Author Archives: Katja

On Friday, my classmate Jonas had a release party for the book of poems that he had just published. The book is called Lantmäteriet, which means land survey, basically, and his poems are about mapping reality and our relationship to landscapes. Kind of. Among other things. Or I don’t know. I haven’t read all of it yet,Continue reading “at the book release party”

I was there, despite the rain, to see my friend Kirke start and finish the half marathon on Kungsholmen. Seriously, I don’t know if I’ll ever be able to have that kind of resolve. On the way back home, we ran into this fine piece of street art, just by the base of Västerbron.

Last week, I went on an excursion with my landscape ecology course, and for the first time ever in my geography studies history, I did not bring my camera with me. I don’t really know what I was thinking, maybe that there won’t be anything new there for me to photograph, we’ll only be drivingContinue reading “remember not to forget the camera”

I’ve had rants at a couple of people lately, all related to food. In particular, about what an environmentally friendly diet is. I’m basically a vegetarian (even though I occasionally eat lamb and fish if someone has prepared it for me) and I avoid eating too many vegetables or fruits that are out of season or mightContinue reading “the nightmare in choosing the right food”

I’ve been in the weirdest mood today. I haven’t been able to concentrate – instead, I’ve been sitting outside in the sunshine, staring out into space. I sat with Dries for a while under some cherry trees, and he even commented on it, “Katja, you’re so deep in thought”. The thing is, I don’t rememberContinue reading “cures”

During lunch, when the morning study session has been extra tough, we all walk over to the farm just off campus in the national city park. The season’s children are running around in the meadows, lambs and kids and there is one lamb in particular, he has been named Stig, who was rejected by hisContinue reading “reprieve”

The week has been, well, nightmares and sleep deprivation, but otherwise quite fine. Anyway, I decided to be kind to myself this Sunday. I slept in, and was woken up by the sun shining outside. My cousin Jonatan has been staying with us for a couple of days, and we brought out the deckchairs andContinue reading “kind Sunday”

So, I’m done with the mapping. For four days, I’ve been going through and if necessary correcting the classes in an automatic land cover classification based on satellite data. We have a common study area in the class, that was divided into 16 pieces (one each for every student enrolled in the course). I’m stillContinue reading “someone, please, make me stop”

After my parents divorced when I was seven, my dad and I started this tradition. When my parents were together, I would take a bath almost every Saturday morning. I would listen to them fight in the kitchen while I played with my rubber ducks. In my memory, the fighting happened almost every Saturday, but I’mContinue reading “left by an advertisement”

Now that one of my courses are over, and my mom has gone back to Liberia, I suddenly find myself with bucketloads of time that I don’t know what to do with. For the first time since I started my master’s program, I actually have nights off. It’s not that the course that I’m takingContinue reading “what comes out of understimulation”