I guess that's what happens when you lack direction

Someone [read Rikard] once [a few days ago] said that strange things happen to people when they are left alone for too long. I guess we all have our different quirks and that we all have our ways of passing time. Sara plays Donkey Kong. I make patterns. Sometimes I knit or sew (brodera) a table cloth. Sometimes I build perfectly symmetrical houses in the Sims. Sometimes I just draw lines on a paper.


I am always amazed when I realize that I have just spent 3-4 hours doing something that is so extremely monotonous without getting bored. I don't even get hungry. I tend to notice that I am getting cold or that my neck hurts, but that's it. If I am listening to music at the same time I have no idea what songs have been played.

Why is it that I can put such ridiculous amount of energy into something so utterly pointless when I can hardly motivate myself to read a textbook for school that I find really interesting? Imagine what I could achieve if I could channel just half of that energy and commitment into something useful.

Do you ever feel that your priorities are a bit messed up?

Juno

Went to see Juno today, it was good! Go see it! But seriously, who names a kid Liberty Bell? On the other hand the writer's name is Diablo Cody. For real.

On the road...

This has been a movie-weekend. Not that I've watched more movies than I usually do on weekends. Anyway, I saw Road to Perdition (Tom Hanks, Paul Newman, Daniel Craig) and I fell in love with the soundtrack. The movie is okay and when I discovered that it is based on a graphic novel I instantly knew that I was relieved because I knew I would like the story better that way, especially since the bad guy will not be Jude Law. But the music really is amazing - I can't remember when I last saw a movie with a better soundtrack. And today I saw Bad Santa (again) - my God that is a tragic story! Then I spent a few hours obsessing over this independent movie coming up later this year I think - Birds of America. Why? Mainly because it stars Lauren Graham and I am really curious to find out whether she's a good actress or just good at playing Lorelai. And Hillary Swank is in it too - that's a good sign as far as I am concerned. Next week I me and Sara will go and see Juno at the cinema, something to look forward to!

The moralic Gilmores

As some of you might know I've been watching way to much Gilmore girls lately, I am currently halfway through the sixth season out of seven and I started with season one the week before christmas. Gilmore girls is a great show and there is a lot of things that I could write about and I have a list of quotes on my computer but all of that is, well, pointless if you haven't seen it. If you haven't seen it - do! In general the series is what people would call a "chick"-show, but when guys sees it they are always positively surprised. (So far I have never met a guy that didn't like it at least a bit.) But this is not what I was going to talk about.

Gilmore girls is a family show, wich means no swearing - unless it is absolutely called for. No sex-scenes or nudity (except for Kirk), they usually cut the scene before it gets to hot and then resume it when all is done and they are covered with sheets. People don't smoke - the few times that you see a person smoking it is because the character is to be portrayed as bad or decadent. In one scene they use a cigarette to show how Jess, a classical bad-boy, tries to make a good impression on Rory. The other two times I can remember seing a cigarette on screen is a rich and spoiled girl and her mother. I can not recall ever seing a statist smoking.

Obviously they are very careful to set a good example with the show and it is therefor I was surprised when I finally realised that almost every character in the show seems to have no problems driving after they have been drinking. They don't drive when they are visibly drunk but many times thay have had quite a lot to drink. I'm am not certain whether Rory, an extremely well-behaved girl, does it but almost everybody else does on occation. Logan, Emily, Richard... the list is long. They do reference to the concept of don'r drink and drive a few times though, at one point a minor character is pointed out as the designated driver - but he has by then joined the navy and is portrayed as recently mature and responsible. At one point Emily is arrested for driving under the influence and at an other time Lorelai makes a joke about it. That is all. And the thing that stands out most, in my opinion, is that Lorelai (who's major character flaw when it comes to marals is that she her relationeships tend to erode quickly wich might indicate that she does not take them seriously...) does it almost every week, after friday night dinner. And I know that she must be at least "salongsberusad" since her average intake of alcohol is at least two martinis and two glasses of wine in the course of about two and a half hour. I believe the limit is 0,8 permille in USA and with that intake Lorelai should have reached over 0,9 permille. In Sweden the legal limit for blood alcohol concentration is 0,2 permille - an amount that for most people is exceeded by drinking one beer (folköl).

I'm busy, leave a message.

