It’s never enough to say I’m sorry…

But I am really sorry that I haven’t posted for the past two weeks or so. I’ve been both crazy busy and also totally lazy at times.

Since last a lot of things have happened. I went on my cruise and it was AMAZING. The weather was great most of the time, it was really hot in Riga and in Visby it was warm but we had a little rain-shower. We ate ice cream at a famous place that had over 100 different flavors, I took three different kinds of chocolate :) And of course I spent some time shopping, mostly souvenirs thou.

We’ve also had a big family party to celebrate my mom who’s turned 52 and my sisters who’ve turned 18 and 30 this summer and me that’s turning 20 this coming Monday. I spent 2 days in the kitchen before the party making three cakes and three sandwich layer-cakes. They became a hit and everyone loved them. Oh, and I got some gifts :)

Other than that I’ve mostly relaxed and done pretty much nothing. Well, I’ve spent the last couple of days at school with a friend trying to finish two essays for a summer class, but other than that I’ve been up all nights and slept all days.

One more thing, this weekend a carnival is in town so I’ll probably go there to look for a bit.

On with the questions:

Mine: The most expensive object I own is probably my computer that I’ve spent $2000-$2500 on in total.

Chris: My favorite late night activity is a tie between watching TV and sitting by the computer I think.

New question: What is your favorite thing to do at a carnival?

Watch me fail!

Hello all!

So I've been totally slacking as far as updating is concerned. Things have been rather busy between school, working, and attempting a social life, but I will do my best to keep updating! Work has been busy, and now that I'm taking a class it adds to the pile of things to do. So far I quite like my class, or at least I like the professor. She's a little crazy, but she keeps the class interesting, despite the dry subject matter. The class is on technical communication, which is not a particularly exciting topic, but an important one and I'm glad she has a way of keeping it as exciting as one can. Otherwise my weeks are filled with working and dealing with small children as well as the observatory, (weather permitting.)

I also went camping last weekend, which was quite fun. I did however get a rather bad sunburn on my back though. I am now peeling which is always awkward and unattractive, haha. The upside however, is that I will get a nice tan when it's done and over with.

It's now semi-official that I will be moving home sometime within the next month. I have let my landlord know that I intend to move out when my lease is over, and discussed it with my current roommate. She intends to stay, regardless of whether or not one of our mutual friends takes my place. Also, my parents have booked their flights to Asia, they are going to Thailand and its surrounding countries for 3 months starting in late October. I am quite jealous of their trip, but I will also enjoy having the house to myself for that time.

Anyway work is almost over so I will be off.

Questions:

I generally do like to buy nicer things if I have the money, and I can tell that it is genuinely manufactured to a higher standard. Usually however, I don't have the money, so I get the best that I can afford. Although sometimes if it's an article of clothing or something I know is going to be abused then I'll just get the cheapest thing I can find.

I think the most expensive thing I own is my camera, I've spent over $3000 on the camera itself and various equipment.

What is your favorite late night activity? (after midnight)

In the night I hear him talk

Not much has happened this last week. I’ve been trying to read some books for school and kind of failed. Another thing that I’ve failed miserable with for the last couple of weeks is sleep. I haven’t made it to bed before 3-4am in I don’t know how long…

So I’ve spent the nights online and just today I found a couple of great sites with maps and tips that I can use when I’m going on my cruise to Riga and Visby this Friday. I’ve decided that I’m gonna spend most of my time in the old parts of the town and I’ve also found a great shopping center there with 140 stores (including Tommy Hilfiger, Denim, Marc'O Polo, Gant, Gabor, Diesel and G-Star Raw), as well as cafés and restaurants. They also have a whole floor that is a SPA. (What did people do before internet? :P) So I’m looking forward to this trip.

As you know I finally got a new phone from the store last week. This week my headphones to my mp3 stopped working so I had to take them back to the same store. I wonder what I’ve done to deserve this?

Let’s move on to the questions since it’s almost 3:30 am and I should go to bed:

Mine: I’m torn between getting vaccinated or not. I have never had the “normal” flu, but at the same time it seems like this has started to spread pretty viciously. I guess all I can do right now is wait and see what the health department/hospitals recommend.

Chris: I usually don’t think it’s worth spending extra money on nicer clothes. Normally I try to find clothes that I like to reasonable prices. But even I can make exceptions, and I made one of those today/yesterday when I bought a pair of black, high heeled, open toe shoes for $200. Usually I only buy shoes that costs between $25 and $60.

New question: What is the most expensive object that you own?

Weary Traveller Returns

Well needless to say SF was beyond amazing! It was everything I had hoped for and more. I don't have the time to go into detail, but heres a very brief recap:

- The drive down went quite smoothly with the exception of the flat tire we got in Montana and had to replace at 11:00 pm

- The hostel was nice, and is situated on an old military fort. It was also surrounded by trees, almost like a park

- The pride festivities were insane! There were massive parties (with over 100 000 people) every night and the parade made me cry. It was a very long and very happy parade and I got a little emotional when I saw all the gay and lesbian families going by!

- The weather was fantastic, but a little chilly in the evenings, although I'm told that is normal.

- I spent to much shopping, but I got some nice things and I'm glad I did!

Vancouver:

- I got to meet up with some family friends and we went to the beach to check out hot men. We also played volleyball on the beach and had a lot of fun

- The gay bar was awesome there too! Lots of pretty boys and hot gogo dancers.

- My Ex got a little weird on the trip and apparently was/is going through a bunch of emotional stuff for some reason.

- The drive back was long but pretty and it went by quicker then expected.

Getting back to work is difficult, especially getting used to waking up at 6:00 am every morning again! :( So I'm very exhausted and going to bed right after this.

I don't think I'd worry to much about swine flu (officially H1N1), especially since one of my coworkers is on the local university research team and she is not too concerned. It's only really a threat if you have a poor or compromised immune system to begin with.

My question: Do you think it's worth spending more money on nicer clothes (within reason)?

Finally some good news

You might have noticed that I didn’t post last week. There are two reasons for that, firstly I had so much to do that there was no time for it and secondly I wanted to wait for Chris to post. He should be back posting this week.

So since last time a few things have happened, the most important one being me getting a new phone. The store FINALLY contacted me and today I got it. I didn’t get to choose phone myself but it’s ok since I got it for free.

I’ve also been spending a lot of time with my sister and her new baby. He is so adorable and I love spending time with them. The plan for the last two weeks also including reading some books for school but I’ve postponed that due to the lovely weather.

I’m starting to look forward to the cruise I’ll be going on in a week and a half. I’m leaving on the 17th and will be getting home on the 20th in time to post my blog. Another thing I’m looking forward to is my 20th birthday that is coming up on the 10th of August. So I’ve only got about a month left to be a teenager.

Time for the question.

Mine: This summer my favorite TV-show is AI season 8 that they are showing here now. I’m also watching a lot of the drama series.

New question: So a few weeks ago there was a lot of media coverage on the whole swine flu thing. They are now predicting that it’ll come back in the fall again. So now they are planning to vaccinate or at least offer the possibility of getting vaccinated to everyone in Sweden.

That leads to my question for this week. Would you get vaccinated against the swine flu if you were offered it? Or would you skip it and try not to get sick without the vaccination?

Don't know where the future's heading

This will be a quick blog cause I’m going over to a friends for a “party” with a lot of people I’ve never meet before.

This week I bought a new phone for 25 dollars that I’m gonna use until the store gives me a new phone or my money back. Right now I’m not sure what’s going on with the phone and I haven’t heard from the store for the past week and a half. But all I can do is wait so that’s what I’m gonna do.

I also bought an Xbox 360 and a Guitar Hero so I’ve been spent a lot of time playing with that. But to be honest I think I’ve spent most of my time with my nephew William.

Oh, and I celebrated midsummer together with my family and I got some gifts that my dad bought to me when he was in Cyprus last week.

Let’s get on with the questions cause I have to go to my friends house soon.
Mine: I remember my 12th birthday the most because I had it at night and we watched a lot of horror movies (which I by the way hate now) and ate a lot of pizza.

Chris: I’m happy with my life and within a few hours I’ll probably be a lot happier due to the drinks consumed at the “party” :P … But to be a bit more serious I’m actually quite happy with my life and right now it feels right with school too even though I’m not a 100% sure it’s what I’m gonna do in the future it’s still interesting at the moment.

New question: What’s your favorite tv-show during the summer?

Full Speed Ahead Cap-i-tan!

As expected, this summer is flying by at ridiculous speeds. It is almost the end of June, which means my summer is almost half over already! On the one hand I feel very unaccomplished, but on the other hand I've been so busy I've hardly had time to sleep. Sadly my crazy work schedule has consumed the majority of my time thus far and it has left little time to do anything else. I've tried to get out and about a few times with friends, but it's tricky and inconsistent.

On the upside things will be slowing down significantly at the concert hall, since there will simply not be as many shows going on. However it also appears that I will be taking a summer communications course as well, so that will consume the rest of my time. This year, I'm hoping to apply for a double minor in Applied Mathematics and Astrophysics, so I need to go talk to the academic advisor to make sure I take all the courses I need.

