Watching Grass Grow

As time passes, I'm less and less motivated to keep myself busy in the lab. Today I spent most of the day having literally nothing to do. Even reading Estonian news wasn't an option after Internet started flickering on anf off like Christmas lights. Whenever I clicked somewhere, it all froze again and again there was no Internet. Another person was also having wireless Internet problems today, so I don't think it was just my computer's fault this time.

Well I had a choice - I either play around with the experiment on my own with no supervision and no one to ask questions from, or I keep sitting at the computer. I had already played around with the experiment, but I had supervision and someone to point out what I should do differently. Well now I could just make all the mistakes, waste all the equipment and get my faulty results and lots of faulty data to process. I was actually going to do that until I realized that the entire experiment plan was wrong and none of what I would do will matter in any way. Then it just became so pointless to risk braking expensive lab equipment playing around on my own.

Pretty blossoming wild flowers cheer me up.

In stead, I took the bus to Pacific Beach for the third time already. That made me feel like I had accomplished something - ANYTHING - today. But I have lab-related plans for Wednesday and Friday. Plus I'm gonna see if one person could teach me one thing on Thursday - that would be perfect. I wouldn't say that my lack of activity is due to lack of trying, but all that sitting around and doing nothing is getting to me. It's way worse than the plane ride because I'm not even supposed to be reading a book or anything when I'm in the lab. I'm not used to such inactivity.

Picture of the bus from inside.

"Americans all drive around in huge cars that use up SOOOOO much gas. They just think it's normal to have a huge American car!", said a bunch of people in Estonia and the rest of the Europe. That's the general consensus, so it must be true, right? Well I don't really think so. Most of the time, the cars here are exactly the same as gthe ones in Estonia. It's Hondas and BMWs and other regular cars that people use everywhere. Even the totally unknown probably American companies seem to be making just the regular small city cars that are easy to park and probably take very little gas. But every once in a while I see a car here that makes me go, "wow, that's one big-ass car!".

CARRRRRRRRS!

I saw a tree within a wall. I wonder if it's a rare plant. I wonder why they felt the need to preserve this tree when they built the road. The picture was made between two roads which did not seem that new. The plant doesn't look so healthy there. I hope it's okay.

Awwwwwww... poor little dusty tree being walled in.

I was in the mood for hot chocolate with tiny marshmallows ever since I saw the tiny marshmallows sold in a store the day after I arrived. I immediately remembered all the movies and cartoons where people put marshmallows in hot chocolate, but I also thought, "oh that's horrible, all that sugar and calories, no real nutritional value. I shouldn't eat stuff like that!". Some time has passed and every time I see marshmallows in a store, I think about this treat. Well now I realized that I have to try that! Hot chocolate with tiny marshmallows is a totally American treat as far as I know. How can I live in USA for 6 whole weeks and not try that. Plus my HUGE milk has the expiration date coming up in a few days and there's no way I'd drink that pure. So anyway, ... there's no other choice!

I might have overdone it with the marshmallows.