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Jul. 26th, 2009 04:44 pmI'm moving in less than two weeks. SHIIIIIIT
Watched Children of Earth (all five days) last night, and gods. No words, except I loved it. Loved it. I really have no idea what will happen after this, or what I want to happen, but it doesn't matter, because that? Was awesome. And I need my friends to watch it so I can blub in company.
It's too hot to think.
I can't write what I want, can't engage in that way, not yet, I haven't learnt how, so Dear Diary it is.
We have an apartment. Last Thursday, in a sweltering Gothenburg, we signed the contract. August 8-9 is Moving Weekend. August 24 I start school. So much longing.
I'm reading my way through the Great Warnings Debate '09 and the latest SS/HG Exchange. I'm listening to Regina Spektor's "Far" and The Mars Volta's "Octahedron". I'm waiting for my sister to call me with personal details on the guy who's supposed to rent my apartment in Stockholm. I'm waiting for tomorrow night, when Ylva comes. We're to spend days at the closest beach. It's the only way to get any sort of relief from this weather.
I can't write what I want, can't engage in that way, not yet, I haven't learnt how, so Dear Diary it is.
We have an apartment. Last Thursday, in a sweltering Gothenburg, we signed the contract. August 8-9 is Moving Weekend. August 24 I start school. So much longing.
I'm reading my way through the Great Warnings Debate '09 and the latest SS/HG Exchange. I'm listening to Regina Spektor's "Far" and The Mars Volta's "Octahedron". I'm waiting for my sister to call me with personal details on the guy who's supposed to rent my apartment in Stockholm. I'm waiting for tomorrow night, when Ylva comes. We're to spend days at the closest beach. It's the only way to get any sort of relief from this weather.
Okay, we don't have an apartment. The woman I talked to who was all "we have an agreement" apparently didn't get to make the decision, and the place went to someone who could move in a month earlier. Fantastic. I hate people.
But I did get accepted to the school. So I don't hate people, I just need to find a new place to live. Or something. I don't know, I'm all over the place. And very tired.
( So, that meme thing )
But I did get accepted to the school. So I don't hate people, I just need to find a new place to live. Or something. I don't know, I'm all over the place. And very tired.
( So, that meme thing )
Unbelievable
Jun. 7th, 2009 04:47 pmOMG we have an apartment OMG we're really moving we're really doing this OMG OMG OMG
!!!!!!!!!!!!
...Now I'm worrying about getting accepted to school.
!!!!!!!!!!!!
...Now I'm worrying about getting accepted to school.
Clearly I'm not a reviewer
May. 23rd, 2009 09:21 pmFinished the latest Sookie Stackhouse novel, Dead And Gone, and eh. Boring. I'm disappointed. My emotions weren't engaged at all. The earlier books are hardly the best I've ever read, but they're entertaining, and I cared. I'm hoping it's just a one-off thing. And I hope Bill will be okay. I know I shouldn't like him, but I do.
It reminded me that I've decided to give True Blood a second chance, though. I watched the first three episodes last autumn and was very turned-off by the sex-and-violence thing they had going on. But a friend kept watching, and he told me it got a lot better later on. And I am interested in seeing how the story translates to this medium, so... We'll see. Putting on ep 4 now.
It reminded me that I've decided to give True Blood a second chance, though. I watched the first three episodes last autumn and was very turned-off by the sex-and-violence thing they had going on. But a friend kept watching, and he told me it got a lot better later on. And I am interested in seeing how the story translates to this medium, so... We'll see. Putting on ep 4 now.
If you're not with us you're a ghost
May. 22nd, 2009 08:54 pmFeh.
Have spent the last week sick, and wrangling with a woman in Gothenburg (GBG) who — perhaps? — wants to rent out her apartment to me and Ylva. She apparently can't wait 'til we can get down there and take a look at it, but she can send us the contract, though she requires a month's rent in deposit to do that. Which, okay, we can do that, if we can get someone we know living there to visit the place and actually ensure it exists, and also check with the landlord to make sure she has permission to rent out second-hand. Don't know how that went, Ylva's the one in contact with her, but now she's talking about coming up to Stockholm? She couldn't talk more at the time, but would call Ylva later, and that was two days ago. Blargh. Complicated. But I really want this to work out. It's a three-room apartment, with a dishwasher, washing machine and drier, plus water and electricity included in the rent. Wants.
