Sitting with my exam…well actually I’ve put it away for a few microseconds even though I’m probably going to be 1-3 three days late with the thing. The strange thing is this time I was working on it from day 1 and almost every day (less on weekends) but I’m still out of time. Why is this? Normally the only reason for being late is (i) starting late and (ii) having the work/play ratio for 9 tenths play and one tenth work (at most), but this time it was not so, so why? 

• I’m still not mature enough to really now what material to use and is not using my time effectively
• the teach is a grizzled dopehead who couldn’t make a decent home-take exam if his life and future after-life in the hypothetical and no non-existing purgatory depended on it.

Now while I must concede that #1 does have a point I personally think that #2 is that question that really hammers the nail in (for my eventual passed grade, I probably should not include this site’s URL on the exam like usual now should I?)

On the BTW front: after having turned in by bike to service for the nine millionth, two hundred and seventy sixth thousandth and fifty eleventh time - having paid for rough one and a half bike extra that the one I paid for and being told bluntly by the first repairman who takes the job seriously and told my the problem and not just that they can’t fix it that gears will never be fixed because the moron who sold it to me sold I bike so worn and torn that nothing could be done with so many parts. Feeels nice. Yes, I am calm, calm, caaalm. I’ll just reach into my pocket, take out the mobile phone and call the nice mr. hit man to help me with the source of all my problems (for an extra 20 bucks he’ll add a nice course of torture into it). 

With that I hope you all have a nice day (especially you mr. ’straight-from-comics-used-car-salesman-at-abbas-begagnade-cyklar-who-should-really-lock-his-door-and-bar-his-windows-at-night.’

Read an article in today’s paper that is personally very interesting for me. It gave me a lot of though about noise. The gist of the article is that low-frequency noise, even if you don’t notice it, gives your body a lot of problems. I thought the problems with my headaches were that i’ve only completed 50% of my changed day/night rythm - that is waking up at time (around 6AM) while I’m still going to bed at around 11-12PM. This gives me around the limit for the medically limit of low sleep (you should sleep at least 6 hours not more that 10 tho’ it varies from person to person). Anyways after this i’ve begun to turn of noise-generating equipment in my room (my printer) and have called our landlord to fix the fridge tho’ the fridge might not be at the level where you could call it low frequency noise since it around the clock gives of about the same level of noise as the really old lawn movers that you needed to yank for the better part of the weekend to actually get to move.

BTW on the games front: Downloaded and tried out Soul Calibur IV - really great game and as long as you remember to keep an eye at the time (that is the problem) works really great for a break to get rid of the stress and general lethargy so you can continue to get some work done - or as Aristotle said and I do not quote: You need fun in order to engage in activity.

Just bought a really cool software for keeping check of my expenses. As you all no doubt know there are quite a few expenses that adds up to a freaking huge amount and you can never figure out what these are. Well I bought a really cool software called budget workbook that will hopefully help with this. Quite cheap too, about 20 dollars.

There is a swedish site called namnlista.se. It is a site with really good potential, allows people for different purposes to start a list and get signatures and then use it for their purpose. As long as this purpose is kept serious and by reasonable adults it is good e.g. a list to introduce three semesters in the swedish university. However usually lists like this get started. This list is a list to lower the age limit for people to drink beer at a pub or bar to 16. Really disgusting really since it shows extreme ignorance of both research and the dark sides of alcohol. The worst thing though is that it corrupts a website that could be of a possible good use for people with serious ambitions to bring about a change. Or it could be that the administrator is an idiot and actually wants these types of kindergarten lists.

 A documentary well worth watching. While the ‘primary’ focus is anime it also deals with the important and often if not forgotten, at least less prioritized than it should, focus of translation.

I just read the most hilarious article in today’s paper. As you all not (like HECK you did) digital cameras have something similar to the fingerprint system so you can identify a particular picture to being taken from a particular camera (not with the naked eye). This has been a great help in catching recent criminals since it appears that is you are a smart and intelligent criminal you must use your own camera and take a picture of your crime.

Okaay. Is it just me or does this seem really strange. I may, criminal acts are illegal following from this shouldn’t the criminals try to erase rather than create new evidence?

It seems that the term intelligent criminals has just been given another dimension.

Just read an article in today’s paper. It was about a man who was a sperm donor. Really interesting article, but like always this type of thing kind of pisses me off. the guy refused to donate to lesbian couples who wants to have children with the reason that he believes that the child needs a male role model. this is in no way a problem in those types of relationship, it might in fact be easier than in a heterosexual relationship. This, because (this is extremely seldom mentioned in Swedish media) father and male role model is completely different things. A father may be a role model but that is because of his character as a role model (certain aspects) not because he is a father. What is really interesting is that this person was himself raised by a single mother so he should have realized that if a male role model isn’t found readily accessible people will find them, through friends and other - which he did (through movies etc.) so why is he still as conservative as the last generation? I guess there just are a few people in this world that shows that the environment doesn’t necessarily give wisdom of cause and effect.

By the way, to all sportspersons (read:raving lunatics) I hope whatever team you are rooting for looses.

Here is my next short story. This one is not quite so short as the others (about 5 pages). Since I am actually writing because I think I might be able to become an author or at least publish something one day from this story onwards most of the stuff will be in Swedish. I might make something in English occasionally due to certain reasons. I will not be translating each and every piece. If anybody wants to do that let me know I’ll get your account upgraded to contributor so you can do that. If I get requests for a translation I might do so myself as well. That’s it…Enjoy

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