Peer pressure. It's nature's way.

Moving along...

2007-07-19T18:48:00.000+03:00

So yes, it's pack, pack, pack here in Freezerville. RMATS and I are moving into a new flat just under 1km away, and it has a sauna! Hooray!

We got the keys today, and already took a couple of boxfulls of stuff to the new place. I almost wrote 'to the new pad' but I realised that nobody calls their apartment a 'pad'. Sheesh.

Anywho, so far part of the kitchen and livingroom have been packed, and I tells ya - we have too much crap. No way we'll fit all of this in the new place...

But that's all for now, so ttfn!

8 things about me

2007-07-13T16:53:00.000+03:00

Well, since my sis pretty much tagged with this, spose I'll go on with revealing random tidbits about me.

Rules:
1. We have to post these rules before we give you the facts.
2. Players start with eight random facts/habits about themselves.
3. People who are tagged write their own blog post about their eight things and include these rules.
4. At the end of your blog, you need to choose eight people to get tagged and list their names. Don’t forget to leave them a comment telling them they’re tagged and that they should read your blog.

The Things

1. Within the last 6 months I've started wearing skirts, which I haven't really done voluntarily in about 6 years, which is when I realised that knees aint pretty.

2. I don't know what I want to be when I grow up.

3. I like knitting

4. I bruise easily, and find furniture with my knees and toes. This also explains the non-pretty knees.

5. There was a stage in my life when I owned 7 pairs of jeans.

6. I like alliteration a lot. This is why I really like the Kalevala-saga and how it sounds when read out loud.

7. I wish I could form witty limericks on the spot.

8. This time could and probably should have been spent working on my thesis, but here I don't have to worry about correct referencing.

And since I'm not cool enough to know 8 people, I'm only nominating 2 to do this - Eeva and Perth Pedestrienne!

Back again, ready to get to work with that thesis!

2007-05-27T17:49:00.000+03:00

Yessirree, back from Ireland, the trip went quite nicely, though was somewhat money consuming. But tis besides the point.
The point is, that I'm back in Freezerville again, and now I need to be getting on with that thesis of mine.

Not just talking about avoiding it, or avoiding it, or talking about doing it, but actually doing it.

Yep.

So I should make myself a schedule and stick to it. Which I'm horrible at. It's always easier when there's someone telling you what to do.

The good news though is that Scrubs and Grey's Anatomy have finished for the year, so not even my nearly-legal downloading habits can help me procrastinate. Here's hoping I won't find any new series to obsess about...

Who knows, I might get something productive done in the next few weeks, before I can wholeheartedly focus my attention the newest Harry Potter book. Which I've preordered. Because I'm that cool.

Tally ho!

Crazy Irish..

2007-05-17T15:13:00.000+03:00

And I'll be going over to see them!

A couple of friends, RMATS and myself are heading to Dublin for a few days, so hooray hooray for that. Should be funtastic and Guinness galore!

Other than that, life is spent avoiding my thesis, hooray =).

And now I got nothing.

Toodle-pip!

So you're back, from outer space..

2007-04-22T19:23:00.000+03:00

..Or Australia, same dif, really.

Indeed, my dear minions, I am back, and have been for a week. The trip went brilliantly, sister did indeed get herself married and was all pretty and hooray, and I have a brother-in-law now. How crazy is that? Crazy.

The trip was filled with meeting up with folk and twas good. Oh, and I also saw 300 (meh) and Hot Fuzz (Simon Pegg is brilliance).

But now I'm back, and I tells ya, back to the hectic pace of my normal life. For the first half of the week I struggled to stay up past 9pm, and woke up around 8. Now I'm back to the normal, healthy rythm - up till 1am, sleep till 11. The way it's intended to be.

I've also watched 3 seasons of Scrubs (3-5, watched 1&2 before the trip). If only I could have a Dr Cox of my own...

Ahh, and on Friday, I got quite shickered, and apparently walked like Jack Sparrow when heading for a taxi.

So yes, it's been busy.

Downloading all I can of season 6 as we speak, or rather, as I type.

Anywho, now for some more assignment avoiding, and then off to play Trivial Pursuit with the gals. Yarr.

Sidenote: Due to the excessive Scrubs-ing, I now have a JD-voice narrating everything I do. It makes my geeky mind feel cooler.

Pretty shoes.

2007-03-14T18:58:00.000+02:00

I just bought myself a pair of really really pretty shoes today, and they deserve a post of their own.

That's all.

Yarr!

A long, long, time ago, I can still remember...

2007-03-10T10:19:00.000+02:00

... how I used to blog twice a week.

Not really happening these days, now is it?
Well, anywho,let's see what's been going on.

We've had this week off as a traditional 'Ski Holiday', though I haven't done any skiing. Anywho, last weekend saw the 60th birthday of my godfather, and so we headed down to party, and of the 100+ people there, I was in the minority lot of sober folk. But twas good, nice and dandy anyhow, nice to see relatives and that lot.

Then we headed back to Freezerville, I spent half a day here, and then the next day headed to Vaasa, to celebrate my cousins birthday. Twas fun indeed.

Now once again back in Freezerville, and thoroughly avoiding study. Though I need to do a research plan sometime soon, so I might get on with it. Or not, you never know, really.

By the way, aside my thesis I've got 3 courses to go yet, 2 of which are well on their way already. Christ, I'll be needing to graduate soon, become a functioning member of the society, istead of mooching off the government. Bastards.

Other than that, nothing much. In a few weeks I'll be heading down to Australia, so hooray hooray for that =). Can't wait, as it shall be all things brilliant. Though I'll probably be jetlagged till we get back, but still. Minor detail.

That's yarr folks!

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How to get on with your studies 101

2007-02-18T17:40:00.000+02:00

Clearly a course I should take.
See, today I decided that I'd finally get around to actually studying, I'll get some work done that I've been putting off for the last bazillion weeks.

I go to my pile of books and realise that I should probably run to the shops and get food for today.
Come back, make food with RMATS, eat, have a cup of tea.

Back to the books. Of the three I have I realise that only one of them might actually be vaguely of use. I open the book.

Suddenly it dawns on me that I've got a few drawers full of stuff and they're in a desperate mess, so I should probably sort those out.

Did that, began pondering about opening that book again.

I haven't blogged in about a week, I might need to update and rant.
Am doing this now. D'uh.

So, what am I going to do after this? Go to the book? Extend a report that I should also have done a while ago, but eh, yanno. Or, should I go back to the shops and get ingredients for muffins.
I like muffins.

Well hey, at least I'm doing something semi-productive, even if I'm not studying. All hail the procrastinatory lifestyle!

Yarr.

Tis a night to spend listening to slow music

2007-02-12T23:09:00.000+02:00

Or maybe the few beers are just getting to me, ya never know.

Anywho, sentimental is the general mood.

Firstly, it's been a good day. Not because of anything out of the ordinary, but just a general gosh darn good day.

An old friend, MissEllie, emailed today, after not being in touch with each other for a while. Not due to anything dramatic, just the way things go, yanno. So twas really nice to hear from her, and we exchanged a couple of emails, and I'm really really looking forward to running into her in a few months, and catching up in person.

This got me thinking also of my dear HLP, who emailed a couple of weeks ago with a smashing suggestion about travel together, but alas, finances are something a full time student cannot guarantee. But we'll see.

The evening has been spent watching decent tv - Desperate Housewives and the L-Word. The second season of DH just finished, and damn do I love that show. Though no show will ever take the number one place in my heart reserved to Joss Whedonness (Buffy, Angel, Firefly), Desperate Housewives is currently a very close second. The episode of L-word that just aired dealt with one of the women having cancer and such, so season-finishing and cancer-dealing episodes make sentimental watching, and blogging.
I feel like looking through old photos and reading peoples blogs and such.

So I visited DearFriend's myspace just now. I've mentioned DearFriend in some earlier posts, mainly probably a year ago, when I was in Barcelona and all. Anywho, there's a lot that's gone on between us, and nowadays we run into each other every now and then at uni and exchange pleasantries.

Anywho, on her myspace she's got a blog, and it just sorta dawned on me that that's how I find out about what's going on in her life nowadays. We used to talk every day, and spend hours with each other.

Ahh, the evils of a good day, sentimental television and a couple of beers.
And I need to be at uni tomorrow at 8:15.

Spose I should call it a night.

Or get a glass of red wine.

You guessed it.
Yarr.

Half a day for me

2007-01-27T13:01:00.000+02:00

So RMATS was gone for the night, as he went to his parents' to pick up his suit for an upcoming event. Anywho, I stayed here with our dear Admiral, as it would've been a bit of a hassle to move him around just for one night.

So what's a girl to do when she's alone for half a day?

Well, first i found myself cleaning and doing laundry and doing all sorts of house-keepingy stuff. Sheesh, is this away to have quality time with yourself? Perhaps not, but then again twas pretty nice when everything was all nice and neat.

Then I shaved my legs and painted my nails.

I headed to the shop, and bought some Bachelor-Chow -a just-add-water pasta-meal, which claimed to have a flavour to it, but they all pretty much taste the same anyway. Then the rest of my night was spent playing with Admiral, and knitting a pink scarf while watching Commando. Balanced things out nicely.

Twas a good day =).

Up, up, and a-yarr!!

Hamstertastic!

2007-01-20T13:49:00.000+02:00

Yessirree, me and RMATS decided to get ourselves a pet, namely a hamster.

So now we're the proud owners of Admiral Chewie Hunkster, a grey-haired bundle of cuteness.

We've already had a minor incident in the kitchen involving a roaming hamster, a newfound hole in the wall, and the battle to retreive said hamster from mentioned hole. We're fine, hamster's fine, hole's fine, kitchen wall... well, nobody'll notice the slight mark.

But still, so far so good.

That's all for now, till later y'arr!

Mmmm, new-year-y goodness...

2007-01-04T15:57:00.000+02:00

Hello hello to you all out there, it's been a while again, hasn't it. The new year is upon us, and looks alrighty so far.

So, what did I do last year?

January - studious stuff, nothing much, getting ready to start panicking about going to Barcelona.
February - left for Barcelona, arrived there on valentines day. The next few months were quite smashing indeed, and I ended up finding a really nice house full of wonderful people. Lots of dutch.
March - still in Barcelona, RMATS came for a visit. Twas a fun week.
April - BCN still
May- BCN still, little brother came for a visit. Twas a fun long weekend =).
June - Back in Finland in time for my brother's graduation. Sniff, all grown up now.. Did some minor touring around Finland visiting relatives and such. Me and RMATS were very inseaparable for a bit there.
July - Back in Freezerville, and off to work, got me a summer job at a day care centre, kept me busy for the month.
August - no more work, visited my folks in the south of Finland again, had a small gathering, slowly getting ready to go back to uni again. Started one of my pracs
September - did one teaching prac, caused a bit of stress that one, though it was only for a couple of weeks. Organisation just didn't work quite as it should have..
October - some prac stuff, halloween party, going out a bit, normal stoodent life, generally.
November - Started my final prac, woohoo!
December - Finished my final prac, double woohoo! Also xmas, relatives, new year, that sorta stuff.

Also there has been a bit of a down to the start of the year - my aunt who's been ill with cancer for the last few years passed away earlier this week. She had a few good years even with the disease, but in the last couple of months things just deteriorated. She was 70, and really cool. If there is a heaven, hers would have a garden to potter about in, and lots of cats to pet.

Anywho, here's to the new year. A few good things are already in the making - a friend's baby on its way out, the wedding of the decade in a few months (not mine), and perhaps I'll even start my thesis. Should start doing something about that one soon..

Off to find tea.
Happy new Yarr!

Hoo boy, I'm a-gettin' lazy.

2006-12-17T12:33:00.000+02:00

Indeedy, I've thoroughly neglected my poor blog for more than a month. Shame on me, truly!

But what have I been doing in the mean time? Well, life hasn't really been anything else other than that final teaching prac, which will thankfully end next week. We're in the middle of getting the Xmas pageant done at the school, and all sorts of crazy things like that. But only a few more days to go, hooray!

Then there's getting presents organised and such like, and to my horror I've actually managed to get nearly everything done, and it's still a week to xmas! Honestly, usually it's the last 2 days that I panic and run around like a rabid animal, but no sirree, not this year. This year I planned ahead. Scary.

What else, what else?
Spose I could share an interesting dream I had the other day when my 15minute nap sorta streched to a couple of hours.

I woke up at my workplace, which was none other than the Beckham residence, as I was their nanny. I'd been taking a nap, and realised that I should've been working for a while now, eeek! So I got up with a start, saw their middle age Spanish maid, who told me that Vic&David were in their bedroom. I went to see them, they were in their pajamas playing Scrabble on the bed, while the tv was on in the background.

