Lovely summer

Who would have known that my uneventful summer in Lohja could turn out as fun as it has. I stick to my previous statements that not much has happened but overall it has been so pleasant throughout. I spend my days sitting in front of my computer, typing occasionally. My word count is currently at 7,786 and I have just started working on the case study. So it's going on smoothly, nice enough considering that I fully intend to send it to Maastricht on Monday.

And then after I'm done pretending to work I join Minna and the girls and we hang out together. We play boardgames, go for a walk, ride around town checking people out or go the cinema. I'm loving it! Tonight we're going to see Harry Potter! Yesterday we were in Helsinki by coincidence at the same time as James and Oliver Phelps, the boys who play Weasley twins who were there to promote the film. I caught a glimpse of one of them. Incredible, I'm practically famous.

Sadly enough we have heard nothing of the saskatoon job, the woman promised to inform us when the job would start but we're assuming either the entire harvest was crap or she decided not to employ us... Fingers crosses we'll hear something about it later but not impressed by her thus far.

Aside from ongoing pleasantness, nothing much has happened. Still planning trips but as they are still in planning phase I choose not to talk about them, it always seems to jinx them. On August 20th I am however going on a cruise with some friends from Maastricht. That is going to be wicked! And then next weekend a friend of mine who I met at Cambridge Model European Council in 2007 is going to visit Finland. That is übercool because he studies Finnish! It's almost supernatural meeting people who study the language but have not lived in Finland nor are dating a Finnish person. Also to add to his coolness, he loves the Eurovision. There aren't many of us in the world so we must present a united front.

On this positive note I go back to writing about European chemicals directive.

Spinster for life!

I read romantic novels, you know those cheesy women's pocket books for which some less discreet names exist. I read one or two before I go to bed (I read really quickly) in order to blank out my mind before bedtime. But tonight I was reading "Kept by the Spanish Billionaire" I came across a paragraph that I just have to share with the world:

"Four hours later, Rafael had to admit that he was enjoying himself. As novel experiences went, spending time in the company of a woman [the heroine of the book in question] who had no particular interest in the news, no knowledge of the opera, little experience of the theatre and an unhealthy interest in reality television was an eye opener. There was no intellectual conversation about the state of the country, the world economy, and, certainly in the case of Elizabeth [the boring, recently dumbed ex of the hero], the frustrations of the American legal system."

Oh well, guess I'll just get back to writing my thesis then. No need for beauty sleep as there are slim chances any man might ever stay awake through a conversation with me, let alone be attracted to me... :D Priceless.

Saskatoon

I was joking with Iiris about me being broke and that I should get a job picking berries to get some money. The next day I see an add for saskatoon berry pickers, ring them up and tadaa, I have a job! I may be the world's most over-qualified berry picker but I thought I might as well do something about the poor money situation. It should also be good exercise so all thing's considered I'm quite happy. Also, Minna will be joining me so at least I will have company and with her around it might turn out to be fun.

The last few days I've spent working on my thesis. Have actually read through everything, nicely colour-coded all the notes I've taken and written 500 words for the introduction. 500 bloody good words I may add, I am a future writer/journalist after all.