Questions:

I'm not sure I really have any memorable birthdays... Largely because my birthday is always right after the holidays when school is starting again or I'm away on vacation or something. I enjoyed my last birthday, which we went and painted our own ceramic objects ( I painted a gnome).

Are you happy with your life now and where it is currently going? A simple but at the same time, loaded question. :)

Seconds, hours, so many days…

Since I posted late last week and Mondays are my normal day it’s my turn to post a blog again. Nothing much has happened really. I’ve spent a lot of time at the hospital visiting my sister, her boyfriend and their baby, my nephew William. They left the hospital today so from now on I can visit them at their apartment instead.

Other than that I’ve continued my fight to get a new phone and hopefully it will be solved soon because I’ve had to borrow an old phone from my dad for the last two months almost and it’s no fun. Pretty much all I can do with it is call and text, nothing else.

Oh, they finally started airing American Idol on TV here now so even though I’ve seen most of it and especially all of Adam’s clips online I’m gonna follow it now to get myself an opinion of all of the other contestants.

Since I asked the last question I’m not gonna ask a new one today and I’m gonna wait til next week to answer my own when Chris has posted a blog and one more question for me to answer.

You know what you want, but how long can you wait?

I know this is a bit late but I’ve been busy with a lot of stuff, both good and bad. Let’s start with the good things. One of my sisters had a baby boy 2 days ago and he is beyond cute, but that has taken up some time.

(My nephew wearing the clothes I bought for him)

I’ve also just recently found out that I got a B on my last econ final that I didn’t even think I was gonna pass.

Moving on to the bad stuff, my phone has been at the store for service/reparations for the last month and a half. I’ve gotten it back three times but the problem has still been there so it’s now the fourth time it’s in (within this month and a half). So now I’ve gotten tired of it so I’ve enlisted the help of a person that helps consumers when they have problems with things they’ve bought. So now we’ve threatened the store to take this matter to the National Board for Consumer Complaints. Hopefully it will all be solved soon.

Moving on to the question;
Chris: I think charities are good and if I had more money I would support the ones that I believe in. But I would never give money to a charity just because you should if I don’t believe in what they are doing.

New question: Which one of your birthdays do you remember the most and why?

Decisions!

Tonight I was proposed with a very interesting financial offer from my parents. Essentially they would help fund my new car if I agreed to move back in with them for at least a year. I currently have an aging vehicle that is on its last leg. Don't get me wrong, I love my car, but realistically it is getting to the age that it could fail at any moment and is well past its prime.

From a financial perspective it makes logical sense to move back home since I would save a significant amount of money and actually be able to afford things. The other hope is that if I do move back, I would work a lot less during the school year and actually have adequate time for my studies.

This is all for the trade off of my freedom, and the hope that I would actually be able to stand living at home. I'm generally an independent person, and if things could stay that way while living there and they didn't get in my way to much it could be tolerable. But I will certainly need some time to think things over and make some sort of a decision.

I'll skip a question today since I asked the last one.

The condensed answer of my question is that yes I do support charities, but to an extent. I generally only donate or help out specific causes and efforts.

Wholly crap it's June!

I can't believe it's already June. As usual the summer is just flying by. I'll keep this short. My 3 summer jobs are in full swing, and so far I'm quite enjoying all of them. Minds in motion is lots of fun, but I'm having issues keeping up with my required project hours. Largely becuase I am a driver and am constantly out and about doing workshops and shopping for supplies. I have yet to be in the office all week, I've been busy running around town.

I've officially booked the hostel in San Francisco, so everything is going to plan so far! We are currently planning to stay 5 nights in SF. We are not sure of the details for after SF but at least we have that much figured out.

Questions:

I think our education system is rather slack and under funded, at least compared to European schools. We always seem to be a year behind european kids of the same grade level.

I think adam lambert will do well for himself even though he didn't win. He's popular and talented enough to go reasonably far with his singing career.

Chineses remedies are quite interesting and I think they can be very powerful if used properly and effectively. I haven't really subscribed to much of chinese remedies, but I think it's certianly something I would consider using in the future.

Chris is quite a common name so I've seen it on lots of random things. Nothing really major but there is always those keychains and such with my name on it.

New: what do you think of charities? do you think they are worth supporting, do you think we should bother helping out the less fortunate or should they have to fend for themselves?

”Enchantress Emma”

So I know I’ve been a bit distant the last couple of weeks but it’s been so much in school. Today I had my last final for this semester and on Wednesday I’ve got a presentation then I’m done… till Tuesday when I start my summer class. Since I’ve hardly slept anything the last 9 days due to studying I’m gonna go straight to the question.

Or wait, first I have to tell you guys about my visit to H&M. That is actually the reason for the title of this blog. I found a super cute bluish nail polish and when I saw the name of it I just had to buy it even though I almost have no money left, it was called “Enchantress Emma”. I mean seriously, what is the odds of finding a nail polish that has the same name as you do?

Well, on to the questions:

Mine: I LOVE Adam Lambert, he’s a great singer and an amazing artist/performer. I’ve got all of his songs and I actually don’t think it mattered to much that he didn’t win because he’ll have an amazing career anyway.

Sam: I have no real opinion on Chinese remedies, mainly because I’ve never tried it. But if it works for people why not use it?

New question: Have you ever found some sort of merchandise that has your name? In that case what.

Better 3 weeks late than never..

Ok, I don't think I'm gonna be writing much because I will have so many questions to answer, so I'll just get started on them:

Picture of favorite neighborhood place: I didn't take this one myself, but here is edgbaston resevoir. However, at this time of year it is a bit more full than it is in that picture.

Last movie I saw/ next film I might: The last film I saw at the cinema was 'fighting'. The reveiws said it was boring and had a terrible plot and that the fight scenes were rubbish/ not enough. But after watching it, I think it was actually quite good. I don't know if it's because I am too easily pleased, or that the people who said that went into the film expecting 2 hours of kick ass fight scenes. I think it's that, thinking about it the title is easy to be mis-understood, whilst at the same time, stil fits with the story. The mext film I might see, is that one that is supposed to be the scariest film of this decade. Something about dragging someone to hell or something. My favorite horror film this decade has to probably be 1408, I can't really think of any, so if you think there is one better than that, tell me.

Susan Boyle: To be honest I haven;t actually heard her sing. I know there has been loads of press about her, she's always in the newspapers and stuff. I was actually surprised that People from all round the world had heard of her, so considering that there are some quite good (and also quite bad) acts this year and they haven't been praised as much as her, she must be good. But I can't really give an opinion untill I've heard her. Although, I think it is slightly unfair ona all the other acts, who probably feel like crap when everyone is bascically telling them that they have no chance.

Favorite summer time activity: hmm.. Holidaying I suppose. I can't really think of one, I just like the whole summer break.

Education system: Well, Primary school seemed fine and secondary school has been.. somewhat disapointing. Apparently, I go to quite a good school, which means there are plenty of schools worse than mine. Although I am in the highest group, there is still a wide range of abilities, that might be a problem here, that we tend to water everything down so the slowest people can keep up, I know that when you go on expoditions e.t.c. you walk at the speed of the slowest walker, so I'm not saying we should cater only for the more able ones and leave the others struggling and ultimatley lost (as my maths teacher does), just adapt things to each individual better. Like in language classes. We don't learn enough grammar or vocabulary, we just get fed endless phrases, which we should be able to remeber somehow and then regurgitate when the situation arrises. They try and make us become walking phrasebooks, exept full of phrases like 'the dog sits on the mat' 'the cat sit near the mat' and 'I would like to borrow your jumper'. Not only are these sentences never going to turn up in a conversation (excluding mental hospitals) But no-one can rember phrases like that. This is the kind of stuff they test us on: 'Hello, my name is Sam, I have brown hair, green eyes and I have a dog who is called Bob. I have 23 brothers and a sister. Can I borrow your jumper?'. Quite honestly it's embarressing when we go anywhere else abroad and there are toddlers who have learned English better than you've learned their language.

Adam Lambert: Who? Sorry, I've heard of him, but I have no idea who he (he, right?) is. Sorry.

En fin, ma question- 'est-ce que je peux emprenter votre pull?'.. My question-

What do you think of chinese remedies, you know, acupunture, herbal medicines, pressure points to releive things?

Better late than never

So as you might have noticed I didn’t post my blog on Monday, that’s because I’m crazy busy right now and I’m spending practically all my time in school studying for the final in my econ class on Monday.

So since I last posted here my phone has broken down again so it’s at the store for reparations for the third time in a month. I’m starting to get a tad bit frustrated about it now. Also my group at school finished an essay we wrote but I’m happy I got them to change the layout and much of the content because the first draft looked like it had been written by an alcoholic dyslectic person on strong medications.

Apart from bad essays, phones from hell and a coming exam a pair of the shoes I bought a month ago has started to fall apart too. To be honest it feels like nothing is going my way right now. The one good thing that happened this last week that I can remember is that my oldest sister came to visit us. I haven’t seen her for almost a year but she came down now to meet my other older sister before she has her baby, which should be born in 1-3 weeks.

Now it’s time for me to stop complaining, at least for a bit, and answer some questions.

Mine: I thought Susan was really good at her first audition but I’m not really sure what I think about her semi-final performance. And to be honest she’s gotten so much press that she’s starting to feel a bit overrated.

