Welcome to the real world

This morning, as I was jayrunning (faster version of jaywalking) across a street by faleza, the riverside park that I always run in, I saw a dog crossing too only a few meters down the street. But the strange thing was that it was using a crosswalk and I wasn't. Then the dog stopped at the centerline of the street and looked at me, as if it was saying "use the crosswalk, dumb @$$." Ya know, Romanian street dogs are smarter than you think.

I don't use any king of planning tool to keep my schedule. I used to, when I was provided with a free planner and repeatedly recommended to use it by GT Athletics. But lately, I have made a mistake by not using planner. Last Saturday was my mother's birthday but I didn't remember until Tuesday...that's bad. I noticed a few times in my life that women are especially sensitive about days of celebration, and I know for a fact that my mother isn't an exception. Bad, bad Masato...

My colleague who works next to me rushed into our office this afternoon and told me that we have a problem to solve. Apparently our boss has a son who goes to a university in Great Brittain, and he had a problem with his homework. So I guess he sent the problem all the way to his mother, who then gave it to my colleague. Then it finally came down to me to solve. Luckily the problem only took me about five minutes to solve so I succeeded to maintain the reputation of Georgia Tech. The thing that I found interesting was that my colleague actually has a master's degree in that field of engineering (strength of materials) yet he had no idea where to start. I guess theories and textbook procedures don't mean much in the real world.