Wednesday, March 08, 2006

If I treat you like a number it's because I can't remember your name

Well, I'll revert to English I guess, Swedish may limit my potential demographic impact.

Of course, I'm back in Sweden, and sweet merciful cheeses everyone here is sickly white. Green even!
They all look like brett.

We have a visiting researcher from spain here at the moment, and between the two of us we have a total melanin monopoly in UmeƄ.

From front door to front door, I was travelling for 39 hours, almost down to the minute. arriving at 11:30pm, I collapsed and slept through to 8am, putting me instantaneously back onto Swedish time.

At least the days are getting longer. About 12 hours per day of sunlight now, in a couple of months it will be 24. Weather has been beautiful, blue skies... kinda chilly though. Every morning it's about -20, by dusk the sun has heated it to about -5.

There was a snow-sculpting competition in town last week. The theme was "circus". Interestingly, none of the entries were based on "The Bob Cock Circus of Pain".
I think next year I'm gonna enter with a giant viking helmet, whatever the theme is.

This was the winner:



This one came in second, entitled "I can fly, I'm not scared!"



A bronzed aussie and a paper-white local:



I didn't even need to pay $30 to sit here!




On Saturday I'm going ice fishing in a nearby lake with some allies from work. We went to buy supplies this arvo, tiny little rods and reels, and lures. Unfortunately, we didn't purchase the hefty piece of kit pictured below, all our drilling will be done by hand.



I vaguely remember telling at least two people about the power plugs they have in car parks over here. You hook them up to a little fan heater under the bonnet so the engine doesn't completely freeze over at night. Here's a piccy:



Got a new kool keith album, Dr Dooom. Keith's love song is... touching.

We stuck together when one of my parakeets died
You broke down and cried, for the love of animals
I used to always cut the legs off a roach
See if he'll stay there on a piece of tissue
and give him a piece of toast
That morning, he would wake up and be gone
What, the insect had a ambulance?
As a little boy eatin ice cream in the cold project apartment
I used to see rats dance, my aunt used to lay down the poison
and say, "Y'all makin too much noise and.."
(Too much noise and.. oh, too much!)

It's Welfare Love, section eight!

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