A Bit Frustrated!

I can't help but feeling a little frustrated about my current situation.

I have one exam left from last semester, which I was supposed to take now, before this semester starts. (That is normal procedure, there are always exams avaliable in August and January for students who have missed them)
Unfortunately this seems impossible at the moment! I have emailed about 4 persons about this - I don't even know when and where the exam is (!!), or even if the exam will happen! Everybody that has gotten back to me advises me to email the teacher in charge, but he doesn't reply to emails! *sigh*
My guess is he's still on 'summer vacation', understandably of course (if I was teaching, I wouldn't get back to Uni a day before I had to) - but that still leaves me hanging!! I'm studying like crazy, but it's really hard to stay focused and disciplined when I don't even know when or if I have to take the exam ... *sigh again*

Enough complaining, sorry about that!

Otherwise, I don't have much to report - most of my thoughts and feelings surround the exam! i really wish I could do something else, meet friends, go shopping or something, but as soon as I'm more than 10 meters from my books, I get really guilty about not studying ...

Trying to catch up with my blogs - you will find more information in the previous post - and I've added a little note to the right about the newly updated blogs!
Enjoy!

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My Life At The Moment!
Currently reading: Europa Blues, Arne Dahl
Currently watching: Stargate SG-1, Season 6 (?)
Currently listening to: Les Misérables Hebrew Live Recording
My Plans for tomorrow: Studies, studies ... oh, did I mention studies?

Blog-O-Mania!

I am quite possibly quite stupid - but I guess regular readers of this blog have already figured that out, right?!

I just realiazed I had to go through all my blogs, which ones do I have, which ones do I want, which ones work out ... and so on. Not the best timing, since I'm currently in massive study-mode for an exam ... but anyway ...

I managed to detect quite a few things actually ... I deleted some old blogs that didn't work, I've created a bunch of new ones, I think the URL to at least one of them (possible more?) have changed.
This blog is the one mostly visited, so I thought I'd make a post here, detailing which blogs I'm currently having, their URL:s and a short description of them.
If you have been reading my blogs before, and are interested, please note that this post is the correct one, here you will find all my blogs with correct URL:s, so if you'd like to have them bookmarked, do so using what you will find in this post.
Thanks - and here we go! :)

• Att leva med social fobi - a blog in Swedish, about living with Social Phobia, expreriences, thoughts and comments on anything regarding this condition, including things like anxiety, panic attacks and depressions.
• Ytterligare Ett Försök - another Swedish Blog, this a quite embarressing one. I have for a long time fighting to loose weight, but not accomplished anything permanent. This time I thought the pressure of sharing my progress in a public blog might help me get motivated. You will find my personal progress here, but also other things relating to weight, how one sees oneself societies views on weight etc.
• Great Lyrics! - a blog where I publish beautiful poems, wonderful lyrics or great quotes! Both English and Swedish!
  
• The name is BOND, JAMES BOND! - a blog (English) about the world's most well-known agent, 007, James Bond! Personal thoughts on the movies, the books, the characters, the actors etc.
  
• Les Misérables: Beyond the Barricade! - my [English] Les Miz blog, where I give my opinions on the musical, songs, performers and more! Please note: NEW URL!
• ~ Jessica: TV & Film ~ - a Swedish blog where I hope to write about TV-shows, movies, actors, but also books and authors that I come across. Reviews and recommendations!
  

I hope you will enjoy all these blogs, and I hope I will find the time to keep them fairly regularly updated! *lol*

Thoughts on the Future!

Well, I thought I'd make a post with general thoughts on what lies ahead, before getting back to posting on a [hopefully] daily basis!

Right now I'm a bit frustrated actually! I have one exam left from last semester, which I'm hoping to take now, before this semester starts. But that seems to be impossible. I've been trying to email people like crazy, in order to find out when and where it is, and also register for the exam. Everybody I talk to tells me to email the teacher who had the course last semester, and trust me, I have!! The only problem is, he doesn't reply!!
I try to study anyway - although it's hard to get back into it, and be really disciplined, but I can't help feeling that it would be somewhat easier if I knew when the exam will actually happen.

When the semester starts, I'm in for two somewhat strange courses (they are called 'läskurser'). You meet with a tutor and decide on a subject you want to learn more about. Then you get 4-5 weeks to learn as much as possible about that subject and than you have an oral exam (as well as handing in a paper, I think). I have never taken a course like that, so I'm a bit nervous about it ... also becuase I don't quite know what I want to focus on ... and I have a feeling it's mostly up to me to decide on that ...
I try not to think about it too much now, I have my hands full on coping with this exam at the moment!

I know that last semester was very tough on me, I felt awful and it felt like I was caught in a terrible whirlwind and I couldn't get out of it, no matter how hard I tried. I have spent numerous hours thinking about last semster, and I think I have figured out what it was that went wrong, and why, so I'm really hoping that it will not be the same this semester ....

Well, I hope to be able to write frequently here, even when I have my hands full with this and that. And I will celebrate one year-anniversary with this blog on 20 September, and we can't miss that, right?! ;)

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My Life At The Moment!
Currently reading: Europa Blues
Currently watching: The X-Files, Season 3
Currently listening to: Madicken, Astrid Lindgren
My Plans for tomorrow: STUDIES!

Various Pictures! :)

I thought I'd make a combined "picture-post" here now.

First out, some adorable pictures of my Zorro, enjoying the few sunny days we had!




Moving on to more of my amateur nature-photograhpy! :) They might not be masterpieces (the understatement of the year??) but at least I'm persistant and keeps trying, right?! :)




Also, I have for a very long time been absolutely fascinated by clouds and various formations in the sky. So below are my attempts at catching some funny, beautiful, strange or amazing clouds! Enjoy!




