I have finally attacked the problem I have with my sleeping hours. Me and Yasha have come up with a deal, whoever comes to school later than 9 am must treat the other to lunch that day!! Today, and only on the second day, he enjoyed a free lunch buffet.
Yes, I lost. But it can all be blamed on the grey cells in my brain which came up with an interesting idea to implement in my simulation keywords on my way home last night. My simulations take almost 5 hours to run on the cluster these days. So it will take a good deal of time before I can actually be able to study the effects of my parameter changes. Carrying out my bright idea in the morning meant waiting until afternoon for results. So despite being exhausted; I slept no sooner than 3 am, with the thought that even if I lose the bet, it’ll be worth getting some work done. My wallet wasnt totally on the same page the next day today though!! It did not want to leave the coziness of my back pocket when the bill was on the table! But a deal’s a deal! And to have friends to do stuff like this with is priceless.
I had seen an old guy in school several times, a chubby white-haired man with a very classy look. Reminded me of Mikhail Gorbachev whenever I saw him!! I engaged in conversation with him on my way downstairs in school today and boy he turned out to have had one hell of a life!
In response to what do you teach, he replied with “I study!” which totally amazed me! so after studying natural sciences, marrying a Russian woman, being in the oil business for more than 40 years and travelling all around the world on business, he has come to Trollhattan, bought a house and is now “studying” political sciences!
We talked about politics mostly, the nuclear dilemma in Iran and the recent capturing of the american unmanned drone in Iran. Despite all the experience he had on his back I sensed some Islamophobia in his speech. Not that it surprises me.
But, it’s not everyday and old man of 70 tells parts of his life story for you; so despite the strong freezing wind outside, I listened to him “gärna!”. He insisted that there were secret security bureaus in Sweden and that they had recently been given more rights and authority than before. I chose not to comment on that! just to express my astonishment that things like that can exist in a socialist state like this.
Strangely enough, some way or the other our conversation got to communism and he himself pointed out his resemblance to Gorbachev!
