This past weekend only had one thing on the calender as the weekend approached: a party for out choir on Saturday evening, to be held at our house. He was on call, so when he got the call on Friday evening that he would have to go to Skellefteå on Saturday morning we formulated a plan: He would do the two hour drive south, do the job, then, on ( Read more... )

...and this is a good thing, because I have ever so much I need to do for work! I have deadlines of 1 November for both an abstract for a January conference and a grant proposal and I really want to be playing with my 3D models now that I have half again as much data to work with as I had last week AND I finally have the structural geology model ( Read more... )

As one might expect for a country which extends so far to the north, midsummer is a rather important holiday. The holiday itself was Friday, the 21st, Midsommarafton. We spent it, as we have every year since I arrived in Sweden (this is my third midsummer here!) with the folk music/dance community. The day started with a gathering at the ( Read more... )

While we were at lord_kjar's parent's house this weekend one of the snacks they served with tea/coffee was "blåbärsbullar" (blue berry rolls). I had never seen these before, but enjoyed them, so I had to try to make some of my own once we got home. I didn't have time/energy for that on Monday, so this morning was the day, but since I was baking I got ( Read more... )

The trip home took more than 48 hours, but I managed to get enough naps on the flights that I was feeling ok when I finally landed in Luleå yesterday early afternoon. It was so good to be home, and back in archinonlive's arms again that I didn't bother to set up or turn on my computer at all yesterday.

I came home to a house in chaos, since archinonlive had started to ( Read more... )

After finishing up yet another job application yesterday I decided that I was tired, and, just to be different, I'd go home and get to sleep early. By the time I fished doing my yoga and reading my 1000 words of geologic literature it was only 21:30. I slept deeply and peacefully, till I woke up at 0:34 sweating. Yes, it is that tie of the year ( Read more... )

Have I really not posted a progress report since returning from Ireland? Shame on me. Let's see ( Read more... )

Yesterday during the day was one of those days when my emotional state was somewhat more fragile than I care to admit to. (I'm sure it had nothing whatsoever to do with hormones, nor the stresses inherent in not having finished the thesis yet ;-) Therefore, rather than sit at home whilst clovis_t went into town to do fun things like re-paint his shield, I ( Read more... )

I am one of those people who wants food the instant they wake up in the morning. This makes a fair bit of sense, with my weird loss of appetite in the evenings it has generally been 15 or sometimes even 18 hours since I last had food. However, once a fortnight, when it is my turn to clean the loo, I actually make time to accomplish a "useful task ( Read more... )

The morning and early afternoon were spent on useful, non uni tasks. Whilst cleaning the loo, scrubbing the hard-to-reach part of the floor behind the toilet, it occurred to me that housework is a form of conspicuous consumption. Just as some Medieval fashions used oodles of extra fabric, just to show that they could afford it, so many human ( Read more... )