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My Life At The Moment!
Currently reading: Europa Blues, Arne Dahl
Currently watching: The Simpsons
Currently listening to: Friends Theme
My Plans for tomorrow: Massive studying!!

As Cute As Can Be!

Since I have spent the better part of the summer with my two young sisters, I thought I'd take some time to make a post about them - and post cute pictures! *lol*

M is the oldest, she turned three in the middle of summer, and she's just wonderful. Her vocabulary is amazing and she talks really well. There are few letters and letter-combinations she's not pronouncing correctly, but other than that, she can keep up a conversation as well as anybody!
I think I have a special relationship to M, I was there more or less when she was born (well, I wasn't at the hospital, but I held her for the first time when she was 27 hours old!!), and for most part of her first month, and I think that has created a bond between us. Even when she was very little and I'd been away for months, it didn't take more than an hour or so before she'd let me hold her, change her etc. It has also happened on several occasions that she has dreamed about me while I've been dreaming about her - when we've been 500 kilometers apart.
I love spending time with her, but sometimes I have a hard time keeping up with her intensity. I'm used to living alone and doing what I want, so it's sometimes a bit difficult to always put her first and keep on playing for hours and hours ....
Some cute pictures from this summer:




I is six months, it's exactly - almost to the hour - 2½ years between the girls. Unfortunately, I have not been able to create much of a relationship with I, she was born right after I went home after Christmas Holidays. I visited for a weekend, when she was about 1 week old, then came to her Christening (when she was 4 monhts) and now this summer. It's evident that she doesn't know me and trust me the way M did when she was the same age, so I guess intense contact with children very, very young really does create a deep bond. Toward the end of the summer, I warmed up to me, and we got some lovely moments together too. Unfortunately it will be several months before I can visit again - maybe not until Christmas - so I fear she will have forgotten a lot about me then ....
Here are some photos of I too!




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My Life At The Moment!
Currently reading: Europa Blues, Arne Dahl
Currently watching: 2½ Men
Currently listening to: ---
My Plans for tomorrow: Studies, clearing away, dealing with practical matters re. Uni.

Summer Summary!

Well, I thought I'd start up with a summary of the summer of 2007 - now that fall is coming.

Generally speaking, it has been a somewhat tough summer, for many reasons. The weather has been more than bad, I don't think I have ever experienced that much rain in one summer before. I guess it feels totally bad for me, since I've more or less been stuck in a summerhouse most of the time, with lots of projects (that don't work out if it rains!!) to do, and no computer and a TV which has been about to break down. It's very frustrating when the weather puts a stop to projects like that, and everything gets so much more complicated than it has to be.
Even when we've been able to get on with out projects, lots of things have been difficult and not turned out great, and of course, that makes the mood drop as well.

I can't say that I've done much during summer either - these 'projects' have taken up most of the time. Regular projects such as clearing the land we own, has of course been made difficult because of the rain (not easy to go over almost 7000 square-meters with a lawn-mower when it rains ...), but we've also had other projects, such as painting the house and building a new roof to the porch, and that's not easily done when it rains either.

The only things that has happened beyond these things has been a trip to the West Coast with my Mum. We decided to visit Fjällbacka, since a Swedish author we both like - Camilla Läckberg - comes from there and the setting of all her books are Fjällbacka. It was really wonderful to visit, and I like the atmosphere of the Swedish West Coast a lot!



The only other outing was to a zoo called Nordens Ark with my Dad and his family, that was also really nice, for once we had a sunny day, and my older sister M (three years old) had a blast of course, checking out all the animals.

I really enjoy being in the summerhouse, and naturally it's sad to know the summer is gone, but I still feel that it's here I belong, this is where my real life is, and I actually like fall a lot. Unlike a lot of other people, I enjoy fall, but tend to get depressed during spring, so I'm not that upset that the summer is over this year ... :)

I will be back with more posts and more photos!
Take care!
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My Life At The Moment!
Currently reading: Upp Till Toppen Av Berget, Arne Dahl
Currently watching: The X-Files Season 3
Currently listening to: ---
My Plans for tomorrow: Probably studying for an exam.

Back For Good!

Hey everyone!!

Yes, I'm finally back for good now, after a summer that has had it's ups and downs (hardly surprising, I guess! *lol*)!!
It's been some very emotional last few days, and very little sleep for the last 48 hours or so, so I'm not really that alert right now! :) I'm currently trying to upload a few pictures to my computer, and resizing them, so hopefully I can come back later tonight or tomorrow, with more posts .... about the summer, about my two sisters, about the fall which for me is officially starting tomorrow - and with lots and lots of pictures of course! ;)

Anyway, I miss the summerhouse and my families, but it's still really good to be back home "where I belong"!!

Seeya soon I hope! :)

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My Life At The Moment!
Currently reading: Upp Till Toppet Av Berget, by Arne Dahl
Currently watching: The X-Files Season 3
Currently listening to: Rock Away Your Teardrops, Smokie
My Plans for tomorrow: Deal with lots and lots of practical issues!!!

Last Post - Possibly?!

This might be my last post for a while, my family arrives tonight and while they probably stay tomorrow, I don't know if I get a change to write anything.
If I don't get a chance later on, I'd like to wish you all a Happy Summer (again) and I hope you are enjoying yourselves!

I haven't been up to much except for preparing for the arrival of my family. I hope we can do something funny tomorrow as well, an outing or something like that.

Sorry about the shortness of the entry, but I feel rather stressed as I need to fix a lot of things until they arrive.

TAKE CARE!!

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My Life At The Moment!
Currently reading: Ont Blod, by Arne Dahl
Currently watching: The X-Files Season 2
Currently listening to: ---
My Plans for tomorrow: Spending time with my family!