A day with my friend in the university

A friend of mine was here because of her wife's conference (the same guy whom I met a few weeks ago). He stayed with me today. Unfortunately, I was very busy as I needed to prepare something for my professor. We went to an event in my university, and we had our lunch there.

Today was very weird. I met that girl whom opened the door for me (http://oneenchanted.blogspot.com/2014/03/one-day-thinking.html). She recognized me, and started to talk to me. Since the area was noisy, I couldn't understand her well, but I asked her about her major, and she answered. I also met Sarah, and some other girls from toastmasters. It was weird because every a few steps, I met a girl whom I knew, and we started to greeting, and my friend had no idea what to do.

I spent a few hours to explain my project and plans to him. I am interested to have him in my team. He is a very good UI/UX designer, and I need him for the user interface of my website. The only problem is that he is living far from me in another city, and his English is not good. The rest of the day, I worked on my course project.

13 be dar 2014 (1393)

Today was 13 be dar. Last night I called Martin, and he said that they planned to go with some other friends. I called Ella, and she was busy. Henry was going to go out with some others. I didn't want to drive all that long way alone. I was absolutely tired, and I didn't want to go out. 

I decided to go out to a park near my living place. So, I called Nancy, and she was also busy. At first, she wanted to think about it, but then she changed her mind. I think that she didn't want to come with me alone. One of the boys whom I called decided to come with me. I spent four hours to cook lunch, but he changed his mind.

In the afternoon, he called me, and invited me to go with them to the same place that we went last year. The weather was amazing. The place was very busy. It doesn't worth to pay 7$ per person as we got there very late, but it was good. Martin and his friends were dancing in the stage to some Persian music. I danced a little with them. I noticed that I have never done this before. There were some girls who were coming close to our group and dance with the boys there. 

The music was very laud. I couldn't stay in that stage for more than a few minutes, and I left there to take some photos.

The smell of barbecue motivated us to go to a restaurant to eat barbecue there. So, we decided to go there.

Martin and his wife and the group who were with me went to a restaurant together.

I was hungry, and the food was very good.

Since I have cooked lots of food, I have to eat all of them alone during the next week.

Shopping day

Jeeraj wanted to buy a shoe, so I took him to a shoe store. It is very hard to buy a shoe here in the US. It is almost impossible to find what you want. There are not a variety of options, and the good ones are usually very expensive. He spent two hours, and he couldn't buy anything.

We went to JCPenny after that because I had a coupon to use. I bought a hoodie, and one polo shirt. We also ate something there.  

We went to a movie, but since another friend was going to join us, it became late, and I left them in front of the cinema, and I went to Walmart for shopping. I bought another hoodie, and a jacket there.

Nancy failed in her test

Nancy had her road test. I had a lot of stress before her test, and I don't know why. Nancy failed to pass her road test today. The reason was she drove too fast. The officer wrote running stop signs and red lights as the reasons of her failure. In our last night's practice, I specifically explained to her how to make a full-stop, but she was used to driving in Iran where people should drive fast to prevent accidents! We need to come one another day for her test.

Awesome cloud

There was a very amazing cloud over our university tonight. I stared at this for more than 30 minutes, and I took so many pictures. It was one of the most strange things that I have ever seen in my life.

I and Nancy went for driving practice after that. She will take her test tomorrow.

Summer plan

I talked to my professor today.

Me: I really thought about the situation. We don't have money to get FDA approval, and we can't get it from external resources. Therefore, we have no choice other than changing the customer segment and features (pivoting). It seems that it becomes completely a different project.
My professor: Yes. I agree. Do you want to work on this?
Me: Yes. Why not?
My professor: I think that it is better to stay here for the summer. If I could get money from the department, that's fine; otherwise, I will pay you out of my pocket. We both are doing risk on this project. It may never work.
Me: OK. I know. I agree. So, I will stay here.

It seems that I don't need to do job searching for the summer. I need to stay here. It's a very big risk for me. I am risking on my PhD, and my future career life as I don't get any job experience, and I don't do anything useful for my thesis. I know it, but I have no other choice. This is my last hope.

He must stay must stay at least 100 yards away from Taylor

Poor guy! I read a news about a delusional guy who thinks that he is Taylor's husband. And LA judge says that he should  must stay at least 100 yards away from Swift and members of her family for the next three years (Source). He is also planning to kill me :)))))

Thank you Taylor! Stay away from these guys. Hopefully, I don't need to be concerned about him until 2017 :)

Vendor Machine

I saw a new vendor machine in our university serving pens and papers,... I kind of liked it!

There could be possibility of serving different items in these machines.

Taylor made me cry today

I read about Taylor today when I was in the computer lab, and this news made me cry. I can't find the original site now, but it was similar to this one: "Taylor Swift Spends Four and A Half Hours With Cancer Patients In NYC."

I just can say that you are perfect. I am so jealous that you have whatever I want.

Taylor is the most incredible person that I have ever seen in my life. I am so proud of loving her.

I figured out something interesting in her video. Her eyes laugh when she smiles. This is a very rare thing that someone can have. I no longer look for someone with a beautiful smile, but in addition to that I need to find someone whom her eyes laughs when she smiles.

 

It seems that my fearless Taylor is back. She is now that person that I used to know. In addition, I like Taylor's new haircut.

Going driving practice with Nancy

Nancy has her road test next Friday. She drives, and I watch. We went to one of the test centers tonight to practice parallel parking. Then, we ate our dinner out.

I tried to be funny, and I told her the story of getting here from my high school. She really laughed tonight about whatever I said.

Norooz show

There was a show related to Norooz at SMU today. I called some of my friends to give them a ride. I also called Nancy, but she wanted to go there with her lab-mates. 

We came earlier, and we had a chance to visit SMU campus. It was a beautiful campus. I remembered three years ago when I got my first admission from this university. If I had attended this university, the next year would be my last PhD year, but it was not my destiny. I really liked the campus.

The show was good. It was not great, but it was better than nothing. I noticed that I had more time participating in these kinds of events than I used to have in my home country. Nancy joined us in the event. Almost all my friends were there. We sat next to each other. My group were very funny, and they made jokes out of everything especially, the coldness of the environment. I also used to sense of humor to laugh Nancy. We had more fun together than watching the show!

I was very hungry. So, I left the place to buy something to eat. I bought some cookies for everyone, and I went back. Perhaps I should have asked Nancy for a dinner out, but I didn't do that. I didn't want to make her love me. I even was very careful about my behavior. I knew that she was in love with another person somewhere (maybe a long distance relationship), but I didn't want to take any risk even though she is a pretty and decent girl.

Later we went to another friend's house for his birthday party. Nancy drove the way back to practice. That friend had cooked dinner for everybody. We had the dinner together, and we ate the birthday cake.