

Nothing.

Last night I gave up, went to bed. Had a lot of nightmares... just kidding.

In the morning I went to the library and asked if maybe I left it there.

My conversation with librarians:

L: "How big is your notebook?", "Like this?". Showing me address booklet.

Me: "No, it is bigger with notes from lectures."

L: "Like this?". L asked while showing me A4 format.

Me: "Well, I do not know. Maybe like this, or maybe smaller."

L: "Is your name on it?"

Me: ”Well, I do not really know. I do not remember."

L: "Do you know how it looks? Yellow, green ...”

Me: "Well, I really do not remember, but I know I’ve lost it. I do not know even where I could have left it, I've just thought maybe in the library?"

L: "So maybe you know when you lost it?"

Me: "I am not sure, maybe last week because I had it on last Wednesday during my lecture, but I do not really know."

Librarian makes a phone call.

L: "If we have found it we gave it to Information desk, go there and ask."

Me: "Yes, thank you."

I was walking away.

L: "But, do you remember at least what is written in your notebook, ha-ha."

Me: "Ha-ha, well this I actually think I do."

So, now I just have to go and have the same conversation with people at the Information desk.


Update: September 19th 2013

I still haven't found it but here is how it looks like. How could I have forgotten that it has periodic system on?
Anyway, it should be now way easier to find it.

bus stories 2

I've finished classes the other day and had meeting with friends in the city. I went to the bus stop and stood under the roof. I've asked a girl if the bus I've intended to take already went or is it coming soon.
She answered that she is not sure but there should be one coming soon. I've just said "I really hope I haven't missed it", smiled to her, and kept waiting.

A second after she just decided to stand 4m away from me in a rain even the bus wasn't on a horizon.

My questions is:

 Was she really so afraid that I will keep talking to her that she would rather stand in a rain?

I mean I am chatty but I didn't know I am scary? Hahaha.