Anniversary weekend

It's been a very nice an d long week end. Haven't really had the chance to rest - something to do when dead perhaps? Linus fiunnaly arrived in Lund and we managde to spend the last hour and a half of our two year anniversary together, not bad.

Friday we chilled out quite a lot. We went to a nearby mall whee there's a post office and I could fetch my snuggely australian sheep skin boots I'd ordered (from down under) when I realised that I'd get paid for taking notes for someone in class (I'm not as mercenary as it sounds). We did a bit of window shopping and also bought mussels (fresh) for dinner. We made moulles frittes (delicious) and had a camanbert fondue for dessert, watched some telly (well - shows on my computer) and took it easy.

Saturday was the Last of November celebrations at the Academic Society which we attended. Before that we went to the hairdressers' - a very smart move. Having told my hair dresser that I was going to a party that evening she did my hair extra nice with some curling and arrangeing, all included. I didn't have to bother myself later on. Perfect. Tink I might reprise that arrangament. The celebrations were fine. A very good show (spex - a farsical musical theatre) and I did some proper dancing to a live band (ld fashioned). Due to circumstances beyond our controll we didn't get home until around 5, 5.30.

Sunday we went to Copenhaguen where we had a hotel room waiting for us. We went for a stroll around town and ended up eating dinner at a restaurant in Nyhavn (barbeque buffet. mmmm). The city was beautiful with Xmas lights and buskers playing romatic music in every other street corner. We rounded off by going to te Tivoli and strolling around. The X-mas light decorations there are famous and it really was a treat for the senses to walk around there. And I had churros (spanskerör: spanish pipes) hot from the fryer with chocolate suace.

Our last day we looked in MANY stores to see if anything tickled our fancy. We had lunch at famous Smörrebröd restaurant Ida Davidsen (deliscious again) and were stuffed after a couple each. We walked around a bit more but we wer so tired that we ended up on the rooftop café of the departement store Illum where we rested our feet for a couple of hours before heading to the airport. Saying bye at the security check point was bitter, but we got to spend a lot of time with eachother. A very good week end indeed.

Two Years down...

...many more to go.

Linus will be arriving soon - am expecting his phone call at any moment. Loking forward to a long weekend with a party, a night (and day) in Copenhagen and a couple of hours worth of two years anniversary celebration. Not bad at all. Am feeling very happy. Yesterday was good as well as I found flowers in my mailbox when fetching my morning paper and the results from the time warped exam I had were posted. Very satisfactory.

I went to my theatre society's 25th anniversary this Friday. It was fun and I had a nice time, but boy are some of the people pretentious. I do believe taking yourself too serously may be a sin. In any case its embarassing and painful. But our speach went well and the food was very nice. Didn't stay too long but am happy I went.

Anna's here now, she came (to me) yesterday. It's so nice to just spend time together and tak about frivolous and serious stuff. And of couse it's cool to see her tummy and feel the baby kick. It's quite amazing that there are actually three people here,. but one isn't very visible (directly at least). Am having a very relaxing time.

And back again...

A weekend goes by so quickly. Quite annoying. Sunay was good shopping, walking around prospective future home neighbourhoods, carrying loads off stuff up many many stairs (free exercise) and having a curry on Brick Lane. It was nice to see some of the "london Gang" (for want of a better expression) and just spend a relaxing day with Linus. Travelling is not in itself too painful (the check in and security controls were the quickest ever - 20 min!) but it takes such long time. From one home to the other (including all the waiting) I've spent around 15 hours this week end travelling. It's good I've got a fabulous incentive to do it. Feel good to be home though and having unpacked. But I'll be back in London sooner than one can imagine.

One funny incident did happen at the airport. When walking through the shoescannning que (yes, there is such a thing) the guard by the monitor said "Would you please sit down Madame!". I got a bit worried and answered "What me?". He looked at me in a conteptious way saying "Is your name m Adam?". I feelt very foolish but I was reasured by the man behind me in the line who confirmed that he had seemed to say Madame by saying something like "He's probably not polite enough to use the word Madame". That made me feel better. We'll I'm sure it's better to have annoyed a guard a little than having ignored one (face down in the ground sort of thing...).