Chris: My favorite summer activity has to be to have picnics in the sun and just relax and hang out. I’m not that into too physical stuff.

I actually like the education system we have here in Sweden. The one thing I would change if I could would be to give more money to the education system so they could put more efforts into making it even better and to help everyone that needs it.

New question: Since I asked your opinion on Susan Boyle last week I’m gonna continue on sort of the same subject. So this week’s question is “What is your opinion on Adam Lambert”?

*sneeze!*

My spring allergies have officially kicked into high gear and have been quite annoying over the past few days. I've had to double my allergy medication dosage just to cope. I get a bad runny nose and itchy eyes. The strange part is that I never used to have this problem growing up. It's only been the last 5-7 years that it's been happening. It even happened in europe last summer! Once everything blooms it's usually okay though.

In other news, I finally got out to the observatory on Friday night. I was like a fat kid in a candy store and was very much amazed by all the fancy equipment that I will be using. I also got keys to the observatory as well as the laboratory on campus. The only downside is that the main telescope is still down because the secondary mirror got jammed and it will likely take a little while to get fixed. But, I still can use the smaller telescope to do some observing and what not.

My computer seems to be acting strange again. The wireless is intermittently working, so I need to get it repaired. Hopefully that won't get in the way of posting.

I've also gotten into the habit of biking to work/campus everyday and so far it is going quite well. It is a 8.5 km trip (one way), and takes roughly 30 min, depending on traffic. It's a nice feeling knowing that I'm getting exercise and helping the environment, as well as my wallet.

My favorite summer time activity would probably be traveling/biking.

And now... What do you think of the education system in your country? Do you think it is effective? (I'm referring to all age groups from primary to post secondary/Uni)

Ahoy!

Sleeping before midnight on a regular basis is sort of strange for me. I had gotten used to staying up to ridiculous hours so much that now it's just weird, but then again I sort of have to go to bed early since I have to be at work at 7:45 am. Work is going fantastically well, I'm really enjoying it and look forward to the rest of the summer. I still have yet to make it out to the observatory since the weather didn't cooperate the last time I was scheduled to go out, so hopefully I will go this week!

I saw Star Trek on Friday and very much enjoyed it! Needless to say Kirk was hot! I'm still reading Angels and Demons so I hope to finish that soon so I can go see the movie, since I hear it is quite decent as well. I was planning to bike to campus/work again tomorrow but the weather is forecast to be down right miserable again so I don't think that will happen.

I unfortunately don't know enough about Susan Boyle for formulate an opinion about her, so I will just leave it at that.

My question is: what is your favorite summer time activity?

Time flies when you’ve got lots to do

I’ve been more busy than usual this last week and I’ve almost lived at school studying 24/7. Last week I think I only slept a total of 20-25 hours. Its still 2½ weeks left of the term and I’ve got a big group-essay to finish and then there is a final exam in one of the courses. So I know what I’ll be doing for the next couple of weeks. This hectic schedule is also the reason why I have no photos in this week’s blog. I’m gonna get them up as soon as I can but since I’ve spent the majority of my time in school (and it’s not my favorite place :P) it’s been difficult to take pictures.

Moving on whit the questions cause I’m tired and have to get up at 5:30 tomorrow morning to work on parts of the essay.

Chris: I actually don’t go to the cinemas that often, I prefer to watch the movies at home. But the last movie I saw at the cinema was a Swedish movie that I can’t remember the name of right now. I would like to go see Angels & Demons because I’ve read the book and I’ve seen the first movie.

New question: What is your opinion on Susan Boyle?

Fly by posting...

This is going to be super short!

I've been working a ridiculous amount of hours between my two jobs and will be starting work on my third job this week as well. So far I really like my main job of designing and implementing summer science camps for kids! It's really fun! I basically get to play around with random stuff all day and make fun science projects and experiments. The concert hall is really busy this month so I've been working lots and I'm super poor so I really need the cash. I'm suppose to be getting trained at the observatory on thursday/friday so we shall see how that goes and I will of course let you know.

Also I'm considering buying a road bike (with the money I don't have) since ideally I'd love to ride to and from work! Not to mention I've never owned a road bike and I think it would be fun to try something new!

I will try to take some pictures over the week and post them when I get a chance, as well I will try to do a more proper blog post.

Emma, I think London would be fantastic! Even if it is your first time I think you'll be alright, besides being terrified is half the fun! :P I've never been to the UK but I'd love to visit. :)

New question: What was the last film you saw at the cinema and what are you looking forward to seeing sometime soon?

Should be working and sleeping more

This will be a really short on because I’m not just busy I’m SUPER busy. So I have a home exam that is due Friday that I haven’t started, have to read the literature and answer the essay questions. Other than that I have two group assignments that need to get finished. Oh, and one more exam. The worst part is that I don’t feel like I know anything about the subject.

Moving on, as you might know my phone crashed 2½ weeks ago so I had to get it to the store. Last Friday I got a text saying I could come get it. Then when I got home and tried to start it I noticed that it still didn’t work so I had to go straight back to the store and hand it in again.

One last thing before moving on to the questions. I went to the hospital today to get tested to become a blood donor. Well, I filled in all the papers got the information and was taken in to a exam room to take the blood-test, but then the nurse said she couldn’t find a blood vessel that was good enough without me risking to not being able to get my own blood-tests in the future if I ever were to become a patient. So she said I couldn’t become a blood donor at this point, but I could try again in a couple of years and see if the vessels had become better/stronger.

Not too many questions to answer since Chris didn’t post last week due to some computer problems.

Basically all I have to answer is Sams question if by next summer I mean this one or the one 2010. Well, by next summer I mean the one 2010, but I’m still not sure if I’m gonna go to London by myself or if I should start with a trip to Stockholm.

New question: This will be a bit more of a challenge. If you can, take a picture of your favorite place in your neighborhood/city.

London and the value of being a geek.

Hello. This is going to be very short. Before I begin I am not even going to do my own challenge, just because I can't be bothered. By the way, superfluous means over the top basically, but I'm not 100% certain that's how you spell it.
This week..
hmm.. Wow, for some reason, (because I have a freaky memory) I can memorise a deck of cards in about 5 minutes, but I can't even remeber what I did this week. I hope to God it's because I'm tired, otherwise I have senile dementure.. dementure, dementia, however you spell it (I can't even remeber spellings xD). Anyway, there was something that happened, well obviously; You remember.. I'll choose another word.... you know when I kept on talking about law and stuff every single week, and I never spoke about anything else (As if you could forget), well, It actually came to use sooner than I expected. Basically, some chavs were shouting stuff about my lovely curly hair, obviously not knowing that they were insulting a geek, who's geekyness was his strength in situations like this. They used they're clearly impecible, infallible, astonoshing, imagination, and geniously arrived at the name 'curly-wurly', which was.. I think.. an attack at my hair. In case you don't have it where you are, a curly wurly is a chocolate bar we have here (Btw, If you do know what one is, I don't want to sound patronising). There was a group of about 8 of them, similar age to me- some a little older and some a little younger. I knew a few of them for some reasons, I think one of them was called Latex or Laton or something and then the other three go to a school near me, One of them easily recognisable by his size, as he squeezed his way out of the chip shop to join into a chant about chocolate aimed at offending my hair, no joke.. crazy, huh? Anyway, knowing the law, I bravely (or at least tried to appear so) approached them and suggested that they stop chanting. Of course, I was outnumbered approximatley 1000-1 (well strictley speaking about 8 to 1) But I knew something which meant if they did do anything, it would only help me. That is when I put on my most intelligent and smug sounding, 'bbc' voice and told them that they had just harrassed me, and if I wanted to, I could charge them all. To make sure I didn't sound vauge, and to convey an idea that I knew everything about law there is (in fact I know next to nothing, I am just good at speaking), I stated the exact laws they were in breech of: The 1986 Public order act, section 5, stating that it is against the law to use disorderly behaviour within the sight or hearing of a person likeley to be caused harrasment, alarm or distress as a result of this behaviour. They had no defence as I could prove all of the things I had to if this ever went to court. It was also anti-social behaviour, and breeching the peace. I told them that I knew where four of them go to school (which I do) and that I would be able to identify them and if I took immediate action, the police would find all of them so I wouldn't have to go all sherlock holmes on thier asses. Their smirking died down, and I walked off with my blood having turned nearly into pure chemicals. I love being a boffin.
The best part about it, is that he only reason I know that law, is because I have been studying a case about that particular law.. for.. absolutley ages.

London- Well, I know it is the first time you've travelled alone, there is a first time for everything and if you have the opportunity to go, then why not. But I'd plann it, otherwise you'll end up doing loads of really crappy things, unless you enjoy getting lost, travelling accross London's noisy, dirty and smelly underground to end up in some really touristic shop where all you can buy is those stupid little plastic union Jacks and mini London busses. I have been to London numerous times, and half of them have been spent standing in a packed tube train, staring at the rude creature next to me who keeps staring at me. The other half have been fantastic, fun trips. There are some obvious things to do, like the London eye and stuff, but there is a science musium which was really cool and had a massive dinosaur as well as a life size model of a blue whale. Btw, is next summer, this summer, or the summer of 2010?

