I really ought to have tidied up my apartment this evening, seeing as I was here and had nothing pressing to do, but housework is never high on the list of ways I’d like to spend my time. With the academic year winding down, though, my opportunities to get the place thoroughly cleaned before I… Read More Housekeeping

The day kind went by in a blur and felt almost like it was over before it started, but when I look back on it I was actually pretty productive. I got to the office on the early side of normal, made coffee and took care of a few administrative-type things before putting in some… Read More Wednesday report

I find myself annoyed by almost everything in my life at the moment which, I’m aware, is not necessarily the ideal condition in which to post a long overdue update, but it is what it is. Most of what’s annoying me I won’t detail here, so as to protect the not-so-innocent, but I will say… Read More Complaint

You guys, I’m in the middle of reading and commenting on the bachelor’s thesis I’m supervising and between that and the two-day Ph.D.-student workshop I attended yesterday and today, my writer’s brain is just overtaxed. I’m not sure it really counts as “posting every day” if I just pop in to make excuses for not… Read More Evasion

It’s just past four in the morning, a time of day I try never to be awake. I’m not a person who usually has trouble sleeping, like ever, but now and then I get out of whack somehow and find myself tossing and turning all night. I went to bed at eleven-thirty and it felt… Read More Insomnia

Brynja had her eighth birthday yesterday, if you can believe it. I hardly can myself. We started the day with presents and finished up with birthday cake, just as it should be. (The cake was not my best effort, I admit, but at least she didn’t catch her hair on fire blowing out the candles.)… Read More Another year gone by

Brynja has been playing quite a bit lately, both at school and at their respective homes, with a friend named Alvin. The two of them went to pre-school together and have been in the same class at “real” school for the past two years, so they’ve gotten to know each other pretty well. Recently, after… Read More I swear, this just about made my heart explode

I talked Olof into watching the old ’90s* sitcom, Evening Shade, and two episodes in I have to say that it’s every bit as good as I remembered. Sure beats watching the Braves lose in extra innings, as I was doing a half-hour ago. The weather today was absolutely glorious, even edging toward being too… Read More Sunday

Tonight is the last night I’ll spend in Uppsala until near the end of August and I’ve been busying myself trying to make sure to pack up everything that I’ll want to have with me at home during that stretch and stuff it into my suitcase. My home wardrobe and my Uppsala wardrobe are entirely… Read More Homeward bound (soon)

Sorry for checking out on you like that. I’ve just been busy, busy, busy, what with the kids’ end-of-school-year stuff and my own travel and trying to wrap up a bunch of different work things before spending the summer at home. I probably ought to have updated earlier about how Lydia’s doing, but I guess… Read More Back