Cheeese

After a nice outing to Borough Market during the day Lisa came and had dinner with us. It was very nice and we had cheese fondue with bread from the market, some veggies and drink. We finished fondue for six people so we were rather stuffed afterwards. We did manage some dessert, but only after a while. So now we've done chocolate and cheese. Next: meat.

I'm back

I arrived in London yesterday (the travelling does take have a day...) and am happy to be back. Feels like a long time ago, but at the same time very familiar. I've just been to ASDA (managed to catch rush hour nr 1) and am hoping not to have to go back during the week end. Next I'm going to try to prepare my seminary for Tuesday so that I can relax all week end long. We're going to be busy it seems. Next on our agenda is visiting a photography exhibition at The Barbican and then eat out, hopefully Maroccean. It's nice to be back.

Horrid Halloween

I worked all night at a Ball at AF-Borgen (around 100 guests and a lot of alcohol) and got home at around a quater past 7 in the morning knackered as can be. You can imagine my pleasure when I was woken up (well at 14.00 but after nt that much sleep) by a persistant ringing of my door bell. I staggered up, opened my door and was meet by the sight of two boys dressed in everyday clothes, except for ugly plastic masks, demanding "trick or treat" (or as the Swedish translation goes: "candy or mischeif"). Considering: a) we don't celebrate Halloween here traditionally or at least more than superficially, the boys had made NO effort, it was mid day, it was five days past Halloween and I'm extremely conservative when it comes to Halloween in Sweden (I simply don't aprove) my answer was a groggy "Neither or." and closed door. You might think me cruel, but if they had come at Easter, as easter whitches offering a hand made (however ugly) easter card I would have heelt differently (this is the Swedish tradition). But I will not be hightjacked by a compercial fancy that's struck this place just because the kids like the idea of getting candy and have seen it on the telly. All in all, I'äm very grumpy today.

And I would walk a couple of miles....

I didn't feel very enthusiastic waking up Saturday morning and considering my plans for the day. It was windy and raining and I was to go out to the woods with some friends. Fortunately I didn't cave in and did go along on our trip. We went to a beech tree forest about 30 min with car from Lund and walked around in the woods (more than 10km) enjoying the scenery, eachothers company and som fresh air. The excursion didn't loose its charm when we had our half way stop and picknicked. Through joint effort we munched on newly baked cinnamon rolls, pancakes, oatmeal cookies, amonds and raisins and had hot coco (mine was spiced with rum - yum). The only negative aspect was the two blisters I got, one on eac heel, from a combination of wrong socks and worn wellies. The're the size of a 50p coin and I'm still sore. That evening we played some board games (my team won! by a very small margin) and I ate gingerbread cookies with blue cheese before I had to go off to work.

Saunaliscious

Finally we did what we've planned to do since September - Linda, Jonas, Rikard and I went to the "Cold Bath House" in Bjärred for some relax time in the sauna and a couple of dips in the sea. A beatiful, clear winter day had become an evening with some stars and fantastic moon light over the bay. We went out to the bath house, that's located 500 m out in the bay, and enjoyed the view of Malmö-Copenhagen from the sauna and whilts cooling off out doors and in the sea. I feel wonderfully relaxed, as if all my troubles have melted away. The air temperature was around 1 degree celsius and the water tempreture around 8.

Telling time

Well then I've done it, today I had my exam in International Law. Love the subject, very exciting and interesting. I've pushed myselg unusally hard to study. But it isn't much use when you can't tell time properly. I had six hours to reply to six questions; ampel time one should think. And I did think so, until, when answering the fourth and I realised, I have about an hour and a half left to finish this one and the next to. F***! Where did time fly? I stressed through the second last question and somehow managed to answer the last one in 20 minutes (not my best handwriting). Few. And just when I'm about to hand my exam in I realise it's not eight o'clock, it's seven. I have a whole hour left. I did sit down again with the intent of reviewing the last to questions, of redoing them. But I had no energy and I didn't feel there was much I could rescue since I'd have to start from scratch (sort of). SO I handed it in anyways and no I'm bitter, disapointed and angry at myself. And womdering: does someone who can't tell time deserve to study at uni and perhaps graduate? Sigh.