A Day in the Life

Today, so far, provides a good cross-section of my daily life in Sweden. I wake up around 7 am and practice Swedish in my room until my roommate leaves around 8:30. Its easier for one person at a time to get ready, and I am not really a people person in the morning (as opposed to all those other times when I am a people person!)...Then I do some straightening up around the apartment; dishes, vacuum, bathroom, counters, etc...This is basically because I think indoor cats are disgusting conceptually and they require ritual cleansing. Then I eat a breakfast/lunch and usually try to catch a train around 11. I also shower, brush my teeth and all that. Then I head either to the canal town, library town, or the city. If I go to canal town or library town then I stay at the same place for 7-8 hours working on my dissertation and then go home (assuming there is no world cup match I want to see). If I am in the city then I will usually rotate between the city library, the university library, kulturhuset (like a cafe, library, theatre) and a cafe...just to keep it interesting. I come home around 7 or 8 and go for a run. Midway through my run I get a stomachache that ruins my whole day (this has happened every run for the last week). Then I come home and eat dinner if my stomach settles, shower, and try to get to bed around 9:30 if there is no World Cup game to watch. In bed I watch dvds on my laptop on the off-chance that the A/C cable for my laptop is working and it will hold a charge. Otherwise I go to bed and do the same thing the next day...all seven days in the week! I am trying to think if I ever steer off this course...I go to the grocery store once a week...yesterday I had a stomachache so I stayed here and worked...ok, I am late...off to the city.