Group dynamics
Mood:  a-ok
Now Playing: Timbuktu - Lobbyn om 5
Topic: Everyday life
It quite interesting to see how you keep comparing the people you meet with the people you know. Like you have to put everyone in some kind of category. But the people I meet in class now, I don't know where to put them or even what I think of them. They don't seem to know that I'm even there. Went and sat down beside them before class today. It took five minutes before any of them even noticed that I was at the table. There's really only one person in that class that I feel is remotely like me. I'm sure they're nice people, if you're a person that they'd like to hang out with, but... I don't know...
Got yet another assignment back today, I don't know what to think. I try to bring up things that the others haven't thought about, but all I get is a couple of "yes" and a "fine" at the end. Everyone else have lots of notes and "good" written all over it. I guess I should be happy to even pass the darn class. But still...I wish I could get something more than just a "barely pass"...just once...

Stopped by the gym on the way home. I felt sooo unmotivated, but I made it through almost all the exercises. I hate working out when it's too hot outside.

Think first, talk later
Mood:  spacey
Topic: Everyday life
As usual I managed to make a fool out of myself. We're talking about preconceived ideas in class, and at the end of class my mind drifted away a bit and I kept staring at the watch. Would I make it to the bus on time? Suddenly the professor asked me if I've treated people differently because of their looks, and I blurted out "Of course, all the time" before I had time to think about it. But I do, we all do. Looks is the first thing that we notice in another person, before they open their mouths. If we see an older person we might talk a bit louder, if we see a cute boy we might smile a bit more etc
We all do it, all the time.

Wo-ho
Mood:  chatty
Now Playing: Usher - Yeah
Topic: Everyday life
I started off by not studying. And then my phone rang. It was a friend of mine who wanted me to come with her to a music festival, Hultsfred, but I don't know if I'll get the money in time. After that I slept in front of the tv for a while. Finally I grabbed the phone and talked to my cousin and then went to see him, and his wife and their two kids and my grandparents and my other cousin. There was a lot of noise but I had fun.
At the end of the evening I went home to my mother and made her cook for me, we had some not so very tasty ciders and I fell asleep.

Theme night
Mood:  quizzical
Now Playing: Infinite Mass - No. 1 Swartskalle
Topic: Tv
Every now and then Swedish tv has these theme nights, and tonight's theme was racism and nazis.
I don't get it. I really don't get it! Haters (not sure if they were real nazis or just wannabes) from all over the world meet up to hate people from other countries. Who gets to decide which countries are in, and who to hate? They showed some people going to a meeting in Serbia, but if you asked a Swedish hater they would probably say that Serbs would be on the "to hate" list. It all reminds of a Dave Chapelle sketch.

But I guess I've always been clueless when it comes to these things.
In preschool my best friend was girl with big dark curly hair, and she was supposedly different because of that, people later told us, but I didn't get it. There was a boy who liked to play dress up with us girls, he was different they told me. I didn't get it.
For some reason I still remember the time when I was watching a movie with a bunch of friends, we were probably 10-13 years or something like that. And someone commented on the fact that the character of my fancy didn't look like us. I still didn't fully get it.
When we were about twelve or so, refugees started to come to our little village. At first we were fascinated and they became the center of attention. Suddenly there were so many and we were told to...not like them anymore.
It was also around that time that I discovered Salt'n'pepa, my cousins liking of LL, and Warren G's Regulate. Now I listened to strange music.
In high school I read about KKK and the civil rights movement in an attempt to understand. I tried to convince myself that I understood.
I've taken classes in American history and politics at uni. I've shouted at the tv during Crash .
I'm still not sure I get it.

...
Mood:  d'oh
Now Playing: Phil Collins - Another day in A Paradise
Topic: Everyday life
I went to the gym for the first time in a week.
Then I went to Systembolaget, and for the first time in four years I didn't have to show ID. I knew it!! I'm getting old!! Really old!! :(
After that I went to have lunch with my work out friends, and they decided on salads because they wanted to eat healthy. Ham and cheese salad with extra cheese, lots of dressing, pizza bread, and a Pepsi. Very nutritious ;) I was happy with my avocado salad, mineral water and no bread.
Finally I went to see a sick friend, she'd been home all week and she NEVER does that so you knew that she was really sick. Bought her some fruit and a Donald Duck sudoku book.
Spent all my money on useless things and went home and fell asleep without as much as looking at the stuff for class.

The recipe
Mood:  hungry
Now Playing: Missy Elliot - The Cookbook
Topic: Bad News
So, how did it go yesterday? Well, it would probably have tasted a bit better if I hadn't replaced all the ingredients with other ingredients, but it was okey... Although my can of corn exploded in my face, but that's the price you have to pay I guess...

Got it!
Mood:  hungry
Topic: Everyday life
Got a recipe from a friend. God bless people who doesn't have to work at work. Just kidding Maria, thanks! :)

Feeeeeeeeeeeed me!
Mood:  hungry
Topic: Everyday life
As usual I don't have a clue to what to eat. Anyone with the perfect recipe, or who, even better, stops by and cooks me something will be greately rewarded!

Not the only loon...
Mood:  celebratory
Now Playing: Cowboy Troy.
Topic: Good News
Always nice to know that's I'm not the only weirdo around...

BBQ
Mood:  on fire
Topic: Everyday life
My previous plans got cancelled, and I had plenty of time to study...so I decided to go and see my grandfather in the hospital instead. He's doing better now, still the subborn self that he is ;)

I made it home when my stomach started to hurt, I guess I only got myself to blame for that one though. Got it under control and went to see the happy couple from saturday. They had decided to surprise us with the first BBQ of the year so I had some nice finnish bread and cheese, and we sat out in the sun. Really nice. Drank a couple of ciders and started to feel a bit drunk, from a couple of ciders. We chatted and had a nice time.