the challenge is still working out well. :) my stumach is working slo-mo but it's (almost) ok. it just means that i don't go to the toilet as often as is recommended by... whoever the wise people are. so what i've eaten these past 2 or 3 days is still in there somewhere. LOL. so this week's weigh in is back to 89kgs. but it's still less than when i started on the challenge, so i am not freaked out about it.

birger has begun to be more outside his cage again :) it's so cute and weird how he sits on the side of the cage with his head downwards and drinks water from the water dispensor from where the two parts of the dispensor is assembled. aparently there is a little bit of water that comes out there. when he's inside the cage he only tries to bite his way throught the bottom of the water dispensor. he's a freak :D but at least he gets outside the cage more :D

tomorrow i'll go to a christmas dinner at Lars' place. he lives with 7 other guys and he told me we'll probably be 10-15 people at the dinner. i just hope i'll know someone besides Lars. hehe. and i plan to eat a lot and have my fair share of beer :D

i have planned out what to do for christmas: on the 20th i'll go to a yule-blót with marie louise and her asatru-friends. i'll just look but i'll be there. :D i don't think i should participate in a blót when i don't know how to do it and i don't share their beliefs. so i'll just look (while getting drunk?). :D
on the 24th i'll go for a long walk in this forest in the suburbs of the city. then i'll go home and watch the disney christmas show on tv. after that i'll go and prepare dinner and after that i will either put on some DVD or read a book.
i know it sounds like a weird and lonely christmas. but i'm actually looking forward to it! i don't want to go to my dad's to celebrate christmas because... it's not fun. it's always so damn tense and i don't enjoy it. so this year i will have a relaxed and über comfortable christmas :) because i've been at my dad's to celebrate christmas for so many years i've "learned" that a family-christmas is not necessarily a nice christmas. i want a nice and relaxed christmas for once. oh.. and another plus: i don't have to explain why i haven't put this and that food onto my plate! i'm a bit picky (i only like about half of all the food you get at a danish christmas) and i can do fine with just some potatos, some grease and some ham. but each year i have to explain to my grand mom and to my dad's wife that i don't like half of what they put in the salad, i don't like the jelly(? it's kind of... the fat/liquids that you get from having the meat in the oven and then it's made stiff... ew) and i don't like the risalamande (i am not even sure how to spell it... lol. but it's cold rice pudding with added cream and almonds....) and so on. it will be WONDERFUL to not have to explain why i don't eat all those things. *yay*

and i don't have to walk around the tree and sing those stupid christian christmas songs. last year i asked my dad's wife if we could just sing the songs about christmas time and how it is celebrated (we have songs about christmas shopping, how stressful that is and we have songs about the christmas tree and how the atmosphere on christmas eve is and so on). but noooo... she WANTS to sing the christian ones because it's a tradition and if SHE can't get to sing those songs SHE won't feel it's christmas. great. you don't have to think about the two children that just hate those songs. as long as YOU feel it's christmas...

so... i'll have a strange, but relaxing christmas. :)

but now i'll go and put on some great music and take a shower. after that i'll go and study a bit for the exams. i am a bit behind with the Europe in the World class. like... 4 classes or so. but i am working on it. so my plans for today is the shower, studying and at 6 pm i'll write letters. :D

i am not sure how to interpret this dream i had last night. it feels like it was kind of important -especially because there were things in it that seems to appear in my dreams at least once each month....

i dreamed that i was going to live for a year at this boardingschool (i often dream of taking another year at a boardingschool or even at the boardingschool i did go to when i was 16 years old. it's rarely taking place at the "real" boardingschool but it feels like it's the one i'm at still...) and i was sharing my room with one of the girls i did share my room with at the boardingschool i did attent in real life. the thing was that... in order to get to our room we had to go through this shower area (which was basically just a normal corridor but on the walls were shower heads) where the floor was always slippery because of the water. mo room mate never slipped in the floor but i did all the time. it was so funny and when i slipped i'd just stay on the floor and just slide all the way to my room. :D even when there was a railing i could hold on to, i'd fall.

the main area of the boardingschool was this HUGE building that had lots and lot of windows. there were grass instead of a floor and there were like tiny hills and stuff. at some point i got my hands on this white headband that, when i think about it, seemed like a headband for some japanese/korean martial arts-sport or something. but in my dream it was a headband that muslim suidecide bombers would wear. there were people from my first 6 years of elementary school and i talked with this guy from then, called Ezzas (i forgot how to spell his name, sorry), who's from Pakistan. his dad cam around and i had to run because i didn't want him to see this headband.

i ran to the shower-area so i could get to my room and then there was this guy who told me and my room mate that there was a shorter route to take to our rooms so we didn't have to go through the shower area all the time but he didn't seem like he wanted to tell us that way.

then i woke up.

i am wondering why i've so often dreamed about taking another year at a boardingschool. and i wonder why, in these dreams, there are always people present that i haven't seen since i was 12 years old.

well... on i go with writing this paper on how Persian material-culture had an impact on Greek elite-culture in the 6th and 5th century B.C. who ever said studying history at the university would be boring... *YAWN!!!!*

so today i signed up for 4 of the 5 classes i'm going to have in the Autumn. i am NOT looking forward to the Wednesdays. they will be pure hell on earth. my program for Wednesdays will be like this:

6-6.30 am: waking up, getting ready to get out of my house
7.15 am: taking the first of the two busses to the university
7.45-7.50 am: arriving at the university
8-10 am: class
--->10am-2pm: break!!! i have talked with Marie Louise from class about doing homework together during this break <---
2-5pm: class
6pm: finally home again
6.05pm: dying on the couch

it will be really hard i think! but i am glad that i am already preparing mentally for that long break. in a way it feels good to have an excuse to do homework at the uni so i don't have to do them at home. LOL. but all in all i'm pretty freaked out about this whole day.

i'll have classes for 2 hours on mondays, 3 hours on tuesdays, 5 hours (+4 hours break) on wednesdays and 2 hours on thursdays. i have fridays off. i think it's gonna be a pretty hard semester but i hope that the break from hell on wednesdays will help a bit so i don't have to study so much at home. it's really hard to get yourself to study at home, don't you think? you get all these ideas about... oh, i got lots of dishes to do!, perhaps i should wash some laundry?, hmm.. i don't remember the last time i've vacuum cleaned.. i think i'll do that now!.... and so on... hehe. but i'm a bit worried about the stress level i'll have... i hope i won't get stressed about worrying about stress that might not even come. LOL.

so... i have to do lots of anti-stress things this summer so that i won't be so affected during next semester. i think that at least two of the classes i'll take might not require much studying... i just have to see what time brings. and i need to prepare mentally for those wednesdays! i think that if i get the stress level down now it'll be harder to get so high again as it was this spring. and i am more aware of listening to my body now than i was before. so... it'll be ok. i hope. *SIGH!!!*