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I've been bad and forgotten the post lately. I blame school. I'll try to remember it more.
I'm doing 9-5 in school lately. I don't know how working people do it, but when I'm away from home that long I end up feeling too exhausted when I get back to do anything. Yesterday I had half of the afternoon "off" so I would have time to do laundry, send out job applications and finish my essay on Angelman syndrome for my extra course. I've been operating under the principle that as long as I write a good essay it doesn't matter if it follows the criteria in the instructions perfectly. Besides, I think the teacher is going to let me pass under the mere principle that she just wants the course to be done with. I think I've mentioned in a previous entry that we are only 2 students taking the course; a very underwhelming number.
Earlier this week I was browsing facebook when I saw that a guy was giving away his drawer for free. Actually, I had been following his post for a while (it's in a group for people who want to trade or give away things) but it seemed like someone else had called dibs on it so I didn't think much about it until Tuesday evening, when I saw that he still, for various reasons, hadn't gotten rid of the drawer and was going to give it away to whoever picked it up first. I don't have a car so I called the guy and asked if he thought it would be possible for me to transport the drawer to me in a shopping trolley (he lives maybe 15 minutes walk away from my flat). He said yes so I picked up a trolley and went. The trolleys at the nearest store was much smaller than I planned and when I got to the flat it was very clear that the drawer wouldn't fit, no matter which way yo turned it. It was also very, very heavy. So heavy that I could hardly lift it by myself. What we did was that we ended up putting the drawer on top of the trolley and tied it down with some strings. I then proceeded to very slowly push the trolley backwards, because it was slanted in a way that if you pushed it the right way the drawer might have fallen off, but when pushed backwards the drawer leaned on me. I slowly made my way home through ice and snow. People looked at me like a mad person and I just smiled because it felt like IRL trolling. "just out walking my drawer, nothing to see". I got it home with only minor injuries and it fits very well into my flat. I've left two drawers empty for when THB gets here because he always makes a mess.
Here's a photo of the drawer before we put it on the trolley:
So my plans for the weekend are to meet up with the crew I went to Kenya with. We are going to visit one of the girls in a nearby town, do some competition thing and then spend the night at hers before we return on Sunday. I'm unusually busy on the weekends lately, which is one of the reasons why I haven't sent out enough applications or done as much cleaning as I would have liked. Next weekend I may get invaded by family because my older sister is performing in Norrköping and she's going to spend the night here afterwards. I also offered a bed for the night for any family member coming to see her. This caused mum to call me (she sounded kind of drunk) worried that if she stayed over she wouldn't have a place to smoke. The weekend afterwards, I'm going to go on a 40 hour cruise to Riga with a couple of friends. The boat leave Stockholm at 5pm, gets to Riga ~11am and leaves again at 5pm and is back in Stockholm ~11pm the next day. I've never been to Riga so it will be fun!
I'm doing 9-5 in school lately. I don't know how working people do it, but when I'm away from home that long I end up feeling too exhausted when I get back to do anything. Yesterday I had half of the afternoon "off" so I would have time to do laundry, send out job applications and finish my essay on Angelman syndrome for my extra course. I've been operating under the principle that as long as I write a good essay it doesn't matter if it follows the criteria in the instructions perfectly. Besides, I think the teacher is going to let me pass under the mere principle that she just wants the course to be done with. I think I've mentioned in a previous entry that we are only 2 students taking the course; a very underwhelming number.
Earlier this week I was browsing facebook when I saw that a guy was giving away his drawer for free. Actually, I had been following his post for a while (it's in a group for people who want to trade or give away things) but it seemed like someone else had called dibs on it so I didn't think much about it until Tuesday evening, when I saw that he still, for various reasons, hadn't gotten rid of the drawer and was going to give it away to whoever picked it up first. I don't have a car so I called the guy and asked if he thought it would be possible for me to transport the drawer to me in a shopping trolley (he lives maybe 15 minutes walk away from my flat). He said yes so I picked up a trolley and went. The trolleys at the nearest store was much smaller than I planned and when I got to the flat it was very clear that the drawer wouldn't fit, no matter which way yo turned it. It was also very, very heavy. So heavy that I could hardly lift it by myself. What we did was that we ended up putting the drawer on top of the trolley and tied it down with some strings. I then proceeded to very slowly push the trolley backwards, because it was slanted in a way that if you pushed it the right way the drawer might have fallen off, but when pushed backwards the drawer leaned on me. I slowly made my way home through ice and snow. People looked at me like a mad person and I just smiled because it felt like IRL trolling. "just out walking my drawer, nothing to see". I got it home with only minor injuries and it fits very well into my flat. I've left two drawers empty for when THB gets here because he always makes a mess.
Here's a photo of the drawer before we put it on the trolley:
So my plans for the weekend are to meet up with the crew I went to Kenya with. We are going to visit one of the girls in a nearby town, do some competition thing and then spend the night at hers before we return on Sunday. I'm unusually busy on the weekends lately, which is one of the reasons why I haven't sent out enough applications or done as much cleaning as I would have liked. Next weekend I may get invaded by family because my older sister is performing in Norrköping and she's going to spend the night here afterwards. I also offered a bed for the night for any family member coming to see her. This caused mum to call me (she sounded kind of drunk) worried that if she stayed over she wouldn't have a place to smoke. The weekend afterwards, I'm going to go on a 40 hour cruise to Riga with a couple of friends. The boat leave Stockholm at 5pm, gets to Riga ~11am and leaves again at 5pm and is back in Stockholm ~11pm the next day. I've never been to Riga so it will be fun!