Late night sleepy post

[sqbr]

But not an angsty one. It will be rather dull for nico_wolfwood, who just heard all this from me on the phone.

I would just like to comment that "Holidays from places that don't exist" is cool. I've only seen tonights, about Transdniestria, which is on the edge of Moldova (which I hadn't heard of either, I suck) near the Ukraine and is like this wierd throwback to communism while the rest of Moldova is all western (both are ex-USSR, with the lotsa poor peasants/a few rich 'businessmen' split that implies) The presenter went fishing with the Moldovan president then got arrested in Transdniestria for trying to film a secret russian army base, it was cool :)

Am..very tense about second interview on Tuesday (paid, as some people were unsure on this) I have to be all professional and self-PR-y which is not in my nature. Hanging out in unisfa and the maths department makes me forget that compared to normal people I'm really rather socially awkward :)

Currently reading "The Galactic Whirlpool", a David Gerrold Star Trek book I got for $2. Its odd reading original Star Trek, given I was a huge fan back in early 94(*) and haven't had much contact with it since then at all.

I know Sweden is large, but part of me feels I should introduce skaggig_man and furikoneko, so she could show him the sights and he could persuade her to come to sunny Oz for her postgrad.

(*)And then I discovered real science fiction, and have never looked back

Comments

[furikoneko.livejournal.com]

Show him the sights? I don't live anywhere near Rönneby, I've never even BEEN to Blekinge! :P It's always fun to read about Sweden from an outsider's perspective though. Hi skagging_man!

[furikoneko.livejournal.com]

Err... skäggig. Not skagging. /cough

[skaggig-man.livejournal.com]

I must get round to seeing some of Sweden so that I can write about it then. I'd never been to Blekinge until two weeks ago, so I can't criticise others.

Hi right back at you.

[lizbyrd.livejournal.com]

I must say I'm dying to know why you were talking about Celery on the phone, but I also felt I would share that I just somehow mentally condensed the phrase "herbaceous biennial plant" to "heinous plant".

... I even quite like celery!

[furikoneko.livejournal.com]

Yes, you must!

I'll add you.

evil celery...

[nico-wolfwood.livejournal.com]

came home to find my parent had eaten half a head of celery in a single sitting and was mildly worried that she'd managed to poision herself. SqBr is the only person I know who eats celery on a regular basis so I rang her to find out which bits aren't supposed to be eaten.

Re: evil celery...

[alias_sqbr]

THERE ARE NO CAPITALS IN sqbr!!!!

*cough*

So is your mum still not dead? (If the answer is no..um..my apologies)

[alias_sqbr]

I should warn you I met furiko online, so for all I know she's a crazy middle aged man who likes to pretend to be a swedish girl, though if she is she hides it well :)

Re: evil celery...

[nico-wolfwood.livejournal.com]

well, now that I've been earblasted for that innocent mistake by the person who still has 'Phlebus' listed on her 'Personal Obligation Links' page... :P

But yes, my mother is still alive.

[skaggig-man.livejournal.com]

I am much obliged. This journal has no friends (and hence no locked posts), because I wanted my non-LJ friends to be able to read it. If you're interested in my non-Sweden LJ (which is mostly locked) then I'll friend you with it.

[skaggig-man.livejournal.com]

If only I was a Swedish girl pretending to be an Australian man, it would balance out.

Re: evil celery...

[alias_sqbr]

Fixed! You know I forget that page even existed? Now the html (and your name) is ok I should have a look at the content...

[furikoneko.livejournal.com]

Damn, forgot about this ^^

It's up to you really. You can read my friends-locked stuff as skaggig_man but I hadn't expected you to return the (rather dubious) favour ;)

Also, whatever sqbr says, I AM a swedish girl... at least as far as I'm aware. *cough*