Daily Archive: September 22, 2003

22
Sep
2003

WISDOM

Alright, already same_sky, here you go. I don’t usually do stuff like this, but you got me thinking… 10 Things I’ve Learned: everybody is somebody else’s weirdo everything is better in moderation, including moderation nothing can make water better if you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything at all the fruit doesn’t fall very far from the tree it doesn’t come to stay, it comes to PASS nothing is sacred and everything is opinion, including this what goes around comes around rudolf the red-nosed reindeer unsticks any earworm and doesn’t stick itself in a women’s club, the same 15...

22
Sep
2003

CONTENTMENT IN SWEDEN

Interesting stats and answers from a “Contentment in Sweden” survey done by Parent Net Sweden, directed at expatriates: Read more here In one of the accompanying articles, a woman had this to say, “What I needed during my first years in Sweden was for someone to say to me, “It is really difficult to live in a culture that is so different from the culture in which you were brought up. It is natural that you are having a hard time.” Unfortunately, I never heard this; I was told by the people around me that I was obviously not doing...

22
Sep
2003

GRUMP

I was supposed to have a red Alfa Romeo Graduate 2-door convertible by now. My life has veered, obviously.