Good weekend. The Christmas market was awesome but too damned COLD. The funniest part was the "very beautiful fountain" in Nurnberg (its actually called that, but substitute the unpronouncable German words). Anyway, there is a ring on the gate around the fountain that you are supposed to turn to make your wishes come true. On the side facing the street there was a gold ring, and all the tourists were lined up, turning away. But our guide (a guy from work who's wife just happens to be from Nurnberg) showed us the REAL ring. It was black and on the backside of the fountain, very well hidden in the gate. I found this very funny, all the people lined up, wishing on the WRONG ring!

Ok, so I am mucho busy and should really go to the lab in the next 20 minutes and never be heard from again. But, since the growing trend (amongst GT female aerospace engineering diaries) is to do this silly survey, here I go:

my hair: brown, curly, frizzy, long, usually wet in the mornings or braided

my makeup: None, ever. Unless you occasionally count Body Shop scented lotion.

my dream: To colonize Mars, become a war reporter, travel to every continent (including Antarctica), become a presidential adviser and write my memoirs

my obsession: reading, occasional men, traveling

my most attractive feature: my sexy TOES and definitely my hair, even when it is frizzy.

my favorite thing to do: fly at sunset, when everything - the sky, the buildings, the trees, the ground changes to eerie colors

i'm wearing: Blue jeans, round neck t-shirt

i'm eating: a tangerine (somehow this is a Christmas thing here)

i'm drinking: coffee (not the watered down American kind - the thick rich Swiss kind)

i'm listening to: The sound of keyboards clicking

i'm feeling: Ready to go home to America, well-rested

i'm thinking: I should actually write this darned lab manual that I keep avoiding

i'm going to: Go to the lab and do cool things where I get to burn stuff

i see: The hill out my window, the postcards on my wall

i need: To start cleaning up my room and packing my stuff

i find: Nothing. I get lost too easily

i want: everything - success, love, my dreams to come true.

i have: my pilots' license, diamond earings and a black opal ring, otherwise nothing tangible of any value whatsoever.

i wish: there was more time to do everything

i love: my family, my friends, discovering something new

i hate: monotony

i miss: America, Georgia Tech, knowing what I want out of life

i fear: weapons of mass destruction

i smell: shampoo in my hair

i wonder: will I actually get to do my experiment in the combustion lab today?

i regret: being too arrogant