:: Sunday, September 19, 2004 ::

Slippery goodness

After searching long and hard, I have finally gotten a pair of slippers! I never would have thought something so simple could be so difficult. At home, I always wore slippers (or went barefoot, when warm). The first thing I would do when I got home was kick off my shoes and put on my slippers. It always just seemed the most comfortable thing to do.

Yet for some reason, when moving to Sweden, I apparently decided that I could suddenly break a lifetime of habit and I threw away my (admittedly old) slippers, leaving me here in Sweden with no slippers. Which meant I've had to sit around in my room, relaxing, wearing my hiking boots, or deal with freezing feet. And what with cutting through the wilderness on the way to school, it's also meant tracking the wilderness indoors with me as well.

But apparently slippers are hard to find in Sweden - it took some searching, but today I was able to finally get ahold of a pair. (I actually could have gotten them yesterday, but yesterday I didn't know what my European shoe size was.) So now I have slippers, so I can walk down to the kitchen for a drink without having to put my shoes on, which is quite nice.

Still trying to get over my pneumonia - I've got 3 days left on the antibiotics, but I still have this annoying lingering cough. Hopefully that will be gone in a couple of days.

My first class, The Role of Intellectuals, is now over. I turned in my paper last week and we discussed them in seminars on Friday. Mine went over well. We won't actually get our grades until probably Tuesday, but I'm not really worried.

Our next class, Why Revolt?, starts Monday. I'm excited about this one (I'm all about the revolution, you know), but this is supposedly the hardest class in the program. Already our compendium of readings for the course is like a phone book (and that's just a collection of some articles; that doesnt include actual books we have to read as well). Well, I'll just have to do the best I can. And hopefully I'll have some time on the weekends to do some fun stuff!

Swedish word of the day: toffel, which means "slipper"

:: posted by Rob 1:12 AM [+] ::

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