Due to illness, and thus not very much interesting to write about, I’ve been keeping a low profile during the weekend.

Today I’m going to Fp Malmö’s board-meeting and then I’m going to start assembling all my stuff in preparation for the coming trip to the Hague.

Got the new “Jo-jo” card for Skånetrafiken today also. A good thing with direct update with how much money you have to spend on local buses and trains. That is a thing that has been bugging me for two years.

Further, not much news to tell. Have developed a hate/love relationship with the Swedish new Voddler (Spotify but with films), since they do have films for free with great picture and I like the concept. However, three times I’ve watched almost to the end of a film just to be cut off and not being able to even try and see the ending, and I can’t work with other stuff on the comupter while I watch, which is death for a multi-tasker such as myself.

Have had to change glasses for the second home-exam of the week. Off with the pragmatic and rather fixed glasses of law, on with the idealistic and theoretical ones for cosmopolitanism and civil society.

So is civil society good or bad? Mary Kaldor argues in her book Global Civil Society (2008) that the term has to be re-conceptualized and understood in a more global perspective than it has been before. Now I only have to stretch this statement out to a full page and do this with a few more books, write a vs. text on Kant and Peter Singer and analyze World Social Forum as an expression of a global civil society. Wonderful.

Might I add that after a week of sickness….yes I’m still sick and it’s not looking much better. Was told for the hundreth time to get my H1N1 flu shot, by my mother. And yes I will before I go to the Netherlands.

I’m done with my home-exam on International Law, with just about 30 minutes to spare before the deadline (00.00). I suppose it’s blatanly true that I work best under pressure. Just enough pressure. Now I have UN convention and charters coming out of my ears, and it’s time to change focus to cosmopolitanism once again. That home-exam is due on Friday.

Yesterday LUF/LS Malmö had a what seemed like a great evening with Allan Widman, talking about Afghanistan. Unfortunately for me I had to sit in the next room in a Skype-meeting…which was also very rewarding but still.

Right now I just want my last home-exam to be out of the way so I can enjoy looking forward to spending ten days in the Netherlands for the IFLRY General Assembly and then a seminar on Human Trafficking.

So, there we go, the presentations for my candicadies are written and sent in with the official acceptance of my nominations.

I agree with others I’ve spoken to that it’s rather hard to shorten a political presentation of oneself to 300 characters, and I’m rather doubtful over the quality of my text…but well I’ve heard I’m my own worst critic so we’ll see how it is recieved.

Tomorrow it’s time for a café Liberal with LUF/LS Malmö, about Swedish presence in Afghanistan, with MP Allan Widman.

This is the Facebook event-page.

Before that I’m going to get a new multicard for access to school, and hand in my presentation for the trial-run election and get my picture taken for it too. ^^ Exciting.

Dinner at Niclas and Amanda’s place tonight. Good thing since we are pretty bad at feeding ourselves good and home made food.

Making plans for New Years, and for next week when Martin is coming to town. As if I wasn’t really busy with two home exams that are due next week and starting up my BA-thesis. ^^

Furthermore I’m trying to revive the both other blogs where I write:

LUF/LS Malmö (Swedish only)

Young Liberals For Belarus

Yet again I have been absent on the blog here. Part is due to my own laziness, but another pretty big part is certain issues that seems to occur when I post on blogs that are  open for everyone to read. However, I will try to look past it and hope to be able to post more regularily without problems.

Now to todays’ issue: I’ve apparently been nominated for both the municipality and region elections that are up an coming in September next year. A while ago I was attracted to the idea but disregarded it since my other hope for 2010 is an internship in S.Korea, and that would pretty seriously effect a campaign here in Sweden. But now that I’ve been nominated I don’t see the reason why not try it out…especially since I’m not ending up in S.Korea next year for sure.

 

Today it’s church elections in Sweden. Sounds rather boring right? But it’s important that people who are members of the Swedish Church vote, because there is a dire need to keep the Swedish Democrats away from as many positions of power as possible.

I understand many feel they don’t want to vote in an election that they don’t feel affected by, but putting it in the perspective that the more regular people who do not care, the more power SD has in Sweden, even if it’s just the church.

On other matters, I’m a painball widow today since my dear has gone to war.

Ok, I’m getting a fairly late start to the day again, but I hope to get some things done.

I have a ton of e-mails to sort and respond, and also I’ll have to look through my pile of bills an see whether I will be totally broke or just plain broke by the end of this month.

I would say I’m trying to focus on the short essay that is due in a few weeks, but that would be an entire lie. I was planning on focusing on it, but here I stand with a lot of other things to do with deadlines closing in. A tip to the busy woman…don’t get married, you will fall behind in everything else.

I’ve decided to start a club for absentminded. But no worries, I will have forgotten it by tomorrow.

Today when I was getting ready for Oslo I realized that I had forgotten my jacket at work yesterday. So in panic my parents drove me there first and then in a hurry to the bus station. However, there I couldn’t find my cards, cash and license that I have in a small casing.

The sum of this is now that I missed my bus to Oslo, but after some disarray I remembered fiddling with my money at work. Going back there again I found the casing under a magazine in the personnel room.

So now I’m spending a wonderful time at Nils Erikssonsterminalen in Gothenburg, just waiting to get going.