Both were all smiles, and apparently I looked really cute while asleep, so they didn't want to wake me up. Off I went to find their kids, walking down many stairs, which were insanely steep, and of course, being employed by Victoria, I was wearing stupidly high heels as work shoes. I found their eldest son, about 10-11 years old, and we went for a walk around the huge palace of a house. In the basement of their house they had a gaming arcade.

The boy had something on his mind, and he'd lost something that he couldn't get back, and I asked how that made him feel.
-"Like I want to stab penises. Do you ever feel like that? What did you feel like when you lost something?"
"... Well, yes sometimes I've felt like stabbing penises too. But usually if I lose something, I really feel like getting someone to hug me."
-"Yeah, I think I'd like that too actually."
So I gave the tyke a hug, and off we went to play air-hockey.
Then I woke up.

Honestly, The Superficial and Celebitchy are dangerous.

I think that's about enough for now, off to do assignments!

Y'arr come back now, y'hear?

All hail glorius nation Kazakhstan!

2006-11-11T14:24:00.000+02:00

Yes indeed, I've seen Borat. And twas highly entertaining indeed, I heartily recommend it to you folks.

Nice.

So, let's see what's been happening in the world of Mirri.

A week ago we had a halloween party here, and twas fun, folks were dressed up nicely - we had Pippi Longstocking, an oven, a dirty disco-man, a gay artist, a bat, a police officer, a couple of cats, a bear, a banana dog, a porn star, a couple of new-rich Russians, a tribesman, and a Transylvanian wielding his Axe of Despair - the usual. Our disgusting jelly was quite popular, as well as the punch with icy hands.
People called in the next day with hangovers, so I think we did well.

Two weeks down and six to go with this teaching prac of mine - the final one, thankfully. All these lessons to plan and whatnot.
So far I've learnt that I'm incapable of planning well structured lessons. No problem with any other sort of classroom management or such, just the lessons. *Sigh*.
Suppose I should be learning still as well, but meh. Just waiting for this one to be done with...

So far today I've done some American style pancakes for breakfast, which turned out quite nicely, and I've also googled Abba-lyrics.

Yes.

Anywho, 'nuf of my boring life, off to find new adventures. Y'arr be good now.

Well I'll be damned.

2006-11-01T09:00:00.000+02:00

Seems I've forgotten this here blog for nearly a month. 'Scuse me for that.

Now let's see, what I've been up to in the mean time. Did some assignmenty stuff, began my final prac (8 weeks of planning, giving and analyzing lessons. Which is stupid, because real, actual, proper teacher folk pretty much heavily rely on teachers manuals, which don't leave that much to be planned. Which is all nice and good, but they want us students to still be all innovative and excited about doing everything the extreme-pedagogue -way. Bleh).

And that's about it I think.
Oh, but yes - tomorrow I'll be a substitute for a day - and get this - I'll get paid for it! Woohoo! =) Not that it'll be a huge amount of money as it is just for one day, but still. It's something.

And now, time to go find tea before heading off to school.

Y'arr behave now.

Mmmm, phlegm.

2006-10-04T20:02:00.000+03:00

Ahh, the title of my previous post refers to a person who I am truly in need of. As modern medicine has been unable to find a cure to the common cold, I say Dr Nick should be well and truly capable of curing it.

It's been a while since posting, and let's see what's been happening.
- Finished my prac, which I mentioned in my previous post
- Got sick, which I mentioned just above
- Ran out of things that have happened
- Yes.

There ya go then.

Well ok, study-wise my next prac is slowly starting up, and I have a bit of studying and stuff to do for this weekend, so let's hope I'll be all non-groggy once I attempt that.

Oh oh, I can access The Superficia l again, hooray! I have been getting my celeb-gossip fix somewhat satisfied over at Celebitchy, but frankly - they're just too nice sometimes. Superficial folk do it nastier I say, and that's the way (a-ha, a-ha) I like it.

Gawd I'm shallow.
Honestly, there really really isn't much of a point to this blog, as I seldom even post, rarely have anything interesting to say, and bring out my love for pirate-sayings waaay too much. Yarr.

There have been some crazy relationship-shenanigans discussed, but lately there hasn't even been any of that. Which is quite cool actually, I'm a big fan of a hassle-free life.

Ahh, and suppose I could tell you folks as well - tomorrow marks the first anniversary of me & roommate-and-then-some becoming that 'and-then-some'. So hooray for that =).

Aanywho, till later and such. Yarr come back now, y'hear?

Hi everybody!

2006-09-16T11:38:00.000+03:00

Hi Dr. Nick!

It's been a while again, and no it's not due to Steve Irwin mourning that I stopped posting. It's the lack of things to say again.

But let's see if I can cough something up.

The teaching-part of my prac finished on thursday, hooray for that. Least I had a car, so I didn't have to figure out busroutes and whatnot. Apparently while driving to the school took about 20 minutes, the busses would take closer to an hour. Sheesh.

But anywho, now that's done, and I've got to start writing up my report thingy. Bleh. But it could be worse I suppose.

Oh and an interesting tidbit of info - I'm scarily near to graduation it seems. Holy flying monkies! During the rest of this academic year I'll finish the rest of my courses, and I'll have time a-plenty to work on my masters thesis. Meaning that soon I might have to try out life in the actual real working world, instead of the delightful easyness of student life and no real responsibilities.

But we'll see. I might decide that actually I need to study some more first...

Oh, and we had a visitor from Australia last week, as Josh S. or 'beardy-Josh' popped over for a couple of days whilst doing a Euro-tour. He got to do a lot of token Finnish stuff, like go to a sauna, get too drunk, visit Santa at the Arctic Circle, and eat a reindeer pizza. The usual.

And as for something completely unrelated, I've been unable to visit The Superficial for a couple of weeks now. The pages just won't load. I'm experiencing serious withdrawals from my daily celeb-gossip fix.

Sigh.

Anywho, till later and yarr that. =)

Crocodile Haunter

2006-09-04T16:54:00.000+03:00

Seems that our planet's favourite (...) wildlife chap has moved on to broader crocodile hunting grounds.

Tried his official website just a moment ago, but it's probably down with too much traffic.

Anywho, a stingray through the heart. Now that's a way to go. If only there were thumbs and crocodiles involved in it as well..

Stingray through the heart.

Ouch.

That's all for now folks, sure you'll read this stuff elsewhere as well during the next few days, with more details and interesting commentary. But just before I go, I'd also like to remind you of this.

Yarr.

Awww, dammit.

2006-08-28T20:51:00.000+03:00

Missed an appointment at uni today.

Not a big huge one, but I'd agreed with the teacher myself on this particular day and time, and well - I completely forgot about it. I was so sure it would be tomorrow morning. So guess my surprise when I checked my calendar just a couple of hours ago.

Oops, I suppose.

But in any case, even if I had remembered that the appointment was for this morning, there wasn't a hell of a lot I could've done about it, as I was spending the weekend at RMATS's summer cabin & his parents place.
The cabin stint was very nice indeed, it's on a small island, so we got on a tiny motorboat, vroom, splish, splash and we were there. It's a beautiful place, and they've opted to keep the cabin sans electricity, so there's a fireplace in the middle of the room and all.

Nowadays the nights are dark again, so after lying in the sauna and skinnydipping in the too-damn-cold sea water, we sat outside and lit a few big candles, and could see similar small fires on other islands and on the coast of the mainland and and yeah. All nice and pretty and romantic and whatnot.

And now it's back to reality and organising studies and doing stuff. Pfft.
My prac starts in a week. I don't really really know what the hell I'll be doing, but hey, I'm sure things will somehow clear themselves up, and I'll come up with brilliant workshop plans on issues like equality or refugees or human rights etc.

To infinity, and beyarr!

Tharr be pirates..!

2006-08-15T17:44:00.000+03:00

And I be the last to see them, yarr, tis a sad fate!

Meaning that tomorrow RMATS and I will finally go see the second installment to the Pirates of the Caribbean family, now that everybody else has already seen it.

But the lateness is ok, we're making up for it by having a pirate theme night then - we'll both be dressed up as pirates (we even made ourselves some leather wrist cuffs and eye-patches today), then we'll go raid the town and escape with our booty (Chinese take-away), head back to our secret hiding place, and start celebrating and drinking rum (&coke).

Yes, we're cool like that. We're going on a pirate date.

Other than that life's pretty much same old. Got back from the parental units this weekend, and now I'm spending my days avoiding study. I even went to the library, so I have books at home I can avoid reading.
Oh, and we did some re-organising of this flat of ours, and spent too much money on new stuff, but it all looks cool, and the place is a bit more homely again.

Can't think of anything else for the moment, so till later and yarr that.

I just don't have anything to rant about.

2006-08-07T11:20:00.000+03:00

That must be the reason for my lack of posting. When in Spain, there was always something worth mentioning, on how things/people refused to work and so on.

But back in Finland and Freezerville, what's supposed to have worked, has worked - including me! But now my stint at the day-care centre is over, and thus I spend my days waiting for my paycheck to arrive. Aaany day now.

Also what's been happening, a couple of weeks back we organised a friends hens-night (which involved all sorts of fun, nudity, and fun nudity!), and then on Saturday she got married. Both of them looked absolutely adorable and twas a fun wedding indeed.

Then come Sunday RMATS and I headed off towards the south of Finland to raid the fridge of our parents for a week. On our way we picked up two of my cousins kids, so we looked quite like a typical family unit - though both of us perhaps a wee bit young to have 7&8 year old kiddies...

Anywho, we're here now, and that's about it I suppose.

Yarr!

It's been a while. Again.

2006-07-25T07:26:00.000+03:00

Gah, see what the working life does to a girl? No energy to update, and pretending to be too busy during the weekends as well. In reality, nothing much has really been happening.

I spend my weekdays working, getting home, eating, taking a nap, watching some anime (currently Samurai Champloo) with the RMATS, and then off to bed, trying to mentally prepare myself for yet another morning of 7am.

But it's been nice, the kids are still cute, and it's good having something of a routine in life.

But only for a week and a half more, then I can get back to the sweet, sweet sleeping in. Perhaps soon getting up at 9am won't feel like I've had a really decent lie-in.

Ah well, better go get make-up and breakfast sorted out, and head out for today then.

Oh, and for a while now (possibly the whole week) I'll be using RMATS' bike to get to work, as on Saturday night I was sorta too lazy to cycle back from town in the middle of the night, and there was a bus so conveniently nearby, and and yeah. Still haven't gotten around to fetching the thing. Eventually...

Up up, and a-yarr!

Heeeeeere's Johnny!

2006-07-08T10:39:00.000+03:00

Ok, I lied, it's actually me. But still, the point being - I'm here!

Hooray!

Soooo, it's been about a week since my last post, and for once it's not due to being lazy and living an uneventful life. Because my dear followers, if you've been paying attention, you'll know that I've started working, hooray!

I'm spending my days at a day-care centre looking after kids of 2-6. They're all more adorable than a sack of bunnies, and makes going to work not really feel like going to work. It's not a bad place to be in.

Except the whole 'early morning' -thing. Been getting up at 7am for the past week. Then today I decided that dammit, I'm a-sleep for as long as I can, enjoy my time not having to get up and get ready for anything.

So I woke up at 9am ready for the world.

Two hours more, people.

I managed two hours more.

Normally, even if I try my hardest I cannot get up at 9am.

Damn the circadian rythm of a normal, functioning member of the society!

Other stuff going on at the moment, a friend is getting married next month so it'll be all exciting and hooray hooray. Need to slightly alter my dress though, the straps are a wee bit too long now.

Eh, I'll get around to it eventually...

...Mmmmaybe.

And well, that's all folks.

Ta ta for yarr!

I'm a-getting lazy...

2006-07-02T13:36:00.000+03:00

.. with my posts it would seem. Then again I haven't really been doing much lately, just lazing about and whatnot.

But tomorrow, my dear readers, tomorrow it'll all change.

Tomorrow I start work! For the next month I'll be running about in a daycare-centre playing with kids. and I tells ya, really looking forward to it. It'll be nice to actually be doing something productive with my days, and also trying the whole 'getting up before noon' thing.

So who knows, perhaps as of tomorrow I'll have more to rant about, though I doubt that nothing beats the Spanish system in rant-inducing.

Up up, and ayarr!

Seems it's been a while...

2006-06-21T08:21:00.000+03:00

.. since my last post, and I do apologise for the silent treatment.

It's not that I've been insanely busy or anything like that, heavens no. Somehow I've just kept pushing the update on and on, with excuses a-plenty.

Well no more I say! No more!

