Moving?

I don't even want to THINK about my thesis! I ended up restarting with a blank draft and rewriting everything on Monday. I finished up a draft yesterday and have been working on spell checking and such while waiting for my adviser to get back to me. Meanwhile, something more interesting!

Moving? I've NO idea how to put together and manage a real move in Sweden! Where does one rent trucks? Boxes? Where do I get moving boxes from? Calling and writing to companies to cancel things like apartment, energy, cable? I don't know how to do any of this really. It's times like this I realize that I don't actually have the ability or skills necessary to survive in Sweden. If it wasn't for David I don't think I could manage anything. Even with his help I'm constantly confused about what should be happening.

The other thing about our move that confuses me is the complete lack of planning. Well... we're moving sometime after we graduate but before he starts work. That's about a week time span. I feel like I should be packing and slowly moving things now! But there's nothing I can really do since we're so far away from where we're moving. Lots of our stuff will be going into storage for the summer too. I'll have to keep that in mind when packing. But then it hits me, I don't have to plan TOO much because there isn't the constant summer heat to worry about. I don't have to pack with the assumption that if anything is left outside an AC'ed house things will melt or become damaged. I don't have to try and figure out what things need to be deep within boxes of other stuff so that they don't melt while traveling. I gave up one set of worries to acquire another set! I don't think I've even found all the things that I should be worrying about yet.

Life is boring

I wish I actually had something to write about, but I don't. Life is basically an unending round of reading books, writing my thesis, and reading more books to write about.

Spring is here too. It seems like the entire city is covered in flowers right now. It's even snowing little white flowers around our apartment.

David and I have both been looking for jobs. The most recent job I've applied for is a full time English teaching job in Lycksele. It's a village in the middle of nowhere in northern Sweden. Not exactly the most desirable location, but a job is a job. I'll probably not get it because I don't have a teaching degree, but it can't hurt to try! Either David or I need a full time job or we both need part time jobs in order to survive. We figure we need at least 10,000 kr a month after taxes in order to survive. That way David can start paying back his student loans, we can afford to rent an apartment, pay our bills, take care of the car, and buy food and perhaps occasional bits of clothes and the like. Any lower and we'll be looking at significant decreases in our already pretty low standard of living.

Valborgs Craziness!

The last few days have just been crazy! It seems like we've had constant guests overnighting here. Yesterday I made breakfast for 9 people, lunch for 6 people, and dinner for 5 people. I did breakfast again this morning for 4 people. It's been a really wonderful last few days. Although I did get sunburned yesterday while we were sitting at the park and eating lunch. (We had boiled potatoes, sill, and some grapes. Quite nice really.) My poor red nose. We also had a party in the evening we attended, so I didn't get to bed until quite late.

We've been eating so much quick food, that we're thinking about actually making real food tonight. Perhaps some pork tenderloin and mashed potatoes with a nice mushroom sauce. We'll see if I have the energy though! I'm STILL exhausted!