Bye :D

The weeks from hell

The next couple of weeks is gonna be packed with school work and a lot of assignments for me to do, and exams to study for. I am so not looking forward to it, but when it’s all done in the beginning of June I’m done with the spring semester. I did however get accepted to the summer course so I’ll be starting to weeks of class immediately after all my exams is done. Then I’m gonna have a couple of weeks off before the exams for the summer course. So as you can see I’ll have a lot to do. And on top of all of this my sister is having her baby in 4-6 weeks, could be sooner or later, and I’m going on the cruise to Riga and Visby.

I’ve also started thinking about going to London next summer or so but I’m not sure because I’ve never travelled completely alone before. A sign for the fact that I should go though is that when I was at the mall today a randomly got a travel guide book for free and it was for London.

Since I’m really tired and has a lot to do I’m gonna move on to the questions.

Mine: The longest I’ve slept I think is 24-26 hours straight.

Chris: The oldest thing I personally own is a teddy bear that I got when my grandfather died and it’s about 70 years old, but it looks like it could have been bought yesterday because both he and I have taken very good care of it.

Sam: As you can see I didn’t do your challenge this week. Mainly because I don’t have time but also because I don’t have a working camera at the moment and when I started writing this blog today I didn’t know exactly what superfluous meant so I couldn’t properly use it in sentences.

New question: I need some advice, what do you think about my plans of going to London. Should I consider doing it? I mean it is after all a big city and it would be my first time travel alone.

We will stop these tourist killers.

I have decided some deviation from my usual, by posing today, because I felt like it. Also, for some ultra cool reason I have no school for the next four days. Anyway, I'll begin with this week, where on wednesday Barack Obama was celebrating his 100th day as the president. Of course, I still remeber the blogs we wrote when he was first selected and 100 days seems and awfully long time ago considering that feels as if I wrote it about five minutes ago. Unfortunatley, the fact it seems the world is just getting over him (although the media still insists of shoving down stories about how he bought a new pet fish and what toothpaste he uses e.t.c.) raises questions about if he is fullfilling his role of the president of the untited states of america. But, I personally don't think we've given him enough time to discover if he is a peice of stainless steel or waiting to rust, if that makes any sense what so ever. But let's look what history has shown us; Hitler: (Please don't misunderstand the fact I am comparing Hitler to Obama xD) I doubt anybody could become a world hate figure in 100 days apart from George Bush. And I beleive that Barack Obama has been much better than George Bush ever was through-out his entire career. I mean SO much better. For a number of reasons: He doesn't declare war on 'trrists' every time you say hello to him and, more importantly, he has completed evolution. And I really had no idea, why he kept on declaring a war on tourism; I myself have been a tourist and I did not appreciate how I was a branded killer for being a tourist:

we will stop these tourist killers

But back onto Hitler, I have proen that my maths teacher, is in fact Hitler. Hitler began breaking a few rules, like making an army (as germany was banned from doing so after WW1) Then he moved onto worse things, yet the surrounding countries were hesitant to intervien. It took something ridiculous for anyone else to think 'should we stop this guy?'. That is exactley my math's teacher. Let's just compare WW1 to her getting her job, don't ask why, other than they were both terrible and led to the death of millions of children (that is, of course, not to attempt to play down the seriousness of WW1 in any way). Then she begins breaking a few rules, but no other teachers will intervien so long as they are cosy.
So I have rambled for quite a while about.. well technicaly, nothing, but anyway, I have one more thing to do: Les questions:
Longest without sleep: I never sleep. Well.. ok maybe I do, but to be honest I have no idea. I think about three days when I was in cornwall with mates.
Longest sleeping: I think your 12-14, is my equivalent of a nap. I would therefore have to conclude the longest I ever slept is probably a number of years.
My own question: Well, I already speak every language ever made ( I wish), and I can already fly (on an areoplane), I can already read minds (My own mainly being the key point in that), and I can already beat anyone in a fight (mainly because I am a very quick runner); meaning I am left with the reduntant and rather amusing skill of being able to breath fire. Although, given the choice I would chose all of them.
My new question: Although I could ask 'do you think Barack Obama has done a good job so far' I feel like something different... hmm.


Some considerable time and many seconds later:

A challenge, because people seemed to like them: I challenge you to see how many dry crackers you can eat in two minutes and film it. If you can't or can't be bothered to do that then I challenge you to see how many times you can fit the word: superfluous, in context into your blog. If you do both then brilliant. I know that's cruel, but sorry xD
That's all for today Bye!

My room exploded...

... Ok, not actually but it might as well have. I decided to rearrange all the furniture in my room and give it a good cleaning! After finishing off series 2 of spooks, I spent the greater part of the evening taking apart my room, moving everything, and then putting it back together again.

Nothing terribly exciting has happened since my last update, other then I am finally done school for the semester, and am now officially on summer break. That being said, I seem to only have one day off and that is tomorrow. Since I'm working Thursday evening and then have to get up bright and early to start my new job on Friday. We are heading to the mountains for the weekend (Canmore) about an hour away, for a staff retreat. The idea is that we can get to meet everyone in a casual environment and also get trained for our jobs. The real work will start the following Tuesday. It will be nice to get out of the city and I am looking forward to the trip. Speaking of trips my parents have decided to once again go on vacation to america, this is the 6th time in the past 4 years! They will be visiting the west coast with stops in San Diego and Los Angeles. Hopefully things work out for my own travel plans to San Francisco in June, but I shall keep everyone posted.

Questions:

Mine: I think the longest I've stayed awake is around 48-60 hrs. I haven't really had a need to stay awake for much longer. The worst was on our trip to europe last year. We left Calgary at noon, landed in Frankfurt at 9:00 am local time, drove to visit our cousin in Köln, then drove back to Frankfurt, arrived around midnight, waited around for our flight to Tunisia at 4 am, arrived in Tunisia at 7:00 am. So not only did I not sleep for those two days, but I also had horrible jet lag!

Emma: Longest I slept was probably about 12-14 hrs.

New: What is the oldest thing you own, and where did it come from?

I miss so much

This week has been pretty uneventful and has mainly contained schoolwork, and that is how the coming six week will be too. I did however meet up with some friends and we watched Mamma Mia the sing-a-long version and ate cake and chocolate.

Last Friday I got an appointment for today at a hairdresser and during the week I changed my mind several times because as I’ve said before I have a hard time making decisions and my hair is very important to me. So today I went to the salon and got my new haircut and I actually like it. But I think it’ll take some time getting used to, I haven’t had bangs (fringe) for the last decade. Gosh, that made me feel old… I think I’m gonna start saying that I haven’t had bangs for the last 9-10 years instead, it sounds like a shorter amount of time.

Let’s move on to the questions because I have to go to bed since I have a morning class again tomorrow.

So my obsession is of course Internet and my computer if you hadn’t already guessed it.

Sam: My first thought was to choose the ability to read peoples mind, but then I realized that would mean me knowing everything people thinks of me, both the good and the bad and I don’t know if I would be able to take that. I think I’d rather live in ignorant bliss and choose the ability to have an instant foreign language.

Chris: The longest I’ve gone without sleep is around 60-70 hours I think. I’m not 100% sure.

So my question is gonna be on the theme of sleep too, “How many hours is the most you’ve slept for at once?”

ZzzzZzzz...

Well I'm posting later then usual, several days later. This is largely due to the insanity of the past few days. On Tuesday I got so wrapped up in studying that I just forgot to post all together and essentially did the same thing on Wednesday. Thursday was my day from hell. I had an exam at 8:00 am, followed by 5 hours of studying and then another exam at 3:30 pm, followed by writing a lab report for 10 hours! I'm not even joking when I say that I was at school for a full 24 hrs non-stop, and constantly working on something. After that I came home and passed out for a few hours and then went to an interview. The interview went quite well I think! :)

In more exciting news, I got a job offer from the previous interview I had, as an instructor for summer science camps for kids! It sounds like a lot of fun. I get to do fun science experiments with students from grades 3-8. I also am suppose to start getting trained at the astrophysical observatory soon as well. So, so far I'm happy to report that I have summer work lined up.

I mainly just went to this interview today to just have a back up. It would also be a fun job, but not quite as fun. Apparently there were over 250 applicants, and I was selected as a top 40 finalist.

Anyway, thats all for now. Just a quick update.

Questions:

Mine: I think I'll have to agree with Emma, I'm pretty much addicted to my computer and the internet, and it is often the first/last things I do/look at in my day.

Emma: I think my biggest obsession is the internet, followed by all things european and japanese, and imported things in general.

Sam: I think mind reading would definitely be cool, and probably my most favorable choice out of those given.

New: What's the longest you have ever gone without sleep?

The fire breathing, mind reader (60th blog EVA!! innit do!)

