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This weekend in Stockholm: The annual Chocolate Festival at Nordiska Museet, Stockholm Pride volunteer party, and Green Day playing in the Globe Arena. Oh, and Denmark versus Sweden on the telly, possibly the most highly anticipated - and important - World Cup qualifier in a dog's age.
So what do I do?
I go to Göteborg (Gothenburg). What I'll be ( Read more... ) -
Can't be arsed to write a proper entry...
...so here's a selection of my tweets from August 31 to now. I'm putting them behind a cut, 'cos they contain a fair bit of spoilers for District 9. ( A load of ramblings goes here ) -
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Q: Why aren't the feeds from scans_daily over at IJ and Neil Gaiman's blog showing up on my flist? -
Spider-pig, Spider-pig...
A link to this was posted by Nick Baker (known from Animal Planet) on Twitter yesterday. Basically, it's 24 photos, and you have 30 seconds to spot the one fen raft spider that's in each of the photos.
But it's not just a game, it's science! Some of the spiders have bright bands on their sides, others are all brown. By having people playing this ( Read more... ) -
Bad news, good news
Bad stuff: About a week ago I did a bit of maths (not my forte, which is why I didn't do it a long time ago), and realised that unless some nice millionaire randomly showed up and gave me about 100'000 SEK there was no way I could go to the US to study this year. So it's all been called off, the loans/grants I'd already received have been returned ( Read more... ) -
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My papa's been in town the last couple of days, and I've been hanging out with him and my aunt Kati. Yesterday we just wandered around, checking out book stores, then went to see Slumdog Millionaire, which was quite fab. Papa gave me a present from my grandma in Finland: Kalevala jewellery with bears; a necklace, a bracelet, and a ring. :D
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From Twitter:
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Oh, bittersweetness...
Since I'm moving in exactly one month (EEEP!), I'm selling my ticket to the Green Day concert here in Stockholm, which takes place one month after I've moved.
Here it is!
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Writer's Block: Do Not Open Until 2059
Hmm, let's see... Pretending I have access to all these items, like I'd actually planned to do a time capsule today, this is what I'd put in:- One week's worth of newspapers.
- A copy of my comic Fashionista Centaur.
- One of my rubber aardvarks.
- My accreditation badge from Stockholm Pride.
- Various other souvenirs from Stockholm Pride, flags and whistles ( Read more... )