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Decided to travel home for Christmas, will arrive right before the eve and stay for a couple of weeks.

Kind of despairing getting any Christmas presents done to even a few people because I have no time left over for crochet, really. :/

Also, almost done with the good omens exchange fic, only one+ weeks late (have until end of this week... anyone willing to speed-beta it? :') As usual, sex scenes are the worst.

What else... fandom things:
- Saw The Day of the Doctor with some friends and a theater full of Swedish Whovians. Some things made me huff and roll my eyes, but overall it was fairly ok, the bits that didn't feel like a generic action movie anyway. Was ready to dislike Hurt!Doctor and then he was the best, gdi *shakes fist* (also, tintin hair). Also maybe it was seeing it with so many other people who seemed to enjoy even the bitsI didn't but... I kind of reached this acceptance that this might not be my preferred sort of Doctor Who but it is the one we're getting in this time. And maybe someday it'll change again if it keeps going, which, why not?

- About a week later, saw Sylvester McCoy. In Real Life. Should make a longer post about that someday but I'm still not really recovered. Also still not able to believe he is actually a real person. Bwaah.

- Watched Image of the Fendahl. Great dramatic tension and Leela continues to be perfect enough to make me grudgingly accept Four's... Fourness. Wanda Ventham (lady who plays the scientist who gets taken over by the Fendahl, and is also Benedict Cumberbatch's mom) is cute and seems like a sweetie on the making of documentary (like when she mentions being surprised how pretty her fellow male actors were x3). Meanwhile Adam Colby is the sassiest bby and the homoerotic tension between him and Max Stael is a thing of beauty as well. It's not even UST, more like "used to sleep with this guy and he is tttly evil but ohmg so hot"-tension. x3

- Also made people watch Star Trek: The Motion Picture with me. Impossibly, it was more tedious and the costume design more drab than I recalled. Still, we managed to have some fun with at least parts of it. I think.

( boring uni stuff )

Which was not much as I was still feeling a bit meh but...

- slept late.
- talked with my mom, complained about uni stress which for once made me feel a bit better.

- watched two documentaries, one about the Voynich manuscript that was only mildly sensational. One lady was convinced it was done by Leonardo da Vinci as a child based on... nothing, as far as I could tell. *eyeroll* But at least they admitted it didn't work in real life. Also Edward Kelley was in it! :D Even though they found he likely didn't make it either. The second documentary was about Icelandic sagas but I kind of zoned out on it. Needed more feminist critique, imho.
- Also watched the first part of The Vikings since it was on tv. It's very... movie-y visually? Seemed ok if not great, next time I might actually try to NOT do crochet while I watch...

- Talking about which, finished the matching beret for the scarf, did a bunch of leaves to add to the roses and attached them. And then I tried making a pouch for my cellphone, though it came out a bit too large. Still, I was half testing a garn and model anyway so no big loss.
- And then I cleaned my room slightly since a carpenter might visit sometime this week to look at the wall and/or attach some shelves so I needed to reduce clutter on the table and generally make things less embarrassing.

And now I might try sleeping... maybe. >_>

Sort of tempted to sign up for a fic exchange of some kind, either the Good Omens Holiday Exchange or Yuletide but... not sure it's a good idea with all the uni work and my lingering writer's block. Does it even count as that if it's lasted for over a year? Also not sure how Yuletide works/if there are any fandoms there I could write. >_>

Last day of the first course of Ethnology II was today, just need to edit three papers before friday morning. When we also have the intro for the next bit which will be empirical practice if I'm not mistaken. Hoping for archives rather than having to look for people to interview. Also apparently the target will be an area in the city that was previously a slaughterhouse district...? Which does not sound super interesting but we'll see.

The funny thing about studying in this field (ethnology and sociology and probably to some extent a lot of humanist fields) is that (if so inclined) you can use it to get a glimpse at the structures that aim to make you miserable. Even if I sometimes feel a bit ridiculous using course literature to dissect my own feelings. But I reckon one uses the tools one has, and sometimes it's nice to get a bit of distance to things.

