Author Archives: Katja

Last week, me and a couple of classmates went to the Young Professionals Day at the Stockholm World Water Week. It is this big event for scientists, politicians, entrepreneurs and policy makers. Basically, it’s a huge science fair for grown-ups. I was quite excited about going, and it turned out to be interesting, but notContinue reading “at the science fair for grown-ups”

I’m at the prep course and I’m exhausted. Parts of it is old, some new, certain things really interesting, but everything put together makes the days incredibly intense and my brain is working on over-drive. I get inspired. I have so many ideas, things that I should write about. There is so much substance thatContinue reading “when time is what I lack”

I’m sitting on a train again. This time, headed north. Härnösand, to be precise. The sun was shining when we left Stockholm at noon, but now it’s half past three and the clouds are a dull grey. I’m going to a course, a prerequisite to get the money from the grant I got as funding forContinue reading “on a train again”

I made my bed, cleared the desk, put away things from the floor in my room. Some things need space. A clutter-free environment. A physical respect and stillness. Quiet and undivided attention. One of those things is listening to a new Hello Saferide album for the first time. And this is how it starts, withContinue reading “Saturday morning prayer”

I was biking home from the comfortably lukewarm Friday evening at a pub. The faint smell of rotting apples was in the air, and the mist made the moon look like a heavy, half-eaten cheddar above the tree tops. I was listening to Hello Saferide’s second album. And then I saw a fox. It strolled outContinue reading “I met a fox”

I’m tired, OK. I have an amazing ability to do my absolute best when it doesn’t really matter. Now, my focus is elsewhere.

This has not been the best of days. Mostly because I disappoint myself by expecting more from people than what they can give. I should work on acceptance. I don’t understand how we’re expected to manage to fit everything a person is supposed to be in one body. The pragmatic and ambitious and spiritual and understandingContinue reading “… I’ve bought a new pair of shoes. They’re an adventure!”

I was biking across the Skanstull bridge in the morning sunshine, on my way in to the center, listening to the radio in one ear. A new song came on, I already knew in the intro that this was something special – and then the singing started. A NEW HELLO SAFERIDE SONG! Oh, this mustContinue reading “new rides”

I just saw Legends of the Fall. A bit too heroic for my taste, a bit too melodramatic, but Brad Pitt is a beautiful man. Terrifyingly so. Destructively so. And I’ve learned to stay away from that now. Not in a movie, there’s no danger in that, but in life. There is beauty that consumes,Continue reading “when beauty kills”

I went back to school on Monday, to start working on my thesis. However, already on Monday evening, I started feeling weird, and by Tuesday morning I had developed a fully-fledged cold. Sore throat, fever, my entire body aching. Same morning, the Polish contractors came and started work on our bathroom. I got closed intoContinue reading “first week of thesis”