Borrowed Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy from my mother, and was blown away. Most Swedish crime novels I've read have been rather small in scope — taking place in a small village somewhere, centered on a single murder, things like that. This was big, and political, and just really good. Lisbeth Salander is an awesome character. I'm sad that there won't be any more books.
Saw IAMX live at Debaser Medis last night, and it was amazing. The energy was completely different from what I'm used to (rock bands, mostly), but so so good. And Chris Corner is such a tiny man! I knew he was skinny, but I hadn't realised he's quite short as well. Small but explosive, and man, those clothes... *fans self* (And the make-up, and the stage presence, and the facial hair, weirdly enough? ...Okay, I was lusting.) They played most of my favourite songs (The Alternative, Spit It Out, Think of England, President, I Am Terrified), but I'm disappointed we didn't get to hear Kingdom of Welcome Addiction live. That would've been awesome. But it was a great show. Maybe I can finally start to get over missing him at the Arvika festival two years ago (I started listening to IAMX two days after I got back. Two days.)
Somwhere around the end of May/start of June I'll find out if I got accepted to Kvinnofolkhögskolan (the school down in GBG I applied to — women-only with a feminist focus, can it get any better?). I should be a lot more nervous than I am, I think.. I do expect to get in, but it's far from certain. Perhaps I don't have the energy to worry about anything else than finding someplace to live right now.
Have spent the last week sick, and wrangling with a woman in Gothenburg (GBG) who — perhaps? — wants to rent out her apartment to me and Ylva. She apparently can't wait 'til we can get down there and take a look at it, but she can send us the contract, though she requires a month's rent in deposit to do that. Which, okay, we can do that, if we can get someone we know living there to visit the place and actually ensure it exists, and also check with the landlord to make sure she has permission to rent out second-hand. Don't know how that went, Ylva's the one in contact with her, but now she's talking about coming up to Stockholm? She couldn't talk more at the time, but would call Ylva later, and that was two days ago. Blargh. Complicated. But I really want this to work out. It's a three-room apartment, with a dishwasher, washing machine and drier, plus water and electricity included in the rent. Wants.
Borrowed Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy from my mother, and was blown away. Most Swedish crime novels I've read have been rather small in scope — taking place in a small village somewhere, centered on a single murder, things like that. This was big, and political, and just really good. Lisbeth Salander is an awesome character. I'm sad that there won't be any more books.
Saw IAMX live at Debaser Medis last night, and it was amazing. The energy was completely different from what I'm used to (rock bands, mostly), but so so good. And Chris Corner is such a tiny man! I knew he was skinny, but I hadn't realised he's quite short as well. Small but explosive, and man, those clothes... *fans self* (And the make-up, and the stage presence, and the facial hair, weirdly enough? ...Okay, I was lusting.) They played most of my favourite songs (The Alternative, Spit It Out, Think of England, President, I Am Terrified), but I'm disappointed we didn't get to hear Kingdom of Welcome Addiction live. That would've been awesome. But it was a great show. Maybe I can finally start to get over missing him at the Arvika festival two years ago (I started listening to IAMX two days after I got back. Two days.)
Somwhere around the end of May/start of June I'll find out if I got accepted to Kvinnofolkhögskolan (the school down in GBG I applied to — women-only with a feminist focus, can it get any better?). I should be a lot more nervous than I am, I think.. I do expect to get in, but it's far from certain. Perhaps I don't have the energy to worry about anything else than finding someplace to live right now.
Lackey will have to wait. Thursday's interview in Gothenburg ended a lot sooner than I'd expected, and I hadn't brought enough reading material, so I went to the local SF Bookstore to find something that would last me the way home. I left with de Lint's Widdershins, and once again I am lost in Newford. I love Jilly and Geordie so very much, and while this book wasn't quite as good as The Onion Girl, it was very very good. Very satisfying. Heartbreaking and heartwarming at the same time, as always with Charles de Lint.
I've gone back to the "beginning" of Newford and am reading Memory and Dream now. I've missed so many of these books. I don't know why it's taken me so long to start to catch up, but I'm not at all unhappy with having so much magic still waiting to be devoured.
I need a book icon.