Still sick, but at least I got some painkillers today so I'll be able to sleep when I want to. Last night I rolled about until 3am before I found one last ibuprofen. And then had to wake up at seven, but better some sleep than none. :P

Visited Mathilda for most of the week, and there was much film watching on the theme of comedies and/or musicals. In order: ( Little Shop of Horrors, Barbarella, Släpp fångarne loss, det är vår!, My Fair Lady and Blades of Glory. )
Oh, and I bought The Invasion of Time (mostly so I can be pretty screencaps of Andred, no regrets) and started reading and borrowed Harvest of Time. UNIT BBIES.

Got back to my own lodgings yesterday, and nothing terrible had happened while I was away. Yesterday I went out to buy food, and today, I've washed laundry and done long-overdue banking and other money arrangements I've been too stressed to tackle for months. Vital things still to do: Pay for a Swedish ID card to start the process of getting one, put last year's uni books on sale (and look for new ones), call about a possible job and try not to die(oAo), get proof of studies and send to KELA in Finland and pay for new student card, I think. For starters. But most of these are not things that can be done on a sunday anyway, even if I felt like it.

I *should* probably neaten up the room but I feel like I'll just end up putting things in neater piles as there's nowhere proper to put them and it's not very motivating. Land people have been meaning to put in bookshelves since before I moved, but the bookshelf they got was too big and there's been talk of putting some up on the walls but it hasn't happened. I don't blame them for that but... it would be nice to have actual place for books, and other things too. Maybe I should visit Ikea and try to find boxes and things to store stuff better in what spaces I've got in my room, as the current furniture pretty much fills it up. At most I could maybe fit a tiny shelf under or beside the window and against the wardrobe. Also, could talk about this plan to land people to see if they'd be willing to pay for those things.

Unrelatedly, I looked at the clothes I chose for staying-in-day, and realized I'm basically wearing eighties scifi-casual.
( Right? )

Today it was warm and sunny, so myself and my sister E. went to swim in the nearest lake, where we invented water yoga poses (the best one was probably the couch potato, in which one folds their hands behind their head and folds their knees) and practiced a graceful handstand + forward roll in water which I was better at and doing whale imitations which my sister found easier. And then we stood still and tried to get fish to nip at our feet which was pretty easy actually. Though my sister found it kind of creepy, I just felt they tickled a bit, and the cuteness overrode that. Bby fish <3

She's 19 and I'm 26. No regrets.

I mean, I still have bit over a week and only need a skirt. Anyway, going to cosplay human!Bessie at Ropecon (26th-28th)! So basically Edwardian lady with a yellow skirt, presuming I can find suitable yellow fabric... and if I feel it I guess I could try to crotchet a tiny Three.

Today went shopping, tried to find gifts to sisters but didn't find anything fun. Just got some folders and I'll let them pick a squiddie or something. At least K. was complaining she needed more folders and E. will be starting studies in autumn too...

Besides that, found some things on sale at the cheap store (like dollar store but not with dollars? idek). Lemon yellow and warm mint green nail polish and some mint green hair accessories. I like mint green. Also the headband has cherries and strawberries and white lacey patterns on!

( talking about nailpolish, I finally got a really nice blue )

Yesterday I took the train to the community center, which is pretty small potatoes but after being cooped up at home for more than a week it felt very refreshing. Ended an insurance that no longer applied since I moved to Sweden, my sister fixed a bank problem and then we just looked around at the library and shops.

I bought some drawing paper and a tiny bottle nail polish and she found a Doctor Who novel of all things, in the discount bin (for only 5euros). The Clockwise Man by Justin Richards, which is about Nine and Rose in 1920s England. It's a bit weird to read in Finnish, especially when the Doctor uses Finnish slang words. Which made me wonder what sort of "northern" accent he'd have in Finnish anyway. :'D

Also, finally made a selling post for the squiddies and then right after I heard that paypal accounts can get frozen if you try to access them from another country. I don't have a lot of money there atm but I'd rather not lose it, and besides if there's any sales I might need it... I guess I'll worry about that if there's any interest. Also there was another potential problem getting the money from paypal to my normal account, but my brother promised to test it with his.

Meanwhile, while I'm here I have some manga I'd like to sell as well but... that I think I'd rather do in Finland. Not sure where to start though. Somewhere online would probably be most profitable. I'll have to look into it.

