Windows of Opportunity

After the disappointment of not going to Sarajevo with my friends due to the lack of space in the van I've decided to stay in Zagreb until my meeting with Stefanos who is coming from Greece for the Boat Show in Split. A good friend of mine from London arranged a meeting in Zagreb on the 29th so we can get acquainted and talk possible future collaboration. I really tend to leave a good impression and will prepare accordingly so I don't leave space for failure. I am optimistic and enthusiastic about the business he is starting in Zadar and see it as a good opportunity for a future in my home town.

Being in Zagreb is not as I expected it would be. The upside of it all is the fact that i still have my membership in the gym here and I don't have to pay 40 Kunas per day like I do in Zadar. The downside is that I have to live with my brother again who is kind of a slop and tends to leave a mess everywhere he gets a chance to. That leaves me with a cleaning afternoon in order to get thing back in order.

I am also kind of disappointed in some of my friend and am starting to get the feeling some of them are taking advantage of me. I had quite an unpleasant night with one of my friends who I was supposed to meet. Firstly he was talking on the phone during most of the time we walked trough his neighborhood and secondly he took me to a grill restaurant that reeked of meet so badly that I was willing to burn my clothes once I got back home. and thirdly, even though I made the effort of writing him a paper about Back Scholes for his Masters dissertation, which in my opinion should be enough, he wants me to write in in the form of a dissertation with all the references mentioned have to genesis from the original scripts of the scientist who elaborated the theory, in this case god damn Balck and Scholes in person. And on top of it he wants me to write a whole other paper that was supposed to be a part of my thesis but was left out due to derivatives already verging from the number of pages patterns of a graduation thesis, for a conference in Belgrade we were supposed to attend and present the theme. All in all, this is to be one of the conditions for his academic advancement. I stood there in utter disbelief, drank my Spritzer and decided to go home disappointed.

THe only thing I asked of him was to lend me the book about Insurance and risk in order for me to get prepared for my meeting, and he didn't show a slight interest in it. I decided not to ask any more.