The real world is an evil place and, I suspect, it might be out to kill me. Too much to do, not enough time to do it, and my focus is all over the place.

So, dear flist, if I seem to have completely forgotten about you, you may rest assured that I have not. Lack of updates and comments and... well, pretty much all online activity, is due to the simple fact that I'm drowning in course work. Evil, evil coursework. You can consider this a blanket apology for unanswered emails, comment threads left hanging and anything else that I might have been doing but have seemingly dropped. I haven't, okay? I'll be back in a bit.

( Criminal Minds s06e01 )

And, in other news, affogato is the best way to drink coffee. Ever. I may have over-indulged. But I'll forgive myself, because one needs comfort food at times like this.

How am I supposed to pass Compétences Grammaticales? The revision class is the Wednesday I leave for Florence, and the actual exam is the morning after I get back. I'm going to have to push the exam. But then I'll be studying for it while trying to keep up with the million other things and and and I am not good under pressure. I'm just not. Or organizing, for that matter. I suck at everything! Everything is terrible and horrible and bad! *melodramatic flop to the ground*

... Okay, no. I'm going to Florence, Italy with my insane family. I have nothing to complain about. Except for the part that, since I knew the trip was coming, I could have maybe lifted a finger or two to actually prepare for it, instead of freaking out a few days before. Why does that always happen?

Yeah, ok. No need to answer that.

Things that I've noticed in the last 48 hours that are cool and thus worth mentioning:

1. According to the scale, I now weigh 70,9kg. This is very nice, and only 1,9kg away from what I would like to weigh. Go me!

2. I found paskha in S-market. Yay! And also, I can't believe you're supposed to spell it like that in English... We call it pasha. Pasha. (That other word? In Finnish it means "shit".)

3. DA2 is absolutely awesome. Might have mentioned that before, but it bears repeating.

4. I've started on season 3 of Criminal Minds, and Jim Beaver was in an episode.

(But what happened to Gideon? And who is this new guy? And am I supposed to like this new guy now? I liked Gideon :/)
(Morgan loves Reid. A lot. I dare you to tell me it isn't so.)

Translating things from French to Swedish? Like pulling teeth.

Cannot. Access. Vocabulary. It's like my brain keeps writing something in the URL field, and all that comes up is "404: File not found". Or something of the like. It's like there is no connection. The part of my brain that knows French has no idea that there's a part that knows Swedish. They've never met. Or if they have, they hate each others guts because of some old grudge and are not on speaking terms.

Or is this a romanic to germanic language thing? Does everyone have to go through this? Because these bitches, they're just not getting along.


(And - on a non-language note. Have lost 7kg. Very yay!)

Well, this is exciting. Aside from Kati, no one knows this journal is here, so I can only assume that there's no one out there reading. Which means I can say pretty much anything I want... It's a liberating feeling. I hadn't realized livejournal was starting to feel so cramped.

I'll post my only two fics so far directly after this, so this post won't look quite so lonely. And then maybe I'll write some more. I have all this inspiration, but nowhere to really direct it.

And another thing that's exciting? I now weigh 4kgs less. Since starting to eat according to the very simple rule of low-carb, high-fat, I've been losing weight at an even 1kg/week sort of pace. There's a lot of other perks too, but mostly I'm excited about the weight. I know it doesn't show, but the point is that I can feel it, and I feel better for it. So yay!