Meh!

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MEH! I am feeling very stressed right now. Need to unwind, decompress! I'm not entirely sure why, although there are some strong clues: This afternoon I met with a guy in the particle physics department who is heading up Lund's pariticipation in the nordic «computing grid», part of the to-be global network of supercomputing resources that is largely driven by needs of CERN's ATLAS experiment. I met with him for three and a half hours... Anyway it was not very productive and I came away thinking that their project is hopelessly misguided. I explained some of my ideas on the subject but he didn't seem to think much of them (he laughed). Oh yeah, in Swedish class I said «sexte» instead of «sjätte» (sixth) which moved the teacher to lecture that not even one of level-1 students, who have been learning swedish for all of two weeks, would make such a mistake. After the break he presented me with a photocopy from the inside cover of the basic swedish grammar book, the one that gives the cardinal and ordinal numbers: ett, två, tre, fyra, fem, sex, sju, ... and första, andra, tredje, fjärde, femte, sjätte. Haha, very funny. I think all of us are getting tired of him, and he's getting tired of us. Anyway. There's no one here to talk to, I had to give `my' stereo back to its rightful heir, and someone stole my freezer shelf and moved all my food to who-knows-where. I think I need to find some friends. Female and cuddly would be especially nice.

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I feel for ya

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While I can't say that I know what the Swedish class part feels like, I'm acutely aware of the lack of friends situation. You've been reading my LJ, so you know that I've been rather deprived in that department. Not including my apartment friends/surrogate roommates, I have maybe 2 friends, though hopefully that changed today.

At least in my case, I think I need to work on getting the friends situation taken care of before I work on the girlfriend situation. I too am desiring the companionship of a cute and cuddly ball of estrogen but I think that will come after I get more friends. I try not to worry about it all but I do sometimes.

The old cliche, "when it rains, it pours" seems appropo here. The crap tends to pile up all at once. But sometimes the good things pile up too (like today for me). Too bad we can't spread things out how we'd like.

So when are you going to be back in the U.S.? You can't come back unless you come up here for a visit. Gotta get you immersed in the redwoods.