Yoga

I am back on track! Took a short, but quick walk today and then I started a 21 day yoga challenge with Yoga Journal.

Smoothie

Writing my lit review and enjoying a raspberry/mango/banana smoothie :)

Rediscover

I just rediscovered a bunch of things in my closet- my leather boots that I bought years ago and never wore since they gave me a blister- now they fit and feel perfectly fine! And my comfy, fluffy and beautiful knitted sweater :) sometimes it pays off to have a closer look in your own closet!

Focus!

I should finish this book... After my coffee ;)

Snack

So good! Cottage cheese, oranges and raisin. M M M!

It is actually really hard to get out of bed when you have a gorgeous cat next to you, keeping you warm. As I'm writing this, she's lying on top of my hand. <3

Come as you are.

This is the last day that I can just completely ignore my work load. Don't get my wrong, I still don't feel 100% back to normal, and I'm not that close to my deadline, so it's all good.. but I feel the need to get back on track and listening to a few online lectures and reading isn't that tough to do. Only I've been feeling way too bad to actually been able to do it up until now.

People sometimes ask me how I can take online classes - how do I get anything done and how do I learn anything? Well, first of all - I am an extremely easy learner. To the extent where I sometimes just.. don't do stuff just because I know that would be able to do it if I wanted to, but I don't want to. Does that make sense? For example, I go a C in Math in High School. Math is not my strongest side, I just don't find it interesting at all. I got a C by simply not opening the book, or even completing all the assignments and exams. I'm not even sure I went to all the classes. I know for sure that I could've gotten a B or an A if I just wanted to, but I didn't. I wasn't interested.

I am also very disciplined. If something needs to get done, I'll get it done. And I love the feeling of finishing something early, so I can have a few days off. And the thought of that makes me put a little more pressure on myself. And it works for me.

My next deadline for my online classes are; quiz on February 8th. I have to watch three lectures and finish the other half of a book. I'm watching two of the lectures tomorrow. For my program I have a paper due on March 5th, but since I'll be travelling that weekend it needs to be done by March 2nd. I have to finish a book (half way through it), research an organization and write a 3000 word essay. So it's not like I'm sweating. But I like to stay on top of things. To be honest; I'll probably have most of this done by the end of next week. 'Cause that's how I roll.

(and yes, I am full of myself)

Sinus infection

Still sick unfortunately. Relaxing on the couch, reading course literature while my niece Miranda is watching some sort of kids show.. her school is closed today so she gets to baby sit me :) nice to have a little company!

Weekend seminar.

Since I am doing my Master's mainly online, I sometimes happen to have weekend seminars. Which has meant Thursday through Sunday filled with online seminars that I had to listen to. The most fun one was when I was i Burlington last time. It started at 9.30am. Which meant 3.30am in Burlington. The only good thing was that it was over around 10.00am and I could go back to bed. But that was the deal for two days. It's a good thing I'm very quiet in the mornings, don't even think my boyfriend or roommates even noticed. Except that they had to be quiet when I went back to bed at 10, but people are usually not that loud in the am anyways.

This weekend I have seminars starting today at 1pm, going on until tomorrow afternoon around 5pm. Not too bad, and they are usually pretty interesting. The bring in people with different backgrounds that have different viewpoints on the subject - communication for development. Some of them are researchers that present their research (sometimes in a boring way, sometimes in a more innovative way of course, it's always tricky to present numbers in a way that can keep someone else's attention for a few hours), and some of them are more "hands on" - they are entrepreneurs who've worked in the development, communication, or media field in some way.

If you are interested in communication, development, media or maybe you're just curious to what I am really studying - you can watch the seminars live here; http://wpmu.mah.se/comdev. I look forward to Lisa Ann Richey's talk the most - this is her blog and what she will be talking about; http://brandaidworld.wordpress.com

Fruit Slice

I'm just resting in the recliner, playing Fruit Slice and reading The Paternalism of Partnership. Interesting book about postcolonialism and identity among development aid workers in Tanzania. Books like this one remind me why I'm studying in the first place. I have a big interest in identity theories and development on a macro level as this book presents, and on a micro level as the book about mirror neurons presents ("varför jag känner som du känner" by Joachim Bauer). Yes I'm a geek, and I love it.

Eleven thirty.

I slept in today. Like really.. Until eleven thirty! I woke up, hoping to feel much better now that I was rested, took a shower (because that always makes me feel better), got out, got dressed... And now I feel like Crap with, yes, a capital c. But at least I have my books and my sandwiches (because yes - bread and butter equals a sandwich where I come from, my dear, dear, American friends).

So long. Until then.

Woot!

It's a done deal. 4097 SEK

Stockholm (ARN) till London (LHR) 12-03-04 11:45am - 1:30pm (local times)

London (LHR) till Boston (BOS) 12-03-04 4:05pm - 6:35pm (local times)


Boston (BOS) till London (LHR) 12-05-12 7:10am - 6:25am (local times)

London (LHR) till Stockholm (ARN) 12-05-13 7:40am - 11:05am (local times)



(image from google images)

I have a cold.

Yes. Just like the title says. I have a cold. Again. My throat is itchy/achy in that type of way that is even worse than actually having a sore throat, at least if yo ask me. Pain can be taken away by pain killers, nothing really helps that itchy feeling. And my nose is running like crazy, it only stopped for two days so now I'm back on nasal spray (Nezeril for kids), and Nasonex for my sinus, which hurt again too. I always end up getting addicted to the nasal spray, so I'm using a less strong one, hoping that it will be easier to stop using it then.

Other than that I'm focusing on mirror neurons at the moment. Very interesting! Sometimes school is extra fun! I also have two full day seminars (online) Friday and Saturday, so as long as I feel better by then I'm gonna make sure to get rid of some more work during the breaks. Since I have to focus most of the day I might as well make the most of the weekend study-wise. And I'm not doing much today, so I'll need to get some stuff done. (I am gonna keep reading the book, because it is really, really interesting and I can do that from the recliner, coffee cup in hand - which is about what my aching body can handle at the moment).

Passport! Monday! I really have to! It expires in March and I'm about to order tickets for March 4th.. Hope I can strike a good deal :-)

Over and out!

Okay, okay I know.. how many times have I tried to write on a regular basis, and how many times have a I failed? Oh be quiet, it was a rhetorical question! But when I don’t have a blog, I miss it. So I’m gonna try again. Again.

Quick update since April?
- started my Master’s in Communication for Development, University of Malmö
- visited Burlington September 23rd – December 3rd

- Started doing p90x, not the complete series but a workout here and there
- Bought an iPhone and started using the Nike Training Club app (recently)
- Started a new extra class at University of Skövde (where I got my Social Psychology degree from in 2010)
So right now I’m home in Dalarna, doing my online classes.
I have a sore throat today, and charleyhorse from hell. How can an 15min arm workout kill your abs, thighs, shoulders and butt? I am impressed, Nike!



This is what I look like now. Or should I say, what I looked like all dressed up three days ago. You’re not getting me out of my sweatpants today.