sticks and stones may break my bones, but gympa will always squash me

i made eclairs tonight. the pastry is perfect, but i totally fucked up the mousse. Here is why:
"Vispa ner påsens innehåll i 2 dl kylskåpskall mjölk, gärna i en hög, smal skål. Vispa med elvisp ca 3 min. Fördela chokladmoussen i coupeglas eller liknande och låt stå kallt 20-30 min."
so i improvised and it turned out to be the best chocolate pudding EVER...mmm...with a little ice cream in the middle....delicious.
So the tacksittning was last friday. extremely fun as usual, though once again, my vegetarian options were a little limited. good company, good drinks, good food, good dancing. oh man- i started this entry, and now i'm far too tired to finish it. perhaps i will continue tomorrow. sov gott.

if its not the carbs, then its the butter, sugar, and fat...

so i've been having these really fucked up dreams lately. there has been a lot on my mind and school has been slightly stressful (nothing like tech stressful, but its easy to lose a comparison point when you aren't faced with that shit.) anyway- berdine and i analyzed the dreams and found the sources of the stress, and i fixed all of them- starting two days ago, and now i am sleeping soundly again. i am taking a beating from swedish food again, but this time a little different- i'm working out so much that the fat is equally distributed, so it was like a sneak attack- i was doing great, and then all of a sudden i get on a scale only to find i am a sturdy 8 pounds heavier...then when i came! and i was definitely overweight when i came..anyway- that is the next demon to conquer on my list- besides can you help it if the only really good food in sweden is sweet and baked?
i've written a lot of papers. more than i think i did for my entire undergrad degree, but i suppose thats grad school. weekends are still awesome though- the weekend before last was another tacksittning- i think i wrote about that, then last friday i worked again (so another tacksittning tomorrow!!)..and then saturday night berdine, sara and i had a wine a cheese night and watched cute movies. so now i'm off to dreamland- good dreams!!

vecka 40..and still twitching

life here has been going on. i have contracted possibly the strangest cold i've ever had. all the symptoms- just one at a time, today and yesterday have been coughing- before that sneezing, and before that congestion. its sort of like....a box of chocolates. (ok i apologize for that). otherwise life has been a non-stop flow of reading, writing and quizzing. but its ok- i'm turning in my mega-starbucks quiz on wednesday whether i feel like i'm done with it or not.
so, last week was very exciting for the second half...on thursday my (almost) entire class went to a sittning at Malmo Nation- let me tell you- i was EXTREMELY pleasantly surprised. i think maybe this week we will have our contest there! there will be lots of stars.!! Then on friday night we had a giant ring of fire night in our hallway- i was thinking about nine people would show up- but it turned out to be more like 30, and the aussies and robert just haaad to add about ten extra rules- but the grenade master was a fun one- maybe berdine didn't appreciate it as much after the entire beer was spilt all over her. i also stole sam's sweatband, and never thought that i would get such a reaction. haha now all of my upper arms are bruised. saturday night was another tack sittning for those of us that worked at the Novishefest- the food was pretty tasty-even if they weren't expecting vegetarians (second time that week). and the drinks wooooo...i don't think there was any catagory was missed, and i am completely shocked that the mixing didn't kill me- in the end that night we never actaully made it into any of the nations, but thats ok- i needed to get early and work yesterday- quiz tomorrow, starbucks wednesday, and then scramble to write a 6000 word paper.
..my new bike is fantastic.