Let's try a non-musical entry for once. - Not saying I'm not going to talk about music. ... Cause first of all, I went to see Matthau Mikojan at Semifinal yesterday and it was a great evening and a good show even though there only were some 20 people present. The guys seemed to have fun nevertheless and played a good set. As always fun to watch them. The songs are pretty good too, I even bought the record after I still didn't get the last one as a CD. Listening to it right now. I like how it sounds a little different from the previous stuff (espeically lyrically), but that there's still the same feeling to it, the same style. Really good :)
Met Alisa at the show, so good to talk to her again. The last shows we met at basically just had us saying hello but now that we finally had some time & space to talk it was really nice. Kinda brought back the memories of some previous vacations, nights spent at Rooster and so on. We talked about virtually everything - student life, Tampere, Finland, music, Uniklubi, the website (I feel so read when I talk to her when it comes to that) ... some other things.
Guess I can say I'm lucky to have dared stepping out of that downward spiral, to have burned some ramshackle bridges. Like I wrote in a mail earlier this week, being here opened my eyes to so many things concerning ... well, anything, really, And even though it took some time to sink in and still isn't absolutely settled, I slowly feel like I can breathe again without feeling disrupted. It was a very long process, starting ... wow, two and a half years ago already, I suppose, and by now I really feel like there's a chance to recover. I've taken the necessary steps ... maybe time will tell.
Well. It's incredibly stormy outside, it's almost a little scary. This morning we had a little snow storm, only that at the same time you could still see the sun shining. Very weird. It started snowing again and again all morning, but now it's mostly been sunny. And cold. And stormy. Kylmä ja tuulinen at its best.
Anne booked her flights for Easter and we decided yesterday that we're going to Salo on Saturday. Yay. Marika asked me about it last week and said it was in travelling distance - turns out it is, so #20 will be Salo, not HKI, and together with Anne again. As much as I loved going to the shows with the girls, I've missed seeing them with her, so I'm extra happy now.
Oh, speaking of. Show last Friday was ... interesting. :D I mean, it's always a little harder when the audience doesn't really play along and I've definitely seen better crowds, but it was a great show and I had lots of fun. Good to see the gentlemen in such a good mood and so self-ironic. Setlist was a little shorter than usual but then they didn't have the stage for themselves (which is too bad) - still missing the "big" songs, but when have I ever NOT missed anything on the setlist? - Right. :)
Uni's going fine, even though I'm a bit of a lazy ass these days. Well. I'll survive :D Lots of work ahead on the weekend, let's see how I can keep up with it.
I also started reading Gretchen Rubin's Happiness Project last week and I really have to say that I like it a lot. I've found some really good ideas, even though I don't think I could work with the underlying system. It is, nevertheless, a very motivating book and definitely worth a thought or two. Really cool.
Aaand I think that's about it.
I think now I've finally found my motivation to do some translating and until I'm finish I guess the day is sort of over :D Anne is seeing friends tonight so I'll be a little bored the later it gets and we don't get to skype, but I'll figure something out. :)
Off to work. ^^
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tit for tat
Another week is gone. Or when did I write last?
Either way, it's Monday again and the day was, uhm, semi-productive. I was pretty late for Uni (my bad) and then went down Aleksanterinkatu on my way home, looking through both H&M to find some inspiration for spring. I'm not completely convinced yet, though. Not by H&M. (What the hell is wrong with them!?). I did find something I might buy after having Anne's second opinion. She knows what I get to wear :D
I was home in the afternoon and after lunch and a little back and fro in/about the forum and wasting lots of time doing nothing productive at all I finally started re-reading my text for the homework, made notes and actually did put together a decent summary. One page. Not sure if that is enough according to the length of the original text, but it felt like I was paraphrasing, had I written more. Actually I guess I had a little spare motivation because of the pm Marika wrote me about my review. However I wish my teachers were of her opinion when it comes to my writing skills XD But it's always great to have her as a backup. I don't think anyone ever supported me as much as she does - not since my English teacher in school. Heh.
Well, then there was of course Melanie visiting last week. She had a hell lot of work to do, but it was nice doing something normal like meeting her at Java. - And something unnormal like the impossible roadtrip to KiGa City ... I mean: to Tampere and back. We only took the bus at six and is there any better way to spent a coach tour eating sweets and catching up about virtually e-v-e-r-y-t-h-i-n-g? - No. It was shockingly not-cold in Tampere when we arrived and then there was the snowrainbullshit that sort of ruined the impression, but well. It was exactly that snowrainbullshit that allowed us to go inside earlier and deprived us of having to pay the entrance. Heh. We met Tia again and two au pair friends of her, but conversations ran a little slow because we were all bored and tired. Perus ennen keikkaa -meininki. Jaahas.
