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  i think this is sweet:



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  erika is confused. why is it that my computer suddenly can't find the server? and what should i do about it?  ¶ 2:46 PM

  this must be the beautifulest fall ever. otherwise i don't understand why i've always thought that there is too much fall in the world... everything is beautiful. the sun is shining. yellow and orange and red leaves and berries and apples everywhere. it couldn't get much better than this.  ¶ 8:41 PM

  there. when spring comes we will have 120 new crocuses (100 white, 20 pale blue), 140 new tulips (100 little weird yellow/pink ones, 20 little weird orange/brown ones, 10 tall brave pink/white ones and 10 tall curly pale yellow ones), 25 new very tall flowers i don't remember the names of, and 5 new pale yellow narcisses. and my hands will have healed. and the world hopefully won't have ceased to exist because i skipped studying a few hours, to spend the afternoon digging in the garden :P  ¶ 5:07 PM

  noone can sigh like the baby pup


and i have uploaded catalunya-pictures to flickr


and i just came back from karate class. with no skin left on my knuckles. i'm so cool. (i guess the really cool ones wouldn't lose the skin on their knuckles, though. i'm just not cool enough to understand how uncool i am yet. which is good. cause it's much nicer to feel cool than to feel uncool)  ¶ 9:36 PM

  sister m has left the building

she has been taking care of the pup and the cats while we've been away. and when we came home yesterday she had vacuum-cleaned the whole house. twice. and cleaned puppy snot from the puppy window.

now i have three days of intensive studies ahead of me. great!  ¶ 10:59 AM

  thursday: went to the new hotel in fornells. it turned out to be a real posh hotel, with mirrors and gold and heavy furniture everywhere. nice nice. spent the day in girona; walked on the high scary wall, walked in narrow streets, walked by the almost empty river, walked and walked and walked. didn't find the little lion that you were supposed to touch to be allowed to come back. shame, i wouldn't mind going back...

friday: walked to fornells de la selva, a teeny weeny town/village surrounded by fields. nice nice. a few hours in the afternoon i spent on a curly chair by the pool, doing some work. the husband tried the pool and had some sun. (i had enough sun the first day, so the rest of the week i had to stay in the shadows, with a flowery scarf covering my neck...) then we walked and walked and walked some more.

saturday: got up. had our last wonderful croissant-breakfast. croissants with strawberry jam and strong coffee is so much more fun than wholemeal bread and juice! took the bus to the airport. took a plane. took a bus. took a train. took another bus. walked. and came home to the parents in tierp.

today: went home.

we've been walking a lot this week, and every night i have gone to bed with aching feet. i never remember to bring better shoes...  ¶ 8:41 PM

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  i'm in cataloña. right now i'm trying to finish a report in a noisy bar by a pool. no need to complain :)

fist a word of advice. even if you have waited in stockholm (the city that is fast asleep) in the middle of the night when everything is closed and you have to sit out in the cold and nearly die and feel that everything is shit and you don't really even want to go to spain anymore, and you have been travelling little bits and pieces on a million uncomfortable buses and an unbelievably uncomfortable plane and finally you have been awake almost 30 hours, and then you see the soft white beach and hear the nice sounds from the sea: going to the beach to sleep is not a very good idea! believe me. i now have a bright shiny face. i've never experienced anything so painful. and embarrasing :)

so, monday was spent sleeping on the beach. and then sleeping some more under an umbrella by the pool. and when we finally woke up we went for a walk to a garden that was closed (you will see that "closed" has been sort of a theme for this trip of ours :) and then we went to bed and slept some more. i'm getting old!

tuesday we went to barcelona. looked at the sagrada familia, a stupid magic fountain that was supposed to give a show but that turned out to have it's night off (and we had waited for hours and nearly missed the last train home and missed the last bus and had to take a taxi instead), and some other things you had to see. didn't really like it too much. you don't have to visit barcelona if you don't want to.

today we walked around here in lloret. nice place. can recommend. waited for a show that turned out to never start. this evening i've been working by the pool, but when the teeny weeny little insects became too many i went into the bar. where i am now.

tomorrow we're going to girona.

oh, and every morning we go for walks along the beach, and feed our cats. there is a mother cat who only had one little kitten with lots of green puss in his eyes. the mother is thin and young looking. and today we couldn't see her baby, and she was walking around shouting and looking for it. i hope she had just forgot where she put it! they have enormous sea gul-ish birds here, and apparently they wanted to eat the little baby cat. a man was throwing rocks at them to keep them away.  ¶ 11:20 PM

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  no! i forgot the mother's birtday. i must be the worst daughter ever :(

förlåt mamma! vi ses i helgen (tror jag)  ¶ 10:16 PM

  haha, one of the bosses just came into my office to ask if i could work at an exhibition. "it would be nice to show something that looks better than the rest of us...i mean... a female..."

one week i'm a leading cad-expert, the next i'm a fairly ok-looking thing that can be placed on a chair at an exhibition with the single purpose of looking female-ish. i wonder what i will do next week? oh yes, i'm going to correct mechanical drawings for enormous tractors. i'm *such* a multicompetent person :)  ¶ 9:48 AM

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  something nice about fall: the smell of apples that are starting to rot on the ground

something else that is nice: the tired pup sighing beside me on the couch  ¶ 9:30 PM

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  life is starting to feel a little bit easier. in less than 24 hours i don't have to be a pretend-expert anymore. yay! and they just called from the taxi to tell me i get to sleep ten minutes longer than expected tomorrow. they will not come and get me until 5.25. yay! and now it's time for coffee break. and on wednesday i have a job interview. interesting. and exciting.  ¶ 2:06 PM

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  the sun is shining. the pup is all alone in the doggy-cage at home. i'm almost alone in the office cause everyone else is trying to murder innocent elks. the tummy hurts. the throat is sore. noone in stockholm answers the phone and there's not much i can do until i've had further instructions. am i allowed to go home under these circumstances?  ¶ 1:53 PM

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