Unpacking

I just finished unpacking my suitcase. I got back on Sunday night. I hate unpacking. I love packing but unpacking is a very tedious job. I think it's closly linked to the fact that unpacking definatly means the holiday is over and it's back to work. Wich started with no less than FOUR very important packages for a very important "thing" in Germany getting lost somewhere between A and B. Not my fault. Luckily.

Budapest was as beautiful as ever and the Danube had kindly enough gone back to more normal levels. The best shots I got had my travel friend in them so I won't post them here, not sure she wants to be on the blog but I did see a pretty cool graffiti tunnel.

And I do get nostalgic when I discover that some of that genuine non-service still exists in Central Europe, it's like going back to the not so good days. I've been yelled at in Hungarian no less than eight times in a week. I never did get the hang of how to buy tickets in Central Europe, it's a whole little adventure in itself and strangly enough I love it, despite Hugarian ladies yelling at me.

Other than that I finally got round to getting old David Bowie albums over on my iPod so I've been humming "Life on Mars?" all week. Somehow David Bowie's music fits well in to communist style highrises from the 1960's.

/Mel

Congratulations!

My favourite blog, "Ett liv i exil", won the "Blog of the year Award" last night in Stockholm. A really well deserved award to a very funny and moving blog about Silverfisken's life in Melbourne.
I've linked to it before overe there ---->
It's in Swedish though, so bad luck if you can't read it.

/Mel

Budapest

I really hope Hungary is heading for really, really, really dry weather these coming two weeks. Because to be honest, it's a bit to wet there right now...

Academics without jobs

A HUGE problem in Sweden is the all-time high in unemploymancy for young people with academic degrees. A university degree in Sweden is no longer a gurantee for a fun and rewarding job, a career or even just a plain and simple job wich pays the bills. It's a problem the current socialdemocratic government has failed at solving after ten years in power. Their solution of choice is more money to "job-seeking courses" and artificial jobs funded by tax money, neither will create more a jobmarket where companies are more inclined to employ more people.

Today I came across a blog by a young unemployed academic and I've linked to it on the right, fingers crossed she finds a job soon.

/Mel

Inlägg på svenska

Av en ren och ohindrad slump fick jag idag hem en dosa från Anticimex för att få bukt med silverfiskar i badrummet. Men jag försäkrar att jag inte har något emot silverfiskar på nätet, de skriver nämligen väldigt trevliga bloggar ---->

/Mel