Happy Lucia, folks! I really love this day - not the wake on the 12th with all the drinking, but the morning of the 13th with the candles and the singing and the saffron buns. Mmmmmm. :-)

Here's a link to a saffron bun recipe. I don't know if they'll taste right, because I tend to EAT buns rather than MAKE them, but I'm sure they'll be fine, that ( Read more... )

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Well, if the monitor is going to be broken, now seems as good a time as any - I got a call yesterday from Hagfors, Värmland. They want me for an interview tomorrow, and since Hagfors is so far away, I'll have to be gone two days.

Three interviews in a week. Wow. Let's hope one of them sticks this time.

Wait a minute, Discovery is coming back to earth? Already? With all that talk talk talk about Christer Fuglesang, I kind of expected him to be up there for more than a few days ( Read more... )

Ways in which this day has sucked ( Read more... )

Am back from the first week of camp work. Have now read back on LJ. Skip=780. I think my eyes are crossed ( Read more... )

I was going to upload a song from my lovely CD "Listen to the Banned," which is full of "racy" songs - though by today's standards they're very innocent and sweet ( Read more... )

Some of you already know this, but I didn't want to make a public post until I had negotiated for a salary, and gotten up at 5.45. in the morning to catch the bus to Malmö, and met all the teachers, and signed a bunch of papers, and gotten a new e-mail addy and five keys and more info than my poor brain can handle ( Read more... )

Starting with a quote from Jan Berglin's Far och jag, which I ordered from akademibokhandeln.se and then forgot about until it arrived. My translation ( Read more... )

Saved! is finally opening in Lund, a year or so after its original release. I consider going to see it even though I have the DVD, which is very strange of me ( Read more... )