Howdy, Firstly, I am hyper and secondly, once again I have had another neglectfull week, by not even turning on my computer all week. This is mainly as a result of absolute and complete exhaustion from school, I've just gone back after a break and we our school decided it is a good time to throw us in the deep end and start GCSE's a year early. I still have hours of homework to do and a detention for not completing homework.. arghhhhh
I don't know what happened to chris this week, but I hope he'll be back next week. However this means that I only have one question, meaning this blog will probably be even shorter and crappier than my last blog which I even forgot to title.
obsessions- I tend to swing from things to things, to the extent at some points I end up balancing way too many. In the past I have studied phsychology, music.. in fact there are many more but I can't think right now. Anyhow, right now it is probably languages, becuase I just love cultures and I want to travel when I'm older. I am learning more french because of our holiday when I will be going to france. I am actually watching 12 angry men in french right now (brilliant film) which I think would be translated as '12 fache hommes'.
My question: if you could have any of the following, what would you chose (only one): an instant foreign language (native ability), the ability to fly, the ability to breath fire, ability to beat anyone in a fight or the ability to read minds?
Bye, say y'all next wayk :D

I need a vacation

A lot has happened this week for a change. Last Friday we got the result back on the Labour Law exam and I passed it, that felt really good. Yesterday I was helping at a live-airing of a TV-show that is raising money for research to cure prostate cancer, it was really interesting. I think that’s the main things that happened… Oh, wait one more thing, I signed up to become a blood donor yesterday.

Other than that I’ve mostly been in school, at the gym or at home. Well I did visit my dad to help him put together his new office chair so I could take his old one.

There are not a lot of questions for me to answer today, but let’s get to it.

I’ll answer my own question first and I think this blog has been fun so far and it’s been nice to get to know new people.

Chris wondered what the first and last thing we do in the day is, and aside from the obvious of waking up and falling asleep I would have to say that I almost always turn on the computer before I do anything else. And the last thing I do before going to bed is turning of the computer, sometimes I even have it in bed just before turning it off and putting it on the floor so I don’t have to get out of the bed. (Could I be a bit obsessed?)

Actually that made me think of a good question. And I’m sorry if this has been asked before, but we’ve been doing this for a while now so I can’t remember all the questions we’ve had. So here we go “ What is your biggest obsession? It could be right now or something from the past.”

Hello world! Sorry that this is a day late, my computer decided to cut off half way through writing this so, I'm writing it now :D I know that I asked tons of questions last week, but I'm still considering what to do. I considered other countries that speak English, but I like the... urm.. English nessI thought that living in the netherlands would be really fun and I learned quite a lot of dutch really quickly and unlike the hundreds of other languages I study for some reason, I feel that I could actually learn dutch to that level. The only thing that I fear is that I might not have that magical connection I have with this language (when I need it) in the netherlands. I will begin doing some basic research into the dutch law system then, thank you for your advice : D
On to the questions: ( gonna be quick because I need to go)
Emma: I love the blog, I agree with chris that it would be nice to have 2 more people, but otherwise we're doing fine. I think it's goo that we try new things and it's always fun writing here.
Chris: First think I do is wake up, and the last go to sleep. I try not to be too scehduled or things get a bit boring.
Sorry It's so short but my mom is waiting in the car for me and this might be the only chance I have to finish this :D Bye and have a good week :D

Still in limbo.

As of yet I am still very much unemployed for the summer. I had an interview on Saturday, which I think went quite well, but I still haven't heard anything back. The other job I'm hoping for is still reviewing applications and won't be doing call backs until next week at best.

Currently I have just under two weeks left in the semester, and quite frankly I can't wait for it to be done! I have a final term project due on Thursday for my physics course so that will likely consume all of my time on Wednesday. I also really need to start revising for final exams, the first of which is on Monday. Hopefully things go well and I can manage to revise enough! Otherwise things have been very unexciting for me, so I will move on to questions since I am exhausted and just want to go to bed.

Mine: I can't actually recall if I've every celebrated easter somewhere else. I know for sure I've often been away on holidays with my family skiing during easter break but I think thats about it. For us it's not really a big deal. The only thing we do is get our food blessed and have a nice easter meal. Nothing to fancy, it's more symbolic then anything. I don't really think I'll carry on much of the tradition just because I'm indifferent too it. I suppose should I decide to spend easter with my parents in the future we will likely uphold the traditions but on my own I doubt it.

Sam:

Notion of terminating themes approved and effective immediately. Your probably right in that a working knowledge of a language is essential in being an effective lawyer. That being said I'm sure if you started learning a new language now you could know it sufficiently within a few years, especially if you are living there. You could also likely do work for english speaking nationals in foreign countries. Knowing multiple languages fluently is very valuable when working in the legal system. Or you could simply move to a nation that already speaks english, or a nation that does trials in english. If you learn the British legal system, your best bet would likely be a common wealth nation since many of them based their legal systems off the British ones.

For the future I'm still unsure of exactly what I will be doing. I currently hope to finish my undergraduate degree in physics and then depending on how things pan out, either continue and get my masters and/or PhD or do my education degree. Regardless I want to do teaching, the real question is at what level. I would love to teach at a Uni, but it will be tough to get to that level. I will try my best, but ultimately I just want to teach.

Emma: I think the three of us have been doing fantastically with the blog, I'm not really sure what happened to Becca, but perhaps she will make a come back eventually. I'd obviously like to have at least another two people, but at the same time I always enjoy sharing our stories as it is.

Me: What is the first thing you do in your day, and what is the last thing you do in your day?

Mad World

Right now that’s exactly how it feels. Doesn’t matter if I have a thousand things to do on none, it’s just crazy all the time.

This weekend it’s been Easter and my mom’s boyfriend came and visited for a couple of days. I had planned to sleep a lot since I didn’t have any classes but I woke up before 11AM all days except today when I slept till 3PM. Yesterday I went to a mall outside the city and watched two bands perform. I brought my camera and when there was one song left I remembered I could film with it and not just take photos so I did. Here’s the video. Unfortunately they sing in Swedish but Henrik, the lead singer, is hot enough to make it worth watching anyway :P.



This coming Sunday I’m gonna help out at a live airing of a TV-show and I convinced a friend of mine to help so I have someone I know there.

On to the questions.

My own question was about food around Easter and we have a kind of smorgasbord, which mean that mom had prepared pretty much the same dishes as around Christmas and then everyone could go and take what they wanted and as much as they wanted.

To answer Chris question. No, I have never celebrated Easter in another country and Easter is not a big deal in my family. The only thing we do is the smorgasbord and Easter eggs filled with candy. So I think I’m gonna continue those traditions.

Sam had a lot of questions so here we go,
1. I vote no on keeping the themes too because I’m just really confused about the whole thing. I think it works fine with just question and maybe we can work something else out later.
2. Well, If you really want to move abroad you could always move to a country that speak English. Like the US, Canada, Malta (I think), Australia or New Zeeland etc.
3. I actually have no idea what I want to do when I get older. When I was younger I wanted to become a lawyer, economist or teacher. But now I’m studying to do something in the HR field. Although I’m still not sure if that’s really what I want.

My question this week is “What is your experience/thoughts of this blog so far?”

Easter soon :D

Hello world! You probably haven't heard from me in a while, mainly because I have been so busy procrastinating with things. On the brighter side however, I've learned to cook rice really well, and it doesn't go lumpy, soggy or sticky :D
Also I've finished with my Japanese course, which was, to put it simply, EFFing amazing.. and also very inspiring. I even bought a Japanese lunchbox thing and some chopsticks and now I'm gonna learn some Japanese; which reminds me, Emma make sure you don't forget to remind me to learn some swedish or I will forget :D
Ok, that has pretty much been my week so now I am gonna answer some questions and move onto our theme.. We are just trialing this..
I asked myself, what am I doing over the holidays? Nothing much, chill, celebrate Easter (It confuses me why our country, and america, have adopted thier countries religion's festivals as a national thing that everyone does, religious or not, but still, presents for christmas and chocolate for Easter, what's there not to like?) I also have tons of homework to do :-(
Do I eat anything special over Easter? I can't think of special food.. Chocolate.. and thats really it. Oh, this Easter I am eating lots of chinese/ oriental food that I'm learning to cook, because it is fairly healthy and tasty.. the only tasty & healthy thing I have ever come across. I think that answers what the questions asking, but I'm not sure.. Let me know :D
Wow.. Chris' question was very long.. but probably better than any questions I could come up with right now xD
I have never celebrated Easter in another country so I will answer the second part of the question: Is easter a big deal in my family? hmm.. Not massive but fairly normal.. we used to have massive Easter egg hunts and hide all the eggs, but this year.. none of us re that young any more xD.
When I get older, will I continue with family traditions? I don't know.. Maybe, depends..
My quesiton (S)
1) Do we think we should keep the themes? (I vote no, and btw, who is theming next week.. I presume it's Emma?)
2) I need your advice.. I wanted to move abroad when I am older, but I am now thinking of becoming a barrister, however, I know (or think) that there is no other legal system (The English one) I'd rather be one in, and if I decided on another one I would probably hae to learn another language.. I might be able to do it very well, but I have, when I try at least, a natural instict with the English language, that I have developed over my entire lifetime, that I don't think I would ever be able to develope in another language, at least not quick enough to go to uni in that country and get the qualifications to become a barrister there. So what should I do?
3) What job do you want to do when your older and why?
I know that's a lot of questioning. but sorry.. and I know it doesn;t really fit the theme either.. sorry..
Bye!

I should be revising but I'm not...

