i came across this entry in ‘the blues’ this week over at photo friday. i’m not sure i see how it’s exactly relevant to the theme, but it got me thinking. remember those days when you could derive such simple pleasure from a rainy day and a fogged up window? it’s no wonder adult humans are usually such grumpy bastards. i can really see why people chuck it all in and go and live in the forest. not saying i could do that. far from it. i’m the rugged indoors type really, but i get the attraction of living a life free of society’s imposed pressures. the pressure of money, and bills, and of consumerism and the pay cheque.Â
that being said, i have just bought myself a lovely new suit.
sometimes i don’t know why i get out of bed in the mornings. i mean, who am i really doing it all for now? my landlord is selling her apartment, which means i’m homeless once again. i’m nervous, because i have three months to find a new place. last time it took me more than four.
just one more bit of bullshit to deal with. something has to change, but just at the moment i don’t know what. i have a holiday coming up, because my parents are coming to see me. it won’t really be a holiday, because i don’t think i’ll have that much time for relaxing. aside from having to keep my guests entertained for about a month, now it looks like i’ll be spending at least some of it house hunting.
i need a real holiday. i need some time to feel happy and comfortable. it would be nice if i could work out how to inject a bit of that feeling into my professional life too, but my home life would be a start. i need time with friends.
the shawshank redemption is on tv. ‘get busy living, or get busy dying’ says andy. i’m not busy dying exactly, but not much is making a great deal of sense right now. hopefully living is somewhere not too far around the corner.
new link added to the ’stockholm’ links. the local was getting a little lonely over there by itself, so i’ve added a link to a pretty cool streaming webcam with a nice view over stockholm.Â
the current view (assuming it doesn’t change any time soon) has the mälaren lake to the right which continues off to the right of the picture, out under the västerbron (you can see traffic entering and exiting västerbron towards the bottom of the frame) and off into the distance.Â
also just off to the right, you can see another bridge carrying traffic, just above the middle of the frame. this is centralbron (central bridge, you can also see it in the picture in the previous post), connecting the city centre to södermalm, where i live. my place is just out of frame, otherwise you could just about see my building i think.
the most prominent tower towards the middle of the shot (just to the right of centre) is stadshuset, the city hall. i’ve got a snap of this in silhouette here. just out of shot on the left is where i work, about 5 minutes out of the city centre.
so there you go, there’s your stockholm geography lesson, and a nice view of whatever weather i’m enjoying, provided it’s not too dark.
pretty damn incredible sunset tonight, and of course i didn’t have the camera with me. i took a couple of pics with the phone, but it really doesn’t do the scene justice.
i’m a bit drunk, and there’s nobody around to talk to. bastards. i suppose i’ll be off to bed soonish..this was really just to make up for the fact that i haven’t posted anything for a while.
