a short ventilation of frustration. no interesting musings on what really constitutes the human condition. no fascinating recaps of my journeys around the world. no defense of rain. just frustration. and possibly some anger.
i'm currently trying to get myself a ticket to that fine continent on the other side of the world, australia. see some opera houses, battle some dangerous animals, hear some interesting accents and most importantly, see that girl i love so much. why would anyone want to interfere with this noble endeavour? well, i don't know, but mr dentist and mrs insurance company sure seems to want to, by taking (what seems like) eternally long summer vacations. you see, i knocked a tooth out whilst practicing handball when i was 11 and the insurance ran out june 30th this year. aware of this, i went to mr dentist on the 19th of june for the necessary first check. he was then to send a proposed plan with estimated costs to mrs insurance company. when he did, he got no reply despite trying phone, e-mail and fax. after some investigation, i found out that the person who handled my case at the insurance company had quit. nice going, mrs insurance company. so in the end, my case ends up with a real person, although a couple of days after june 30th. i do not currently know if this will be a huge deal or not. so ok, we're in the beginning of july here, still plenty of time to get things done and teeth fixed, but no! suddenly, everyone goes on vacation until the beginning of august! and the dentist is on vacation until august 15th! and my case at mrs insurance company is currently with some dentist expert/consultant who just might be on vacation! i don't know! and i'm hoping to leave the country in six weeks! do you see my dilemma? do you see? i have booked a ticket, but the booking expires on tuesday and i'm afraid ticket prices will go up since it's not very far away in the future and tickets might be scarce. and i don't know what to do because everyone is on vacation and i can't get in touch with them.
ok, that was all i got. feel my pain. it's almost as bad as not having a home or money to buy food.
Thursday, August 03, 2006
Sunday, July 30, 2006
got my sunshine i'll get by
vi (<--kunglig pluralis) testar på engelska en gång.
we (<--majestic plural) will try english this time.
lund has been ridiculously hot this summer. it's been one hot day after another hot day, and then 15 straight hot days after that. then repeat the above scenario. now, i generally don't have a problem with hot days, when i was in japan i biked 25 minutes to school in 35-40 degrees every day and when i go to australia this fall, i expect X-TREME heat&sunshine. but, they're not supposed to be this hot and this plentiful in this part of the world. it makes me worry about, for example, the people in southern europe. if we have 35 degrees here, how hot must it not be for them! sunstroke's gotta be all over the place. next heat issue, when i complain about the heat and wish for rain at work, it's apparently an extremely provocative statement. the people at work are constantly talking about the weather and how it's going to get worse by the weekend and how that makes the weekend totally worthless and i just can't comprehend it. how can weather be so important to people? "oh no, the sun was all over the place when i was working but when i had two weeks of holiday it was mostly behind those clouds and so everything totally sucked." and people keep complaining that there's nothing to do if there's no sun. i wonder what they do the other nine months of the year when the season is non-summer. i mean seriously, if you're that dependent for sunshine to be happy with your life, maybe you should consider getting a hobby that can be done indoors. initial suggestions: reading, playing table hockey (which is good because it can be done both in- and outdoors! the ultimate sport! surely no other sport can do this!), ordering cookbooks over the internet. fun for the whole family!
i concede that sunshine makes you happier and more likely to do things and i do like sunshine when i'm biking home from work, because then it feels like there's still a lot of day left to do things with, but i really miss the rain from vancouver. rain 170 days a year, it's like heaven for me. and i can't believe so few other people like it. rain gets so much undeserved bashing. give me rain day in and day out, any day.
over and out. or not yet. i have to recap the funniest moment of the week, which was from a futurama episode, "spanish fry". in it, a scene from the robot soap opera "all my circuits" with the main protagonist, calculon, is shown. it is him screaming "nooooooooo!" in a garden, and next to him is a pirate grilling some hamburgers on a barbecue. the pirate does not say anything or interact with calculon in any way. that, my friends, is humor at the highest level.
song: mojave 3 - krazy koz.
we (<--majestic plural) will try english this time.
lund has been ridiculously hot this summer. it's been one hot day after another hot day, and then 15 straight hot days after that. then repeat the above scenario. now, i generally don't have a problem with hot days, when i was in japan i biked 25 minutes to school in 35-40 degrees every day and when i go to australia this fall, i expect X-TREME heat&sunshine. but, they're not supposed to be this hot and this plentiful in this part of the world. it makes me worry about, for example, the people in southern europe. if we have 35 degrees here, how hot must it not be for them! sunstroke's gotta be all over the place. next heat issue, when i complain about the heat and wish for rain at work, it's apparently an extremely provocative statement. the people at work are constantly talking about the weather and how it's going to get worse by the weekend and how that makes the weekend totally worthless and i just can't comprehend it. how can weather be so important to people? "oh no, the sun was all over the place when i was working but when i had two weeks of holiday it was mostly behind those clouds and so everything totally sucked." and people keep complaining that there's nothing to do if there's no sun. i wonder what they do the other nine months of the year when the season is non-summer. i mean seriously, if you're that dependent for sunshine to be happy with your life, maybe you should consider getting a hobby that can be done indoors. initial suggestions: reading, playing table hockey (which is good because it can be done both in- and outdoors! the ultimate sport! surely no other sport can do this!), ordering cookbooks over the internet. fun for the whole family!
