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kareinaToday during my yoga session I learned that while I am strong enough to get my legs off the ground for pendulum pose when they are crossed in a full lotus position, if my cat places only her two front paws on my thigh, that is enough additional weight that I am promptly sitting on the ground again!
I am still writing in chapter 3, with some detours in to parts of chapter 5 that hadn't been done yet, now that I have come to artefacts that were found very near source quarries. I really need to wrap this up and get on to chapter 2 and the discussion and conclusion chapter as soon as possible. But I am enjoying it--engaging with the artefacts, even virtually, is fun, and learning the geography of random corners of the country where they were found is also fun. So is making the figures. It is only the looming sense of overdue deadline I am not so fond of.
I am not doing much else right now. Well, on Monday when Keldor got home from work he suggested I take a break and join him in the forest, there being plenty of chanterelles to pick just now. I went along, but while he walked here, there, and everywhere picking lots of mushrooms, I stayed surprisingly near the car picking blueberries. 1.5 hours of squats later and I had more than 1.5 yogurt buckets worth of berries picked, and he'd filled his huge waist pack with mushrooms. We dried the berries (about 0.5 liters dried) to add to muesli later, and he cooked up the chanterelles straight away in butter, most of which to freeze for future meals, though he's eaten some already (I am not a huge fan, so I save them for those who are).
My Swedish is noticeably better these days. Funny how much it improves when one actually uses it. Nowadays when I write to museums for more information, I just do it automatically in Swedish, without even thinking about it and do most of the editing and grammar fixing myself, before I toss it into google translate to see if I missed any typoes that happen to be some other word.
Heard today that one of my friends in Tasmania has died. She is one who was at least as old as my mother, and didn't look at all young when we met, in 2003, so it isn't so surprising that only 20 years later she's gone, but it is sad. She had a facebook account but literally never posted anything on it, and I don't think she ever saw the chat messages I tried sending to her (she never replied), but she was delighted to see me when I was down there for a conference in 2015 or so, and she often pressed like on my FB posts, so I know she hadn't forgotten me. I hope my adventures brought her some amusement, and that her friends and loved ones are comforted with happy memories of time spent with her.
I am still writing in chapter 3, with some detours in to parts of chapter 5 that hadn't been done yet, now that I have come to artefacts that were found very near source quarries. I really need to wrap this up and get on to chapter 2 and the discussion and conclusion chapter as soon as possible. But I am enjoying it--engaging with the artefacts, even virtually, is fun, and learning the geography of random corners of the country where they were found is also fun. So is making the figures. It is only the looming sense of overdue deadline I am not so fond of.
I am not doing much else right now. Well, on Monday when Keldor got home from work he suggested I take a break and join him in the forest, there being plenty of chanterelles to pick just now. I went along, but while he walked here, there, and everywhere picking lots of mushrooms, I stayed surprisingly near the car picking blueberries. 1.5 hours of squats later and I had more than 1.5 yogurt buckets worth of berries picked, and he'd filled his huge waist pack with mushrooms. We dried the berries (about 0.5 liters dried) to add to muesli later, and he cooked up the chanterelles straight away in butter, most of which to freeze for future meals, though he's eaten some already (I am not a huge fan, so I save them for those who are).
My Swedish is noticeably better these days. Funny how much it improves when one actually uses it. Nowadays when I write to museums for more information, I just do it automatically in Swedish, without even thinking about it and do most of the editing and grammar fixing myself, before I toss it into google translate to see if I missed any typoes that happen to be some other word.
Heard today that one of my friends in Tasmania has died. She is one who was at least as old as my mother, and didn't look at all young when we met, in 2003, so it isn't so surprising that only 20 years later she's gone, but it is sad. She had a facebook account but literally never posted anything on it, and I don't think she ever saw the chat messages I tried sending to her (she never replied), but she was delighted to see me when I was down there for a conference in 2015 or so, and she often pressed like on my FB posts, so I know she hadn't forgotten me. I hope my adventures brought her some amusement, and that her friends and loved ones are comforted with happy memories of time spent with her.
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Date: 2023-08-27 06:09 am (UTC)