A Requiem
Ok today is my unofficial last day. I have ahead of me today some gift shopping, candy shopping, lunch with a friend, a ridiculous day of lugging insanely heavy baggage, watching the Arsenal-Liverpool match this evening, and then finally figuring out how tonight and tomorrow morning will work. The weather is bad again today but a little less wet so that is good.
I was not able to find my Swedish wife so I could get a residence permit, but there is still a day left! Its a bit like getting a bachelors degree in the US. Basically the requirements are getting accepted followed by 5-7 years of showing up most of the time and then you are awarded a certificate! That seems a lot easier than all the other routes of getting here, i.e. getting a job, going back to school (which is easy, what is hard is getting funding..if you are an American).
All joking aside..and I was only half-kidding...its been a good week. I am starting to really get tired from the lag and traveling. It is finally hitting me in the last two days, but at least I made it through the first couple on euphoria. Part of it might be that I am exhausted with the prospect of the next day or so of traveling and not sleeping. The weather plays into it as well. It was beautiful the first couple days, and that is not normal for late fall in Scandinavia. The darkness wears me out too. I get tired early when the sun sets at 3:30 pm. The other day I was reading and the cafe got crowded so I figured that was the dinner rush, then I read for about an hour afterwards and figured it was about time to head home. When I got to the train station it was 4:30! I guess the 5 hour work day throws me off too.
Well, as a final wrap-up I had a great time. I wish I had more time but there is nowhere to draw the line on that. I have more resolve to get back. It will really hit me with the vertigo as I move 70 mph past the 5 million billboards in Houston..."wait a minute! slow down, I think I may have just seen the sky...nevermind, it was a sky blue billboard partially covered by the other two billboards."
There were a few things I would have liked to have done. I wish I could have gotten some more speaking in, I wish I could have gone to Djurgården which is a big park, I would have liked to have gone up to the university, I also would have liked to have gone to the little "canal town"...Södertälje, and I wish I could have seen some friends. This is probably my last post unless I decide to use the pay net at the airport and I almost certainly won't so hej då!
Ok today is my unofficial last day. I have ahead of me today some gift shopping, candy shopping, lunch with a friend, a ridiculous day of lugging insanely heavy baggage, watching the Arsenal-Liverpool match this evening, and then finally figuring out how tonight and tomorrow morning will work. The weather is bad again today but a little less wet so that is good.
I was not able to find my Swedish wife so I could get a residence permit, but there is still a day left! Its a bit like getting a bachelors degree in the US. Basically the requirements are getting accepted followed by 5-7 years of showing up most of the time and then you are awarded a certificate! That seems a lot easier than all the other routes of getting here, i.e. getting a job, going back to school (which is easy, what is hard is getting funding..if you are an American).
All joking aside..and I was only half-kidding...its been a good week. I am starting to really get tired from the lag and traveling. It is finally hitting me in the last two days, but at least I made it through the first couple on euphoria. Part of it might be that I am exhausted with the prospect of the next day or so of traveling and not sleeping. The weather plays into it as well. It was beautiful the first couple days, and that is not normal for late fall in Scandinavia. The darkness wears me out too. I get tired early when the sun sets at 3:30 pm. The other day I was reading and the cafe got crowded so I figured that was the dinner rush, then I read for about an hour afterwards and figured it was about time to head home. When I got to the train station it was 4:30! I guess the 5 hour work day throws me off too.
Well, as a final wrap-up I had a great time. I wish I had more time but there is nowhere to draw the line on that. I have more resolve to get back. It will really hit me with the vertigo as I move 70 mph past the 5 million billboards in Houston..."wait a minute! slow down, I think I may have just seen the sky...nevermind, it was a sky blue billboard partially covered by the other two billboards."
There were a few things I would have liked to have done. I wish I could have gotten some more speaking in, I wish I could have gone to Djurgården which is a big park, I would have liked to have gone up to the university, I also would have liked to have gone to the little "canal town"...Södertälje, and I wish I could have seen some friends. This is probably my last post unless I decide to use the pay net at the airport and I almost certainly won't so hej då!
posted by Lenin | 9:01 fm
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So you were back huh? Me and the boys will be back soon, just when I thought I was out, they dragged me back in! We had some changes since we last talked, one of us, now sleeps with the fish's. The NYC group had no choice. We will also be thinnin the group coming up. One of these guys is talkin when he shouldn't. He will end "workin" full time in the new construction site in Jersey City, if you know what I mean! Well ,I gotta go, these damn ducks are stopping in the pool on the way to South Jersey, and that damn bear is back. Sil, where's my gun!
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