Guys started playing at midnight and I'm mostly happy with the show, if only the setlist didn't feel like they didn't know what they were doing when putting it together. Well, every single song was incredibly great, but they didn't fit.
Nevermind, I still enjoyed the show and it was all totally worth the effort. SO happy to see them again and SO glad that it was such a nice and undisturbed evening. Felt like I needed that, even though I felt so good lately. We arrived back at kylmä&tuulinen at 6 o'clock in the morning, I took the train at .31 so that I finally collapsed into my bed at 7 straight. Yeesh. Saturday was consequently sleepy. But very relaxing. [OMG, Mads Langer's The river has run wild was just shuffled on my itunes. Gosh, I love this guy's way of making music].
Sunday was lazy again, well except for the basic cleaning and tidying up. Didnt do much for Uni though. Stupid Swedish övningsprov, I'm totally not going to rock this exam as much as the last one. xD But I don't get a grade anyways, so whatever. How did Swedish become another egolanguage when the tests have not even been elaborate?! Well. It's fun. Period.
I told Melanie about basically everything I had to say about my plans and it was a really, really good conversation, and very soothing as well. So I worried in vain. Which is good to know.
Well.
Oh yeah, last but not least, there was this other thing we talked about. Something that annoys me since ... let me think ... oh, make it years. I'm not very good at it either and there's two people I can tell without thinking whom I did this to, but:
Friendship is something that has to work both ways.
You want a message - you write one
You want to be asked how you are - you ask how your friends are
You need help - you give some
You want to meet someone - you make the time.
- and so on.
Aah!!
Either way, it's Monday again and the day was, uhm, semi-productive. I was pretty late for Uni (my bad) and then went down Aleksanterinkatu on my way home, looking through both H&M to find some inspiration for spring. I'm not completely convinced yet, though. Not by H&M. (What the hell is wrong with them!?). I did find something I might buy after having Anne's second opinion. She knows what I get to wear :D
I was home in the afternoon and after lunch and a little back and fro in/about the forum and wasting lots of time doing nothing productive at all I finally started re-reading my text for the homework, made notes and actually did put together a decent summary. One page. Not sure if that is enough according to the length of the original text, but it felt like I was paraphrasing, had I written more. Actually I guess I had a little spare motivation because of the pm Marika wrote me about my review. However I wish my teachers were of her opinion when it comes to my writing skills XD But it's always great to have her as a backup. I don't think anyone ever supported me as much as she does - not since my English teacher in school. Heh.
Well, then there was of course Melanie visiting last week. She had a hell lot of work to do, but it was nice doing something normal like meeting her at Java. - And something unnormal like the impossible roadtrip to KiGa City ... I mean: to Tampere and back. We only took the bus at six and is there any better way to spent a coach tour eating sweets and catching up about virtually e-v-e-r-y-t-h-i-n-g? - No. It was shockingly not-cold in Tampere when we arrived and then there was the snowrainbullshit that sort of ruined the impression, but well. It was exactly that snowrainbullshit that allowed us to go inside earlier and deprived us of having to pay the entrance. Heh. We met Tia again and two au pair friends of her, but conversations ran a little slow because we were all bored and tired. Perus ennen keikkaa -meininki. Jaahas.
Guys started playing at midnight and I'm mostly happy with the show, if only the setlist didn't feel like they didn't know what they were doing when putting it together. Well, every single song was incredibly great, but they didn't fit.
Nevermind, I still enjoyed the show and it was all totally worth the effort. SO happy to see them again and SO glad that it was such a nice and undisturbed evening. Felt like I needed that, even though I felt so good lately. We arrived back at kylmä&tuulinen at 6 o'clock in the morning, I took the train at .31 so that I finally collapsed into my bed at 7 straight. Yeesh. Saturday was consequently sleepy. But very relaxing. [OMG, Mads Langer's The river has run wild was just shuffled on my itunes. Gosh, I love this guy's way of making music].
Sunday was lazy again, well except for the basic cleaning and tidying up. Didnt do much for Uni though. Stupid Swedish övningsprov, I'm totally not going to rock this exam as much as the last one. xD But I don't get a grade anyways, so whatever. How did Swedish become another egolanguage when the tests have not even been elaborate?! Well. It's fun. Period.
I told Melanie about basically everything I had to say about my plans and it was a really, really good conversation, and very soothing as well. So I worried in vain. Which is good to know.
Well.
Oh yeah, last but not least, there was this other thing we talked about. Something that annoys me since ... let me think ... oh, make it years. I'm not very good at it either and there's two people I can tell without thinking whom I did this to, but:
Friendship is something that has to work both ways.
You want a message - you write one
You want to be asked how you are - you ask how your friends are
You need help - you give some
You want to meet someone - you make the time.
- and so on.
Aah!!
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