That will be my new voice-mail as of tomorrow. I just got the reading instructions for the first half of the course. I pannicked. Then I sat down and organized my calender for half an hour and now I have a plan. I will be reading what I should for the first two weaks. The third week I will shift back to what I should have read for the last two weeks. And then I will read the last 5 chapters of the economics book the week after that. So from now on I will NOT HAVE TIME to do anything social from Sunday to Friday. Hopefully I will have Friday and Saturday free, but there is no guarantee. I'm a slow reader folks...

Random Rants

People have requested a new post: fine, I'll write you a post. The only problem is that I don't really have anything to write about. Nothing extraordinary has happened to either in real life or in my mind. Well, there was that electrician that came by on new years but I'm sure you've all heard about that by now. In case you haven't and since I don't have anything better to write I'll go ahead anyway.

At 9:30 in the morning (2 January) me and Da-Ryun wake up abruptly - someone has knocked on the door. We both wait for a while, me: wondering wether it was just a dream. When a second knock is heard I drag myself out of bed and goes to open the door. It is snowing. And there's a guy standing there in a red jacket. He looks good. "Hi, we're here to change the electricity-meter" I burst into laughter - my way of saying: get outta of here! Then I just say: "Wait a minute" I go into the big room and wake Sara. "There's a guy here to change the electricity-meter" "You're kidding!" Sara sounds almost insulted. I leave the electrician to her and go to the bathroom. When I get out Sara has gone back to bed. I ask her what he said. "The're shutting down the power for like ten minutes. He looked good!" "I know!" I walk back into the bedroom. "How often does things like that happen?!" "Mmm" - Da-Ryun is already half asleep. Afterwards I find out that Madde was awake aswell and that they both could tell just from his voice that he was eyecandy.

That story done I will continue with random rants. I have now bought the complete series of Gilmore Girls. Yep, it was expensive. But sooo worth it! I have also aquired the first five books of a series written by John Marsden. As soon as I have read the first book again I will try to force it upon you. Me and Sara has been shopping for glasses. Successfully to that. I have also decided to go abroad as an exchange-student next year. I shall tell my parents as soon ass I've had a meeting with our student-councelor.

Poor little thing *evil smile*

Something really strange happened today - I got every single thing I had written on my wish-list. Not that it's really a wish-list any longer (the things I wish for are far too expensive) it's more like a things-I-need-list. Otherwise it was about just as half-boring as it usually is, not because it's not nice but because the whole thing is too hyped up to ever reach the expectations. Lunch at my grandmother was at least very entertaining this year, my one cousin had gone missing - noone had seen or herd from him since friday (!) and he eventually showed up just when we were about to leave. An other cousin had been working since 7 am after a bad nights sleep so she was tired and grumpy (she's usually very positive and nice) and strangely enough it was she that stood for the entertainment the whole afternoon. It all began when her mother happened to critisize the food at this restaurant that she had been working at and my caousin got really upset (because her new boyfriend was/is one of the chefs there).

Then (because she was tired) she talked a bit too much and she said things that didn't really add up and her two brothers and me and my brother teased her a bit. It went something like this: Cousin T (I'm not gonna give her name away): Can I give him some food? (him being my brothers dog) Brother: No, you cannot. [Conversation goes on a bit] Cousin T: Every time I bring McDonalds food home my cat sticks his head into the bag. Brother: "Every time", so you eat McDonalds food all the time? (In a teasing tone) Cousin T: No, I don't. Actually I don't eat all that often at all. One of her brothers: You don't eat very often at all? Only on thursdays and sundays, do you? Every wednesday you go and long for thursday so that you can eat! [Laughter] And then it went on and on one the themes of the food at that particular restaurant, her cat being spoiled, food in general, her boyfriend not cooking when at home and so on.

After dinner it got worse because my uncle joined in as well (they ate in an other room). Eventually we were sitting in the sofa and she pretended to sleep and someone asks: should we open the presents? answer: no T is sleeping. I: Don't worry, she'll wake up when she hears the sounds of presents being opened! Then everybody laughed and she couldn't hold her face straight and started laughing to. But after we had opened the presents and we had teased her a bit more she had enough and went to a different room. Perhaps we were a bit mean to her, but that is how we do it in our family. If someone is stupid enough to get upset when someone jokes around everybody starts picking at him/her without mercy.

At my aunt's place things were as loud as usual. We didn't talk that much but by now I was so tired that I didn't care. And if you wonder where my missing cousin had been I don't know. I do know, however, what he had been doing: drinking various kinds of alcoholic liquids and sleeping at friends' places.