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Fruitfull weekend
Posted Aug 31, 2009
On Saturday I went picking raspberries and blueberries. This resulted in a pretty delicious pie! 
And on Sunday I found out that the first of my home-grown 
has started turning red! It has been almost a month since it reached the current size and I was starting to despair! 
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Good type of boss?
Posted Jun 18, 2009
Hmm, let me see... I've had 3 bosses all in all, not counting my MSc thesis supervisor, so I hardly qualify for a "boss expert"! Which may explain my confusion on the subject "what makes a boss good boss"!
The first one was the nasty kind - always trying to put people down, rub their noses in the puddle on the carpet and show how smart he was. The Bossy Bastard type. Hell to work with, especially since he insisted on having staff meetings every single morning!
The second one was Plain Bossy type! He provided money, so we felt like little Scrooges in the lab, swimming in a pile of gold coins, placing whatever orders we liked and always getting the fanciest equipment to play with. He seldom wanted to come down to our level to discuss plain lab matters, which was fine, since he knew next to nothing, having been far from research for ages. But if he got an idea in his head it had to be done his way, no matter what! And it didn't help waiting for couple of weeks and trying to discuss it again, hoping that he had changed his mind. No, he remembered and stuck to his opinion for years!
Boss number three - the Disorganised, Hold my Hand type. Oh my! That's a real Monster! She needs help with everything, she likes to chat about personal things and be friendly, she can't organise her won work, let alone the whole bunch of people working for her. The Disorganised type always has two minds about everything, can't take a simple decision and refuses to accept that she's paid to do that. Can't provide money so we are spending half the time writing grant applications. And she wants your fullest support for even the smallest thing like the phrasing of the sentences or taking a file downstairs to the administration.
While I worked with the Bossy Bastard I hated it! Then I moved to the Plain Bossy one and I thought that was the worst. Now I have to cope with the Disorganised type and I can't stand it... So I wonder is it so, that the worst ever type of boss is the Current one? 
Oh, well... May be it's time for a before I meet the Boss again....
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Bookcrossing
Posted May 12, 2009
On Saturday I let loose my second Bookcrossing book. Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon. I dropped it on an empty sea in the trolley bus (on my way to the maternity ward to meet my friend who gave birth to baby Velina last week! ). I saw it picked by a young backpacker.
I felt both happy to see the book go in the hands of, what looked like, a bookish new owner and a bit embarrassed since I didn't really like this book. I bought it few months ago because I really liked the first one of this guy, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, and I was hoping that this would be a good one too. Sadly, I found it boring! It felt like the characters were going again, and again, and again, and YET again through the same troubles and nothing changes...
Oh, well, may be it's not that nice to free a book you don't actually like, but then again, the new readers might enjoy it more, right? 
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No such thing...
Posted May 8, 2009
There is no such thing as a short week. Even when I need to work for only two days before it's weekend again it feels too much! I wonder what does that say about me...
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The laptop - a neccesity for the perfect work day!
Posted Jun 11, 2008
Tomorrow I am not going to work! Same goes for Friday! Boss let me stay home to work 
I actually blackmailed her! 
I said, look, I am busy visiting doctors tomorrow and on Friday - first I am going to have some physiotherapy treatment and exercises for strengthening my core muscles with the therapist, then to the cardiologist for attaching a halter to me. I'll be busy. Do you want me to take a holiday for these two days? It is a very busy time for us now, we have all these grant applications to write, may be it's best that I stay at home writing? She had no choice but to agree!
So, tomorrow I am going to spend the day at home writing! Ok, I'll spend almost the entire morning going around being treated or monitored, but still - the afternoon will be mine!
There is only one thing that spoils the picture - if only I have a laptop I could sit writing on the balcony, with a glass of iced tea and something sweet to nibble at!
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