Incidentally, yarns I want to buy while I'm here:
One of these "brook"-yarns, saw some of the colours at a dollar store and though I was a bit iffy on the colour combinations they had a lovely smooth feel to them.

Also, while I was looking for them online, came across this "milkshake" series and especially the multicoloured ones seem super adorable. And they're bamboo mix! ¤A¤ (mind, need to get my hands on them to see how they feel irl)

What do you mean I don't need new yarns??? ;=A=;

IOW I survived, despite getting feverish for no apparent reason the day before I had to travel (great timing there). Was most miserable just a bit before I had to go too... but luckily the medication kicked in in time. On the way, I shared a tiny (and ludicrously expensive but can't travel without) cabin with an older woman who had planned to travel alone and started out a bit flustered (though not meanly so) but was later very friendly. She also suggested I should offer to work as an extra at a daycare she also works at in autumn so... possible job? That'd be cool, though we'll see. And then I saw Mariehamn (capital of Åland Islands) which I've passed in the night several times, but usually it was dark and I was in bed. This time it was sunset so I got some pretty pictures.

And then I got home, saw some of family and later slept from 8pm to two in the afternoon... in my defence I had three nights of little sleep and being sick behind me. Still feel tired and headachey but not feverish. While I was gone, my sisters have graduated upper secondary, and got a study place as a confectioner and ...something with tooth prosthetics respectively. Same sister has also grown various plants from (store bought) fruits and vegetables, currently having them from oranges, pepper, avocado, melon and over a metre high cherry tomatoes that already have several raw fruit on them. I don't know how she does it really. Oh, and my brother has bought two guitars and is learning to play but haven't heard that yet, although he was here briefly yesterday.

Finnish tv is still showing Doctor Who, starting with season 7 today... not super enthused but I guess I might as well watch it, especially as my sister will anyway. Might skip Angels in Manhattan though because of reasons... oh, and last night before I went to pass out The Saint (Interlude in Venice from 1966) was on tv and suddenly Patrick Troughton appeared, playing an Italian inspector. :D

Which will be mushroom pie again, hopefully it'll
be as good as the last one. Mmm pies. Especially savoury ones. =3= Oh right, better not forget the bacon this time.

Yesterday: Was spent in a fog of misery. Basically, internet didn't work (again) until the afternoon, was feeling generally sucky, went to the forest but ended up too warm and afraid of ticks (at least walking in the long grass) to really enjoy it (although I did get some nice photos), got a terrible craving for bagels and walked to town then realized they're not sold here. :I I tell you when I go back to Finland I will buy a bag of vanilla bagels and eat the heck out of them... Oh and then I found out the trip home will be almost double as expensive as I expected. Urgh. I feel bad for my parents having to pay my... everything.

Today so far I've woken up amazingly early at nine, applied for a few jobs in Finland, talked with mum who said she'll send more money just in case (*sigh*), sent an overdue message regarding a couple of squiddies I'm selling, looked for wild strawberries on the hill above the plot (none, though I saw a lot of blueberry plants, maybe I'll even be back in time to pick those...) and washed laundry and set it up to dry.

So, still failing at life but it doesn't get to me as badly today?
Still haven't dared to look at a... thing I painted the night before last though... =A=

I visited Sweden to attend a Hetalia meet on the Swedish national day. While I'd traveled here on my own once before that, then I'd done so to visit relatives, rather than on a trip of my own initiative to meet people I'd only spoken to online (if that).

I was surprised when I checked the date on old entries and found it really was *only* four years ago, because it feels like so many of the big things that have happened in my life hinged on that trip... I met two of my current best friends, gained confidence re. traveling and fell in love with Stockholm which inspired me to go on an exchange year which made me realize university, rather than being beyond my academic capabilities, was actually if anything more suited to me than the practical studies I was doing...

So, if I hadn't gone on that trip, my life would probably be very different now. I can't even say how much so? Which is strange to think about.

In less existential news, have finished writing my last home exam for Ethnology I, and going to return it tomorrow. And also attend a job interview, though right now the job doesn't seem very good (even if they do offer it). All I know is that it involves selling some kind of rather expensive event and restaurant guide book to tourists and other people, and that the wage is "variable". All sounds rather ominous. But we'll see.