It's nice being back in Freezerville, and in Finland in general. So far my time has been spent seeing relatives (drunk and otherwise), knitting, getting something almost-classifiable-as-productive-uni-workwise done, and smooching with the RMATS. Lots of the latter.

It's weird being back in a way that as it's so easy to get back into the routine of normal life here the exchange feels so distant suddenly, though I've only been back for about three weeks. I really need to get myself a photo album and start getting photos organised and all, so people can see bits of at least some of the shenanigans I've been up to.

Wow, how's that for a rambling non-informative update?

Anywho, I'm off to drink some more tea, find my knitting and start working away again.

Ttfn,
up up, and yarr!

Finland, Finland, Finland, the country where I long to be...

2006-06-05T18:25:00.000+03:00

And indeed here I am, got back on Friday, and I tells ya folks, it's nice to be back =).

Weather was nice when I landed (first day without rain in two weeks), got picked up by RMATS and since then we've been very much within hugging distance of each other.

Saturday was very nice as well, as it was my little brother's graduation party with a whole pile of relatives and family friends, lots of food, and drinks to serve and pretty dress and pretty shoes that hurt like hell after a couple of hours of rushing around and ow.
But it was good =).

Heading to Freezerville on Friday, hanging around the parental units untill then. Hooray for ever-full fridges!

That's all for now folks, I'll see if I get a more of an update on the last week of my Barcelonian time, but I probably won't as I'll forget, but it was cool nonetheless =).

Ttfn,
-Yarr.

Seriously

2006-05-26T12:21:00.000+03:00

Got a distinct feeling of Spain again today.

You see folks, I was supposed to have one of my exams today, arranged it with the teacher a good few weeks ago. So I go to uni, after some panicky, hasty study, and armed with my dictionary and my trusty pencil-case.

"So when is it that you have your exam?"
- Err, today...?
"Today? Really? Well, no no, that's not really good. How's Tuesday for you?"
-Tuesday. Ok, fine, Tuesday

Seriously!

*sigh*

By the way, I've been watching way too much of Grey's Anatomy lately, but it's just too damn addictive.

Only a week to go, and then I'll be back in Finland again. Mixed feelings about this. Now don't get me wrong, I'm insanely happy to go home and to see everyone again, with a special mention to RMATS, and all that. Hoorays all around for that.
But for the last four months I've been living in this house of sticky floors and loud dutch people, and grown quite fond of the international feel of the place. And I know that even if I stayed here for longer there wouldn't really be that much time before everyone else who I know in this house would be gone too. By mid-June most of the folks here will have gone back to their homecountries. So it's good that I go now, I get to say my ttfn's to all =).

But now, I'm a-going to make tea to soothe me over the very Spanish incident of my morning I mentioned above.

Seriously, yarr.

Oh my Lordi.

2006-05-21T17:09:00.000+03:00

Whoa.

Something that's never happened before.

\,,/ Rock on.

Two weeks and a day...

2006-05-18T20:02:00.000+03:00

... till I head back to the land of Finns, and say toodles to my Barcelonian experience of lazy 'studying', and a distinctly Spanish way of organising things.
I'm not even going to start on my internet connection again. Which still isn't working, though it was supposed to be back on yesterday, but I'm not getting into the rant of having to haul my computer up to the third floor where I can get the neighbours' wireless loud, clear and faltering. But as I said, not bothering to whinge about my lack of connection anymore.

The weekend with my brother went sooo quickly, and we had a lot of fun, though we never did get to the beach. But I think he had fun, and we got a disposable camera which is full of cheesy touristshots. Here's hoping they turn out good =)

Can't believe how quickly the last few months have gone - I mean, I just got here! I've met a whole pile of wonderful people, I can almost follow a dutch conversation now, and I've thoroughly studied the joys of cheap - yet effective - sangria. Schoolwork? Pfft. A tan? Hah! Still the pale-verging-on-see-through I've always been =). I don't have the patience to work on a tan. Screw that, I'll keep my pasty complexion.

And now that school's almost out -only I'm really not finding a lot of motivation for the last couple of weeks school-wise. I mean I could spend my days just reading books and doodling and providing the weather's nicer than the cold and cloudy it's now, perhaps even exposing myself to the beach.

More rambling later, till later y'arr!

Long time, no post

2006-05-13T19:06:00.000+03:00

Less than a week in reality, but I'm sure it felt like a whole lot longer for all of my fans out there.

Aanywho..

My little brother is here at the moment, so hooray for that! He got here yesterday afternoon, and the evening was spent with a fair amount of sangria consumption with the pile of international folk we have in this house.

Twas a fun night.

Today we've been good little tourists and gone to see a couple of token sights, as well as roaming around the city for some shopping.

As for tonight, there's another houseparty in planning, so a trip down to the shops might be in order yet. Tomorrow, weather permitting , shall be a beach day.

Tis all for now, up up and yarr!

Still no net...

2006-05-07T22:23:00.001+03:00

So I'm still on the neighbours' wireless. Which is quite efficient, though doesn't work in my room, so I've got to haul myself and my trusty rental laptop all the way to the kitchen on the third floor. Currently this table holds three other computers as well. Net-addicted people, all of us.

One of the problems of having the only net point of the house in a kitchen is that people cook here, and they cook stuff that smells reeeeally nice, and I just ate, dammit!

Onto other things, like what I've done this weekend. Firstly I've walked so much I have blisters in my feet. Though that is mainly due to the fact that I wore flip-flops for all that walking. But it could be worse. So where was it that I walked to, I hear you ask. Well, there was a big RedBull Air Race here yesterday, and it seems that all of Barcelona decided to attend. Seriously, I've never seen such a crowd, or been so unbelieveably immobile and stuck with sweaty people all around me and yeh. Ew.

The beach looked like it had more people than sand on it.
Our crew first tried to make our way to the beach as well, but soon gave the excercise up as futile. We retreated to a beach further down with no view of the action, but no people either.

And that's about all of the action I've been up to since my last post.

So that's all for now folks, y'arr be good now.

Nobody expects Spanish efficiency

2006-05-05T20:37:00.000+03:00

The ones who've read this blog before might have noticed the slight dislike I have for the internet connection of my house.

I'm glad to say that I no longer have that problem.

Because how can you dislike what you don't have?

Yep. A couple of days ago our connection cut out, and this time we got our hands on the contract and network support number only after a day without a connection. Roped someone with adequate Spanish skills to call them up, and after being passed around from department to another for about fifteen minutes we found out that the contract for our connection has been cancelled.

What the..??!

Soo, we got in touch with the landlady, who called the person who's name the connection is under, and as a reply she goot "Oops" basically. He was supposed to cancel another connection, and not ours.

Oops.

Right.

So now we're hoping that maybe it'll work again tomorrow...

'But where is she posting from now?' I hear you all think. Well with the bliss of a tightly built suburb and unsecured wireless connections a-plenty, I'm riding on my neighbours connection, alongside half the people of my house mind you..

Anywho, that's all for now, here's hoping that the connection will be back up tomorrow...
Yarr.

So I'm back, from outer space..

2006-05-03T11:31:00.000+03:00

Greetings from my roadtrip that is =).

We went to Aragon, more specifically to near Barbastro and Torreciudad, stayed in a nice hostel-type place, from where we headed to various excursions the area had to offer.

Saw the medieval village of Aínsa, the Torreciudad cathedral a couple of times (Catholic folk travelling with me, more about that a bit later...), and the really nice national park and canyon of Añisclo. Took a lot of photos, most of which I deleted, because I really couldn't tell the difference between all the scenic shots I'd at the time thought to be oh so good.

Oh and quick note about the camera, as I mentioned in my previous post, I don't have mine with me. Thus I borrowed DF's digital camera, though she warned me that at a previous party someone had sat on it or something, and it still takes pictures, though they all turn out blurry, so not sure how well the photos will turn out. Thought I'd take it in any case, it's atleast something.

Once I looked at the camera closer I figured that hell, I can fix it. I mean, I'm no technical whiz as such, but I'm not completely helpless when it comes to some technology.

I set upon my task, and only in a matter of moments I could take clear and sharp photos again.

There was a fingerprint on the lens.

***

So, the Catholic companions I mentioned earlier. Nice, wonderful girls. Very sweet, and even though I only knew one even somehow, and the rest completely new acquaintances, twas not a problem having me on board. The weekend was spent conversing in equally broken spanish and english, and worked quite well.

Now I've had something of a rant on religion before, but I really don't have anything against individuals, as long as they don't try to convert me. Well, by the end of the weekend I got asked in amazement that don't I really ever get the need to pray, and maybe I just don't know yet, and howbout I take these instructions on how to pray properly to the holy virgin.

Right.

And then the incident of which I already ranted in Sponge Girl's comments - the movie-censorship. We were watching The Island, and as the movie came to the point where all Hollywood movies eventually come to - the love scene, one of the girls got up, and blocked the projector till all that heavy breathing passed.

Ya say whaaat?

I was quite baffled.

I mean, OK, the characters had not gotten married or anything, so twas premarital. But honestly, what would you see in such a scene? Two heads bobbing close to each other, dim lighting, panting, bare arms.

They block this, but happily watch people shooting each other, or blowing up cars and such. Killing is fine to see, but not a bit of movie love.

Anywho, this is turning out to be a reeeeally long post, so I'll spare you more rambling. Till later folks.

Yarr!

One small step...

2006-04-28T18:32:00.000+03:00

Well ok, actually a few-hour car drive, but still.

Yessirree, going on a small roadtrip this weekend .
As it's MayDay on Monday 'tis a public holiday, and I got asked to join a bunch of gals heading to Aragon for a few days. Apparently one of the gals (or her parental units) has a currently unoccupied house up there, which we'll invade.

Now the plan is apparently to do study a-plenty, as people have exams coming up. Me being the exchange student and not really expected to study anything here (hooray!) am packing my Douglas Adams with me instead of study-related stuff.

But it'll be nice to see a bit more of Spain. And all the people going there, bar myself, are Spanish/Catalan speaking ones. So who knows, I might even improve my language skills a bit. Or just talk really slowly in English and wave my hands a lot.

The trickiest part will be being sans internet connection, but maybe that'll just be good for me...

Oh and onto somehting completely different for a moment, in two weeks my little brother will be here for the weekend! Hooray! I already warned him not to pack too much stuff, as I'll be forced to send part of my accumulated pile of crap with him back to Finland, as there's no way I could fit it all in my suitcase. And should probably ask that he brings my camera with him aswell... Yep, I bring two pairs of bikinis (haven't been swimming once), and didn't bring a camera.
Ah well.

That's all for now, gotta head off in half an hour, so till later y'arr!

Back to normal..

2006-04-23T20:45:00.000+03:00

Connection-wise that is. It keeps cutting out every now and then, though now it luckily reconnects quite quickly.

Which is good.

Though still damn irritating.

So let's see, what's happened since my last post..?
Found out I've got me a sumemerjob in July, so a big HOORAY to that =). Because a) money is good, and 2) boredom sucks ass. Did that last summer, and got bored up to the point of voluntarily doing schoolwork. Crazy things..

The week has been very literacy-related. Bunch of bookhappenings at our university, and on Friday us exchange students all got to read some poetry or the like in our native languages. I chose the easy option of just reading a bit of Kalevala, which can conveniently be found online. Hooray again!

Today is the day of Books&Roses, the point of which is that lovers would give each other these items as gifts (naturally meaning that men get books and fragile females receive uprooted flora). But anywho, the biggest street in town was filled with rose and book stalls and an endless stream of tourists and locals, browsing through books and looking at pretty roses. Found me a couple of books as well (I'm quite a sucker for books. I think I brought more books than t-shirts with me here...)
Found the Spanish version of Sinuhe the Egyptian, which I've never even read in Finnish, but naturally had to get it once it caught my eye. Plus it only cost a euro..

Back to school again tomorrow, and I've got a bunch of homework I haven't even considered doing yet. I keep telling myself that I'll just get up early tomorrow and do it then. To which I already know that, yeah right - as if. But still, I'm planning on keeping up with this charade of pretending to lie to myself.

Now dear readers I'm going to see what plans dinner has for me (I figure that if I have an actual recipe, then I have plans for dinner. When not, then it's vice versa. It's up to the ingredients what they choose to turn into), so till later.

Yarr.

edit

dude this is the third time I'm trying to post this goddamn thing. Work already!

Happy Easterbunnyday =)

2006-04-16T19:29:00.000+03:00

Hello hello everyone.

Well my week of laziness is soon coming to an end, only tomorrow left for sweet sweet nothing. Then again I've been succesfully accomplishing nothing since friday last week, so perhaps it's time to pretend to study again =).

