What have I been up to ( Read more... )

I seem to have finally caught up on both rest and my favourite form of "down time" (reading lj/FB, blogs, etc.) after my two back to back journeys (Australia to Europe, closely followed by driving the length of Sweden for a week of Medieval camping). It is not yet 09:30, but I have already done a full hour of something which counts as "uni work ( 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... )

( quick background, for those of you who haven't been paying attention )

This week was midsummer. I forgot to check sunrise and sunset times for solstice itself, but for today the sun rose here in Luleå at 01:02, and the sun will set tonight at three minutes after midnight; we are around 65.5 degrees north, so still south of the Arctic Circle, so the sun does set, but, as you can see, not for long ( Read more... )

After getting back from Double Wars I posted a list of things I ought to do straight away. Pretty much none of them happened on Monday, which was spent relaxing and recovering from the trip. Ok, so I did get out for a trike ride that day, but that was the only thing from the list. The rest of the week was a bit more productive, with many hours ( Read more... )

Since moving to Sweden in January I have been trying to learn Swedish. I am taking classes (we are up to chapter 14 in the text book), reading children's books, learning songs, and sometimes listening to conversations in Swedish and trying to catch words I know. Sometimes archinonlive and I speak a little Swedish at home, but rarely more than a minute or two ( Read more... )