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I'm feeling a bit stressed out, a couple of projects have to be finished by tomorrow and we only work half a day because of the holiday...*sigh* ah well
Not much you can do about it, there are only afterall 24 hours per day.

Who invented such a stupid thing as pollenallergy? :)

And here I sit at work, bored out of my mind. Amusingly enough last week I was complaining about how stressed out I was. :)
Most of the spring projects are finished, and all that's left is reports... and of course maintence and development of the videoconference studios.

Perhaps I'm not so bored after all.

I just found an interesting website in these connected times.
http://nosoproject.com/

the disadvantage of posting through jabber is one occasionally posts half of it :)
Ah well I'll survive.
And I survived christmas and spending almost two weeks at my parents place, it worked surprisingly well. Probably because I went on quite a few walks on the rainy west coast.
Will post more later if I remember...

It has been a while, but quite frankly the only reason I still post and read is because of a select few (lilyamelie and my favorite poet :) are two of them)

And to celebrate my 30th birthday I went on a cruise to Helsinki with some friends. It was a bit cold, but the trip was quite nice. Only one problem, I get seasick...

And there was 15-20 m/s winds = a storm, not that nice. We spend most of the trip back in the cabin trying not to be sick... besides that it was fun :)

Just got back from a gettogether with my family and my sisters boyfriend (it's my birthday next week), strange how difficult it is to go to sleep at a new place when there is no sound. It's one thing in a hotel in a city, but in a hotel out on the country side it is almost impossible to go to sleep....

Work is no fun right now... Or to be correct it hasn't been for quite some time. And now with the budget cuts and loosing my closest colleague which will mean a hell of a lot of work for me (the selfishness rears its head)..
I actually took the rest of the week of because I simply don't feel like working, I'm definitely in the market for a new job... A shame there aren't more in my field of expertise, don't feel like moving either... Lazy, lazy :)

Finally back from a weekend at my sisters place. It has been some time since we (my sister, mother and I) spent a weekend together like this... It have been real fun, we saw a theatrical musical where the stage was in the restaurant so we kind of ate on stage. It was an interesting experience.
So today we all went our separate ways, I drove my beloved car of course. But when I came home I suddenly were quite happy about the fact that I live 700km from my parents place. My mother had called me at home several times since she thought I should have gotten home by then... She had forgotten that it takes an extra half an hour through stockholm, then she had apparently become really nervous since I hadn't answered my cell... which I had turned off to save batteries. *sigh* sleepy time

And I finally got my computer working again after a week of searching for the problem. I finally gave up and formatted my c:.. very annoying considering all the programs I have to re-install. And all the favorites I forgot to backup... *sigh*

Still got a cold, am working from home in the morning and taking the rest of the day of after lunch. Thank g-d for flexible hours.

How come having a cold can be more annoying than actually being ill?
You feel weak but not enough to stay in bed, nor enough to stay home from work.. = annoying

It seems to be working fairly well with my new colleague, at least for the two first days (he started on tuesday).
Tomorrow I'll be going to a conference for two days and he got full responsibility for the video- and webconferences here. :)

Well see how that goes, but so far he seems like a nice guy. At least he's smart enough not to piss me off... yet.

I have spent most of my day introducing my new colleague P to the wonderful world of videoconferences. Seriously tired. Sleeeeeeeeeeep

Now I got Jabber installed at work, I love being local admin on my computer :)

And just after writing the previous post LilyAmelie sent me an email about the Breast cancer site who needed donations, one simply click on the mammogram-button and a company donates a certain amount of money...

Sounds easy to do to me:
http://www.thebreastcancersite.com/clickToGive/home.faces?siteId=2

Yesterday I read a new book about Chernobyl, by Svetlana Aleksejevitj, and it tells the heart rendering stories of the survivors living there. I don't know how many remember the accident with the nuclear plant there...but it was a catastrophy, as one of the survivors put it "world war three".

There were stories about the women whos husbands had gone to put out the fire and later on died by litteraly falling apart in front of them, the men who "sanitized" the site by shoveling dirt and burying as much as the could. They would sometimes simply sit down and die, no warning at all.

There were stories about the children, born years after, born with no mouth or genitalia, with a mouth that stretched from ear to ear but no eyes, without fingers, to little of this and sometimes to much of it...

It has been 21 years since Chernobyl and people are still dying directly related to it. An increadable amount of people are dead, dying, gravely ill and there are more to come.
The outside help has trickled down to almost nothing to the area surrounding Chernobyl (belarius) but they are still dying and still needs help.

It also tells the awful story about their own government who let them sow their crops on this radioactive soil, to live there. Just to keep everyone from panickin and safe face to the despair of the scientists who tried so hard to get people to realise that it was a domesday catastrophy for the surrounding are.

I was nine years old when I saw Chernobyl on TV, but I still have a clear image of the civilian men and soldiers in their white coveralls shoveling dirt. I remember thinking (since we had seen nuclear reactors in a documentary earlier that year and everyone walked around in protective suits) "Why are they walking around like that, won't they die?"

This book made me feel very upset about their situation and I feel helpless since I don't know what to do...So I wrote this to get it down on "paper".

I mentioned to my older female colleagues about my mother and her phonecalls. And their reaction was "so?, that is not so unusual for mothers" hmmm... I'll have to think about this.

As stated earlier I spent most of my day at Creops place watching movies and eating cake. I left around four in the afternoon and came home around midnight... Guess who called me seven o'clock this morning!!! because I hadn't answered my phone on sunday.

Yes, my darling mother called me, now you might not think that seven in the morning is all that bad... Well if you've had to much coffee and went to sleep three in the morning it is. Four hours sleep just because your mother has gone bonkers is way to little.
I can understand that my mother called me a couple of times on sunday as she usually does, but seven times! and three text messages on my cell that I had forgotten at home...
I know she only means well, but this is quite unusual. When I don't answer she usually calls the next day. But this time she called seven times!!!

If you haven't figured it out, this really bothered me today... I simply don't get it.
Especially since her excuse were "I was worried". This isn't the first time I haven't answered (because I was out) the phone. I mean I'm close to thirty years old and this happens...


So working overtime today wasn't all that fun... I have to keep thinking of the overtime pay. :)