April 2012
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February 2012
1 post
All blog and no blog makes blog a blog blog
I’ve not been around the blogosphere. Not that that’s any great loss. But I’m doing stuff. Sorta. Reintegrating. I miss Sweden an absolute fucktonne, but it’s time to laugh again (hehehe!). I want to write more crap, but I need something to write about. I’m living something of a charmed (and relatively internet-less) life at the moment. Anyway, this has been an...
January 2012
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A year ago I sat at Melbourne International airport, crying, nervous as all hell about my exchange. I was only supposed to be gone for seven months. It terrified me a little. Now it’s all over. I’m back at the airport, but this time I’m coming home. I don’t think it’s possible to cry any more than I have in the past couple of days. This has been the most incredible...
The amazing thing about exchange has been meeting fantastic people who I really gel with, who I love to converse with, who are just all-round swell folk. The sad thing is moving away from them.
This thing is really ending.
Sad post is sad.
December 2011
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Two pills of Bakis
It’s Swedish for ‘hangover’. It’s 7.05am. I doubt it’ll make much of a difference, but here’s to unfortunate optimism.
Ohhh and Happy New Year and all that shit.
I have one month left in Sweden
FEEL ALL THE FEELINGS!
November 2011
5 posts
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FIRST SNOWWWWWWWWWWW
Sveri-yeaaahh: an exchange student in Uppsala:... →
Look what I did!
artificialswedener:
November arrived and I hadn’t left Sweden since a cheeky booze cruise to Tallinn in early July (thank you so much, migrationsverket). Shit, I’d hardly left Uppsala except for a weekend down in Göteborg. So it was planned. A booze cruise to Riga. It would be cheap, easy, drunken and… cheap. Or so…
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Couldn't bear the thought of another weekend in...
so booked a trip to Munich for tomorrow with a couple of the girl I work with. Should be… not Swedish, which is exactly what I’m after.
I have an ear infection
and all WebMD has really taught me is that, as an adult, I really shouldn’t have an ear infection.
“Your doctor will talk to you about your child’s symptoms. Then he or she will look into your child’s ears. A special tool with a light lets the doctor see the eardrum and tell whether there is fluid behind it. This exam is rarely uncomfortable. It bothers some children...
October 2011
4 posts
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I've gone to post a lot of things lately
but realised that such posts would be so insipid I’d rather punch myself in the face…
…or they might be read as a subtle shift in my life from “exchange student” to “functioning alcoholic”.
Whatever, here’s a gif:
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“…trying to make a meaningful life for himself in an already narrow world.”
– I hate essay-writing Marita. Sometimes she writes clever stuff, and other times she chunders up lines like that, which sound like tag-lines for shitty movies on the Hallmark channel. This essay is pure barf.
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I have a friend who looks like Taylor Lautner, who...
My first thought this morning: huh, there’s a werewolf asleep on my couch.
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Thoughts upon waking up this morning:
Ugh, what time is it?
Am I still drunk??
Ugh, no, hungover
Water
Ugh, 7am
Ugh, essay time
Mmm 5 more minutes sleep
“Buttload” is a bad word to describe how many condoms a person has
September 2011
8 posts
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Last night a lot of fun/amusing things happened
like when we were sitting in the bunker at Upplands’ pub and about 10 Swedish guys came in, sat down, drank beers then after a bit climbed up on the table and started singing Backstreet Boys.
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Apparently when my dad puts chlorine in the pool
he refers to it as “dumping midichlorians in the water”.
And that is why I love him.
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August 2011
15 posts
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Arctic Monkeys - 505
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Things I must stop doing:
Waking up, checking internet, going back to bed. Repeatedly. Until it’s 3 or 4pm.
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Russia tourism | Culture | Please direct me to the... →
This pretty much mirrors my experience of St. Petersburg. An incredible city, but you know you sure as hell aren’t in Kansas anymore.
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The only way to improve nachos
is to be invited to meet some people at the pub, after you have made nachos and vaguely planned to spend the evening at home, then go get kinda drunk… then finish the nachos when you get back
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Going to Göteborg for a few days
on my own.
This is the first bit of ‘travel’ I’ve ever done alone. This feels weird.
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Someone in my neighbourhood is playing clarinet......
So I’m going to hang out my window and look for Squidward.
July 2011
10 posts
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Soooo
this evening my friend and I got drunk, hung out of his window and played music at apartment buildings. We played the Imperial March when people arrived home drunk. Just one day I’d like to come home to a theme tune.
This has been a drunk post. G’night.
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3.27am
I’m beginning to question the wisdom of deciding to watch all Star Wars prequels in one night, having started at 10pm.
Getting dressed up to walk down to the supermarket
I’m not going to pretend I have anything better to do. And I’m cool with that.
Feelings. Boooo.
So time for me to make a post that proves deep down I’m human (after all *daft raving*). I’m not big into emotions and shit, but I’m gonna write this anyway. Onwards.
Yesterday a friend of mine would have turned 23. Shit, I think it was yesterday. I get my dates mixed up and it makes me feel callous. Anyway, I say “would have” because she took her own life in 2005....
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So, my friend is turning 21 tomorrow
And we just did a system run (Systembolaget. Gov.-run bottle shop monopoly). And I’m currently sitting next to 28 drinks. Bitch drinks, if we’re being honest. But there’s this little idiot voice in the back of my head that keeps popping up and saying, “but will it be enough?”
Meanwhile the majority of my brain is saying, “you’re an idiot”.
So I...
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I left me alone with my credit card
So now this is on its way to my mailbox.
Smoked salmon and avocado pasta
Adult pants are ON
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Cheeky blog plug
I decided to put all my exchange eggs in one blogging basket, as it were. At the moment I’ve just re-posted most of the stuff I’ve already posted here relating to exhange, so nothing new, but there’ll be other stuff soon enough.
Anyway, you can find it here.
Great, now I can post drivel on two blogs!
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The xx - Crystalised
File under ‘songs I...
June 2011
10 posts
Croatia, eh?
5 days of in-jokes, quotes, obnoxiousness and awesome. It’s gonna be long…
(Let’s turn this into a story with pictures. The photos are here!)
Day 1 (Saturday)
A typical Friday evening is had by all parties, so we meet at lunchtime at the Uppsala train station stifling yawns, nursing miiiiiild hangovers. I’ve been awake since about 8am, unable to sleep, excited like a kid...