Sleepless awake
Now the time is quarter to eight in the morning, and it is monday. I am awake and have been so since noon yesterday. It is not like I have been sitting starring at the tele all night long. I went to bed at midnight with the optimistic notion that it would make me rise up earlier than usual. However, ever since I got back from Ethiopia I have developed a minor sleep disorder, or insomnia might be another word for it. I simply cannot sleep at all. On a regular night I usually fall asleep at around four in the morning. Leading ofcourse me to wake up towards noon the next day.
So, last night I was spending 7 glorious hours starring at the ceiling in my room. Though, here is the funny segment. The expected result of that should be me feeling like a walking-dead right now, but I don't. I simply feel like a newly awoken fresh individual. More fresh than usually in the mornings.
Now, I have two ideas of what this is due to. First, I have simply not slept at all which leads me to think that I am still on the same day as yesterday and hence I have not allowed myself to be tired just yet. Probably, if so, I will crash and burn in a couple of hours.
The second conclusion I have drawn is that I got more rest by simply lying still in my bed resting, than I usually get by sleeping late and waking up in the middle of the day.
Either way I feel good and probably will last the rest of the day, and atleast I can be assured that tonight I will be sufficiently tired to fall asleep on a decent hour and revive my day rythm.
Good morning to you all and hope you'll have a pleasant day.
The way it looks right now outside my house. Haven't seen a morning at home for quite a while.
Jello again.
Changed my mind. Will probably use this blog instead. or maybe post on both. So if you happen to read this on. Stay tuned.
Now I am going out for a good night fag, and in the meantime I am going to think of something clever to write.
Now I am just going to post some pictures I snapped in ethiopia. Soon my photo site will be up and running, Where I will publish a small selection of the 2500 pictures I took in Ethiopia.
This one is of a small lake close to Addis Ababa, called Lake Hora.
This is our little house kitten, randomly named Vladimir Putin, the other one was called Mordechai Vanunu.
This is how they live, atleast in the outbacks. Yes, the houses are made of dirt and something closely related to shit
This is a little boy down south in Ethiopia. Isn't it a bit Schindler's List Style
Here is baboon, with a child. I snapped this one in Arbaminch in the south of Ethiopia.
And the finally a little salute to one of my friends.
Here is Nareg and I in Giza on our way back to civilization
That was all for this time folks. But do remember that do marry, if you marry a good wife, you'll be happy. If you marry a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
Aha, Back online.
Just to refer to previous post, I am now online again on this domain. However, currently I have been using my other blog on www.blog.danielahlsen.com. But since I never write anything anyways, it doesn't really matter much.
Hello, Just testing
My blog has been broken for a decade or so. So now I am just trying something out. The chances are that it doesn't work.
straight back at ya!
Sometimes when you want something and work for obtain this certain thing. You face something similar to a brick wall. You could say it is like throwing a tennis ball against the side of this wall, at first it will bounce back and your throws will come back to you. Even with a higher altitude and velocity than you threw with in the first place. After a while the ball starts to fade in speed and you will only get back exactly what you threw. The ball will repeat your throw in your direction. Howwever, after a certain amount of time the ball will stop ejecting back from the wall and fall dead flat on the pavement below. Doesn't matter how hard you throw but the ball will not bounce back.
What do one do? Especially when the desire to find a new brick wall is equal to zero, I suppose it is just required to throw harder and harder.
Happy Midsummer!
Today, as every year nordics all over the region is celebrating Midsummers eve. An event that involved excessive eating, singing but most prominently drinking. PE halls are transformed into nursing facilities for drunken teenagers and the police is working overtime to catch those who dare to take the car home from the festivities.
Everybody is enjoying this true national day of Sweden. Everybody except me! Today marks the fifth year where I have for one reason or another missed Midsummers eve. Either I have been working, travelling or been jacked in a hospital bed. This year I am spending my Midsummers eve in Switzerland, a place where this term means as much as Christmas means to palestinians. Well, I am enjoying myself, but without all that eating, singing and drinking.
Hope that you are enjoying your Midsummers eve, wherever you are.
Happy midsummer!
Summer?
Me and Akin have now spent about five days in my motherland, Sweden. During the course of these days we have been able to watch a crap allstar football game, drink beer and play a lot of pool. However, the weather leaves something to wish for. It is literally crap. It balances between rain and cloudy and never seems to make up its mind. It's Flekke all over again.
Today it seems to clear up though. However, the point of this remark is to state that the weather determines your mood to a great extent. Even though we both are done with our IB's and really have nothing to do, except prepare for our individual projects, we are restless. The weather decides what we can do from one day to the other. It is freakin' annoying!
So, I just wanted to complain a bit about the summer that never seems to come, on the real first day of summer, 1st of June.
Hope that you are a bit better off!
A new beginning...
I have no idea about how I feel. I had a job interview today, and as well a really nice graduation dinner with my parents and sibblings. I am lucky to have a wonderful family, that supports me whatever I do.
However, something is currently lacking in my life. Started just a couple of days ago. And this something is something I will probably learn how to live without in the future as well. Sad, but true.
When you get accustomed to something you don't realize how much you will miss it when it is gone. And no, I am not talking about the school. It is something closer to heart than that.
I have learnt to appreciate small random situations more at the moment, and try not to push things for the future so often. I tend to do that a lot. I think it is because my life is primarily based on dreams and assumptions. Today life is only as exciting as the next day can be. However, this thing I am now lacking, has taught me how to appreciate the day at its presence and not after it is gone.
So, I will try to do that now and leave this computer.
Ciao!
The resignation of Laila Freivalds; a lame stunt by the opposition!
Today it was announced that the Swedish foreign minister, Laila Freivalds, handed in her letter of resignation due to pressure after the closing down of a right nationalistic party's website after publishing the so called Muhammad-drawings. It was done in the name of protecting swedish citizens abroad and was considered treason from the party's side. If this decision was wrong or not is open for discussion. However, being election year in Sweden, the opposition du Freivalds party, the ruling socialdemocrates, put a lot of pressure on Freivalds to resign. This reflected in media and the general press who encourage badmouthing of the minister. Small pieces of dirt was dug up and published together with out-of-context comments, making Freivalds look bad.
I am just worried that the political climate in Sweden is starting to look more and more similar to the ones in Italy and the US. Can't we have a political sphere with clean agenda politics and not based on badmouthing and day-to-day arguments.
Straighten up politicians. I am on the side of the oppositition, but I prefer to have a clean fight and not taking advantage of circumstances that doesn't improve our stand, just make the other side look bad.
Lets have a revision of thoughts before september!!!