i concede that sunshine makes you happier and more likely to do things and i do like sunshine when i'm biking home from work, because then it feels like there's still a lot of day left to do things with, but i really miss the rain from vancouver. rain 170 days a year, it's like heaven for me. and i can't believe so few other people like it. rain gets so much undeserved bashing. give me rain day in and day out, any day.
over and out. or not yet. i have to recap the funniest moment of the week, which was from a futurama episode, "spanish fry". in it, a scene from the robot soap opera "all my circuits" with the main protagonist, calculon, is shown. it is him screaming "nooooooooo!" in a garden, and next to him is a pirate grilling some hamburgers on a barbecue. the pirate does not say anything or interact with calculon in any way. that, my friends, is humor at the highest level.
song: mojave 3 - krazy koz.
Saturday, June 17, 2006
oh yeah
på flyget hem läste jag douglas couplands nya bok, jpod. den handlar om sex programmerare och i ett avsnitt skriver de säljannonser om sig själva till e-bay. en av dem anger säljkategorin som "IT workers > Game junkies > Infinite sadness > I am the ghost of troubled Joe" och det är ju alltid så trevligt när man uppfattar en populärkulturell referens som nog går många förbi. Om inte textraden i låten (googla, alla gör det) i sig syftar på något annat, för då står jag ju här som en tönt och avslöjar min avsaknad av detaljkunskap.
Friday, June 16, 2006
salig röra
hemma. jetlag. förkylning. jobb. på väg att packa upp.
det är lite konstigt att vara hemma.
men mest bra.
men det är underligt hur allting som jag saknade när jag var i vancouver känns totalt ointressant just nu.
det är lite konstigt att vara hemma.
men mest bra.
men det är underligt hur allting som jag saknade när jag var i vancouver känns totalt ointressant just nu.
Friday, June 02, 2006
the the empty
tillbaka i nanaimo efter 2*19 timmar pa farja + 2*7 timmar pa buss. mycket resa. lite trott pa att resa nu. vandrarhemmet har ar det basta jag varit pa, men datorn kraschar varje gang jag forsoker logga in pa min mail. sa det kan vara lurigt att fa tag pa mig pa gmailen i nagra dagar nu. hellokitty finns dock fortfarande om man mot formodan skulle ha ett akut arende.
Sunday, May 28, 2006
jag gar och fiskar
sitter for tillfallet pa norra anden av vancouver island, port hardy, ett litet stalle som man inte kan gora sa mycket mer an fiska pa. en 19-timmars farja som kryssar mellan oar och aker forbi allskons djurliv och fina utsikter avgar imorgon 06.00. man ska vara pa plats 2 timmar innan farjan avgar. farjan avgar 10 km fran port hardy. bussen avgar 03.30. det ar allt jag har att saga om den saken.
turen till yukon blir inte av, det var lite for daliga forbindelser och lite for dyrt och skulle ta lite for lang tid. vi vander tillbaka med samma farja nagra dagar senare och hanger pa vancouver island i en vecka eller sa, sen avslutar jag med en dag eller tva i vancouver innan jag satter mig pa planet hem.
i kanada har de en grym kaka, nanaimo bar, som jag maste lara mig baka. nanaimo ar en stad pa vancouver island som vi var i igar och de hade helt fantastiska bars. inget man vill leva utan, i tell you.
turen till yukon blir inte av, det var lite for daliga forbindelser och lite for dyrt och skulle ta lite for lang tid. vi vander tillbaka med samma farja nagra dagar senare och hanger pa vancouver island i en vecka eller sa, sen avslutar jag med en dag eller tva i vancouver innan jag satter mig pa planet hem.
i kanada har de en grym kaka, nanaimo bar, som jag maste lara mig baka. nanaimo ar en stad pa vancouver island som vi var i igar och de hade helt fantastiska bars. inget man vill leva utan, i tell you.
Thursday, May 25, 2006
I expected the Rocky Mountains to be a little rockier than this
tillbaka fran klippiga bergen. good times. manga fina bilder som jag inte kan overfora till dator an. sett bjornar. gatt i grottor. paddlat kajak. inte hoppat fallskarm. mellanstopp i vancouver igen, forsoker planera en tur till yukon. transporterna gar inte sa ofta och tar lang tid. vi far se.
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