Essay Time
It's essay time and I have three deadlines looming just around the corner. In addition to that, I have to hand in a prècis of my MSc dissertation this coming week... (Ghaaah!!)
Anyway, I'm trying to be a responsible adult here, and therefore I have to take a break from blogging for the indefinite future to concentrate on 'important' stuff. NO, I like university, (hello sensei...) but am finding it really hard work. A full ban on distractions should do the trick. I will be answering comments, though.
In the meantime I recommend you try the 'Am I a Nazi?' - test, to be found below if you scroll down to the bottom of the page. I'm personally a Nazi Swine; I would never have stood up to the Party. Apparently I would have been a passive German and rather embraced the Nazi xenophobia. This is unsettling, but probably true. Unsettling not only because I have a hobby within the Finnish Jewish community, but also because I like to think of myself politically as liberal, but possibly possibly true, as I grew up in xenophobic countries such as Sweden and Finland, and especially Finland. Sweden was far better than Finland, but it's certainly not the social democratic egalitarian heaven everyone thinks it is.
Give Katsunari-chan a pat and an apple once down there at the bottom of the page. If you tease him long enough, he'll roll around in the mud and then you can spray him clean with the water bottle. (Kawaii!! Neeee????) *Ahem* As I said, I'm finding growing up really hard work. I'm 28, going occasionally on twelve.
You can also congratulate me on my name day. It's Miriam's day today in Finland! Whoohoo! We (Finns) are not Catholic, nor is Miriam a Saint (well, she was Jewish, so I wouldn't expect her to have been included in the original Catholic calendar), so it's in the Finnish calendar mainly because it used to be a popular name, and because it's a nice biblical name, being the hebrew version of Maria/Mary. This Catholic tradition has survived the centuries as a reason to celebrate a special day in one's life, and we Finns like celebrations. Virtual coffee and cakes are on me.
Miriam
P.S The Map (just below 'archives' on the right hand side) is so exciting. I have loads of new hits from the US but also from Europe, not to mention Iraq!! Hello visitors! Please leave a comment.
P.P.S I just realised I made a stupid blanket statement about religion in Finland. It's just that the Reformation was pretty effective in Finland, and most Catholics we have now are mostly immigrants, ie a miniscule group of people. We're currently roughly 75% Lutheran, 15% subscribe to no religion whatsoever, and the rest of us are Eastern Orthodox, Catholic, Muslim, and Jewish, in order of size of community.
Anyway, I'm trying to be a responsible adult here, and therefore I have to take a break from blogging for the indefinite future to concentrate on 'important' stuff. NO, I like university, (hello sensei...) but am finding it really hard work. A full ban on distractions should do the trick. I will be answering comments, though.
In the meantime I recommend you try the 'Am I a Nazi?' - test, to be found below if you scroll down to the bottom of the page. I'm personally a Nazi Swine; I would never have stood up to the Party. Apparently I would have been a passive German and rather embraced the Nazi xenophobia. This is unsettling, but probably true. Unsettling not only because I have a hobby within the Finnish Jewish community, but also because I like to think of myself politically as liberal, but possibly possibly true, as I grew up in xenophobic countries such as Sweden and Finland, and especially Finland. Sweden was far better than Finland, but it's certainly not the social democratic egalitarian heaven everyone thinks it is.
Give Katsunari-chan a pat and an apple once down there at the bottom of the page. If you tease him long enough, he'll roll around in the mud and then you can spray him clean with the water bottle. (Kawaii!! Neeee????) *Ahem* As I said, I'm finding growing up really hard work. I'm 28, going occasionally on twelve.
You can also congratulate me on my name day. It's Miriam's day today in Finland! Whoohoo! We (Finns) are not Catholic, nor is Miriam a Saint (well, she was Jewish, so I wouldn't expect her to have been included in the original Catholic calendar), so it's in the Finnish calendar mainly because it used to be a popular name, and because it's a nice biblical name, being the hebrew version of Maria/Mary. This Catholic tradition has survived the centuries as a reason to celebrate a special day in one's life, and we Finns like celebrations. Virtual coffee and cakes are on me.
Miriam
P.S The Map (just below 'archives' on the right hand side) is so exciting. I have loads of new hits from the US but also from Europe, not to mention Iraq!! Hello visitors! Please leave a comment.
P.P.S I just realised I made a stupid blanket statement about religion in Finland. It's just that the Reformation was pretty effective in Finland, and most Catholics we have now are mostly immigrants, ie a miniscule group of people. We're currently roughly 75% Lutheran, 15% subscribe to no religion whatsoever, and the rest of us are Eastern Orthodox, Catholic, Muslim, and Jewish, in order of size of community.
posted by Mirjami at 8:07:00 午後
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