Things with me and DF are seriously looking up, which deserves a huge HOORAY! Saw her earlier this week (Wednesday maybe, dunno for sure. One of them anyway) as I joined her and her housemates for a lazy day at the beach, and then today as she came over for the Easter brunch at my house (ate a lot. It was about 6 hours ago, and I'm still full. But boi was it good.), and tomorrow a bunch of us are going to a couple of clubs.

But anyway, after the brunch she sent me a message asking if it would be ok by me if we didn't continue with the separate lives anymore and so on. To which I replied with something along the lines of "Yes yes yes, hooray hooray!"

So WooHoo! =D

That's all for now, so till later y'arr.

edit

Forgot to relate my tale of attending an Easter procession when I first posted, so thought I'd just add it in here.

So as you may have gathered, Easter is a big thing for them catholic folk - what with a whole week off school and all. On Friday we went into town to see a real, authentic, Spanish Easter procession, which would start from one of the churches from quite the centre of town.

Mind you Barcelona doesn't do it as big and all out as some other towns, but still.

So we get there, me, Austrian girl and Belgian boy, and quickly notice that we're not the only ones there.

Huge crowds, everyone pushing and shoving to get themselves close to that church entrance, to see all them priests and altar boys streaming out, looking all grave and solemn and whatnot.

Now I have a bit of a thing against religion. I'm not saying it's bad to have faith, and by all means, the one of you who do believe, and find peace, serenity and all sortsa good stuff from it, good for you. But as an institution, and masses of religious folk with that holier-than-thou attitude - sheesh. Not my crowd, I tells ya.

So much for good samaritans when someone's trying to pass - no, no, no! The thing to do is to not move your feet an inch, yell at the person trying to get forward and push forward so you can get the good glimpse of that priest, at whom you gaze upon with such a lamb-like stare whilst crossing your hands. God-fearing folk my ass - all of 'em just hell bent on the notion that their club is right and thus are allowed act however the hell they please towards them pagans.

Anyway, there was a float aswell, quite a big one. It had Mary supporting a dead Jesus on her lap, lots of flowers, and a huge crown on Mary's head. They'd built it inside the church, and somehow neglected to make sure they could fit the contraption through the doors onto the street. Eventually they had to get the crown off, get the float outside, and then re-attach it.

So there was a priest half in Mary's lap, leaning on Jesus, screwing the crown on Mary's head. The crowds seriously cheer joyfully as the priest twists and screws the crown tightly on her head.

And I think that I was the only one who saw that as somewhat in the area of what not to do to religious symbols - publicly attach headwear with hardware, but hey, what do I know I suppose. You nail one's hands, spose you may aswell screw the other one's head.

Anywho, after all that the float finally began to inch along, only to stop under a balcony from which two women 'sang'. Banshees in heat, to my opinion, but then again, what do I know of these religious thingamies.

After that the three of us decided that we'd seen about enough, and the gang of hypoc... religious folk could manage well without us in their midst. We went and ate kebabs and life was good again.

I can live with this

2006-04-11T17:06:00.000+03:00

So this week is shaping out to be one of a hefty amount of relaxation and all sortsa non-stressfull stuff.

A couple of days ago went to a sushi bar with a couple of girls from the house, and boi was it good. Cost a lot, but twas worth it. Then yesterday went to see Good Night, and Good Luck which I quite liked. From there we headed to a Lebanese restaurant, and treated ourselves yet again to good food.

And then I stayed up till 3am watching the Breakfast Club. It's still a damn cool movie.

All in all, I haven't been doing anything constructive, and quite enjoying it. Ah, and I'm also attempting a tan! Though so far it's been more of a burn, but still, I'll get there (or skin cancer) eventually. I might've said this before, but as I've got nothing else to do, I might as well repeat myself a couple of times.

Onto other things
This house has a quaint little garden which is all nice and unkempt and it's nice to sit there and drink your tea. The garden also has 3 cats, which live somewhere between this house and the couple of neighbours - they don't belong to anyone, but aren't stray's as such.
One of them is quite friendly and gladly comes to get her little head scratched and takes part in the conversations.
Anyway, the point of this little description was that a few days ago we noted that this little kitty is a bit round in the not-fat kinda way, and it is spring and all... So there might be kittens soon, which will mean absolutely no studies, because c'mon - kittens!

So we'll see how that goes.

Anywho, that's all for now, might go sit outside in the sun some more =).
Yarr!

I'm a-reget this post later...

2006-04-08T05:05:00.000+03:00

Yep, estoy borracho, meaning I'm a teensy bit on the incoherent side. purely because a friend of mine. My plan was to watch a movie or two, but so it happened that I opted instead to go out with a friend of mine for a drink or two. Or a pitcher. Yanno, same dif as they say.
So really, not my fault at all, that words might fail me at this moment, or that it might take me a while to spell words properly.
...

Ok, fine, the sangria wasn't forced down my throat as such. Or at all.

But back to the title, if I delete this later (in more sober hours that is), you my dear reader are entitled to demand it back.

I'm gonna go catch some sleep now...

Edit: Am in the sober hours now and spose I might as well leave this up. Nothing too incriminating I think. And quite well typed for 4am and excessive sangria intake I'd say..

It's alive, ALIVE!!

2006-04-07T17:58:00.000+03:00

Well connected anyway. Hooray for the internet and helpdesk people! And more to the point people who have the necessary language skills to talk to the helpdesk people!

So hoorays all around.

That's all for now, as I've got to go do some foodshopping, currently I am in possession of an onion and some beans. That's all folks, yarr!

Dear Comtrend, you suck.

2006-04-06T00:04:00.000+03:00

Yep, the company responsible for my huge gaping lack of an internet connection these past few days. Not impressed, people, not impressed at all.

Got me an online exam next monday, which will be interesting if they don't really fix this goddamn connection for good. Right now it's working,yes, but I'm really not inclined to trust it. Believe me, it'll cut out aaany minute now.

Bastards.

Other than and including that, life is pretty much normal here. Next week is holidays, hooray for religious countries and a week of Easter holidays! My plan is to finally do something about this pale-verging-on-see-through skin of mine, ie tempt some skin cancer my way. Because if Paris Hilton taught me something, spray tans are NOT the way to go. So far I've found myself able to resist the temptation to transform into some hue of orange.

Lessee, what else?

Missing RMATS insanely. Too damn far away. Sigh.
Couple of months to go...

That's all for now, no more pointless rambling for you =)
Ttfn, yarr.

The answer to life, the universe and everything.

2006-04-01T21:05:00.000+03:00

Yep, this post should reveal all that going by the number of it, but it probably won't. Sorry. No enlightenment here unfortunately.

So I've well and truly ditched my bi-weekly posting pattern, as I figured I would, as soon as I said it out loud. Jinxity jinx.

Today has been something of a quiet day for a change, as yesterday we had a houseparty with the beer and the wine and the sangria, and more beer and more wine and you get the idea. After managing to get up around 2pm I engaged in vigorous rehydrative activities.

What else, what else..?

Ah, bought me some shoes today, and they're quite funky indeed. Perhaps the heels are a bit higher than what I initially planned, but eh. Most likely I won't get vertigo.

That's all the uneventfullness you'll get for now, as I see a chocolate bar staring at me, demanding for my full and undivided attention. And who am I to argue that?

Yarr.

My japanese name

2006-03-28T13:15:00.000+03:00

Saw this at Miss Ellie's livejournal, and couldn't resist. And man my Japanese name kicks ass! =D

My japanese name is 猿渡 Saruwatari (monkey on a crossing bridge) 美晴 Miharu (beautiful clear sky).
Take your real japanese name generator! today!
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Yarr!

Dammit.

2006-03-27T01:10:00.000+03:00

Well, that special someone mentioned in the previous post is now back in Freezerville, and I'm still here in the land of horrendous internet connections. Well ok, now it's good, but for the whole of today it's been pin-the-cable-on-the-donkey at the office again.

Last week was brilliant. Absolutely fabulous in every way.

Half of Barcelona is now diabetic due to us.

We were such a typical sickly sweet couple at all the touristy places and the bars and restaurants, not really concentrating as such on the views or food, but rather just holding hands and being mooshy.

And boi was it good.

Managed to do some schoolwork during the week aswell, but not that much. Had other stuff to concentrate on.

Now before roommate-and-then-some came, my dear friend who's also here told me she didn't want to see us. Fair enough, and not a problem. She told me about some places I might want to visit with RMATS, which was quite nice.
Then once RMATS has been here for three days I think it was, DF calls up and asks if we could all meet and do something together.

Clarity, people. I need clarity. I really really don't like being told one rule, and then changing it two days later.

Yeah, sure, ok. She came over and we talked all of us just normal likes and no heavy emotional stuff, which was really weird. Me and RMATS know that this girl has repeatedly told us she doesn't want to see us together or even be friends as such, and now she's called up and came over and we're having pleasant chitchat about how her weekend was and his trip here so far.

Eventually I had to ask that um, well, I really don't get this lets keep our lives separate thing, because then you do this and we're hanging out all together and our lives are very much not separate.

She wanted closure. She didn't want to leave things at the stage of both of us pouring our guts out and saying that it's been a shit time and let's cool it.

Sort of a hatchet-burial I suppose. The three of us went to dinner (during which RMATS was very quiet, I could see that he was not quite comfortable with the situation, but well..), and after that for drinks. While roaming around me and RMATS held hands, and when DF's friends called to see where she was, she told she was out with Mirri and her boyfriend -so it looks like acceptance is in the air.
The whole night was very civil, but RMATS and I took our leave once DF's friends joined the bar.
Enough of emotional baggage for one night that was.

But still, the week was absolutely amazing in every way, even though there was some screwup with his hostel (my room is tiny, the walls here are paper thin, and my bed squeaks if you breathe on it - so we opted for a hostel...), meaning that the first two nights were in a single bed, the next four nights in rooms with twin beds (which could be pushed together, but eventually slid apart anyway..), and the last night in a room with a double bed.
Which squeaked when you breathed on it.
And it was the room right next to the reception.
It's not like the reception people could sleep anyway with people arriving at all hours of the night...
In any case, won't be needing to see them again...

Coded enough? ;)

Anywho, till later y'arr.

There goes that pattern..

2006-03-21T21:18:00.000+02:00

Ah well. I knew that if I actually said it out loud (well write, but still) I'd jinx it and here we are. No update on Sunday, and yet one on Tuesday. Regularity - why it's my middle name! Sorta.

Things have been mighty goodly fine and dandy this week so far, and I've been doing a lot of touristing with my dear roommate-and-then-some, among other stuff. Don't worry, I'll spare you the details..

We've been sleeping at his hostel (after some re-arranging of bookings and such), but visiting my place for online goodness and the convenience of having a kitchen.

And that's about it for now, I'll come up with more things to say when I'm not so distracted by that special someone being just two metres away.

Up, up and yarr!

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's a blogging pattern!

2006-03-15T16:57:00.000+02:00

Just looked at my previous posts, and seems I've pretty much fallen into a bi-weekly schedule of updating on Wednesdays and Sundays. I assure you this has not been on purpose, and now that I mentioned it I'll probably break the pattern anyway.

The week so far has been fairly uneventful.

Monday we had the tourist drive, which was quite nice, and now I'll hopefully be able to pretend to know about stuff once people come to visit. The dinner afterwards was more of a nibblies and sandwiches thing, and I suspect many were left hungry after touring from 11-19 (though I ditched the tour at fiveish to go home for some life-sustaining tea, and then reappeared for the free food).

Yesterday I turned up at uni only to find out that our lecture was cancelled, and thus headed back home again straight away. Figured that now I'd have time a-plenty to get this essay started and really really do schoolwork.

After an impressive amount of whining and procrastination I did actually get half the essay done, so I'm almost there. Though I've run out of things to say. But it'll be fine, I'll just invent stuff, get creative with my paragraph sizes and fatten it to the right size without the hassle of finding more substance to it.

And here we are, Wednesday, where the uneventfulness of my life still continues along the same old tracks. Had uni, should study, probably won't.
Might go visit an inner city school tomorrow, which should be good.

In any case I've noticed that this week I just can't concentrate on anything, and dont particularly want to either, because I just want it to be Saturday already, dammit! Find myself smiling like an idiot at times, and seem to have a fieldful of butterflies within me.

Anywho, enough o' that, till later folks.
Yarr.

Slow paced blogger

2006-03-12T23:28:00.000+02:00

Seems that if I decide not to whinge here, then I just don't update at all... Oops.

What can I say, complaining is one of lifes finer pleasures.
This week has gone by fairly quickly without doing all that much. Went out friday with a bunch of people from my class, and twas fun. First we went to a pub in which you could order gigantic drinks. So first me and a dutch gal (I swear, I've met more dutch people than spanish ones..) consumed 1 litre of vodka&orange, as did a few other people around our table as well.