I've gone back to the "beginning" of Newford and am reading Memory and Dream now. I've missed so many of these books. I don't know why it's taken me so long to start to catch up, but I'm not at all unhappy with having so much magic still waiting to be devoured.
I need a book icon.
"I rarely find motive in bird vomit."
May. 6th, 2009 07:59 pmCatching up with the latest, what, 6 eps of Bones, and I just. Oh, Cam. Oh, Sweets. Oh, Angela and Hodgins who should get back together again cause I loved them that way, and I've deleted all eps after watching them except Aliens in a Spaceship because Hodgins telling Brennan how much he's in love with Angela totally broke my heart. Oh, Brennan and Booth, still adorable together.
I lost a lot of enthusiasm for this show after falling in love with Criminal Minds, because I couldn't help comparing the two, but that's just stupid. They're both procedurals, but vastly different in all ways that are meaningful to me (except that they're both completely populated with characters I adore (except for CM's Gideon and Rossi, hmm)), and I watch and love them for very different reasons. Go figuring that out.
I'm starting to feel an itch to pick up my abandoned shows (Supernatural, House, Dexter). Maybe someday not far from now I'll have time. I definitely need more West Wing, although the seasons not written by Sorkin scare me somewhat.
Gothenburg tomorrow, woo!
I lost a lot of enthusiasm for this show after falling in love with Criminal Minds, because I couldn't help comparing the two, but that's just stupid. They're both procedurals, but vastly different in all ways that are meaningful to me (except that they're both completely populated with characters I adore (except for CM's Gideon and Rossi, hmm)), and I watch and love them for very different reasons. Go figuring that out.
I'm starting to feel an itch to pick up my abandoned shows (Supernatural, House, Dexter). Maybe someday not far from now I'll have time. I definitely need more West Wing, although the seasons not written by Sorkin scare me somewhat.
Gothenburg tomorrow, woo!
Mostly whining
May. 4th, 2009 09:33 pmStill mostly lurking. Change is hard.
I hate Mondays. I'm doing an internship at a small school - in the library - and it's so boring. I couldn't imagine being surrounded by books all day long could possibly be anything but very nice, but there's hardly anything to do. And then there's KIDS. EVERYWHERE. Which shouldn't surprise me, it being a school and all, but yeesh. They're talking to me. Mighty uncomfortable. Yeah, this is not the smartest thing I've ever agreed to do. So I spend the days counting the hours until I can go home and longing for weekendnowpls. Blerg.
I'm buried in meta and my beloved political blogs and I want fic but I don't know where to find it. I don't know what, really. I'm looking through fandom after fandom but nothing makes me particularly enthusiastic right now. I want to read my current book-on-the-cumputer (The Oathbound, Mercedes Lackey) but I don't feel like I have the time. Having to go to bed early makes me stressed and cranky.
Not particularly uplifting, this.
I'm looking forward to Thursday. I'm off to Gothenburg for the day, going to a meeting and interview at the folk high school I've applied to. It'll be nice to get away, even for just a day. When I get back Ylva will be here, and we will spend the weekend cooking and cleaning and watching silly movies and listening to awesome music and moping about not being in London together.
I hate Mondays. I'm doing an internship at a small school - in the library - and it's so boring. I couldn't imagine being surrounded by books all day long could possibly be anything but very nice, but there's hardly anything to do. And then there's KIDS. EVERYWHERE. Which shouldn't surprise me, it being a school and all, but yeesh. They're talking to me. Mighty uncomfortable. Yeah, this is not the smartest thing I've ever agreed to do. So I spend the days counting the hours until I can go home and longing for weekendnowpls. Blerg.
I'm buried in meta and my beloved political blogs and I want fic but I don't know where to find it. I don't know what, really. I'm looking through fandom after fandom but nothing makes me particularly enthusiastic right now. I want to read my current book-on-the-cumputer (The Oathbound, Mercedes Lackey) but I don't feel like I have the time. Having to go to bed early makes me stressed and cranky.
Not particularly uplifting, this.
I'm looking forward to Thursday. I'm off to Gothenburg for the day, going to a meeting and interview at the folk high school I've applied to. It'll be nice to get away, even for just a day. When I get back Ylva will be here, and we will spend the weekend cooking and cleaning and watching silly movies and listening to awesome music and moping about not being in London together.
