Author Archives: Katja

I was sitting on my bed, knitting the beginning of a new pair of mittens. My hands couldn’t take the inaction anymore, they needed the loops and patterns. I was sitting on my bed, knitting, and I heard birds singing. My window was open and it is spring now, I took a long walk withContinue reading “midnight noises”

Maybe I’ve started to believe in talismans. Objects of no particular value, except for them being given to me by a special person at a special time of life. Moments that I want to remember. You know, almost as if I was trying to turn back time. Or just harness energy from those people and thoseContinue reading “talismans”

Lina bought me an Easter bunny of chocolate a week or so ago. It’s been keeping me company next to the computer screen while I’ve been reading about the merits of aerial photography. Now, I’m spending Easter with the bunny, a grape fruit, dill flavored chips and Suits. * Oh, don’t worry. I’m not thatContinue reading “Happy Easter”

On my way home after a concert, reading on the tube. Lina and I saw Valerie June. Her Tennessee accent sometimes mushed the words together into an unintelligible mess and her voice was nasally piercing. Completely insane. Amazing. She ended the concert by making us sing and then she walked right out into the audience withContinue reading “an upbeat for Easter”

The other day, someone had exchanged the ad poster for this: It made me so happy, for some reason. A so much better thing to rest my eyes upon day in and day out on the tube, instead of all those advertisements that invade our minds, constantly.

I actually haven’t touched anything university related for three days. Not even with my thoughts. In the weekend I guess that’s fine, but today it’s Monday and officially I should be reading articles and planning my landscape ecology project. But I have felt I needed this. Or, rather, it has not been a conscious choice.Continue reading “the meaning of things”

SERIOUSLY, I am SUPERWOMAN. It’s way past 2 AM and I’ve finally turned in the last of today’s three dead-lines, one for landscape ecology and two for thesis prep – in addition to having been to a two day conference with the science-faculty-education-committee-whatever that I’m the student representative in, at a spa hotel in the archipelago.Continue reading “– – –”

These double courses are turning my world upside down. I seriously have no idea of what I’m doing most of the time. Searching for articles, reading research ethics guidelines, modeling habitat connectivities, learning how to handle the stereo aerial photo software without becoming all cockeyed, supervisor meetings, trying to remember to eat, sleep, being madeContinue reading “oh, god, time”

And when a year has passed, the emptiness that is left. Lena Andersson: They were standing on the pavement outside his gate. It was snowing. She thought: How stupid can you be, to think that it is about time when people give time as a reason? How can you be that stupid at all, toContinue reading “instead of the book club IV”

One has to love a human being very much to bear her hunger. Just that. That wanting is not enough. The words of Lena Andersson, in her arbitrary conduct.