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warming up much
My last few posts have focused on that grant application I turned in on Wednesday, but some of you might wonder, what else has been happening in my life? Well, we had a house guest last week, which was fun. A geologist I met last year when she spent a few months working at LTU in collaboration with some of my colleagues. I introduced her to some of my gaming friends, and she quickly became part of our circle. It was a delight having her back up here. She arrived a week ago, on Sunday afternoon. That was a busy day for us--we went to an SCA friend's birthday party in the early afternoon, then picked up A. from the airport, went home, and cooked dinner. Then she and I walked to Gammelstad, enjoying a beautiful walk through the forest--it takes about 50 minutes to get there, and that proved to be a wonderful warm-up for our folk dance session.
Monday she and I walked in to uni together, and she enjoyed the beautiful views of my lake-walk as much as I do. The first half of the week the weather stayed good--freezing solidly at night, and still as cold as -10 C each morning, so I continued to walk to and from Uni on the lake. But Thursday and Friday I drove down to Öjebyn to do sample collecting, and the days were warmer. I noticed on the drives that the rivers in this area have some exposed water, so I knew that my days of walking on the lake were limited. This morning when I got up it was already +3 C at 07:00, and when I tried going for a walk I discovered that, sadly, the snow on the forest path is now soft enough that even where the snow machines had packed it firmly it is now squishy and easily broken through. I turned back after only five minutes, and instead got out my trike and went for a ride along the road and paved bike path, instead. I am so not going to head back out onto the lake again till next winter. Sigh. I miss that short-cut already. Why is winter so bloody short?
We had several folk dancing sessions in this past week--rehearsed for next weekend's "Dans Fyrverkeri", which is a series of performances by all of the different dance groups that exist in Luleå (or at least all that wanted to come out and play)--in addition to our folk dance group there will also be Balkan dancing, Salsa, street dancing, and several more. I love these rehearsals, since they are done with live music, so that the musicians can practice, too.
On Friday night we hosted a party for our choir, which was much fun. The first half of the evening we just hung out and visited. One of the girls expressed interest in my costumes, so we played dress up. My brown bliaut looks even better on her than it does on me! But even more fun than that was the latter half of the evening--singing! I love singing in a group of people, and it was a delight to have my living room full of people, all singing together.
Saturday's highlight was furniture re-arranging. I have always loved that activity. This time we moved the loom from the upstairs craft room/library/office to the downstairs movie room, and then we moved my computer station to next to his, so that now we can sit mostly side-by side and within reach of one another while on the computer. This is much nicer!
Today's dance class was much fun, since it was just going over the dances for next Saturday's performances--I love practice more than learning, because the dance to talk ratio tends to be high.
This will be a busy week at work--I got some new data back from the analysis of new samples on Friday, and, since I was collecting new samples that day, haven't yet had a chance to look at it. I am looking forward to doing science again, after a couple of weeks devoted to writing the grant proposal (e.g. talking about doing science, instead of doing it).
Monday she and I walked in to uni together, and she enjoyed the beautiful views of my lake-walk as much as I do. The first half of the week the weather stayed good--freezing solidly at night, and still as cold as -10 C each morning, so I continued to walk to and from Uni on the lake. But Thursday and Friday I drove down to Öjebyn to do sample collecting, and the days were warmer. I noticed on the drives that the rivers in this area have some exposed water, so I knew that my days of walking on the lake were limited. This morning when I got up it was already +3 C at 07:00, and when I tried going for a walk I discovered that, sadly, the snow on the forest path is now soft enough that even where the snow machines had packed it firmly it is now squishy and easily broken through. I turned back after only five minutes, and instead got out my trike and went for a ride along the road and paved bike path, instead. I am so not going to head back out onto the lake again till next winter. Sigh. I miss that short-cut already. Why is winter so bloody short?
We had several folk dancing sessions in this past week--rehearsed for next weekend's "Dans Fyrverkeri", which is a series of performances by all of the different dance groups that exist in Luleå (or at least all that wanted to come out and play)--in addition to our folk dance group there will also be Balkan dancing, Salsa, street dancing, and several more. I love these rehearsals, since they are done with live music, so that the musicians can practice, too.
On Friday night we hosted a party for our choir, which was much fun. The first half of the evening we just hung out and visited. One of the girls expressed interest in my costumes, so we played dress up. My brown bliaut looks even better on her than it does on me! But even more fun than that was the latter half of the evening--singing! I love singing in a group of people, and it was a delight to have my living room full of people, all singing together.
Saturday's highlight was furniture re-arranging. I have always loved that activity. This time we moved the loom from the upstairs craft room/library/office to the downstairs movie room, and then we moved my computer station to next to his, so that now we can sit mostly side-by side and within reach of one another while on the computer. This is much nicer!
Today's dance class was much fun, since it was just going over the dances for next Saturday's performances--I love practice more than learning, because the dance to talk ratio tends to be high.
This will be a busy week at work--I got some new data back from the analysis of new samples on Friday, and, since I was collecting new samples that day, haven't yet had a chance to look at it. I am looking forward to doing science again, after a couple of weeks devoted to writing the grant proposal (e.g. talking about doing science, instead of doing it).