The Further Adventures of Miss Kitten

The Teacher’s Lament
You have some time today, I see.
Your teacher’s canceled Chemistry.
My class won’t start till three-thirty.
And would it okay with me,
Since there’s some place you’d rather be,
You ask, I hope, facetiously,
Whether I would mind terribly,
If you skipped my class and left early.
I try not to take it personally,
But it’s very plain for me to [...]

At the moment I’m lying in bed with a box of lotion Kleenex and my laptop toplap. Under normal circumstances I’d be at work, but I’m taking a few days off due to an annoyingly bad headcold. My sinuses are all congested, making both breathing and thinking somewhat difficult and painful. Still I figured I [...]

I’m finally in.
After nearly four years of living in Sweden, I’ve got that Golden Ticket: a permanent (fast lön) full-time job.  I’ve heard countless times that the key to getting a permanent job in Sweden is networking and Swedish. This I can definitely confirm. Don’t even bother applying for full-time work if you can’t speak [...]

And at least in this case, “stuff” isn’t a euphemism for “bad stuff.”  It just means mostly normal everyday and occasionally mildly pleasant stuff.  My last day at work was the 30th of May, so recently I’ve been enjoying my first week of summer vacation.  Last Tuesday Tobbe and I went out to Saltholmen, where [...]

Well, it’s all over folks. Both sides have stated their cases and the verdict is in. The biggest and baddest villains in the history of the world, otherwise known as the operators of The Pirate Bay, are guilty! GUILTY!! of the disgusting crime of being accessories to copyright infringement. Justice has prevailed! …uh, sort [...]

It finally snowed today! It’s too dark to take pictures so here’s another form of proof. Weather Pixie and her little Weather Kitty are pleased, but their feet are probably freezing.
She usually puts on a coat and boots with the weather gets this cold, but for some reason she’s still wearing a crop top [...]

Here are the lyrics to a song that has recently become my anthem: My Life from Billy Joel’s 52nd Street Album.
Got a call from an old friend
We used to be real close
Said he couldn’t go on the American way
Closed the shop, sold the house
Bought a ticket to the West Coast
Now he gives them a stand-up [...]

Just to update those of you who aren’t on Facebook on what I’ve been up to lately.
My beautiful red Amaryllis (a gift from students’ parents) is in full bloom:

I made some Lusekatter (Swedish Saffron Buns) for St. Lucia’s Day, Dec. 13:

I also made a little log cabin entirely out of gingerbread:

My dining area all decorated [...]

Guess what he told me? He said, “Girl, you’ve got strep throat and need penicillin!”
Loyal readers of my blog and Facebook friends are probably all aware that I’ve been very ill lately. I had a terrible cold the second week of October, and now barely a month later I caught what I thought at [...]

About ten days ago I posted an update concerning the progress of the construction project taking place just outside my apartment. It began about a month ago with the blasting and clearing away of several tons of rock to make room for a new “environmental” station (rubbish/garbage/recycling area). At that time the site looked like [...]