The order of the day is HAPPY, for one of my favorite reasons: a new and utterly ridiculous song on my iPod! I got "Moskau" (for full effect watch it on YouTube) a delightfully terrible German pop song vintage 1979. Such terrific lines as "liebe schmeckt vie kaviar" (love tastes like caviar...) and "Natascha ha ha ha du bist schön" (Natascha, ( Read more... )

Here is a running list of books I intend to read...besides the dictionary (I am almost done with F!).

Pigs in Heaven, by Barbara Kingsolver (because The Bean Trees was great).
The Memory Keeper's Daughter, by Kim Edwards
The Pact, by Jodi Picoult
The Book of Bright Ideas, by Sandra Kring (Wisconsiny!)
A Series of Unfortunate Events #13: The End, ( Read more... )

...in the dictionary-reading endeavor, that is. Sometimes when you read the same letter over and over, it starts to look like it doesn't exist, or is just some random line, or something. Just like if you say a word too many times and you start to question whether it can possibly actually be a word ( Read more... )

I was listening (I AM listening) to Swedish radio online, and the entertainment news just informed me that the Swedish kids' show "Lilla Sportspegeln" (which is sports news for kids) is getting a new theme song. This doesn't seem like the kind of thing I would care about. But I do. Let me explain why ( Read more... )

I am allergic to the month of August, so I am a bit excited that it is over in a few days! Perhaps my allergies don't observe our calendar quite that closely, but I can always hope ( Read more... )

I've been home for over a week now...helping the roommates make food (occasionally taking the initiative myself), getting used to American keyboard layout again, writing love poetry on the fridge, attempting to get actual work done while everyone else is at work, and cuddling with my marvelous kitty Idgie. She's got a full name now: Imogene ( Read more... )

I love the age of computers everywhere. While waiting for my flight to Reykjavik I am hanging out at Sidewalk Cafe right next to my gate and surfing the net ( Read more... )

I've had a great last couple days here...at first I thought I would mostly be really bored waiting around to fly home, but that has not been the case at all. Some highlights:

On Tuesday I celebrated Julia's birthday with her, and she sent me a picture of the two of us, complete with requisite nipple-grabbing Swedish guy in background ( Read more... )

One more day of class!! Sounds good to me. Although we have had a lot of fun in pop class the last few days, since we have been writing our own lyrics to things. First we had to write (in Swedish) to the tune of "Hello muddah, hello faddah," after listening to the actual Swedish version. I overachieved a bit and wrote 7 verses (still fewer than ( Read more... )

I've had a musical day...I learned how to dissect a pop song, for one. (Then I tried to dissect "Outsiders," but that proved difficult. What is verse and what is chorus? Is there a bridge? EEE!) But since I spent a couple hours working on my final paper for my Swedish Pop Music class, I don't feel much like writing tonight. So I'll post this ( Read more... )