A Social Time - 08-09-13

"Is it, like, you know, prost?!" asked one of my colleagues, when we went to the Gordon-Biersch-Company for lunch. He'd just been promoted and invited us to a Steakhouse which is famous for Burgers and Beer (of course, from Germany ;-) ; by the way, it's rumoured that you can feed babies with American beer, but that's still not an alternative to the slightly chlorinated water.).

I answered, "yes, indeed, prost! And cheers!". The translation of phrases has become a ritual during lunchbreak: My supervisor learned "Guten Appetit!", and we all had to cope with the pronunciation of the Korean version. "Schönes Wochenende!" - that's was the goodbye for today.

 

(Actually I was supposed to publish this picture at 7pm, now it's about 3 o'clock in the morning ;-))

During our sponsored lunch I was glad not to talk about Physics - instead, we talked about Steve Jobs and about all the world and his brother. I remember especially one joke my supervsior told:

"In the Eighties we used to have Johnna Cash, Steve Jobs and Bob Hope. Now Steve Jobs's dead and we don't have any cash, jobs or hopes."

I thinkt that put all pessimism in a nutshell ;-)

Unfortunately I was a little bit pessimistic about mankind, too, when I was jogging. At some time, that's probably a law by nature, I had to fall. Thus, I got scrapes on my knee, hip and hands. There was no way around going in a strange position back to my acocmodation.
And it's just unbelievable how many people driving or riding passed me without a look! Do people just not notice what's going on around them or do they not want to know? It's indeed quite late that I pick this issue up, but it's always astonishing; sometimes life seems so much easier without much cerebration.
The point is that I don't want to blame anyone, because it's so likely that I acted in the same way; I just can hope that the will for recognition exists.