Ziggy waking Frej up after Saturday’s party. He has gotten so big since the last picture I posted of him, I just realized!
The success!!
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Today I finished my home exam on sustainable urban development. In the midst of writing the last part Suss came in to my room with two lovely packages I had gotten in the mail! Perfect timing as I was getting a bit grumpy! Especially since I was hoping to get done earlier in the day than I was so that I would have been able to go to a lecture at my uni where Carl Schlyter & David Jonstad and some other really interesting people were speaking. :(
Becka had sent me a weather diary from 1930 and a bunch of really pretty buttons; three different anchor ones and one with a deer on it! Among others! Now I know everything about how long ices should last & the monthly temperatures of swedish cities in the 30s!
And I also got a poster print by Naomi! Gonna frame it and put it up in the apartment somewhere, maybe on our “pretty wall”. Naomi is opening a gallery in Stockholm by the way, Vinca Minor! I don’t remember when it opens though, but soon!
After being done writing I followed Suss to a thrift store where she had reserved a table that I helped her carry home. Fell in love with an AMAZING teak make up table with matching chair, two adjustable mirrors and a light in the middle. The little chair has had it’s fabric changed to a terrible one though. But if someone is in Göteborg and has 1400 kr, and loves teak, and feel like changing fabrics, go to Ebbes Hörna by Bellevue and check it out because I can’t afford it and that makes me sad! I also bought Animal Farm there since I haven’t read it since I was like 14, and also got a pair of lovely vertically striped 80s leggings (made in west germany they say!), and weird iron-on bow things I do not yet know much use for but I’ll think of some.
Now I’m going to make sushi to celebrate my handed in exam & then watch more Absolutely Fabulous with Suss again! She has all seasons!
In the wonderful collective Trafikken in Copenhagen.
One of the best websites on the internet is in my opinion CouchSurfing.org That is partially because I’m pretty poor, but it’s just such a good idea to let people share room in their apartments to other travellers for free; It is the cheapest, friendliest and just nicest way to travel or to get to know fun people from all over the world. So simple; you just sign up with what your couch is like and how many people you can host, if they can smoke, if you have pets etc and then if someone needs your couch they will ask you and you can answer yes or no.
I’d recommend it to pretty much anyone who isn’t a total loner or control freak or a murderer or something. Since you always give out little recommendations about the people you’ve had staying with you or that you have been staying with, travellers can check in to see what have beeen said about the people before and make up their minds about if they want to contact the hosts or not. And the other way around of course. We’ve had a bunch of people staying here at our collective now and it’s been pretty wonderful. I got to know a great french guy called Elie a few months ago, we hung out and drank a lot of beer for a few days and I showed him the wonders of Andra Långgatan.
Frej and I also got floor space in the collective Trafikken when we were in Copenhagen, met lots and lots of other super interesting and fun travellers, like Ted from USA who introduced me to the insane dog book I was reading in the picture, or Stina who apparantly knew my friend Annali because everything is connected.. there were environmental scientists and high school students and researchers and everything great!
I really do think that people should at least give it a chance or three to see if it’s their thing! But I don’t get why it wouldn’t be because meeting locals is the best way to travel ever & hosting people is a lot of fun and you get to feel nice!
If you don’t have any friends on there to recommend you and get you started you can also get your identification verified. That also gives you some other advantages that I don’t know that much about since I haven’t done it myself.
GO JOIN!
And if you’re already on there, please share your stories!
My friend Björn and I were talking about Sonic on MSN today. Best game ever. The game for which my mother messed up her thumbs so that she couldn’t play anymore & the game which I obsessively played until I could go through the entire first zone with the tv screen shut down to dark mode when I was a kid.
My friend Bettan has made a Facebook group for the best typo ever*. I think you should join and post more interpretations of what Kurt means to you! I think my favourites are Lemon Curd Cobain, Kurd Cobain and Kocko Bäng.
Smöjträd or trolltall is the swedish folklore name for a magic pine that is split in two (or has large roots over ground) & that the people used to pull people through to cure diseases, mostly rachitis & aches of different kinds. When I was a kid I used to read a lot about them in my grandmother’s weekly newspapers and in a lot of books on life in the 19th century in Sweden where they practically always seemed to go and pull someone through a trollträd and I was extremely fascinated by it. A few weeks ago I read a story at Frej’s parents’ apartment on how a man had gotten seisures from trying to cut down the one in Årby to conserve it because they were building a road…
I don’t know if there are any left near Göteborg. Does anyone else? Because if so I want to go and visit it.
I miss my darling Adina so much! We’ve lived too far apart for way too long now, it sucks not having her around! Hopefully we’ll get to see eachother for a while over christmas but still! Stockholm is a different world when you don’t have money, or the time to take a break from life either. Other from missing her I am studying a lot, feeling disconnected from the world, am sprouting mung beans and drinking someone elses chamomile tea. & reading. Am coughing through the nights but am otherwise feeling healthy so it’s ok. Going to Copenhagen on thursday!
Today is my birthday! Frej and I have spent it so far watching art films on vimeo and eating chips for breakfast. Now I’m on my way to the doctor to get a checkup on my arms. I recommend watching the little documentary above, it’s about a man filling a whole city with gorgeous street art.
Ziggy helps me study today!
I’m writing about the pro’s and con’s of consumption from a perspective of sustainable development.. should totally be my thing but I have a hard time focusing today. Oh well.
I know I whine and whine about my arms but my arms suck!! They hurt so bad and almost all the time. Waiting to get an appointment at the doctor again.
But life is pretty good anyway with a cat & Imperiet’s greatest hits & a boyfriend that will massage me whenever I ask for it.
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Ziggy waking Frej up after Saturday’s party. He has gotten so big since the last picture I posted of him, I just realized!
The success!!