Someone decided that that was just not enough, so we got a 6 litre vase of the same stuff, which the 8ish of us emptied rather quickly. Straws can be tricky..

So from there we staggered to our main destination of the night, a club called St Tropez. And I did the unspeakable - I payed 15€ entrance. But! Wait! Before you judge, the entrance did include a t-shirt (it was a physical education teacher ed organised party, so all the money went to a good cause) and two drinks (of which I could only have one, was a teensy bit too wobbly to trust myself with another one...).

But yes, got home at around 5am ish. One of our entourage had a car, and he was nice enough to drop everyone home, so hooray for that.

Saturday was very quiet, and very still. Shh, people, shh...

Today a bunch of people from this house went to play lazy beach volley again, and it was fun, and fairly warm untill the wind kicked in.

Tomorrow I'll be doing touristy stuff for the whole day, as our university has organised a tourbuss from 11-19, and then dinner at our university, just for us exchange people. So that should be good.

And and and! Saturday next week my dear dear dear roommate-and-then-some will be here! =D
Lemme tell ya, we'll be so sickly sweet the whole of Barcelona will be diabetic after that week.

That's all for now, so till later y'arr.

Goddamn Spanish connection.

2006-03-08T23:19:00.000+02:00

Quick whinge, as I probably won't be online for longer than a minute.

Yep, this damn 'connection' keeps cutting out. I swear in some office there's a bunch of drunken engineers playing 'pin the cable on the donkey' or something, and thus preventing me from having my sweet sweet online time. Bastards!!

This has resulted in a couple pictures of enraged people, so atleast I'm channeling my anger into creative stuff.

But still, aargh.

Just give me my broadband, and nobody gets hurt.

No whining, just updating =).

2006-03-05T15:50:00.000+02:00

So the previous post was indeed insanely long, sorry bout that folks. Today we'll merely take a look at the happenings of the weekend =).

Friday I had an exam for a course I'm studying online, and I think it went fairly well, so hooray =). That night the residents of the house gathered downstairs to sit around the table and drink&play drinking games, which was quite fun. Staggered to bed at 3am.

Saturday, woke up very very thirsty. After some quenching continued sleep untill about 12ish. An hour and a half later three duch girls, one american and myself headed towards the beach for some hungover beach volley, which was quite fun. After playing for a couple of hours we found some insanely greasy food, which brought us all back to life.

We got home tired, sweaty and sandy, and my plan was to be in bed by midnight.

But, well, plans tend to change.

After a few hours of relaxing online time (yes, a net addict I am), I found myself wide awake - and thus agreed to hit the town with a few other people.
We didn't actually get to town untill about 2 am, where we then proceeded to wander aimlessly to find three more people to join with, and once we located them it was time to find the next group of people who were in some club which was the target of the night.

Naturally nobody really knew where it was, so we took a bus to get closer, and then realised that we got off too early anyway, and so we walked. And walked.

At about 3:45 we found the club, with a huge line in front. It apparently cost 12 euros to get in. So at this stage I wished the entourage a good night, and hoped they'll have a good time, and I turned back and walked for about 20 minutes, to get to the taxi stands, waited another 20 minutes to actually get a cab, which I achieved by looking tiny and pathetic.

I sorta cut the line a bit, but I was a poor little girl all alone at 4:30 am with a bit of a cough, so the taxi driver stopped infront of me, instead of the other twenty-odd people in line, hooray! And he also turned the heat up a bit, gave me a lozenge for my throat and told some touristy information about the buildings we passed.

That seriously was the high-light of the night, the nice taxi driver.

Heard today that the others got home at about 6, and the club really wasn't all that anyway.

Woke up today at just a bit before two, feeling good and refreshed. Managed the washing machine easily this time, and am currently procrastinating from homework, which I'll most likely start thinking about doing soon. Probably.

Ok, so there was a bit of whining, and it was a bit of a long post. But the weekend was good all around, and I'm almost healthy again! Still got a slight cough, but it's on its way out.

That's all for now, over and out =)

Blargh. Insanely long post, sorry.

2006-03-01T17:06:00.000+02:00

Still sick. Still coughing and constantly blowing my nose and all sortsa fun stuff.

It's been an interesting couple of days, on which I will elaborate in just a moment. But first a small discussion on my policy of naming people. So far I haven't, and the few people mentioned here other than yours truly (yah, well, it's my blog about me, ya think I'd really talk about others that much? =)) have gone by either their blogger names, like Sponge gal, or dear friend, or roommate-and-then-some. But now the following story will be mainly about the dear friend and the roommate-and-then-some and frankly, just takes a lot of effort to write all that. So initials it is.
Dear friend is X. and roommate-and-then-some is Y. Got it? Good, ok, on with the story. Ye need a bit of background so it'll make more sense. I hope.

Me and X. study the same thing in Freezerville, ie are in the same class. We met when our studies began in September 2003. Turned out our class wass full of wonderful people and we became quite a tight-knit group of 18 teachers of the future. During that year we also naturally met other students from the teacher-education faculty, and in among them was Y.

First year flew by quickly, and one of the girls from our class moves in with a friend of Y.'s, thus the lot of us becoming friends. At some stage of the second year (ie autumn of 2004) X. tells me and another gal that she thinks that Y. is rather cute. Throughout the rest of the year X. and Y. spend more time with each other and become really good friends, though no-one is really sure if they're together or not. Christmas time clarified that, sorta, though in the new year of 2005 if you didn't know, you couldn't guess - they seemed to avoid PDA.

2005 started off rough for X., and she spent a lot of it crying and there are reasons for this, but not really my business to disclose, so I wont. Y. naturally wanted to help her with all of it, but yeah, lots of big issues and hard to know what to do, how to do, when to do.
As spring of 2005 advances, studies end for the year, and X. prepares to go abroad to work for the summer. She's having doubts about herself and Y., feeling that he might be progressing a bit too fast. Y. is planning on going with X.
A bit before it's time for X. to leave, she breaks it off with Y. She's worried that he cares more about her and that she'd be leading him on if he came with her.

Whilst all this I'm in the background somewhere, listening when people want to talk and thus i know all this. No eavsdropping, all the info was volunteered to me =).

Summer of 2005, X. abroad, Y. at home near Freezerville, me at home far away from Freezerville. The couple whom I mentioned in the first line of the second paragraph hold a bbq at their place near Freezerville. I head over, and Y. is there too, long time no see. He's got a new apartment, though due to some mix up there's a spare room which he really has no use for. I'm without a place to live in Freezerville, and thus we agree to become roommates. I instantly inform X., who actually seems happy to hear it, and says it should be a fun year then. Hooray!

Well, uni starts, I move, and the roommateness with Y. begins. X. heads back to Freezerville aswell, and has to stay with us for a couple of days before her tenant clears out of her apartment. The instant she walks in Y. freezes up and clearly wants to run away, and X. is ready to burst into tears.

The next couple of weeks are a teary time for X., and she comes over regularly, declaring that she actually still has feelings for Y., and can't they try again. Y. explains that his feelings have changed, and he doesn't feel that way about her anymore.

I'm still in the background and don't really know what to do. Some odd tension is growing between me and Y., but as there was X. falling apart in front of us, the tension was pushed aside.

One night a whole bunch of us were out and about, and at some stage me and Y. realise we've been holding hands for the majority of the night. Something to be discussed once we get home..

We both know that we shouldn't, that there's more people involved than just the two of us, no matter how nice, right and wonderful even just holding hands felt. We decide not to act upon feelings and control ourselves.

The next couple of days are incredibly shit. Need I remind you that I was still living with Y. and every time I saw him he looked completely heartbroken, quite mirroring my own emotions. I didn't want to be at home, and I didn't want to be anywhere else and life just sucked.

X. came over one more time to see if Y. would get together with her again. She falls apart completely, and neither Y. or I know what to do, and once X. left we went for a long aimless drive to the middle of nowhere, because the walls were seriously caving in. Both of us cursing why life cant be simple, and in unison decide to make it even trickier.

Now with me and Y. feeling and allowing ourselves to feel a whole pile better, there's X. to consider. How to tell her.
How do you fix someone, who's falling completely apart in a very literal sense?
- Probably not by dating the guy of their dreams.

Still, has to be done, a few days later I go over to X.'s place and own up. Decided the least thing I could do is give her home-ground-advantage.

And that, is the basic history.

Since then X. and I have tried to see if the friendship is still there. I've felt guilty as hell, surprise surprise, and decided that whatever comes my way, I'll take it. Throughout the autumn of 2005 I got such a vast array of mixed messages from X. I had no idea what she wanted. She wanted me to tell her everything. She didn't want to hear anything. She didnt want to see me or him, only to call about a week later asking if we could meet. She still came over a couple of times, invited me to her place to watch a movie and talk.
She missed a life-drawing class for her Arts, and I posed for her (she gave me a big ass,but spose that's fair ;))[though this was not guilt-driven, atleast not entirely. Had the air between us been neutral I still would've posed, and perhaps still been depicted with a big ass].
At times she lashed out at me and blamed me for everything that was wrong with her life at the moment, then called the next day to apologise, and the next time to take the apology back as she doesn't have to apologise for how she feels.

And I quite simply just took it. Didn't defend myself though I could've, because didn't think I deserved to say anything back, and was worried that I might make things worse.

So here we are, in Barcelona. The first couple of weeks here we've been together very much 24/7, helping each other out with all sortsa stuff. Told her a few days ago that Y. will be here in three weeks. Ok, good she said. Thankyou for telling me now, maybe I can get all the obsessing out of the way before then.

The next day we had an online conversation for an hour and a half, where she first said that she was a bit upset, and then proceeded with the blaming and the martyrism. Now I was just tired.

Not again.
First I thought, fine blame me. If that what makes you feel better, then do it. Pour shit on me, and I'll hand you the bucket back so you can scoop some more up, just like I've done for the whole autumn.
But then I thought, screw it, I'll speak my mind and we'll see where that goes.

Indeed she was on purpose provoking me hoping to get a reaction. Apparently she couldnt understand how I could claim to care about anyone when nothing seems to touch me. I dont have any emotions according to her.
What can I say, first of all I'm not one to wear my heart on my sleeve, and all this time I just wanted to keep things as easy and painless for her as possible. I let myself be vented on, gladly, if that'll make her feel better.
That has been my main goal in all this.
To make her feel better, which she naturally doesn't belive, but then we've got one or two trust issues to solve I guess.

Anyway, all of this has thus resulted in a cooling-off period. She says that though we'll of course see in school and all, she'd rather keep our lives separate for now. She wants to be friends, but she cant help but feel insanely bitter.
It's a big city, the both of us can fit here.

In case of emergencies we can still naturally call each other, and have to aswell. But yeah.

So this is the baggage I've got with me at the moment.

Y. will be here in less than three weeks, and I cant wait =).

Once again, sorry for the long post, but I guess I just wanted to rant once again, and maybe clarify things for myself also.

Ttfn,
yarr.

Fine then.

2006-02-27T11:08:00.000+02:00

Fine people, don't comment, see if I... *sob*...*sniff*...

Ah well, spose if I actually wrote something interesting enough to comment on and actually commented on other people's blogs more often, I might have a couple readers more. So yes yes, ignore that, go back to your lurking =).

Been a bit sick for the last couple of days, as has the rest of this house, but I think (and hope) that I'm getting better. Sure my throat still hurts and there's icky goopy stuff in there, but less than what there was, say yesterday. So hooray!

Need to head off for studies, so yet again a short and manageable post.

Ttfn, yarr!

Cold indoors.

2006-02-23T20:08:00.000+02:00

Yanno when it's all icky and cold and wet outside, and you can't wait to get indoors into the beautiful welcoming warmth that is your home?
Yeah, well it doesn't happen here.

Seriously people, when it's cold outside, it's supposed to be warm inside. None of this continuous teeth-chattering stuff.
Were it not for fluffy slippers (yea Spongie, I claimed the ones you sent to La Madre, they were a teensy bit small for her, but quite perfect for yours truly =)) I swear my toes would fall off due to frostbite.

Not that frostbite would actually cause bodyparts to fall off.
And fine, fine, it's not literally freezing in here, but still. It's a bit sad that my laptop is my heating element.

That's yarr for now.

Oh and I hadn't turned the washing machine on, but luckily someone spotted my confused, blank stare, and came to my assistance.

Ahh, and also now you can comment even if ye aint a blogger, a hint to you lurkers out there.

Adventure and excitement with the washing machines!

2006-02-21T12:14:00.000+02:00

Indeed plural, as there are three machines upstairs, all right next to each other.
Yesterday decided to do some laundry, and thus hauled my pile of clothes waiting to be washed upstairs and outside, only to find the machines occupied. Though I did try opening one of them, and sorta, kinda, broke the handle.
I swear I did not yank or pull, just opened. And it came off. With a snapcrack(lepop)! Then I saw someone elses clothes there, and decided that eh, it's their problem to handle.

