lol well that's a comfort to know that we are not alone here with this problem :)

Time is flying by so fast. Snow...did we not just have that? Where did the nice summer days go? Almost december...scary. I have like half a year left of my education and I have to do my master's thesis. Trying to find a company to do it on, but no luck so far :(

Do you have any plans for Christmas and/or the next year? For Christmas I have no special plans or so, just being togeteher with the family.

Hello apologize for not posting but real live keeps me very busy



Watch you weight for thanksgiving


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JP...Great hearing from you....I hope all is well. Take care !!!!


Yes, It's Happy Thanksgiving.

Yes, we celebrate Christmas on the morning of the 25th, but on the evening of the 24th we usually visit other family and friends. In effect we get at least 1 1/2 days of Christmas. That's still well short of the song The Twelve Days of Christmas.

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Good morning , many thanks to all of you and ..

Happy Thanksgiving! (Or, if you don't live in the U.S., Happy Thursday!)

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Hope you are all having a great Thanksgiving and Thursday :)


After writing the things below I realized that it is not something that you'd probably like to read especially if you are having a great and happy Thanksgiving. So you can read only the last section - where the real point of my writing for this Thanksgiving is located :)

cober001 - you are right, being close with the family is a good thing. But it is perhaps quite natural for me since I don't have any gf and I am living on my own. I don't really have many (read any) IRL friends here in this city so during the weekends I quite naturally spend time with the family.

I had a few good friends once for a couple of year when I lived in a city called Umeå up north, but then our family moved to another city about 900km south from there so gradually the friendship dissolved...

It's hard to socialize with people from the University also. I have one person there that I get along with quite good - doing a lot of labs together when we ae taking the same course and so on, but we have never done anything together outside of school. Dunno why but it has just turned into such a relation...like all my other relations with people at best right now :(

I don't know really, I am not the one who takes the initiative in social life. I think that they who already have a lot of friends can take the initiative since it shoul be easier for them to do that and I don't want to "force myself into others lives", becoming a friend because they can't say "no" but alway being friend that they don't really want...I've had that experience before and I am not going through that again.

Also, university students and younger people in general tend to socialize by drinking together at some pub or party or something but I never get drunk. And if I drink, then it is probably some holiday, someone's birthday or something like that and then I have a glass of good red wine. So there seems to be no point in going to the pub just to be sober while everyone else is giggely...

So, what I have in family realations I miss in friend relations. There is always a backside of each "medal".

Oh, better stop writing now before I get too self-destructive and instead get to the point that I wanted to say from the very beginning.

I am not familiar with the intrinsic values and ways of Thanksgiving (other than eating a lot of turkey, right :) ), but here is what I wanted to write from the very beginning without the depressing stuff in the middle:

I'm very glad and thankful that I found WCG (and grid.org in the beginning) and all you people here that I have been able to talk to and share thoughts with and a common goal with the help of our crunching. Without you my world would be a lot emptier. Therefore I wish to thank you all for being such good people!
Also a special Thank You to JP for all your help and your enthusiasm and your emails - reminding me and keeping me up to date when I was too busy. Also Damon, thank you for your emails and your friendship. Cober001 (don't know your rel name :) ) thank you for being active on the forum thread and giving answers and thoughts to my posts.

Wish you a great Thanksgiving and soon weekend!
Be well people