Cromos americanos

Para começar a minha selecção de fotos de Boston, aqui vai um cromo platinado ;)

Penúltimo dia...

Estou no meu penúltimo dia de estadia em Boston e estou francamente exausta; foram 2 semanas de muito trabalho, com o jet-leg a agravar na primeira. Nem tive tempo de escrever nenhum post de jeito, mas prometo que qdo chegar a Lx coloco algumas fotos que tirei aqui, incluindo de um festival grego que tínhamos à porta de casa ;):) Até breve

Boston

A partir de Domingo e durante duas semanas, estarei de volta aos "Estates". No entretanto, vão ver o Ocean's 13 que está bem giro e foi 1 surpresa agradável ;):)

Dave Matthews Band

Na 6ª feira tive a oportunidade de os ver ao vivo; apenas digo isto: FAN-TÁS-TI-COS! :D

Afilhado - 1 mês depois

Um mês depois de ter nascido, o meu afilhado cresceu tanto, tanto...

"The Book Thief"

Acabei de ler este livro no fim-de-semana passado. Adorei e li-o de um trago (bem, alguns tragos correspondentes a uns 3 fim-de-semana, altura em que tenho mais tempo para leituras) como já há algum tempo não fazia com nenhum livro. Talvez como costumo fazer com os Harry Potters (não, não torçam o nariz, e sim, gosto muito dos Harry Potters! ;)) e com os quais se calhar tem algumas coisas em comum, a começar pela classificação para leitores mais jovens, mas que acabam por ser mais adultos que os lêem...:);) Aliás, acho essas classificações um bocado estranhas, mas enfim... O que me levou a pegar no livro e comprar, foi ler que o narrador era outro que não a Morte, o que achei no mínimo original e que leva a que o livro comece da seguinte forma: “Here is a small fact: You are going to die”.
A história passa-se na Alemanha nazi, sob a perspectiva de uma rapariga de 9 anos (que vai crescendo ao longo desses anos da II Grande Guerra) e ao que me constou basear-se-á na vida da avó do autor, o que a torna ainda mais interessante... Assim, não se assustem com o número de págs. (584), porque efectivamente se lê muito bem, e muito menos com o narrador, que às vezes põe mesmo as coisas na perspectiva certa... e mais não digo ;)☺

Um novo fôlego

Após bastantes reparos de alguns (muito poucos) leitores do meu blogue :)), de que o mesmo deveria ser em Português e que eu renegava a língua de Camões :), dou início a uma nova etapa da vida do Quichas, desta feita em Português! ;):)

A new responsability.....

My Godson was born!!! :)))

Car fixed and busy week

Last week was really busy; between getting the car fixed, and giving a seminar... Both things turned out fine, though I always get a bit nervous with these "public speeches", specially because I was the first one of the group to be giving this kind of seminars... Anyway, no hole in the car door and a nice new radio (it really makes a difference the "company" of the radio in the drives home) really cheered me up ;)
By the way, I went to the preview of "The Fountain" and personally I don't advise it... Too "zen" for me ;):)

No radio and a nice hole in the car door

Yeah, as you might have guessed by now, yesterday when I left the lab, I had that nice surprise expecting me... My car had a small hole on the right door and no radio... And this was in the Institutes's private parking... What a great way to end the day in a police station reporting the robbery... :(:(

Guess...

Guess where I took this (I assume, not very good picture, but it was with my cell phone)....

Success!

I've internet at home with my new Mac...! :):)

New computer, bad internet providers, result: disaster!

I finally have my beautiful new black Macbook! Everything is great, except when I tried to configure my home Internet, not only it didn't work, but when I called my Adsl provider (Sapo, by the way), they informed me that this USB modem is incompatible with these new Intel Mac's.... And that I have to buy a new modem.... We'll see about that...

Summary of the first weeks of 2007

I've been having less and less time (and I assume, I've been more and more lazy :)) to post with some frequency in my blog, but between lots of work, courses, a bit of time with family and friends and simply rest (I've been falling asleep in the couch which is not a good sign, believe me...;)) there's not much left to "blog"... So, I'll just say that I'm waiting for my new computer to arrive (hurray, I'm going to own a black MacBook :)) and that I don't recommend any of my possible readers to go and watch Apocalypto... Let's just say that I think that Mel Gibson is drinking more that he should ;):)

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas and a 2007 full of fulfillment and health to all!

Movies

Work hasn't been allowing me much time to dedicate to the blog or basically, to anything else :), but this weekend I managed to watch these 2 movies thanks to my friends, who don't give up in try to provide me some kind of social life :)))

So, "Manuale d'Amore" is a really sweat and funny movie good for these winter days/nights to cheer up; "Borat".... What to say about Borat? I really enjoyed it, although there are a couple of dispensable scenes (the nude wrestling is one of them, if you've seen it, you know what I'm talking about :);)); definitely it's the US that comes out with not a very positive image... The worse thing is that most of the things are really like that.... So, go and see for yourself ;):)

Chico Buarque

Yesterday, a bit unexpectedly, I went to this concert to fill in for a friend that couldn’t go. Bad luck for her, but a great concert for me! :)) Though I don't know that well Chico Buarque's music, the concert was really fantastic, and if you ever have the opportunity, don't miss it! There's an extra concert this Wednesday by the way! ;):)

Happy Birthday to me!

Thanks so much Ed!

Movie

I saw this movie yesterday, but to be completely honest, I still can't tell for sure if I like it. So, I'll tell you the basics: good performances by the actors, though the plot sometimes gets a little bit confusing. It's a dark, violent, kind of B series movie, but it's a Brian de Palma movie, right? So, bottom line, if you're somewhat a fan of this type of movies, I strongly recommend. And for the male audience, if you're a Scarlett Johansson fan, of course ;)

Edinburgh

Last week was basically spent in the International Dendritic Cell Conference in Edinburgh. It was quite intensive, but it was great to know "who's who in the field" and learn new things. We didn't have much time to explore the city (though Edinburgh is a small city), but of what I saw, I really like it and the Castle is beautiful.