So today after my brief stint at uni listening to a lecture I did not understand one word of (but really wasn't all alone in my blank stares, as a whole lot of people were dozing off, playing with their phones, or checking their watches constantly), I decided it was an unlikely time to have anyone else wanting to wash their clothes, and lo, I was right.

Now I think I turned the machine on.

Ya see, it's an old one, and all the helpful diagrams next to the dials have faded long long ago. So I just loaded the machine up, and pressed the button with a light on it. The light lit. Didn't hear any noise from it, hoping that it doesn't require turning a tap on or anything.

Anywho, in an hourish we'll see if I still have more clothes than what I'm wearing currently...

Hola again!

2006-02-20T00:04:00.000+02:00

So life is definately getting a routine feel to it, and I'm quite comfortable in my little room.

Seems like half the inhabitants of this house are Dutch, so there's a lot of that language flying about. Sounding fery Flemish indeed, crazy language...

Yesterday was a day of roaming around, left here at about noon, got back at 2am. Was quite tired, and I was the first to go home - the rest of our party continued apparently untill 5am... Sheesh, where do people get the energy from, seriously? And on top of that, they spent their evening in a club it cost fifteen euros to get in. INSANE! Four of them had free passes, but the rest coughed up the cash. Crazy people I tells ya.

So far I've found one Spanish feature that I really can't see myself getting used to. The times these people eat. Lunch is sometime between 1-5 pm, and dinner is somewhere between 9-11pm. Nosirree, I'll gladly stick to my Finnish habits of lunch around noon and dinner around 6pm, in the meantimes apples and the like will sustain life.

Tomorrow we'll start our Catalan lessons, which shall be interesting.

Over and yarr.

It's been a good day =)

2006-02-16T19:10:00.000+02:00

Did some suntannin' on the roof, which was quite quite nice indeed. Met a few more people from the house, and even attempted doing my homework - which was to read a chapter and summarise the key points quickly. It's educational theory, so I've done it about ten times before. Though not in spanish. Crazy language...

But it's been a good day.

My friend called though and said that as she'd been lying on the beach, her bag got stolen. Thus she sprinted after the thieves, and demanded to get her stuff back - and they actually returned everything.

There's a whole list of things that can only happen to this friend o' mine. She's the only person I know whose dog has actually eaten their homework.

Short post this time around, till later =)
Yarr.

Finally a post that'll go straight online.

2006-02-15T20:54:00.000+02:00

So yes, no more do I need to type something up, then save it on a memory-stick, then hope to find an internet-den somewhere, then post it. Nope, got me a place to live, with a speedy wireless connection. Yessirree.

So about this new place o'mine. It's a room in a shared flat, shared meaning communal kitchen and laundry facilities. Toilet/bathroom is shared with the room next to mine, and that other room is currently unoccupied. Hooray!

The room has an interior window - yes, a small window facing the hall. Not all that many have windows that actually face outside, which is really really strange.

Oh, and my room's on the first floor, so no goddamn stairs to worry about when I hauled my 21kg of crap here, hooray!

The room itself is a decent size, probably 3x3 metres is my guess, not gonna do any actual measuring. But I can visualise almost two of me lying on the floor against the wall, so that would make it about 3 meters per wall. Very scientific, yes.
I've got a squeaky-as-hell-but-surprisingly-comfy single bed, quite a large cupboard, which I can't fill even close, a small set of drawers and a tiny desk, which was instanly covered by the usual clutter of mine (computer, a few books, makeuup, tea cup, some random jewellery...), and a chair.
I've also got a fitted desk lamp, and a tv, the remote for which requires batteries currently. Haven't actually watched any tv yet, as I find ths machine far more entertaining. Oh,and a waste basket. Got me one of those too.

The first thing I did once I got here, was drag the bed to against a wall. For some insane reason it was set in the middle of the room, making the room really really cramped and tricky to move in. Now it actually looks like I've got some spare space in here.

The kitchen is somewhere I would never dare let my mother in. I think she'd faint in horror. It's got 2 stoves and 3 fridges and endless cupboards, and 2 sets of sinks. The sinks are usually filled with peoples dishes, which are waiting to be washed, and the floor is not to be walked on without shoes of some sort. Yeech. Haven't actually managed to get any warm water out of the kitchen taps, so washing up is a bit of a bitch. Luckily no such problem with showers, wonderful hot showers, with actual water pressure!
Sidenote: People in Britain, I do not know how you can claim ever to hav had a shower, when you breathe with more of a pressure than what the water comes in.

Haven't tried the washing machine yet, we'll see how that goes later.

Later on today a bunch of us exchange students are meeting in town, and some had a plan of heading out to par-tay, something which I'll not go for, as the subways stop running at 12, and I have no idea which night busses come this way. Oh, and we aint meeting till 10:30pm. Crazy people with late starts. I'd be happy to consider curling up with a book at that stage, sheesh.

Seems I cant help myself with the long posts, sorry.

Anywho, till later =)

-yarr.

another long post, sorry people... =)

2006-02-14T18:39:00.000+02:00

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Hola amigos, tengo una place to live!

Hooray for that! But first, more about today

At 10am we had our meeting at the university, and met a lot of very nice people, who were all really helpful and patient with our desperately broken Spanish. Yes there were other exchange students present as well, but they were from Chile, so they had a bit of an advantage..

But we got our courses all figured out, I’ve got arts, English linguistics and didactics (conveniently the courses that I’m currently missing in Freezerville), and then an educational theory course, the content of which is probably something I’ve done already a billion times, but this time, it’ll be in Spanish! =D

Also our host university kindly provided us with a huge file with all sorts of info, and a nifty backpack, which of course didn’t fit the file, but is quite cool nonetheless.

Then my friend and I headed off to meet this woman I’ve been in touch with a lot about apartments, and went to see one. It was walking distance from the university, quite a steep downhill (meaning that going to the uni will be steep uphill…) and right next to a metro station. The room was small, and shared a bathroom with another room, which was currently unoccupied also, communal kitchen, lounge area and such. The rooms have their own tv, and an internet connection, praise the lord.

Still wasn’t quite sure initially, and so we said we’d call back and think about it. After another place fell through, I thought that screw it, I’m tired of searching and such, and that seems to be quite a good place, only students and interns living there apparently. So I called up, and I’m moving in tomorrow, hooray!

Endless relief. When I called, I was sitting in Placa Catalunya, which is filled with pigeons, and kids running around trying to catch the pigeons. I was watching this, and the birds flying around, and then felt a little splat on my leg. Yep, I got a souvenier from a Barcelonian pigeon. But hey, I’ve go a place to live now, so I’m cool.

My friend is considering booking the other room in the house, but she’s not sure yet, and is actually at the moment, at 9:30 pm, checking another place out. I told her to send me an sms once she’s back so that I’ll know that she’s safe and all..

Oh, and before she left to find this other place, we were hanging out at her hostel, and I was talking to this other girl in the same room, she was apparently an exchange student elsewhere in Spain, but here on holiday. We spoke in English for a while, until she asked me where I was from. After my answer, she replied in Finnish. I did wonder that she looked a lot like a typical Finn, but didn’t dare ask…
So then the three of us played cards till my friend decided to head off to check out the new room somewhere.

But it’s time for me to fold down the screen, grab my book and get back to reading, so ttfn dear reader =).

Huge post.

2006-02-13T15:38:00.000+02:00

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Hola todos!

Sunday, and still no place to live. But tomorrow am going to see this one place after our introductory meeting at the university, and am hoping that I can live there then. It sounds good, and there are a lot of vacancies, so all should be fine and dandy.

Had a bit of a rough evening yesterday, as the stress and tiredness caught up with me, and thus was a bit teary. Then I slept 11 hours. Now things are looking up again, so hooray hooray, and here’s hoping that tomorrow I’ll have a place to live all sorted out and such. And I’ve consoled myself with the thought that if all else fails, I can always grab my stuff, hail a cab, and get myself to the airport and on the first flight home. Money is after all, only money.

I was warned though, that this would happen. A couple of my friends who’ve been on exchange have experienced the same – bursting in tears though there’s no real reason for it, and all is actually quite well. So it’s just part of the process, and hopefully I’ll get adjusted to these new surroundings soon enough.

And land a place with an internet connection, I mean seriously. Hunting for internet café’s and such is really not all that, when you’re used to a 24/7 broadband connection.

Plus the familiar technology calms me down. Even if people around me are talking in a strange language, and I don’t know my way around and all, I can always get online, read the headlines of Finnish newspapers, chat with people, read my regular webcomics, and do all the other stuff I’d do at home as well. Spose I am a bit of a nerd =).

We checked out our school today, and it was quite easy to find and to get there, so that was good.

That’s about all for now, I’ll update more again later =).

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Later the same day

Hello again, tis Sunday evening, and actually only a few hours since my previous entry above.

My friend came over, and we played Canasta for a while, she won. But it was close! I only lost by 1000 points.. oh well.

As my previous post was mainly ranting and whining, spose this one might be more about what we’ve done today.

Got up around 9ish, and just over an hour later I was on my way to my friends place, as I got bored. Hung around her hostel for a bit, then decided to see if we could find our school well enough, and we did, hooray for that. Though once we got to the school we went completely around the building trying to find the main entrance, only to realize (once we’d come full-circle) that it was 10 meters from where we left off. But we found it nonetheless!

Then we came back to the city and roamed about, and had a 3 course lunch, which was quite nice. Then she left to check out the beach, and I decided to head back here to rest and read, and to listen to some Richard Cheese. Muy bueno.

I’ll be staying in this hostel for an extra day, so I can find somewhere to live, and mainly so I can store my luggage somewhere whilst I’m at the meeting tomorrow. Otherwise I’d have to check out by 12.

Still quite unimpressed by the fact that the university did not arrange housing for us. Hopefully tomorrow I’ll be able to write that I’ve got a place to stay…

Anywho, time for some more music and reading, whilst enjoying a somewhat bruised apple my friend kindly left for me =)

Saturday...

2006-02-11T20:13:00.001+02:00

Multiple posts, hooray!

But this´ll just be a quick cone, never fear. Am having trouble getting used to the spanish keyboard btw. For example ´ that is where ' this is supposed to be. Weirdos.

Aanywho, today we did some hardcore housing hunting, and we've got a few potentials, so hooray for that. Still got a few to view, but that'll be tomorrow or monday. And the first meeting at the uni is on tuesday. Scary stuff I tells ya...

Anywho, Ive only got about 10 mins left, and still a pile to do, so more updates later people! =)
Yarr!

Friday...

2006-02-11T20:13:00.000+02:00

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Hello hello, another day gone by living the Barcelonian life =).

Had a really good night’s sleep and a nice breakfast, and a shower in the morning, so life was looking all around fine. Had to move into another room, as there was some screw-uppance with the booking, and I spent the first night in a double room, nicely sprawled on the bed.
Now I’m in a single room, which is actually bigger than the double room. Go figure.
Then, lo and behold, I wrote the essay, which was due today.

Then my friend came over and after a brief lunch of yoghurt and strawberries (which were huge, but tasted like water) we headed off to roam the city. We found ourselves an internet-placethingy and I got to send off my essay, check my mails, and look up people to call about places to live. We checked one place out, which had gone just 30 minutes before our arrival.
So we headed back towards Placa Cataluna, and saw a huge flock of pigeons in the square, and people feeding them. Thus we bought some seeds as well, and became one with the flock. Them birds are obviously used to people, and will happily sit on your head, hand, shoulder, each other, in effort to gain a snack or two. We got some delightful pictures out of that.

As for housing -never fear, we’ll find something. Am actually currently waiting for a couple of girls to call back about a room, but we’ll see if they do..

The rest of the day was spent roaming and walking to and fro Ramblas and speaking something vaguely spanishy every now and then. Walked to the waterfront and back, and my feet know that I’ve been walking and on my feet basically from 1-10pm.

We also got lost for a bit with the winding sidestreets, but luckily the city seems to be full of helpful people who’ll point you in the right direction. Hooray! So we found our way back to my hostel, had some more strawberries, and checked the pictures of the day.

But that’s all for now, I’ll update more later =).

In Barcelona!

2006-02-10T14:05:00.000+02:00

In Barcelona.
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Well, it’s not a shit start. Could’ve been a whole pile worse, let me tell you.
I’m currently in my hostel room, I’ve got a nice comfy bed, and even a small balcony, with pretty views.
Views can be had when one is high enough, in this case 6 floors is high enough.

