Thursday, October 14, 2010

The days

Two unfortunate things have happened to me so far today.

1. My colleague told me I was getting fat - apparently this is a socially acceptable thing to say to people here. I like the brutal honesty.

2. My research supervisor told me my paper is good with a massive but

Ok so what does this mean? I need to eat less food? I need to eat less fatty mutton? I need to stop my addition to peanut butter? I should never have gone to uni?

PS: I saw snow in Ulaanbataar for the first time this year on Tuesday. It pretty and not even that cold.

4 comments:

  1. Colder climates can be a challenge from a not wanting to eat a lot of warm mutton point of view. Roll with the punches.

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  2. Wow, how much peanut butter do you have to eat to offset the 21k marathon you ran? Do you sleep with a peanut butter IV attached to your forearm?

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  3. You under estimate my eating ability and I haven't been working out for ages. I am going to the gym today even if the -15 degrees kills me on the way there!

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  4. Think about things which will get you hot under the collar, like Johnnie Howard getting another book deal.

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