Blandiblu and more about cigarretes

I am sorry but my decision to give up smoking has to be postponed. Yesterday I realized that I have an entire box of 10 camel that I bought in the "dutyfree" in my way back from last weekend in Barcelona. I know that if your reasoning is not in good shape the following lines could look like weak reasoning or a bad excuse (of course it is not the case). One of the incentives to give up smoking that I mentioned in the last post was the economic one. If the incentive is to save some (currency) as I give up my camels, in the case I do not touch the box, I would have lost a considerable amount of money invested in cigarretes. This means that in order to make the most of the economic incentive to give up smoking, I have to smoke around 10 more packets. I am not going to sell the box (this is an ilelgal activity in Switzerland), and I am not the Santa Claus of smokers, so the option of giving it to someone is by no means considered. Besides, with the "santa" option, I would be incurring in the violation of the moral incentive as I would be inducing the lucky person to perceive smoking as a free activity and then making him/her unaware of his/her economic incentive (me estoy liando un poco). In conclusion, this represents around 200 more camels to be smoked in order to give up smoking. At an average of 10 cigarretes a day, including saturday and friday nights, this gives me 20 more days in which the economic incentive will be overcoming and hidding my moral incentive......And stop talking about smoking until then.....Thank god I bought that box!

Ok, now the main reason for today's post. Work has been increasing steadily last weeks and now we are close to the peak...hope so :( As most of you know, I am sharing the office with my friend Ali from IESE. We have recorded a short video this afternoon. Me and Ali at the office (Or I should say me and Ali's toxic substance). The contaminated office
Note: If this is my last post ever that means either Ali has killed me for posting this or I have died from "green" intoxication.

Well, as I said lot of work, so not much to say appart from "chorradas". Tomorrow I go to have some drinks with people from Paco's floor in Novartis (biologists....yeah), and then we will probably go to one of the open air concerts that "Basel center of the music in summer" offers in August. And the rest of the week I will have to dedicate more hours to work in order to compensate for the fact that I will be pretty tired on monday. This weeeknd...Zurich! Street Parade!!
2nd Note: When I write "Basel center of music..etc" it is not in ironic way (you know). As an example, Paco told me that in his first day here in Basel, when the relocation agency woman was showing him the city in their way to the appartment that all interns have for the summer, she stopped for a second in front of an old building, to tell him that 4 years ago, Simply Red was playing in Basel.....Simply Red!!!! WOW...4 years ago!!! No..that is not possible! How I didn´t know about that???!!!

On the other hand, this weekend I will think also about Chovar (the little town I go near Valencia). They will be starting the holiday week there, and for second year in a row I won´t be there enjoying the party, the town, the people, the best "patatas bravas" in the world, the paella contest after midnight, and the bulls running in the streets. In fact I think I will post next week about the bulls in the town.

Music for the green slime toxic substance: Morcheeba - Antidote