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It’s been a while since last time I wrote here. Not actually thinking about anything special at the moment but be sure there will be soon enough. I’m always thinking as you all know but I guess not to the same extent at the moment. I’m quite happy with my life and my surroundings, things can always be better but also a lot worse. People do have a tendency to complain over the most tedious things. I always put everything in perspective and therefore I’m never disappointed (at least not as much as you could be) and still happy when good things happen to me.

Instead of philosophically analysing things I thought I’d do a recap of what’s happening in my life since I last wrote anything.

Went to watch Dilated People in Camden, amazing in so many ways. Will try to get hold of the pictures that Carl took. For those who doesn’t know who they are: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilated_Peoples

Were planning to watch The Roots as well but Ticketweb said there was something fishy with the payment so as we arrived at the gig we found out we had no tickets. Brilliant…at least send me an email saying there are problems. Bastards. Any who…spent the night at a pub instead…not really the same thing however. But still satisfactory.

Christmas came and I went back home to Piteå in Sweden to spend it with my family. Nice, cold and snowy as I arrived at the airport in Lulea. Not really what we had in London as I left, plus ten and possibly a bit of rain. Two days later the everything was green, surely we wouldn’t get a green Christmas? The day before it started snowing again, happy days.
Had a big feast of vegan goodness for Christmas dinner. Everything a vegan could desire for a good Christmas. Santa came later, actually got some presents. Got money, a jumper, manga, some books and other miscellaneous items. More than happy with my gifts.

Went out Christmas day to “Statt”, quite expensive and most people were older than me. Had a laugh with my friends, the occasional dancing before I went home to eat the some of the leftovers from the day before. The clubbing in Piteå is beyond this world, and not in a good way. Nice to see people you like and all but music and atmosphere leaves more to be desired. The music is worthless beyond recognition, makes me think that I should get on the whole DJ thing to teach everyone back home what music is all about. But laziness took overhand.

Played a handball game with a team of old players and people returning home for Christmas against the local team. We lost with 4 goals or something but that didn’t really matter, had a laugh at least.

For new years we got together at Tomas house for dinner and after that people were consuming alcoholic substances, some more than other and some handling it better than others. Were quite a lot of people of various sorts but that’s a good thing. The only downside was that is was kind of a sausage fest, not that I’m currently looking for anything but the girl to boy ratio should be better that 1 to 10. Just creates a different atmosphere that I find more appealing than just hanging around guys. Went outside at twelve and watched the fireworks. Soon after that Me, Robert and Mattias felt that we’d had enough so we left for some Stepmania and some Frets on Fire (Like guitar hero but you play it on your Keyboard).
Got home around 05:00 and just like that it was a new year. 2007, what will it hold in store for me? I’m glad I don’t know. That would just ruin the surprise.

Went back home to London a couple of days later, spent almost a whole day at the airport and got around 6 hours of sleep in 2 days. Slept for 15 hours when I went to bed Friday night. Wonderful.

Nice to be back in the big city as well. Going back home makes you realize the downsides of Piteå and how ignorant some people are to the world outside. I’m saying anything bad about my friends or my family, love them all to bits. It’s the town itself and the mentality among people that tiers me. There would be absolutely nothing to do if I didn’t have my family and my friends there, a lot better in the summer but still.

Pictures from Christams and new Years can be seen at http://www.rewind.pixbox.se

So what else is going on in my life right now then?

Got a shit load of Uni work to do and I’m slowly getting there. Last run before I get new modules in February so I’d better keep it up. Got a big ass dissertation coming up soon, 8000 words about open source software within the media industry. Lovely.
Got my friends around me and they’re always a laugh so that’s all good.
The girl I’ve written about is however in Germany at the moment and I don’t know when or if she’s coming back. Just guess I have to wait and see what happens with that, I‘m willing to wait thou.

Girls work in mysterious ways as they say. (that is a topic as good as any for a future blog entry, quite a lot I could write about that…hmm)

Keep it foolish and take it sleazy my friends…