Double Standards

The other day I saw a documentary about women form Thailand that marry danish and other men from western countries to improve their own and their families standard of living. I have the opinion that if you choose to marry for money that's up to you, and the men normally wouldn't have a chance in hell to get a danish girlfriend. Moreover most danish men are quite well-behaved and are neither violent nor vey chauvinistic, so all in all they are not that bad a catch for a poor thai-woman.
On the other hand, why do I think that it's okat for a thai-woman to live in a marriage of convenience, when I wouldn't wan't any of my friends, least of all me, to end up in such a relationship? Why is it okay for a poor girl to settle, when we require the highest standards for a future spouse?
To me this is a sign of how people in the rich part of the world (including me) look at people less fortunate. We consider them to make do and don't grant them the same happiness, we demand in every aspect of our lives.
So maybe we should protest against men marrying women from third-world-countries even if the women do it voluntarily, because how much of a choice do they really have?

Repair?

Yesterday I went to have my bike fixed. The back tire was punctured and my gear cable wa about to give up. I made an appointment with my bikesmith bringing the bike in the morning and picking it up in the afternoon.
Little did I expect that my bike would be more broken when I picked it up than when I handed it over in the morning. The back brake was so loose it almost didn't function but this didn't matter much since the back wheel was to tight it almost couldn't turn.
Well, thanks a lot!

Heavy

It is sunday, it is dark outside and cold, really cold. That last word also describes my office quite well. Since I'm the only one at work at the institute today, the heat is off. The electricity is not so luckaly I can have my electrical heater go full power. Unfortunately that is about the most positive thing I can say right now.
What I'm doing now is procrastinating and it's working. For the moment my thesis is getting nowhere.
My eyelids are getting heavy and I'm seriously considering a powernap with head on laptop.
God, I can't wait till this is over!