I’m recreating Karin’s resume so that she can apply for university in Copenhagen. I already recreated Martin’s a few months ago before he started job-hunting in earnest. I lost all the original source files when I upgraded to a new work computer a year or so ago and wasn’t thinking about where those particular files were saved. Karin’s been pretty much working steadily since she started as a referee for the soccer leagues in the village where she played, when she was a teenager. I’m not sure why she needs her resume for a university application, but it’s just as well that’s updated and ready for use when she gets back from Austria, regardless.
Tickets for the US trip are now booked for me and Karin. Anders can’t go because of work, and Martin can’t go because of jobhunting. We’re going for 3 weeks on April 21, coming back May 10. I was really bummed to have to tell Martin he couldn’t go, but it’s super important that he concentrates on finding a new job. And even if he should find one immediately, it would hardly be fair to a new employer to turn around and want 3 weeks off after he’s just started. He’ll get to go another time, and I told him that since I’m planning to go SOMEWHERE for my birthday, and it will probably be a week, that hopefully we can manage to take both of them with us for that. Karin hasn’t been to the States in 5.5 years (since Christmas 2018). Martin was there for a month in 2022, so it’s not been as long for him.
It’s much harder to coordinate family outings and trips now that the kids are adults and busy with their own lives. I’m in a dither about what to do for a birthday trip, to boot. I’d been thinking to go to Ireland since that was the original plan for my 50th, but then Anders asked me if I hadn’t been wanting to go Mont Saint-Michel and St. Malo in France, so now I’m torn again. Those two are fairly close to each other. The deciding factor might be how hot it is in southern France in the beginning of August. Mont Saint-Michel is also fairly close to Versailles.
But there are English bookstores in Ireland. Torn!
Hahaha! I don’t know why I care about that, actually. Debbie and Camilla gave me a gift certificate to the Sci Fi Bookstore here in Malmö and I went on Friday with Martin and realized that it was going to be hard for me to spend it when I don’t actually buy physical books much anymore. I did end up buying two, plus two art/cartoon books by Tom Gauld, and a puzzle, so I was well able to spend the gift card, but in the olden days I would have piled up 7-8 actual books, if not more! The weirdest part was realizing how out of it I am when it comes to newer sci-fi/fantasy titles and authors. I never feel like I don’t have anything new that I can read, but I didn’t recognize most of the newer books on the shelves. Am I out of it completely because of distance from bookstores, or because I’m getting old, or a combination? It’s the same with movies and music.
Everyone keeps lamenting that the weather isn’t springlike enough, and I keep rolling my eyes and pointing at the calendar: MID-FEBRUARY, FOLKS. It’s the same every year. As soon as the holidays are over, people want sunshine and warmth and spring, but we just have to hunch our shoulders and endure another couple of months. At least the light is noticeably returning. That makes a huge difference for me, even if I am also sick of the cold and rain and intermittent snow.
Mood: okay
Music: Zikai—Whatever You Say
beginning of August in France? you do know thats when all of Europe is on vacation, right? although plus side is that families with children can only have off around that time of year because schools out… or is that a plus? hmmm..
I know, but I can’t change when my birthday is. Still completely undecided.