a real weekend, for once

It's sort of hard to believe that I don't have any work to do this weekend. I keep looking anxiously over at my desk, thinking I should be hunched over it, but in fact I have two whole free days. I plan to do nothing but:

• lay around in bed
• watch football
• grill
• start reading part two of 1Q84
• take a serious nap.

 And check on my garden, of course! 


Översättning: Nu att jag har två lediga dagar ska jag göra precis ingenting, förutom kolla på fotboll och ta en rejält tupplur, förstås!

One down, one to go

I spent every waking moment today (well, almost) at my desk finishing a paper at the eleventh hour. It was exhausting, but I did it! My coursework is done, now I just have to write my thesis and I'm done this degree. Thrilled!

In other good news, I got a new motherboard put in my beloved laptop and we are back together. I love a computer story with a happy ending.

Sorry that I am too tired to write anything else today!

My old friend, you came back!

Well, this is embarrassing. I started this blog a while back because well, you see, during a period of computer upheaval and general business, I honest-to-goodness lost track of my old blog. How does one lose a blog, you ask? It can easily happen if you can easily forget your blog address, lose all the links in your browser, and forget which e-mail account is associated with it, all while taking a long blogging break (partly enforced by lack of access to said blog).  Apparently I am prone to doing all of these things. The happy news is that after many weeks of on-and-off searching, I cleverly remembered that I had listed the address on my flickr and found it again!

The even better news is that this video, which I posted before and which temporarily disappeared from youtube, is back up again:

I think it's the most beautiful thing in the world. The song is wonderful and the video reminds me of the shows I used to watch as a child.

Now that I have two blogs, I have to decide what to do. Should I leave the old one be? Should I move this blog to the old spot, or the new one over here? If I had any readers, this might be an easier choice!

Fast food at the beach

During the week I had to run errands in Burlington and so I stopped at Hutch's for lunch. It's a kind-of-famous super popular place on the shore of the lake, with a good fifties feeling and masses of french fries and hamburgers and ice cream and booths with small jukeboxes that you can listen to while you eat.

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Gentleman

My cat, Gentleman, is sometimes very naughty, but today it looks like he is living up to his name.

Inlagd sil

While I was in Sweden in May, I decided to try my hand at making soused herring (I believe this is how you call inlagd sil in English!). It is preserved herring in a vinegar bath with dill, apple, red onions and elderflower cordial (fläderblomssaft). The result was good but not so flavourful as I wanted it to be. On the other hand, it looked so beautiful that I really couldn't have any complaints. The recipe is from Amelia Vår.

Hooray!

How did I almost forget to mention!??! The Embassy e-mailed me last week and said I am getting my residence permit! I suppose I won't really believe it until the actual thing comes in the mail. But still! Hip hip hooray Sverige I'm coming back!!! ajfkldjakgjdklfjdksalfj!!!!