Japunzel

Now we started our first game project in school. I guess I don't have to tell you that I'm excited...
I am a little nervous but we got some pretty good ideas.

It's such a weird experience, going to school and be apart of a project. To sit in meetings where people listen and value your opinion. I honestly didn't expect to be treated like that, as an equal. It is a profession and a working place where men dominate. I didn't expect to be considered such an asset, to my classmates (and possibly future colleagues).
The small amounts of people attending the school also affects the environment. No trash on the floor. No one is drawing or writing stuff on the walls. Only on whiteboards and in notebooks. Bottles and cans are in a separate container. Everyone dish their dishes.

6 days until Diederik is here and I'm lonelier than ever, despite good efforts from my beloved friends.

Longer post some other day, just wanted to update and share these awesome songs that lifted my day (and yes, it's my policy not to have the same "Today's songs" song twice, ever. I listen to way too much music for that to happen).

Today's songs:
Queens of the Stone Age - Make it witchu
Regina Spektor - Chemo Limo

Friday at last. Been a somewhat eventful week despite me being in school between 10 and 5 almost every day. Been meeting up with alot of old friends too, but I am liking my classmates more and more. Intelligent, funny and gifted people.
Diederik is coming to me in 10 days and I really needed that. After being together for 3 months, and then apart, even for one month is painful. And I just need that person, the one who makes me calm when worried, the shoulder to cry on and some funny words to cheer me up when I'm down. The one always there, no matter how many kilometres away.

And I am sort of looking after a new place to stay since there are better places than my current room. But for now it'll do.



Today's songs:
Placebo - One of a kind
Basement Jaxx feat. Sam Sparro - Feelings gone

After two weeks in routines I can say that I am very content with my situation.
I live in a big room that is - no matter what people say - very cheap and central. I dont think I could handle living far from everything. People pay alot more for alot less.

One thing I'm not content with is my hair. It's blond. It's long. It's summery.
And Malmö is turning more and more gray for each day. I think I want to keep the length, just to see how long it gets. But the blonde color is fading like the chlorophyll in the trees. My hair always gets darker during winter, and so it has over the years become a tradition to make it darker chemically. The question is whether to go for more brown, or more red. Someone suggested black, but that would make me awfully pale.
Personally I'm leaning towards red but not sure what shade.

 

Jessica in True Blood. I was thinking maybe this hair colour, or slightly redder.

Today's songs:
Echo and The Bunnymen - Killing Moon
Shivaree - Goodnight Moon

Lately, life has been about few things:

School
People
Room
True Blood.


We get little homeworks in school, to draw objects that we see around us, in particular statues. Everyone is nice, but already I can sort of feel which ones I'll be hanging with in a year. Some extremely nice and sympathetic.
Many of my friends are busy atm. I can't shake the feeling that some of them are getting so far out, that I might not get them back again. It won't be the same really, when they do. Some people that were close, I have hardly seen in months. It's nothing planned, I guess, just prioritizations.

And my room is still full of spiders. I found a spider among my underwear. Not funny. But I keep killing them. It's a war.

The main thing lately however has been True blood. Preferably 12 episodes in a row. Incredible, with awesome characters, but not a single bright one. But now I have to wait until sunday, when next episode is released.

Lack of both computer and internet has kept me from updating, and I've been really busy on top of that.

Two days ago I started school. It's called The Game Assembly nowadays due to a copyright complaint from a german school. There I have been assigned a stationary computer with two (2!) screens. And all the awesome creative programs I could ever wish for.
So monday was first day in school. But there was alot of other firsts that day.

I moved away from my home, the room that has been my home for the past 12 years. But maybe that isn't really a first considering that I moved to Brussels before, even though that was not a permanent move.
The first night was horrible.
I detected two large spiders, hiding under my bed. I managed to kill one, but not the other. I suspected there were more (and I was right), but I couldn't do much, it was late in the evening. And it was so quiet. I could hear myself breath, move and all the little sounds that an old building full of apartments make.

I slept with the lights on for the first time in over 12 years. It was a nervous sleep and when Diederik called me in the middle of the night (to calm me down) I woke up sweaty as from a nightmare.
Morning after I had my first breakfast at my new home. And then went to school.
Last night I had my first friend over, Cornelia. She helped me get rid off some dead insects and spiders. Since the entire day had passed without a (live) spider sighting, I assumed that maybe the room wasn't loaded with spiders, maybe there was just one left, and it was dying?
This morning, after a peaceful sleep in my very comfortable bed, I withdrew the curtain and a longlegged spider fell almost down on me.
I will get the vacuumcleaner as soon as I get an opportunity.