Erika Nilsson

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Bloody timetables again

by Erika on Wednesday 17 June 2009, 14:42 | Comments (3)

Of course, I should have learnt not to trust timetables here in Metz. Having done just that, concluding from the fact that both my resits were scheduled to take place this week that I could take a plane home on Saturday, I suddenly find myself unable to sit one of them because, guess what, it has been moved to next Friday . It’s pure luck that my Geometry resit was moved from today to this Friday, and not the other way round, and it was very lucky that I didn’t quite trust the word of the somewhat absent-minded professor who told me about it, but went to check the notice boards instead, or I would have had no idea.

Conclusion: Whatever I do, there is no way in hell that I can pass all my courses, and hence no way in hell that I will be allowed to keep my Mobility grant, without spending hilarious amounts of money on extra flights and nights in hotels. I don’t have money to spend on extra flights and hotels. And I want to go home.

This annoys me to such a degree that I don’t have words to express it.

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Tweets for 2009-04-29

by Erika on Thursday 30 April 2009, 00:01 | Comments (2)

  • … has a new kettle that lights up in blue and a new white vacuum cleaner. The excitement. 19:01:36

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Tweets for 2009-04-28

by Erika on Wednesday 29 April 2009, 00:01 | Comments

  • … tycker faktiskt att det är svårt att göra streckgubbar hippa. 17:16:02
  • Rings & Fields *was* interesting. I was folloring! :-O Caffeine high not so pronounced anymore. 17:00:01
  • Gah. Caffeine high. Weird. Rings & Fields lecture will be interesting. O_o 13:35:34
  • … is forcing half a litre of Red Bull down her throat … yeuck. 10:24:21
  • Månadens lyckopiller: Color Theory - We’re Not Getting Any Younger http://bit.ly/lycka 08:54:36

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Tweets for 2009-04-27

by Erika on Tuesday 28 April 2009, 00:01 | Comments

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Tvärtom

by Erika on Friday 24 April 2009, 00:31 | Comments

Min helgondagbok är/var, som den hängivne läsaren eventuellt torde veta, full av allsköns larvigheter av varierande pinsamhetsgrad. Det betyder dock inte att Helgons samlade dagboksdatabas är till brädden fylld av bara skit; tvärtom.

Fast grundtonen inuti just i kväll ligger rätt långt mer åt ensamhet; ett ganska trött litet djur som längtar hem, och inte till platsen hem, utan till ett hem i en famn som låter mig låta bli att bära på så mycket; ett hem, som är stabilare än jag, som har gott om värme, lugn och klokskap, och ont om rädslor, labilitet och starka triggers.

Ibland händer det att ett stycke text slår till en hårt, hårt rakt i magen.

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Before/after

by Erika on Saturday 18 April 2009, 16:42 | Comments (2)

First, some background. I’ve had the idea for a few months to introduce some more interesting categories to my thoughtbook (see top of this page). I’ve been writing about quite a diverse range of things, and everyone might not be interested in reading all of that. Therefore I also wanted some more RSS feeds, preferrably one for each category. (The plugin WP More Feeds sorts that, but more on the Wordpress plugins I can’t live without in a later post.)

Here’s where I ran into a tiny problem. The headers — that is, the BIG colourful ones — have previously been static images, using a pretty font the name of which I can’t remember, because at some point in February my trusted laptop dies miserably, and with it went all the fonts I had downloaded. New categories meant a need for new page titles, so my first idea was to find the old font or one that looked like it and then let something like sIFR or FLIR render the headers.

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Blisomfolk: Life of a nerd

by Erika on Saturday 18 April 2009, 13:27 | Comments

Alltså, det skall väl erkännas att det här projektet inte går så bra. (Avdelning Fan-vad-förvånad-jag-blir.) Nu var mamma och pappa i Aberdeen från förra lördagen till i onsdags, och då sov och åt jag ganska bra. Det är lätt för råttan att skärpa sig när katten går efter och tittar på, liksom. Men både före och efter det så har jag levt vad jag tänker kalla en datornörds liv, ett begrepp som enklast kan sammanfattas med “jag sover bara när jag vill och äter bara när jag måste”. Sänggång ungefärligen tretiden är standard, uppvaknande alltifrån nio till två, och ingen riktig middag på tre dagar (vilket inte vill säga att jag går och svälter — havregrynsgröt, chips, äpplen och muffins funkar fint som diet i upp till en vecka, bevisligen).

Och plugget? Ja, um … jag vet inte riktigt vad det finns att säga om det. Säger jag inget så har jag inget sagt, som det heter.

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For sale: Physical representations of culture

by Erika on Friday 17 April 2009, 23:14 | Comments (4)

About three hours ago, I walked past the cinema, and I thought to myself that it would be nice to go see The Boat That Rocked (a wonderful film for which, one of these days, I must write a review) again. Then I realised what a bad case of hypocrisy it would be to first loudly curse the film industry fascist copyright lobbyists, and then walk straight up to the cinema counter like a docile pop culture vegetable and hand over my money to Universal Pictures.

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Blisomfolk och lite ventilera

by Erika on Friday 3 April 2009, 00:55 | Comments

Jag har suttit och lekt (långsamt …) med tanken att migrera det kaos som för närvarande är min webbsida till Drupal, innan den blir alldeles för vildvuxen, slarvigt hoplappad och okontrollerbar. Sidan bygger just nu på en vacker blandning av Wordpress, som fungerar finfint för bloggar, men inte är gjort för alltför många “statiska” sidor och särskilt inte den skumma designkonfiguration jag har, samt ren HTML/PHP i somliga fall. Drupal är ett hyfsat kraftfullt system som, i teorin åtminstone, kan göra en förbannad massa mer än vad Wordpress kan. Det projektet visade sig vara typ tvåhundra gånger lättare sagt än gjort.

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I am a free blogger

by Erika on Wednesday 1 April 2009, 21:59 | Comments

Free bloggerI am a free blogger. I also support all other free bloggers out there, and I want free speech to remain free, “AFK” as well as online. Just thought you should know.

And, if you also want blogging to remain free, please consider sending a picture of yourself with the words “Free blogger” to join the thousands at http://www.beppegrillo.it/iniziative/freeblogger/. Or have a look at http://www.boingboing.net/2009/03/11/italian-bloggers-cal.html. The Web is, it seems, under more of a threat than ever.

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