our computer has cought a virus. i really hope it's not the winter sickness (aka "the winter throwing up illness"). apparently many people are getting it now... i hate being sick! one of my colleagues went home today, complaining that she was feeling very ill. and she sat next to me! i hope i hope i hope i woun't get it!  ¶ 10:23 PM

  the temperature is changing quickly. yesterday when i went to work it was -6 C and when i came home again it was -12. this morning it was -20 and when i came home it was -2. now it's 0. i hope i hope i hope it will be +20 tomorrow!  ¶ 10:56 PM

  right now we're learning how to email.... very interesting... somehow i feel this is not very important... more tax money going to waste?  ¶ 11:26 AM

  last week i went to söderhamn together with the other new employees here at ams, to visit ams infocenter. it was nice, but a total waste of tax money! i've talked to most of the others today, and none of us seem to have understood the purpose of this trip. i suppose we were meant to learn something from it... so, to all swedish tax payers: i'm SO sorry you had to pay for our expensive hotell and nice meals (and i know that at least some of the others are too)! i really tried to learn something, so that i wouldn't have to feel bad about wasting your money like that, but i don't think i managed to make the trip worth the money...  ¶ 10:03 AM

  the sounds of the fight between the lake and the ice seem almost unnatural... it could be the language of aliens in an old science fiction film.  ¶ 6:36 PM

  calm and dust-like green lights are moving slowly over the lake tonight. it feels comforting to go to bed under a sky like this.  ¶ 10:27 PM

  there's a storm running around here. it almost blew me into the river on my way to work today. i like the wind better when it's very very strong than when it's just blowing around weakly. the same with rain: if it must rain i prefer it to rain heavily. i don't like weak weather, i guess... i like it to be either proper sunshine or proper rain or proper wind, not something in between. weather is boring when it's lagom. so today is fun. i laughed my way to work. i suppose i would have felt differently if i was a truck driver. but i'm not, so i'm happy.

cold is an exception to this rule. i don't want proper cold. cold is better when it's lagom.  ¶ 8:28 PM

  today is "father's day". they had cake in tierp. my sister said we could have cake too, even though we don't have a father here (apparently they have cake on my birthdays, even though i'm not there), but it was too late - we didn't get a cake when we went shopping the other day. but we have some buns. better than nothgin :)  ¶ 10:26 PM

  the other night our sky looked like a big disco for ghosts. the norhern lights were dancing over the lake in great speed, and there was even some sound... i don't know if the sound came from the sky or the lake or somewhere else, but it added to the feeling of being in the middle of something unnatural.

there's something special about norhtern lights. i've always loved them, and i don't think i will ever be able to get used to them. when we moved here last winter bob and i went for walks under the dancing green ghosts almost every night. i hope it will be like that this winter too! seeing the northern lights fills me with some kind of happiness... i can stand and watch it for ages. fortunately there's lots of frozen horse shit around, so bob doesn't have to mind very much :)  ¶ 10:17 PM

  the first snow came today  ¶ 10:16 PM

  first blog from work
i refuse to start working until 9 today, but i've been here since 8.15 (tommy and i went together, as we have almost the same hours today)... so: what can i do until then? i went to look at the solarium, but it was occupied. i'm not sure i would have used it anyway.

oh, two colleagues just came by and invited me for some coffee. so i guess that's what i'm going to do until 9.  ¶ 8:30 AM

  tommy's parents are visiting us this weekend. which means i probably won't be able to sleep much now either. i'd really like to sleep late a day or two...   ¶ 11:20 PM

  first day at the new job
not extremely interesting, mainly a lot of bullshit. introduced ourselves, and listened to the bosses introducing themselves and telling us how many years they worked in kramfors and skåne before becoming bosses. had coffee and buns. looked at really really bad photos of the other members of the staff, and listened to information about where they live and how many kids they have. as if we would remember anything of it. had lunch for ages because nobody wanted to go back and the bosses were not very bossy bosses. "interviewed" each other and introduced someone else. don't ask me why, as we had allready introduced ourselves a few hours ago... listened to some more bosses introducing themselves. had coffee. had some papers. listened to some bullshit. went home.

apparently this first week will be mainly bullshit. next week the education will start. it's a good thing they have free coffee and buns and fruit, otherwise i'd fall asleep...  ¶ 7:14 PM