Austin Trip - Shady Grove resturant

Hanson wanted to get some data from Austin, and he wanted to go there. I had visited Austin one year ago, but I decided to go with him. Henry also came with us. I gave my car's key to Ella for these two days. I didn't want Henry and Hanson know about this; so, I didn't tell them. We headed off about 10 am. The road was good. In the way, I found some gas stations using my yelp app. Hanson is not patient sometimes. He was in the gas station, and the pump didn't work. He could easily go to another pump, but he decided to go and find another gas station. "My time worth more." he said. However, he spent more time to find another gas station :) 

One of Hanson's nieces, Hanna, was living in Austin. She suggested a restaurant to us named, "Shady Grove". It was very crowded, but the weather was awesome. We decided to spend 40 minutes to get a table in the yard.

I sat next to Hanson, and we talked about marriage and girls.

The bathroom was weird. I don't know if it was part of "Keep Austin Weird" slogan or not. It was like a train compartment.

The inside was very cool, and it was like a ship or train interior.

I said my prayer in the backyard. When I came back to Hanson and Henry, they thought that I was weird that it took a long time to come back. I didn't want to tell them that I went to say my prayer, but because of that, I told them.

The food was very good. I liked it.

Halloween Party

I went with Henry to see Halloween customs in downtown. I asked Ella and her friend, but they didn't come with us because they went somewhere else before I call them.

I was a good night. I saw two very very beautiful girls there, but there was no chance to talk to them. I saw some other friends there, and they were spending their time with their girlfriends. Henry said when I went to Seattle with Ryan that time, I endured lot of weird looks. People though that we were gay. They might think the same about us tonight, and we laughed.

We went to the bar insides to see the customs and the people. The only disgusting thing was the smell of alcohol in the bars.

Everyone had someone to hug.

It was a good night overall. I still can't understand why they do that.

A talk with my professor

After we came back from the dealership, I went to the school. I decided to talk to my professor. I didn't know what to talk about, but it turned out to be a fruitful conversation.

Professor: "If you work with me in this project, I make you a millionaire!"
Me: "I need only 1 million dollar"
Professor: "OK. You can make it."
Me: "Deal"
Professor: "Deal"
Me: "How long does it take? I need 1 million dollar in one year." (I really don't need this amount of money, but if I could make it, I had a good reason to talk to Taylor after that)
Professor: "In one year? No, what about two years."
Me: "It might be late, but OK."
Professor: "But I don't give you more than 1 million after two years."
Me: "I need to think about it :)"
Professor: "Why do you need one million."
Me: "I can get my green card. My grandmother is sick, and when I wanted to leave my country, she said, 'I never gonna meet you again', and I promised her to come back soon."
Professor: "Oh, I see. Isn't there any other way?"
Me: "I need to be full-time student, so there are not so many options. One is NIW that I talked to you last week."
Professor: "What if I hire you in my own company?"
Me: "In that case, it might take only 7 months."
Professor: "Are you sure?"
Me: "I am pretty sure." [Not completely]
Professor: "I don't know anything about it, let me ask and think about it until December. But I don't promise you anything now."
Me: "OK. Thanks."

These conversations seem to be very dreaming. When I said about it to Henry, he asked, "Was it a serious conversation?" "It might be." I answered.

Henry bought a car

We saw a 2007 Corolla yesterday from the same dealer that I bought my car, and Henry called him and schedules an appointment to go and see and buy the car.

When we got there, the car was sold. It was a good car. Then, Henry decided to buy another car. He showed us a 2001 Acura, and Henry really liked it, and it was a super smooth car. But Since the price was higher than its KBB value, Henry decided not to buy it.

Then he decided to buy a 2006 Altima. We had a test drive, and he liked the car, and we got a discount for the price, and he bought the car. Since it doesn't have any inspection, and the trunk lock needed to be fixed, we left the car at the dealership to bring it for us on Monday. I unintentionally knew that Henry will buy this car when I saw it that time that I wanted to buy my car, but I didn't know how. I though that it never gonna happen because there could be so many better options for him to buy, but it doesn't happen.

I saw her with another boy

Sometimes events are strange. I came out of my office a little later tonight. I saw that girl in front of our department going to the activity center with another boy. At first, I was not sure because of the darkness, but when I looked her closely, I became certain. Maybe I was too old to be friend with her. Maybe she was not really interested in me from the beginning. By the way, it is over. I waited all these days to get her call, but she didn't call me.

irrational dreams

I talked to my mom last night, and she was very sad. Someone referred a guy to marry my sister, but he didn't like my sister, and my mom was sad. I chatted with my mom for more than three hours yesterday. I suggested her to expand her social activity. I don't know what can I do here for her. I am like a death who can't do anything in the other world. I didn't get any call from Lily yesterday, too. And it was so disappointing. I expected her to call me. I thought that she was interested, but it seems that she was not. She is living on-campus, and she has a class everyday, and there are many events this weekend in my university that we could go together, but she didn't call me. I wanted to go today to the cafe and meet her, but I don't know why didn't I do that.

I said that to say I had a bad dream last night. I saw my car had been stolen, and Ryan brought me to the school, and I was very unhappy because of that. I tried to call the insurance and police, but I couldn't because I was in the school to the night because I couldn't take any bus to my home. Then, I saw another dream. I saw my friend in San Diego had stolen a Camaro. Then we went to a shop to buy something, and he stole some medicine, and ran away. The shop owner noticed him, and ask me to give his contact information, but I didn't have. Then, I went out of the shop, and another guy chased me, and asked me to give his number. I said them, I didn't have it. They need to call the police. Then, I ran into a neighborhood called Pyramid that was like Egypt's pyramids inside to lose them, but they found me again. I said them, If I see him again, I ask him to give back all things that he stole.

I see bad dreams anytime I am unhappy. When I am happy, I see good dreams. Why is it so?

Marriage Problem Analysis

I chatted with my mom several times this month. There are always two major topics in our conversation. First, she is concerned about my sister who has not married yet. Second, she wants me to marry an Iranian girl from her friends or someone who she knows.

I thought about it, I can't marry someone in my home country because of several reasons:

1- My visa in single entry. It is a big risk if I want to go back to Iran now. I may not get visa again.
2- I need to know someone before marriage. Even though I took the risk and go back there, I can't stay more than 3 months. How can I know someone and marry her in this short amount of time?
3- Let's suppose that I could marry someone where. What if she couldn't get visa then?
4- If I get my degree, I can't go back to my home country because I need to server two years in military. In fact, I loose all my advantages of getting a degree here.
5- Even If I marry one of them, I can't go back to my home country because of military services, and she will need to visit her family in Iran, and I can't go with her. It may cause lots of problems in the future.

I have two options only; either find someone here, or go back to my home country forever. I don't want to go back there without getting a GC here because I loose many things. A degree is not enough for the things I am going to do. In addition, I am here, and I am 30 now, and it takes at least three years to finish my degree. So, I have three years to decide about staying here or not. Therefore, I just need to focus on the first option, finding someone here.

If I want to marry someone here, I have three choices. First, I can choose an American girl because there are so many of them living here. Second, I can find an Iranian second generation. They are the best because they are both Iranian and American. Third, I can marry an Iranian student who has the similar situation like me.

Since there are so many American girl here, I need to know whether I can live with them or not. I can't start with Taylor definitely, but I can meet any other girl. Second generation Iranian are rare to find. If I could find, I seriously consider her. Iranian students are good, but there are not many choices again, and it should be hard to find a match. So, the first thing is to know about American girls.