I've been so incredibly exhausted the past few days that I just can't be bothered to do any revising tonight. I think I did ok on my quiz today and I don't have anything major to do for tomorrow. I also finally got one interview set up. It's going to be this saturday on campus for a university summer camp program. They offer camps all summer long for primary and secondary school students, and I'm being considered for a instructor position. This currently is the closest thing to my degree, and I'm not complaining since at least I will get some teaching experience, sadly the wage is nothing to exceptional but right now it's better then nothing.

On the one hand I can't wait for this semester to be over, but on the other I can't believe it's less then two weeks till final exams! Which means I'm going to be in major stress mode for the next 3 weeks! Hopefully it all pays off though and I also manage to get a summer job.

Due to my lack of adventure and exciting news I shall move onto questions:

My own: I'm not really sure that I have a preference, but if I were to choose, I would have to go with fiction, just because it's a good way to get away from the world and enjoy ones self.

Sam/Emma: We don't really get a break for easter in Uni, we used to up until the end of secondary school, but because the semester ends at the end of April it would be silly to place a break right at the end of the semester. We usually get a break in mid February. Anyway we still get good Friday off but thats about it. My parents and I might go to church on Easter Sunday but thats about it. Traditionally we get our food blessed and have a big brunch. I especially love the sweet bread we always have during easter.

New Question: Have you ever celebrated easter somewhere else, like a different country or something? If not, is easter a big deal in your family, and do you think when you get older you will continue your family traditions?

Because tonight will be the night…

So apparently we decided to start with themes on the blog and I got confused and still probably am. But I asked Chris about it and after that we’re doing themes for the questions. This week’s theme, chosen by Sam, is Easter and I’ll get to his question soon.

Right now it feels like I’m gonna be crazy busy for the next 8-9 weeks due to my double economy classes so we’ll see how tired and worn out I’m gonna be. But I intend to keep writing my blogs anyway. The last couple of days I’ve done a lot of quizzes on facebook and the title on this post comes from the lyric of my “theme song” Fall for you by Secondhand Serenade.

Since it’s late and I’m tired and have to get up for class in the morning I’ll move on to the questions now.

To answer my own question about savings I just started a savings account and I put away about 600 SEK, 50 GBP, 90 CAD a month. I also have a savings account started by my dad and some money invested in shares.

Chris wanted to know if I prefer to read fiction or non-fiction. Well, to be honest I haven’t had the time to read one single book since I started college last fall. But when I do read, and I love reading, I prefer fiction.

Sam asked if we get a break over Easter and I think I have two or three days without lectures but I’ll still have schoolwork to do because technically we don’t get an Easter break.

My question related to Easter is “Do you eat any special food around Easter?”

Themes and stuff.. interesting & Hello two week break!!

Thank God it’s Friday! I’ve now broken up for two weeks! But I have crap loads of homework, because the teachers think it’s ok to give us 5000 word essays on our holiday.. Like seriously from every single teacher we have like a 5000 word essay. But, I still have a holiday. Also I think I’ll steal Michiel’s stolen idea; That I’ll do a blog every day of April, Well, every day of the holidays. I’ll call it BEDEH (Blog Every Day Easter Holidays). So hopefully that will be on my blog.
Also, We all got together on msn and decided that we would try and theme our blogs, so this week is my turn to set a theme. It is really difficult to think of one, so.. Easter.. I have no idea what we can do about Easter, but we’ll see how it goes. So my question will be, do you get any break over Easter, if so what will you do in it?
Michiel also told me (if he’s reading- sorry for stealing all your ideas) that he has a button on his website where you just type in your email, then click on a button and then his blogs will be sent to your email. I was wondering if we could do that on here, and how we’d do that? If anyone has anyone knows how, or thinks that we shouldn’t do it then lt me know via email or twitter or comments or something.
Now, the questions:
Emma- I try to save for things, but I never succeed. I don’t plan on ever having to worry too much about money.. So, I’d rather ‘live for the moment’ and blow it all on books and stuff :D I suppose though that until I am rich it would be sensible to start saving money. Also, I have decided that it’s very likely I will end up as a lawyer, but I hope that’s before I do something like writing books or something (factual books), but anyhow becoming a lawyer means studying for a long time, and also quite expensive fees but when you do become a lawyer you get payed LOADS!!
Chris- I prefer non-fiction. I am a fairly factual person, I value information and treasure it more than money, so I love anything that fascinates me. I actually dislike a lot of fiction, mainly because I think if they are poorly written books then they’re just terrible! And I find a lot of fiction isn’t that good. Feel free to try and convert me, but for me fiction books are normally terrible or absolutely genious and the best book ever.
It looks like that’s all for this week, Bye!!

FUCK YOU EYES!

For some strange reason my eyes have gotten very sore over the past couple hours. I have tried taking off my glasses, but that doesn't appear to have helped much.

Anyway, I have just returned from Fall Orientation Kickoff, which probably means nothing to you. Every year during the week before school starts we have a Fall Orientation (formerly known as U of C: 101) for all of the new incoming students. The thing is, is that we have about 6000 new students every year, and at least half of them attend orientation week. This also means that they need people to organize and run everything. So they get about 200 volunteers to run the event, on top of the University staff, I believe it's one of the biggest orientation programs in the country. Anyway, due to the large scale of the project they start getting volunteers many months in advance, and today was the first official event to get everyone together.

In related news, they have also created multiple paid positions for the summer to do all the behind the scenes work with the various orientations throughout the summer. So in my on going desperation to find summer work I applied to all the positions offered, and am really hopping I get one of them. Especially since the orientations are really fun, and I would love a job on campus with normal hours. I miss having a job with normal hours haha. I also might have a part time job at the astrophysical observatory.

On a side note, I am potentially planning a trip to San Francisco Pride which is very exciting, and I really hope it works out. It's at the end of June!

On to questions:

My own: I think my favorite things to buy would be electronics, books, shoes in that order haha. I've literally doubled the amount of books and shoes I own in the past year. Now I just need to read them all...

Sam: I didn't entirely understand the case, but it sounds like you have the upper hand with this.

Emma: I try to save money for the future, and can do it if I really want to. But as a student it is very difficult to do. That being said I am forced to save money, since I have to make enough money over 4 months to live for 8 months. The last two years I have just barely made it, but such is life as a student. Fortunately I have not needed to take out any student loans as of yet.

New question: Do you prefer reading fiction or non-fiction?

Someday I’ll hopefully get enough sleep

I’m so tired and was about to go to sleep but then remembered that I hadn’t written my blog so this’ll be a quick one.

Last Thursday I had my big exam in my labour law course and I’ll get the result in three weeks. And today I started my two economy classes. So far I like both the professors but since it’s the first day and ten weeks left I can’t say too much about it.

Let’s continue to the questions before I fall asleep.

Chris question last week was about what our favorite thing to purchase is. I love shopping for clothes, if I had the money I could probably spend all day all days in different clothing stores and buy all the clothes I like. I also love buying movies. At the moment I think I have 6 movies that I’ve bought but not had the time to watch yet.

Sam wanted our opinion on the case and from the info you gave us I would say that he probably is guilty because he had the car key and ran. You don’t run when the police come and you’re innocent, even if you feel ill. You stay and explain. However I think it could be difficult for a jury to convict him since it’s almost impossible to make a positive id of the driver so that could work in his favor.

My question this week is, “Do you save money for the future? Or do you live for the moment and spend all your money now?”

FRIIDDAAYYY!! (IM SURE I HAVE ABOUT 9 ARTICLES ALL WITH THAT NAME) so I will add stuff to this title to make it really long so there arent so many.

hi people! It has been a busy and ultimatley tiring week and also the week, I don't know if I'm the only one who thinks so, has gone quickly. Updates: hmm.. I have got a new case for the mock trials, and that will be in about six weeks when I am going to coventry to defend either the case I have already done or the new case, so in the week leading up to that, I doubt very very very much I will be writing here. But until then, the crazy confused ramblings of Sam, are here to stay! The case, is about a vehicle theft, and I am defending. This is a fairly balanced case, unlike the Jack Johnson case, which was tilted in a slightly favourable manor, towards the defence winning the case. There are strong points for each argument. In every case I defend, even if the evidence is telling me the absolute opposite, I beleive that my client is innocent, and even if as an un-biased person I would condemn as guilty, I still get stuck into a biased mind frame. So I want to ask you all (wow, onto questions already) What you think, and why, if the person is guilty or not; I won't give you the entire details, just the likley arguments to be put forward by defence and then prosecution:
The owner of the car, and the owner's friend are the people claiming they saw the defendant in the car driving. They have admitted they only saw the back of the driver's head. The lighting was poor and there are endless amount of factors suggesting that an accurate identification was almost impossible to make. Therefore, the I will be arguing that in The defendants case.
The prosecution, I presume, will be enquiring into the following; The fact that the defendant had the car keys in his pocket when he was arrested, the fact he ran away from the car when he collected the keys. He has said that he knew the owner of the car (from the number-plate, which was personalised.) to which there is no dispute, and he wished to return the car key's to the owner (even after it was crashed??). Then he ran because he was feeling ill and he wanted to get home (which his friends have agreed, he was feeling ill, without collaborating. Also he was sick in the police car).
Do you think he's guilty? Onto your questions (yay, I can stop with all that fancy writing)
Blood donar? Yes. Do I need go any further (Damn! I had to stop myself from saying 'elaborate' instead of 'go any further', 'restrain' instead of stop and 'as oppose to' instead of 'instead'. Scince this lawyer thing, my head has litterally become a theasorus. STOP BRAIN, I COMMAND YOU!) Anyway, yes. yes. and yes, If it means they give me biscuits at the end then sign me up. I suppose the prosepect of perhaps helping someone is a plus, too.
What is my favorite thing to purchase? Books. books, books and more books. Ok, this time I will go further, otherwise I will have gotten by my entire article by just giving a one word answer over and over again.
I think I've already asked a question, but I just want some feedback: We need to start looking for some other people to fill in the massive gaps in our blog.. anybody?? We need to get together at some point and talk, provided that stickam isn't the un-reliable.. thing it is, and that messenger doesn't do that stupid thing which means Chris Emma and I can't all be in the same conversation without it breaking.
Boi!

