A Slice In Time

At this very moment I am sitting on my bed, covers askew, with a laptop on my lap. There is an old, beat-up nylon string guitar resting it's neck beside me. The bedside table is littered with papers. Amongst this rör, disarray, lie the essential things that I need every day. My bus card, my phone and my keys which are guarded by a red fish skeleton from Bo-Thomas. The trashcan is overflowing, I am a messy person. Iz is singing over the rainbow on the tv in the next room. I'm relaxing in my mjuka byxor, sweatpants. My brain is leaking algebra. It's like drinking from a fire hose. I've started messing with my hair to alieve my consternation so now I have Dragon Ball hair.

There are two weeks left of school, and we are halfway through one of them. On Thursday, Emily is going to ta studenten, graduate from gymnasiet. We're all going to go to Eslöv to see it. I can't stay too long for the after-party because I have Swedish tomorrow at eight o' clock in the morning. I am not a fan of mornings.

Today I only had one class, as per usual. Valentin and Caienna came in the afternoon and I showed them around Ystad and our school. They were duly impressed by the abundance of plant life in the halls. I showed them the ferries that go to Poland and talked about Wallander for a while. We went to Språkvärlden, my favorite place in the school as well. Then we all went to Gabe's house and played Mario Kart.

Afterwards I came home on the bus and watched Scrubs. I had a dinner of reheated köttbullar och potatismos, meatballs and mashed potatoes. I tried to learn some math but my attention was quickly taken by German and Russian. Every day, transparent.com does a "Word-Of-The Day" in several languages, including Arabic, Irish and English for Portugese speakers.

They also have a few blogs. The subject of the German blog was Lena's victory in the Eurovision Song Contest with "Satelite". She sings about the similarities between a satelite and her love of that ambiguous "you" who stars in every love song ever written. I thought it was a good song but Lena has kind of a whiney voice and seems unable to decisively choose which accent to sing in. From the blogpost I learned such words as "entdecken", "erreichen" and "Stimmung". They mean "discover", "achieve" and "mood", respectively.

Which leaves us at the present. I have now moved to the living room table, in the hopes that a chair will instill me with some kind of work ethic. My hair is still Goku-style. And I still cannot divide polynomials.