Soccer and other things...

So, my current position in the betting rank: 9th. Still in the top 10, which is very good... ;) Besides that, let’s hope that Portugal wins the game tomorrow! :));)
For my posts not to be entirely dedicated to soccer in the last weeks, I have to refer that I've been attending a series of conferences since Monday, which will end tomorrow. These are called "International Summer Courses of Cascais" (of course it had to be in my beautiful home town :))))), and the first week is dedicated to the theme "From personal experience to scientific experience". It has been really interesting, and tomorrow is the most expected session (I think!;)) with António and Hanna Damásio, which I'm looking forward as I've never seen them "live" :))

Almost there... :)

Today I'm 4th! ;):)

And the frenzy continues...

As Portugal won yesterday to Mexico (I predicted the right score by the way, 5 points to me :)), we'll be meeting the Netherlands next Sunday...let's see what happens, but let it be Portugal to win ;):) Concerning the betting scores in the institute, I continue to manage to stay in the top 10 (today I'm 7th), but by the time the second stage starts, it's going to be hard to stay this way... :)

The craziness of the world championship

After 10 days, I had to go along with the rest of the crowd, and dedicate a post to the world soccer championship, that's happening in Germany.
First things first: Portugal is already in the second stage, hurray! :)) Though there are less flags than during the European Cup, people are quite crazy all the same :);) From all the pieces that I've seen so far on TV about Portuguese fans here, as well as in Germany (specially in Germany is quite insane, with the emigrants, as when the Portuguese team practices, there are more people watching than in the Portuguese league's games... which is not that surprising, but never mind ;)), my very favorite was with a small girl that had the chance to met Figo close to the hotel where they're staying, and questioned about her experience, she could only say: "he smells soooo good!" :)))))) She was really sweet :)
To go along with the spirit, a couple of people here in the Institute actually organized a kind of betting system for the cup. So far, I've managed to stay in the top 10 (eheheheh), but competition is really tough... :))

Colour in the lab

As I said in my previous post, I’ve been ordering some nice stuff for the lab... We still have a lot to go, but with some more time, patience and obviously a bit of more money we’ll get there... ;) So, as a sample, I show you one of our pink racks (that my very masculine PhD colleague simply adores lol) and our best friend, the automatic pipetor ;)