There really does need to be more hours in a day!

Hello all!

I must say today was quite a productive day, I went to my lab, did well on a quiz and finished a rather tedious astrophysics assignment. I was going to continue on and work on some quantum mechanics, but I decided against and will just go to bed earlier. Tomorrow is going to be quite chaotic, as I need to get multiple things done for school, as well as I'm working tomorrow evening. With all this "wonderful" school work in mind, I have opted to severely cut back on my internet time. Worry not, I shall continue posting, I'm just cutting back on other things such as YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Dailybooth, etc. I'm just overly obsessed with the internet and it is affecting my schooling. That being said I'm not going to cut everything off completely, just cut back and really focus on time management and school. There is only a month left in the semester and I really need to do well!

As an update to my MBP, I have received and installed my invisibleSHIELD, as well my sleeve has arrived, so I just need to go pick it up!

Questions:

Mine: I think as far as another culture is concerned, I would either choose something Mediterranean (likely Italian or Greek), or Swiss, or Japanese. That being said regardless of where I was brought up I think I would fancy living else where at least for part of my life and experiencing as many cultures places as I can!

Sam: Probably when I put the wrong date on a form at work. I for some strange reason put March 30th instead of March 21. The accounting department got a good chuckle out of my stupidity, since they are the ones that get the forums.

Emma: As I mentioned to Emma before, I would love to donate blood and organs (when I pass on!) However, as a homosexual I am not allowed to! This makes quite crossed with the government. I realize that statistically homosexuals have higher rates of STIs, but it's still unfair that a healthy person is not allowed to donate, regardless of sexual orientation. Especially when they keep begging for more because there isn't enough to go around. The sad part is that I don't think that rule will be changing any time soon, since it was just this past year that they banned homosexuals from donating organs, it used to be just blood but now it's both.

New Question: What is your favorite thing to purchase? (such as, books, CD's, DVD's, food, clothes, cards, games, make up, etc.)

Satisfaction

That’s what I gonna feel when this week is over.

So the last week was much more eventful then the weeks before. Or eventful, I did more different stuff at least. The beginning of the week was school and gym classes as usual but last Wednesday I moved home to my sisters apartment to take care of her cats while she was away visiting her grandmother. I realized one thing when I lived there and that is the fact that I’ll probably fail at making food for myself when I move out. I love cooking but it’s no fun when it’s just for me and I’m a bit lazy too.

Now I’m home at my place again and yesterday my phone decided to crash on me. Right now it’s working again (knock on wood) so hopefully it’ll all work out. I’ve also managed to get another cold. My body seems to know when it’s the worst time to get sick and then it strikes.

Let’s move on to the questions.

Last week I let you watch a song and say what you thought of it, even though Chris was the only one doing it. The reason I did that was because that is an acoustic version of a song that I like but I can’t decide which I like the most. Here’s the original.



Chris wanted to know what culture or ethnicity we would like to be re-born into if it was possible and we got to choose ourselves. I think I would like to be born in a Mediterranean country and get the opportunity to live in that culture. I just get the feeling that they have a more peaceful way and really strong family connections.

Sam wanted to know what the stupidest thing we’ve seen this week is. The stupidest thing I’ve seen must have been the guy at the mall that was talking with a friend on his phone and after like five minutes, still talking on the phone, he started to look through his pocket and then proceeded to tell his friend on the phone that he thought he had lost his phone. I mean how stupid can you be?

So I’ve been thinking about signing up to become a blood donor so my question for this week is if that is something you could see yourself doing?

really long..

I have finnaly returned to the internet! The reason why I first left was because of preperations for the mock trials, which seemed to pay off because we are through to the next round in the competition!!! So, because I haven't posted in about five years, I will tell you all about it!! (lucky you!)
We met up at school, slightly exited and apprehensive about the day ahead. Right from the start we presumed that this would be the first and the last stage of the competition for us, so anyone showing even the slightest glimmer of hope of winning was quickly jumped on and discouraged not to do so. We arrived and immediatley I encountered a problem, a very serious, potentially endagering dilema. There was no bins!! So I walked down the road in hope of finding one, only to find seven bins, no further that ten feet away from each other! How can you even need a bin every ten feet?? Anyhow, there were speeches, coffees and other stuff and then finnally our first team was doing thier case. Our first team, which I was not part of, was the prosecution. They were prosecuting Jack Johnson (who Chris has told me is a Canadian singer?? xD) who was there for a charge of contradicting the public order act 1986. Unfortunatley for our prosecution, the case was impossible to get a guilty verdict, unless they defence lawyer and the legal adviser didn't mention the law clear enough (which of course the defence, wanting a not guilty verdict, would do). But the prosecution won, in terms of points for performance!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Then onto the defence case! I was the first defence lawyer. We went into the room, and the oposing team were in school uniform.. Not a fantastic start! And we also won that one. I think I managed to win the hearts of the magistrates by thinking quickly and not being phased by a strict judge. One of the most remembered things from the court was actually the following:
Gurney: 'So can I just clarify, your drive is five meters long, there were net curtains redusing visablity, it was dark at the time of the incident, the fact you cannot give accurate or precise figures of the numbers throwing eggs, or the numbers there at the incident, the fact you were upset at the time of the incident, the fact it took place quickly..'
lead magistrate: with all due respect Mr Gurney you are making all these statements and not asking any questions..'
Gurney: do you disagree with what I have just said? (laughter)
The whole thing was great fun, I will be begining preparation for that soon and I am now seriously considering a career in this. The amount of people who believe I could get there has made me consider it more seriously. So, in order to aid with my endless note taking, court transcripts, essays, laws, and court notes I will be taking for my preparation in the trial and perhaps new career training ( XD ) I am learning shorthand. I can't begin to describe how uncool that is to be learning it.. but when I have that skill under my belt.. well, perhaps firstly I should get some belts, but when I get one, I think that Shorthand would be something I'd like to put under it..
So, trying to switch off from the really formal writing style that you have to get used to when you do all this law stuff.. SAM- STOP TALKING ABOUT FRICKING LAW ALREADY!! (sorry)
Ok, because as I said, I didn't post in ages, I did a random post not too long ago actually, and scince then there are only two things I have to answer:
Emma: What do I think of that song? Well I think at times that guy has freaky eyebrows.. I'll try and not get started on analysing it, as I am a real music boffin. But in terms of personal taste, it would be put in my 'ok..ish', pile. In the fact, I prefer slightly heavier more upbeat songs. Oh and by the way 'la voix' is french for 'the voice'. Just some random knowledge I have floating around in my head.
Chris: I love this question; if you could be born and raised into another race/ culture what would it be? I'm not sure to be perfectly honest. I think it would have to be europe, and although I'd love to say egyptian, I'm not too into the whole thing were not believing in god is a tabboo, and I'd love to say Japanese, but I'm not skilled in any way with computers and robots. So europe definatley. I would like to say germany, because I love how organised and logical, I'm a logical person, I can appreciate rules for their merit, but some English rules are STUPID! Like in Germany, they have no school uniform and can go out at lunchtime.. I know this applies to most contries, but there are loads of cool german things. But I am not a very.. 'german' person, there are definatley german type people (I have just decided.) I might consider france for a second, but Im not THAT arogant or into eating slugs. I like italy, but I likeah to sometimes a rest and not witha alla zeeah arma waving and 'heyy MARIO!! LUIGI! BONJOURNO! CIAO!' I think after a while I;d be a bit worn out. I love the netherlands steretype, obviously not the drugs and prostitution, but the chilledness (is that a word? yeah, fat chance I have of being a lawye... SAM- NO! STOP THERE DON'T EVEN MENTION THAT WORD AGAIN, YOU'RE MAKING THIER EYES BLEED! ONE MORE WORD AND ITS A CONTRADICTION TO THE.. urm.. thing) So, it would probably be the netherlands, I know about ten people from there and they are all amazing really cool, chilled people. But, if I could choose anywhere, without excluding where we do come from, I would choose England. Everytime, no question. Yeah, sometimes it stinks like a cow's excretion, but ultimatley we are a giving, kind nation. And despite what people think, we don't all wear monicals, drink afternoon tea with scones whilst having conversations like 'how do you do? glorious weather, is it not?' although most people working in the arena of law seem to!! (apart from me)
My question was, how did we get into this internet community? Which I would also have to say, youtube! Yep.
My question is, as I can only think of sucky ones, will be 'what is the stupidest thing you've seen in the past week, in real life, the news, anywhere, just the stupidest thing. I'll tell you this weeks and then I'll tell you again next week. This week, was a lift which started on level 3 (it couldn't go down any further at all), then went to 4, 5 and then n entire level up from five called: 5a?? what the hell!! Would it reallt harm them to use the number 6 at least??
c'est tout! au revoir!!!!!!! BYEEE! CIAO!