Whaddaya mean elevator? Pfft.

Yep, I carried my 21 kilos of stuff up the seemingly neverending stairs, and bruised my knee on the way. Sent a few messages of complaint, but did not receive adequate sympathy. Stupid lack of elevators. Honestly, who puts a hostel on the 6th floor?? Seriously.
Oh well, now it’s done, and won’t have to move my stuff around significantly for atleast four days. In that time I hope to find myself a place to live for this exchange and please please let it be on the first floor, or in a house with an elevator…

Over and out.

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Later the same day

Well, it’s about 22:50, and I’m ready to pass out. Sleep is sounding reeeeally good.
After a bit of a lie-down and reading for a while my friend announced that she’s in the city as well, and thus we met up, and started roaming. It was an aimless roam, just talking and catching up, and it was really really good to see her. Before then, thoughts such as ‘what the hell am I doing here’ and ‘no seriously, why the hell am I here, I want to be home’ had been circling, but now it seems more like this might not be such a bad idea after all =).
Though am missing roommate-and-then-some a whole lot. Lots lots. I feel like I’m constantly sending him sms’s and pestering and such, but dammit, when you live with someone, you see them 24/7, you get to talk to them a lot, even if it’s not about anything, even generic chitchat and drinking tea together and all o’ that, and now I got nothing, so yeah.
Bah.

Back to the rest of the evening.
We also went and had a typical Spanish dinner – fried rice in the chinese place next door. We’ll get authentic later…

Attempted doing bits for an assignment, and managed to write two paragraphs. So yes, am supposed to do an essay for tomorrow. Yep.
The plan is to finish (well, start really..) writing it tomorrow, then find an internet café and send it off, as well as post these.
Am addicted to the internet, will happily admit it. Dunno if it’s sad, or just really 21st century, but I really don’t think that I could live for extended periods of time without word processing facilities and broadband connection.

Tomorrow we’re heading off to hunt for places to live, which hopefully will be successful.

But now, off to the toilet, brush my teeth and all and pass out, ready for new adventures in the morning =).

Countdown to Barcelona!

2006-02-07T19:34:00.000+02:00

Well no, not really much of a countdown. I leave the day after tomorrow, so not much to count, really.

Been a catch-up -themed couple of days, yesterday an old primaryschool classmate came over with her 9mth baby gal, and we had a good nice chat after about 4 years of no-see. So that was fun and nice and all, and I got her address so I'll be throwing a card in her direction at some stage.
Then went to visit a dear friend of mine for a while, and currently am waiting for another one to head here. Plus heard of and visited the website of an old friend of mine, whom I lost contact with years and years ago. At some stage was hearing rumours that her life was somewhat messed up, but atleast now things are looking allaround dandy, so hooray =).

Am missing the roommate-and-then-some insanely, and apparently he's engaging in nerd-activities to try fill the void I left.
I could be doing some last minute assignments, but.. well.. Screw it.

Yarr.

Freezerville left behind..

2006-02-05T20:27:00.000+02:00

So yes, am no longer in Freezerville, but am with the parental units, in presence of an auto-filling fridge. Thursday this week I'll be flying off to Barcelona, so I've still got a few days for last minute packing and panicking, both of which I intend to do.

Roommate-and-then-some is in Freezerville, and last night had to sleep alone in a looong time. Stupid distance. And knowing that I'll be sleeping alone for a loooong time, well...

Sigh, I tells ya, sigh.

But I'll be alright, and fine and whatnot, and by the end of the week I'll have so much new stuff going on that we'll see if I'll have enough time to sleep in the first place. Because I don't actually have a place to stay in Barcelona yet, bar from the first few days in a hostel. But yes, here's hoping that things will work out and such.

Over and yarr.

Time for another bit of pointless rambling.

2006-01-30T18:32:00.000+02:00

Hello hello my dear, few, readers.

Well, nothing much has happened in Freezerville lately, life is same old and no new developments.

Fair share of partying has been done, on Saturday we had a joint going-away party with a friend who's leaving for New Zealand in a couple of weeks. Lots of jelly, photos where people look just about as inebriated as they really were, and home at 3am. Sunday, surprisingly, was very very quiet.

'Interesting' tidbit of my life currently, am writing this post from a laptop, which I rented from my Freezervillian University, thus enabling net access and word processing whilst in Barcelona. Tricky getting used to this thing, gotta say that I do prefer my desktop machine.

Also my dear cousin is here for the night which is fun fun =).

That's all, folks!

.... yarr.

A minor in Theology.

2006-01-23T20:07:00.000+02:00

And no, this is not a catholic-priest joke.

In my studies for teacherhood, I now have Theology as a minor subject.

Seriously, how I got it, I don't know. The examiners must be blind. They don't read the papers, they just want their money. I didn't really study for any of them, and I wasn't there for half the lectures, but by whichever-holy-entity-you-choose-to-believe-in, I got my credits.

As you may have guessed, am not particularly religious. So why study theology? A friend of mine asked 'Wanna study theology?' and I couldn't think of a reason for why not, so there ya go.

Though it would be really cool to be able to wed people. People would always end up regretting the times they got drunk and I was around. Quick marriages for all!

And the Lord said: Yarr.

Morning after the night before...

2006-01-22T11:57:00.000+02:00

Stayed out till the wee hours of the morn drinking Irish Coffees. Which is probably why I managed to stay up so late, usually come 1:30am I'm ready to head off, and curl up for a good night's sleep. But thanks to the coffee didn't get to bed 'till 4am.

And sleeping was somewhat tricky, as some poor dog next door was feeling lonely and miserable, and had been howling for the whole night.
And continued.
And still does.
Sent a message to the landlord, hoping he'll go check that the owner isn't dead and gnawed to bits by now.

That's all for now, now I can go back to waiting for lunch, as roommate-and-then-some is being sweet and wonderful and cooking =).

Over and yarr.

Frickin' freezin, Mr. Bigglesworth!

2006-01-18T16:38:00.000+02:00

When I say I live in Freezerville, I damn right live in Freezerville.

-25 today.

As in degrees Celcius.

Neg twentyfive.
Stand in a walk-in freezer, and you still aint close.

'Sposed to be colder even tomorrow. Luckily no uni for me tomorrow. But, I have for some strange reason volunteered to go skating with a friend of mine, as she has to attend a few skating lessons (the joys of teacher-education). I did mine last year I think it was, so no need for me to go really. But I will, for the bitterly cold and overfrozen hell of it.
But she's planning on bringing hot-chocolate, laced with mint liquer, with her to keep us warm.

Midday drinking amidst studies with metal bits strapped to our feet. What could possibly go wrong?

Yarr.

Addicted to Etsy

2006-01-14T15:51:00.000+02:00

And lemme tell ya, this stuff is dangerous.
Inspiration is an evil thing to get addicted to. You start visualising crazy ideas, of what if I'd do this full-time and just spend my days coming up with ideas and then creating them.
And then, you really really really have to get to the nearest craft store. All the endless supplies. All the endless ideas! Damn the day only having so many hours!

Been visiting Etsy like crazy lately, and have been infected with an creative bug. Wanting to create bags, clothes, jewellery, toys - anything. Not that I'd sell any of the stuff - it'd take way too much time and effort to start doing stuff for an online shop. Even if it'd be only one or two items, still.
Maybe eventually.

Right now I'm just using all my creative skills to do things that I like and think are cool, and thus prolly wouldn't sell them anyway.

Not that I've done a whole range of products so far, at the moment I've succeeded in creating a taxi-bag and a poor bunny who got caught on the wrong side of the lucky-rabbit-foot thing.
I have a soft toy that cringes in pain.
Quite proud of it I am =).

Enuf about that, gonna go finish my tea and then answer the sweet call of my sewing machine =)

Yarr.

Prepare thyself for bad luck!

2006-01-13T11:25:00.000+02:00

Friday the 13th it is, yes.
Being awake for less than an hour often results in Yoda-talk, sorry.

Anywho, the point. Today is supposed to be bad luck for eeeeverybody, bwahahahaa!

Now personally, I'm not so big on superstition (I hope I spelled that goodly). I don't think there's some cosmic karma with a grudge against this specific day, just waiting for the chance to bite someones ass, so to speak.

But it's good that there are days like this. Say for example that I screw up something huge today. Like really really mess up. The day provides me with a tiny tiny scapegoat. It'll make a good story - 'I knew that it was Friday the 13th, but I don't really believe in that stuff, so I didn't think [Insert Crazy Intention/Situation/Action] would turn out any differently today than any other day...' And so on.

So go on. Feed the image of some big and irate universal force, who happens to hate this day (probably because some skanky force turned them down for a date on this day yonks ago), and will take it out on random people.

Über und aus.

No topic, just rambling.

2006-01-11T13:44:00.000+02:00

Back to uni, which is good and nice. I like having the option of studying. I never really do, and leave everything to the absolute last minute, but still. I like our lectures, and as am doing a literature course now, concentrating on childrens literature, I get to read Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone again, hooray!

What else, what else..?

Housing in Barcelona pains. Stupid mañana with everything. We'll do it tomorrow. She won't need confirmation on her booking, she doesn't need to know for sure that she'll have a place to stay here. We'll just take the credit card number, and things will be sweeet.
Argh.

I want a hot water bottle. Shoulder keeps acting up, as it hates shoulderbags and knitting. But I like both, so I get to do what I want, but I also get a stuck and painful left shoulder.

That's about it for now. I'm still boring, as you can all plainly see.

Yarr.

Goin' with the flow

2006-01-07T13:54:00.000+02:00

As shamelessly copied from Miss Snark,

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
5. Don’t search around and look for the “coolest” book you can find. Do what’s actually next to you.

"They remind me of soft thaw winds, and warm sunshine, and nearly melted snow"

Go to comments for authorial credits, y'all can guess first =).

I'm gonna live forever, I'm gonna learn how to fly...

2006-01-05T11:49:00.000+02:00

Fame!

Well, not mine. So yours truly will be with her feet firmly upon the ground - tis my sister whose name is up in the limelights of Blogosphere. Taking this realm by storm she is, and truly deserved aswell might I say. Her word wielding ways are quite wonderful, and am myself among the many waiting to hear about her latest adventures.

Hooray for SpongeGirl, yarr!

Happy new yarr to y'all

2006-01-01T15:11:00.000+02:00

Hey hey, here we are, in the future. Spooky, aint it?

Can't think of anything interesting to write, apologies.
Oh, except that today me&him (well, him and I to be grammatically correct, but I aint never done none o' that) built a snowman, hooray! Twas fun.

Over and outage.

What have I done this year?

2005-12-28T11:58:00.000+02:00

So, as the year is about to roll over to give space for the new one, I thought I'd have a bit of a think, see what I've been up to this year.

January - Came back from Perth, as had spent xmas-time there. Leaving was a bit messy, people and issues and all. Perhaps I did not divide my time equally between folks. But all's good now, issues resolved and left behind. Though I do still cherish the email I received from a furious mother, as I had not spent enough time with my dear friend, her twentysomething daughter.
But enough about that.
The rest of January, nothing much. 'Studying' and the like.

February - The start, nothing much. Generic uni-stoodent life. Toward the end my dear Spongegirltastic sister and de-facto came to Finland for a couple of weeks, hooray! =). Twas good seeing her again. *subtle hint* Come back already!

March - Sister still around, till buggered off to Paris. Rest of March nothing much. Stoodious life.

April - The start, nothing much. Bout halfway through headed off to Dublin, Ireland for a 5wk teaching practice. Twas fun, drank a lot of Guinness.

May - Still in Dublin. Came back to Finland near the end of the month. Went home, no studies for a few months. Hooray for summer!

June - Start of the month, nothing. Nothing nothing nothing, not even pretending to study, though I could've done that aswell. Toward the end of the month my dear HLP (- hetero life-partner for those not in the know) came to visit from Perth. Twas a jolly good time we had, and I miss her insanely.

July - HLP still around, and we went to Prague, Check Republic for 3 days I think it was. A smashing time we had, and teamed up with two retired biochemists for a day, who gave us a tour of Prague. Around half way through the month my dearest HLP had to head off, aiming for Japan this time. For me the rest of July was nothing much, got a bit older.
Oh, and I was beginning to panic, as uni would be on again in September, and I lacked a place to live in Freezerville (home and Freezerville are about 600kms apart). But I figured that things would work out somehow, as they tend to do. And they did. We had a bbq party near Freezerville, with a bunch of Freezervillian friends there. Turns out that one had a spare room in his apartment. Done and done.

August - start of the month did some studious things, like writing and essay. Surprised myself that I actually managed to do it, usually I'm hopeless with getting anything done by due dates. Last minute panics were made for me. Toward the end of the month it was time to move to the new place, and though I do indeed love being home, it was nice to get away again.

