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I just finished “Bonjour tristesse” by Françoise Sagan. Such a lovely little piece of pubescent melodrama. To begin with so light, easy, carefree. So decadent nineteen-fifties French. And then all that freedom turns on itself and brings on pitch-black darkness and the following cynicisms. Lovely. And the main character Cecile, in the middle of the book, writes:Continue reading “the risks of boredom”

And I just fixed my bike. I took a tour around the block, and it works perfectly, all 21 gears and everything. I’m so incredibly capable, I don’t know what to do with myself. I can cook and I can knit and I can fix bikes. Next, I’ll have to learn how to make yarn. IContinue reading “jeez”

Oh, I’m having so much fun picking out the color scheme for the mappings that we are making in class right now. And OK, I know one should use as intuitive colors as possible when defining one’s symbology, like green for forest and blue for water. But it’s also fun to just play around aContinue reading “the coloring of maps”

I’ve started knitting and crocheting again, several projects at once and there is yarn all over my room. Big and small balls of color spread out over my bed, desk, shelves and floor. One of my favorite fantasy series as a teenager was about a girl called Alanna who dresses up as a boy and goesContinue reading “my superpower”

Finally, these five weeks of two-hundred percent occupancy are over. Four days ago, I turned in the last master’s thesis prep papers and had a four hour exam about landscape ecology and aerial photograph interpretation. Then, this long, lovely weekend came. Tomorrow, the second, project based part of the landscape ecology course starts. To theContinue reading “the time of over-exertion is now behind me”

I took a break from school today. Or, I made a power point presentation for tomorrow this morning. But then I went to the market-garden and bought soil, seeds and plants, just like last year, and then I spent almost all day outside in the gazebo replanting all of our pot plants and the newlyContinue reading “the gardener”

I just finished a book, “Friheten förde oss hit” by Gunnar Ardelius. It was good. It was about a family that moved down to Liberia in the 1960s, the man has gotten a job in the administration at the Swedish mining company LAMCO and the wife doesn’t want to be there. She doesn’t even know theContinue reading “heartland”

I’ve been hurting people lately. Inadvertently, due to thoughtlessness and miss-communication. And in my attempts to clean it up, I put my foot in my mouth and make the mess even worse, making the hurt spread. I haven’t been able to sleep for more than a week. So, now I’m avoiding people. It feels likeContinue reading “in the company of geodatabases”

I found a document with quotes from “Över vattnet går jag – skiss till en poetik” by Pia Tafdrup. She wrote (in my translation): The world is understood from within. Therefore I feel the world through myself. It might sound like hubris, but is rather the opposite – a humble way to approach that whichContinue reading “cleaning out my computer”

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”