A hard day

Though not exceptional in any way. Today I had one appointment at the rheumatology ward, mainly to transfer me to a GP. Then I had a meeting with the person handling my sick leave half an hour later. And Maja kept me awake a lot of the night with a temperature and stomach troubles (that made her move around a lot, but didn't wake her) and today she's been sick several times and the temperature is still high.
I hope I don't get whatever she has, because on Friday I'm flying to London to present my research project at a conference, meet armillary and his Sarah on Friday and stay with billyoblivionx and drink beer together without kids (at least without mine).

I also hope to be able to do some shopping at Bravissimo, What Katie Did and maybe Irregular Choice. And Classic Textiles of course!

Revisiting old(ish) favourites

Since Valeria already knows English as well or better than most swedish youths leaving high school and suffers from boredom and embarrassment (over her class mates) at classes she's going to take a series of tests to prove this and thus be finished with her high school English.

One thing she's going to do is to read two novels from a list and then both write a review and discuss them with a teacher. Since she didn't know much about the books in question what I have read and liked of course influenced her. So now one of my high school favourites "Rumble Fish" (my absolute favourite S.E. Hinton novel was "That was then, this is now" I think) and a more recent favourite, Nick Hornby's "Fever Pitch" are on their way to us.

I think that she will like both of them.