September - Studying. Somehow managed to understand our phonetics and structures of English courses without huge troubles. Hooray. Roommate life going fine, though I'd never lived with anyone (other than family and a hamster) before. A dear friend came back to Freezerville, after spending the summer in Norway, stayed with us a couple of days. She used to date my roommate, but that was about half a year ago, and she broke it off, so it would be fine.

Yeah, right.

October - Uni, roommateness-turned-into-something-moreness, telling my friend I'm now dating the guy of her dreams. Her breakdown. GuiltGuiltGuiltGuiltGuiltGuiltGuiltGuiltGuiltGuiltGuiltGuiltGuiltGuiltGuiltGuiltGuilt.
Roadtrip to Malmö, Sweden, with a day-stop in Copenhagen, Denmark. Twas fun.

November - Meeting his parents for the first time. Was shit scared. But it was ok. Me and dear friend trying to figure things out between us, she's trying not to be angry with me, but hard not to, and she's damn well allowed to. GuiltGuiltGuiltGuiltGuiltGuiltGuiltGuiltGuiltGuiltGuiltGuiltGuiltGuiltGuiltGuiltGuiltGuilt.
Our first date. (We seriously did this whole thing the wrong way around, first we move in together, then start dating, then go on a holiday together [roadtrip, though there were others too], then we meet the parents, and then go on our first date).

December - Another roadtrip, though this time only to the south of Finland. Him meeting my parents. He was shit scared. But it was ok. Xmas time creeping closer. He and his family go for a sunny xmas. Me and dear friend try to work things out, slowly. Still laden with guilt. She still cries at the sight/mention of him. My theme song is the southparkian 'Kyle's mom is a bitch', but with my name there.
Might not see dear friend untill February next year when we go on exchange to Barcelona together.
I start this blog.
Coming home for xmas time, am Santa for the first time. Twas fun.
He came back to Finland yesterday, and will be here today. Have been smiling like an idiot.
Oh, and it's dear friend's birthday today. Happy Birthday, sweetie =).

And that about wraps it up so far. Not sure anything of interest will happen within the remaining days of the year. So during the year I was in Australia, Ireland, Check Republic, Denmark, and Sweden. As you may have noticed, I did not work last year at all, so my financial situation is somehting any economist would describe as 'crap'.
As for next year, as I mentioned I will be going on exchange to Barcelona, Spain, with my dear friend. Desperately hoping that things will be better.
I have a feeling I won't have a summerjob again, as I won't be back from my exchange untill June. So lack of funds for next year aswell, hooray! =)
But, things tend to work out somehow.

Wow. That's a long post.

Merry Xmas

2005-12-24T16:48:00.000+02:00

From all of us to all of you, Merry Christmas. Or if you find that too religious, then just Happy Holidays and Season's Greetings. Crazy amercans.
Yes, amercans.

Anywho, yo ho ho and a bottle of merry christmas. And a happy new yarr. =)

My hands are cold but the house smells like christmas.

2005-12-22T17:38:00.000+02:00

And a definite smell of Christmas comes from a Christmas tree. Just came back from getting one with my dad, and tomorrow it shall be decorated. Now it'll spend the night in our bathroom so all the snow will melt off it.
Acquiring the tree is traditionally a job for the dad and kids (as mothers all around Finland are probably doing something in the kitchen).

This little bit of xmas tradition, Finnish style, brought to you by me.

Scientific fact for the week, the Christmas trees in Finland are Norwegian spruces, Picea Abies. That information brought to you by European Spruce Ranges.

Yarr.

My sis rocks!

2005-12-20T22:41:00.000+02:00

With like huuge bricks.
She thoroughly kicks ass, and I salute her. She rules and is the definition of cool (look it up, in any dictionary next to cool there'll be a picture of my sister next to it.)

Here's to you, future Doc =).

Closing in on the season to be jolly

2005-12-19T21:06:00.000+02:00

Yarr, am at home.
Food, sweet sweet food. And plenty of it.

Mom, I salute you.

Today my dear imagined reader you will not have to strain your eyes with endless paragraphs of drivel-in-text-form produced by me, as I can't think of anything else to say. I have nothing further to report, over and out.

The Promised Land

2005-12-17T11:51:00.000+02:00

Multiple posts per day, I don't seem like I'm killing time, do I?

Onto the topic. The Promised Land.
Thought I'd have a bit of a rant about my dear home country, Finland. No, we don't have polar bears, nor do we live in iglus. It does get warm in the summer, and we are allowed to feel cold, no matter where we are in the world. You don't know how many times some smartass has pointed out my nationality and claimed that I should be used to coldness, whilst somewhere out of Finland.
Screw you hippie, at least we build our houses properly so it won't get cold inside! Ever! Ha!

...

That's not the rant I was going to get on to. Let's try again, shall we?

What I intend to babble about is Finland being truly the promised land of televised sms-chats and mobile games. The most futile air-time fillers ever, but somehow endlessly fuelled by morons who pay good money to send messages to these shows, hoping that their message will be displayed on television and perhaps, just perhaps, the scantly clad hostess will comment something on their message.

Aside these inane chats, there are also televised mobile games. Send a message with a certain code in hopes of sinking a ship/getting a question right/getting a hole in one, and gather points. You can't actually win anything from these games, you just gather points, and at the end of the day they'll announce the idiot with the most points.
Each message costs around 1€, more or less.
And people send messages.

Sorta makes you feel sad for human kind, really.

Then again, people never cease to amaze me. I used to think people had short attention spans and get tired of fads quickly, but reality tv is still going strong (can't even be bothered to start a rant on that one), and televised sms-chats and mobile games flourish.

Hooray for people.

Peanut butter and jam sandwitches.

2005-12-17T11:31:00.000+02:00

Yes, witches.

Well no, not really. Just the normal wich-kind.

Anywho.

In a couple of hours I should be heading towards a friend's place, spending the night there, and then the next morning the both of us heading toward our respective homes for xmas. So I need to have packed everything with me when heading off in a couple of hours, and I'm sure I'll forget something vital, and not realise till two minutes before the train leaves tomorrow.

Such is life.

Been wondering. Should I try and make this interesting to people in some way, or be brutally honest about my uneventful and boring life?

Or maybe I'm making this boring on purpose. Believe you me, reader (yet to get any actually, but I'll pretend you're there, makes my life easier), I've witnessed and been involved in such relationship dramas that could fuel the likes of Bold and the Beautiful, OC or any other such series for seasons to come.

But not only would I be revealing things other people might not want revealing, even if I'd change names, I've also gone through the people, events and issues so many times I doubt that typing them out once more would do anyone any good.

Unless I suddenly get billions of gossip-hungry readers dying to know the details of a complete stranger, I might budge something.

The future clouded is, yes.

With my sandwitch consumed I am left with a craving for tea. Lipton Yellow Label all the way, baby. No milk, no sugar. Let infuse for a while, I like it strong.

Ttfn my dear (imagined) reader, ttfn.

Crazy thought, an actual update on my life.

2005-12-16T16:23:00.000+02:00

This is what these blog things are for, right?

So, xmas is creeping closer, and for the first time ever I'm well ahead of schedule concerning bribes, I mean gifts for people.

In a couple of days I'm heading off to spend yuletide with the parental units, and it shall be good. Ahh, to be in the presence of an automatically filling fridge.

Had my last exam yesterday, was supposed to read four books for it. For a change I actually managed to get my hands on the books well before the exam, but still somehow managed to skim read one (the one with the least pages), and looked at the indexes of the rest. Now that's how to study! But it shouldn't be too bad, I think. Hope. Twas only theology, and a 'voluntary' course at that.

If I were not so distracted by the call of noodles I would continue my pointless rambling, which probably interests no one, but what the hell.

Live long and prosper.

Interesting email find

2005-12-16T15:43:00.000+02:00

So there I was, killing time by cleaning out my inbox, and this little story popped up. I wrote it a couple of years ago, while working in an office lobby connecting calls. Not strictly autobiographical, I for example do not drink coffee.

In any case, I just want to fatten my blog up a bit.

Read it and weep.

**

She looked at her hands, and decided to take action. The sight was appalling,really.
Her nailpolish had been cracking for the last two days, but somehow she’d neglected to remove and replace it. While reaching for the drawer to retrieve a nailfile she was interrupted.

- Excuse me, is Mr. Johnson in?
-- Just a moment please, I’ll check… No, sorry, unfortunately he’s left for theday.
- Right, well, can you call him anyway?
- -Sure, just a moment please

She called the required gentleman, and informed him that he had a visitor.

Turns out that Mr. Johnson was actually still in, and came to see the man. Damn businessmen who can’t use the personnel registry machine. Engineers, pfft, right.

She kept on ranting to herself while smiling politely, untill the two men left.

I was doing someth… fuck that, I wasn’t, I was about to file my nails as I havenothing more constructive to do. Hooray for me.
She continued on the bitter line of thoughts as she contemplated thesurrounding office with a bored sigh. It was a nice job, she admitted that. Actually it was lucky that she had a jobat all, undergraduate students rarely got anything that payed something worthcalling a decent amount of money. Especially when she wasn’t even studying fora business related degree of any sort.

Thank god for relatives. She hadn’t gotten the job really as such a direct consequence of her genetic heritage, but it had gotten her the interview. She liked to think that it was due to personality that she was hired, and not blood ties.

But you never know.

10:26

Seems like the morning dragged on forever. Most people were on holidays, so there wasn’t that much to do for the whole following month. A phone call or a fax every now and then, but mostly just sitting and wondering how to pass time.
Who was she trying to fool, really. She actually enjoyed very much the leisurely pace of the job. Rushing and hurrying wasn’t her thing after all. Had her desk been situated elsewhere than the lobby, she would’ve considered bringing in a book to entertain her in the quiet times. But with the desk being where it was, people passed it quite often so discreet reading would’ve been difficult.
After all, she didn’t want to seem like she was doing nothing.
When you sit all day in a company office, and have a significant amount of time dedicated to doing nothing, one tends to think of topics of a wide range.

Wonder where she got that top? Looks nice on her, though I doubt it’d really suit me, not quite my style as such. Is it lunchtime yet? No, damn, yet an hourto go. Oh well. That’s a shame. The bastard still didn’t call. Not that I’d beexpecting a call, no, I had no reason to expect anything, as people are independent individuals and do not necessarily call each other if there is nothing to say.
Nothing to say.
Howbout that.

Yeah..

Dammit…
Wonder what Mr.Johnson does as he gets so many calls? Engineering of some sort, I’m sure. Or maybe it’s sales. Sales could be it. Sounds plausible.
Plausible.
Goddamn plausible excuses, isn’t that just the only thing I’ll ever hear, except that there was nothing to hear, nothing to want to hear, from anyone in particular at all.

I’ve really got to give up this line of thought. Denial is my friend. Can’t even sigh properly here, what if someone walks past and they hear it and think I’m tired and if I’m tired I’m not doing my job (what job, I only sit and connect a call every half an hour or so!) properly, and then that won’t seem good at all.

Seem.

It’s all about appearances, isn’t it?
Oh shut up, and stop it.

She glanced around quickly to make sure no one was around, and let out a very audible sigh. She felt a little better instantly. Before she could continue her rambling thoughts the phone rang, and saved her from herself. She stood up, waited if the phone would go off again.
As it didn’t, she headed for the coffee machine. She brought her mug back to her desk, and took a sip.

--Yeeegch, was her initial reaction to the bitter black liquid she tasted.

I know it would taste better if I’d have it with milk and sugar, but quite frankly, it’s just extra effort. Besides, then it’d taste more like watered down, sugary, lukewarm milk. With a bitter aftertaste.
Thus, she had her coffee black.

The effects caffeine had on her were rather interesting, especially after having a reasonably coffeeles weekend. First she found herself wanting to laugh outloud in the “I am so happy, life is so beautiful” –kind of way, that made people fall in love in movies. The instant follow up reaction is that every emotion becomes just too much, and she feels on the verge of tears, and might cry if anyone in the near vicinity expresses an emotion of any kind. All of this takes about 5 minutes altogether, and then her body adjusts to the caffeine intake properly. Luckily there’s usually no one to witness these reactions, or properly trigger them.

5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0 - Kickstart! No, wait..

2005-12-16T15:33:00.000+02:00

Ahh my loyal fans, finally something to soothe your souls in those desperately lonely dark hours. Indeed, a blog by me.

And who am I?
Well that's a bit irrelevant, isn't it? All you need to know is that I am praiseworthy, and the mere knowledge of my existance is sufficient to make you feel better.

Any moment now I'll come up with something to say actually. In the mean time I'm a-go fiddle with the settings and such.

Yarr.