Someday I'll actually go to all of my classes

I've become extremely bad at attending my classes, to the point where I don't think I've gone to my Electricity and Magnetism class for about a month. In my defense my professor really sucks and posts all of the lecture notes online anyway. This past week has been fairly tame, which I quite enjoyed. I actually had a few nights where I could relax and not worry about scrambling to finish something. I've also fallen into this bad habit of staying up late working on school stuff, and then going to school tired, coming home passing out for a couple hours and doing it all over again. But even when I try I end up having a horrible sleep schedule since I'm bound to have some assignment that I have to do at the last minute and therefore will stay up late just because of that. So as much as I would like a normal sleep schedule it's not really practical anyway.

I'm really not even sure what to write about at this point... I sold my old MacBook to a friend, in fact I was surprised I had three people want to buy it from me within hours of me mentioning that I got a new MBP. I'm still awaiting the InvisibleSHIELD that I ordered from for it. It has shipped so hopefully it will be here by the end of the week.

On to questions for lack of better things to write about.

My own: I think I would agree with Emma in that I would likely read a lot more. I also think I would end up having a hand written journal since and online one wouldn't be possible. I'm really not sure what kind of a person I would be without the internet. Heck I might still be in the closet, just because the internet was what inspired me to come out to people to begin with. So I think I would be the same person, however I would likely not nearly be as open and comfortable with myself.

Sam: I would have to agree that YouTube was probably the main thing that catapulted me into the numerous social networking sites that I'm involved with. I mean I was on Facebook since it's early days, but largely I find FB constricting, in that for the most part the people you interact with on FB you already know in some capacity. YT definitely open a whole different world and allowed me to explore many different people and cultures.

Emma: The chick really should not sing english lol, her accent ruins it, the french is better though. The other song is nice, but not really my preference for music.

My question: If you could be re-born and raised in another culture and/or ethnicity what would it be? Your not allowed to pick the one your already in.

I am the mess you chose!

The last week has mainly consisted of schoolwork and gym classes for me. This week however will be a little different. My whole family leaves town between Wednesday and Sunday so I’ll be here alone. During this time I’ll be moving to my sister’s apartment to take care of their cats. It’ll be interesting to see how I’ll manage on my own :)

So this past weekend Sweden choose the song we’re gonna send to Eurovision Song Contest, it’s a big contest with most of the countries in Europe participating. Apparently we’ll be sending a mix between pop and opera called “La Voix”.





Time to answer some questions.
When I feel ill I either stay in bed all day or at the most I’ll move in to the living room, spending all day in the sofa watching TV.

Chris wanted to know what we would do in our spare time if internet didn’t exist and also if we thought we’d be the same persons if it didn’t exist.
If internet didn’t exist I would probably read a lot more books, spend more time doing homework and get more sleep. And I would most likely be a totally different person if internet didn’t exist because I’ve gotten to know a lot of people that I never would have if internet didn’t exist and I think that and other things I’ve learnt has made me the person I am today.

Sam wanted to know how we entered this internet community and for me it all started with youtube. I watched different people and then I started to know them better through stickam, blogtv, twitter etc. So I have Youtube to thank for getting to know all the people I know now even if it wasn’t on youtube I meet them.

I don’t have a question for this week so instead I want you to watch/listen to this song and tell me what you think of it.

SATURDAY!! I HAVE MOCK TRIALLLSSSS!

I'm kind of back on the internet for half of the afternoon.
Chris send a link to a website, I wrote something about wanting to learn french, and something about how hard I worked in te mock trials. I also said that I wanted to know how I would do in this competition.
what are our views on polotics? It was then also said, and might I add on my behalf and on the behalf of all the other bloggers, that no matter what people said on thier views on poplitic we wouldn't judge them. Fair enough. But there are certain things that would be unacceptable: If one of us were to agree, that it was a good political decision to issue a fatwa on salman rushdie to be killed by any Muslim, and that muslim would be excused in the muslim comunity, Just because of a book he wrote expressing his opinions about Islam. Then I would hold that against them. If somebody said that they agreed with the pope, likening homosexuality to our depleting forests, then also I would have to hold it against you. If you were to say that Hitlers polotical dicisions were just, or that mogabi's running of zimbabwe is wise polotics I would have to oppose. As a person with a brain, I respect people who have views different to mine, but when they are as ill in formed as that, there are boundries. Ok, perhaps I'm being picky, I didn't really think anyone in here would agree with, for example, what the pope said. Or that there are any hitler worshippers among us. But seriously onto my view on polotics? I think that people should be allowed to do what they want to do, as long as it doesn't impede on anyone elses rights. I think that George Bush was dumb, I think that Gordon Brown is boring. What else is there to say?
I think emmas question was, about how would we change if we found out when we were going to die or something.. I would.. focus more.. I dont really know to be honest. sorry.
Then Emma asked, what do I like to do when Im feeling a bit ill? Normally sleep, but I like to do that even when I feel well.
Would I be the same without internet? simple answer. No. What would I do if it wasn't here? Well, chris, if you could travel into the paralell universe, where that does actually happen, then please tell me, because I don't know how and I have absolutley no idea whatsoever I'd be doing. Prehaps I might develope a friendship with a block of cheese.. I would go insane.

My question will be.. How did you enter this internet community? And wish me all luck for saturday, I will be first defense lawyer. I'll tell you all about how the case went, and what the case was perhaps over the weekend or next friday. BYE!!!!!

Because it's awesome...

Sometimes I fail but I usually win in the end.

Okay first of all, how did we go from 5 people to two? I know Becca is in LA this week so she can be excused as such, but I have no idea what's happened with Sam. He seems to have fallen off the internet or something, he has not updated his dailybooth or been on msn. Hopefully he is just having technical difficulties or something and all is well otherwise. Speak of the devil he just logged into msn as I write this. Just as an update he informs me he has simply been extremely busy with school work.

In other news, ZOMG I finally got my new MacBook Pro!!! It's all shiny and pretty and new and amazing *gushes some more...* However getting my MBP was slightly stressful. I should mention that anytime I'm expecting a package and have a tracking number for it, I am OCD when it comes to checking when and where it is at all times. I litterally was checking the Fedex website every 15 min once I knew it was in Calgary. Anyway, so it arrived in Calgary Monday morning and I wanted to just go and pick it up straight away since I knew I wouldn't be home when they tried to deliver it. So I called Fedex to see if I could do that, but they wouldn't let me pick it becuase their contract with Apple requires them to attempt delievery at least once. So the following day I planned to go pick up my MBP when I was done school. Just becuase I could, I checked the Fedex website again to see if they attempted delivery yet, and to my surprise they had and it got delivered, which meant someone signed for it. Initially I thought my landlord (who lives upstairs) had signed for it, so I quickly texted her to confirm. She responded by telling my she was out of the house all day, and didn't sign for it. My flatmate was also out of the house, which meant I had no idea who signed for my package.

Needless to say I became slightly worried that someone simply signed for my package and walked off with my new laptop. It turns out that the neighbour signed for it, and ended up leaving my package in the doorway. I was like WTF it's -30, who leaves a laptop outside for 2 hrs in that weather!?!? Naturally I rushed home to make sure everything was ok, and as of right now it seems to be working. I also preformed a RAM and Harddrive transplant as soon as I got it as well, which means I now have 320GB 7200rpm and 4GB DDR3 1066mhz. So far it is everything I expected it to be, I haven't tried doing any video editing but I will be doing that soon enough.

To answer my own question:

I don't neccesarily like the politcal party in power right now (the conservatives), but I also don't like their main contender (the Liberals). Neither of them seem to know what their doing and seem to endlessly fuck up the country, granted the conservatives seem to have at least stablized things in respect to the economy. I should also add that they seem to have given Canada a backbone once again. As Emma and I were discussing the other day, Canada has traditionally just followed in the footsteps of all the other major global powers, but lately we have been doing things more and more on our own, and not merely conforming to everyone else. Personally I support the Social Democrats in Canada, just becuase a more socialist system appeals to me and makes more sense in my mind. Ironically before I even knew Emma, I've always taken an appreciation for the Swedish Government, and how they are able to implement a Social Democratic government so very well!

When I'm feeling ill, I usually just sleep a lot, and curl up under several blankets and watch TV/Movies. I also try to drink lots of tea and fluids in an attempt to feel better and clense my system. I also try and drag out my sickness for as long as possible just so I can skip school/work LOL. For the record it has been quite sometime since I've been genuinely ill, probably a couple years since I've had anything more then a cold or sore throat.

As for my letter I basically just wrote about what I'm doing in my life right now. Nothing serious, just a light mildy humourous letter to myself. I also mentioned that if it works, I will write a long and proper letter to myself for several years down the road. Currently I set it to send in a years time.

New question:

What do you think you would do in your spare time if the internet didn't exist? Also do you think you would be the same person if the internet didn't exist?