:: Thursday, December 02, 2004 ::

Turn your head, now baby just spit me out

Happy December everyone! Today (or more accurately, yesterday) was quite the milestone for me. First, it marks two weeks until I come home for Christmas (or at least spend Christmas in the Frankfurt airport). It also marked the completion of my paper for my Comparative Social Policy class, entitled To Form a More Perfect Union: Recommendations for Improving Gender Equality in Sweden, after an all-day, all-night flurry of last-minute activity. Yes, a paper that I've known about for 4 weeks that I didn't start until the day before it was due. It's amazing that my time-management issues have allowed me to go as far as I have in life - of course, some might say that I haven't gone very far at all, but that's a whole 'nother can of worms* entirely.

Of interest, however (especially for anyone with knowledge of Swedish social policy), is the fact that I could even write a paper on gender equality improvements in what may be the most gender-equal country in the world. In fact, there were so many resources on it that I had no time to go into during my one whole day of research, that I'm once again thinking of changing my Master's thesis topic to explore this in greater detail. Who would have thought I'd be interested in gender equality? It's amazing the doors opened to you studying in a completely different field in a foreign country.

So yesterday was a day of rest and recovery from my paper-writing exertions. And even better (or perhaps worse), Swedish class this morning was canceled - which was good because I didn't have time to do my homework, or bad because my Swedish is still not to the level where I would like it to be.

But it's a busy two weeks coming up: we have our final Comparative Social Policy seminar on Friday, where we will discuss our papers (which I am reading today), before the new class The EU After Enlargement starts next week. I also have a paper due for my Nordic history class before I leave, a Swedish test (or two) somewhere in that time, not to mention no less than three Christmas parties: one for the Master's program, one for international students, and one for my history class. So even way over here Christmas is looking to be a busy time!

Enjoy the season, and I hope to see everyone if/when I make it home!

Swedish word of the day: idiot, which is what I am for waiting so long to start my damn paper!

* Who controls the worms, controls the spice; who controls the spice, controls the universe. Send me pepper and cilantro NOW!

:: posted by Rob 3:18 PM [+] ::

2 Comments:

I think I *have* worms. Does that count? -- O.o

By  Anonymous, at 6:58 PM  

You and your DUNE references. You are such a
nerd! Wait a sec...the fact that I get the
reference makes me one too!

Arthur

By  Anonymous, at 9:21 PM  

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