Balance of life

Today was first really summer like day. There was a warm nice day, sun shined and it was a great day, and finally it started to feel like summer. We still don’t have leaves on trees yet but I just guess it is only matter of days now until we will have a lots of green out there.
Today was also first time this year when I was having ice cream outside. So I guess that summer is here, at least ice cream summer has been opened

This spring I have been studying swedish. I finally took that mandatory swedish course in the begin of this semester and yesterday I had my last session with the course and swedish (at least for now).
Last time I have been studying swedish was in the high school which was in spring 2003. After that, nothing, I haven’t read, listen or done anything with swedish. So I was a little bit nervous how my course would go. And I was really positively surprised about the course.
I wasn’t interested of swedish in the school, I was always too lazy to work enough to learn the language well enough and therefore I never really liked swedish at that time. But in January, for my big surprise, I noticed that actually liked the language very much now. I have been forget pretty much anything that I ever have learned in high school but after all I think that the course didn’t went so badly after all. It didn’t go well either but what I think was most important, it was a really nice course and for some reason made me interested of swedish as language…

My little project, Photoyear, has been running for two weeks now. When I started I was a little bit worried if my motivation will be big enough to last over the whole project. Well, I still don’t know but after two weeks I have noticed that posting a new photo once a day have been much funnier than I thought. And also more difficult. Although I allowed myself to use archive photos, even from previous years, I still have a feeling all the time that I should be posting only photos that I have taken on that day. But unfortunately it hasn’t been possible, sometimes I just am way too busy to go and take photos and sometimes not all photos are so great that I would like to post them. And these was second problem I have encountered, for some reason I have a feeling that all photos I post should be better than earlier, something new, something what I haven’t taken before, something that I can call maybe even a piece of art.
But after all, after two weeks I already have noticed that this was a right choice to start, and I have noticed that I have started to see nature a little bit different, I’ll just think subconsciously where I could get a great photo. Well, we will see how long this motivation will last but I hope that it will be quite permanent.

This is again a weekend when I just have too much to do. It is interesting why usually all the tasks, jobs, everything that has to be done until a specific day ends up to be done in the same weekend. Okey, I admit, I have been lazy and haven’t done all my jobs when I had time but still, why all deadlines are always in the same week… I just guess that it is just a life or Murphy’s law.
I am still trying to write my Pro Gradu, but it is still quite unfinished. I have noticed that it is quite difficult to have a clear thought what you like to write and when you managed to do that, it is even more difficult to get it out from my mind to the paper. Well, I think it is just about I haven’t concentrate in the writing process enough yet, I just have to sit down and force myself to write, even something. I know that if I get even something to the paper, it would evolve something better in the time. All I just need right now is that draft version but…
Basic problem seems to be that I just say everything too shortly, I just cannot describe and talk about different subjects long enough. And of course, that little thing that I still don’t have a clear view what I should say and how much in which chapters. Well, if I just manage to write something, maybe it would turn into something good… maybe…

Last wednesday (9.4.) Anna Järvinen had gig at Klubi. The warm-up artist was Astrid Swan. And what makes this gig so different from others? Maybe just two things, first, it was a good performance and second, I was there.

The gig started with warm-up artist, Astrid Swan, which I had only listened very shortly from their website. And I have to admit, I was very positively, it was a lot better than I thought. Astrid’s music was great, and different from what we hear from radio all the time. It was a really nice to hear such a good artist and which was a new artist for me. Now all I just have to do is go and buy CD…

Then the main artist, Anna Järvinen. Anna was a familiar artist for me because I already had her music and listened for a week beforehand. So there was no such a big surprise than with warm-up artist, I already knew that Anna’s performance would be great. What surprised me was that listening Anna’s music on live was much better than it is on CD.

So, the gig was great, music was better than I expected and I can honestly recommended both artist.

Just now I have a feeling that I am coming sick. That stupid feeling when you just can’t concentrate well on anything. I guess that I have caught a cold from somewhere. Maybe if I decide that I doesn’t have time to be sick just now I won’t? It does work that way, doesn’t it?
I actually can’t remember when I have been in cold last time. In the autumn I had a stomach flu but cold, I don’t remember that I would have it in the last autumn. I guess that it has to be in the year ago. So I guess that it was a time again, I seem to have a cold at least once a year. But still, I have decided that I won’t have this cold now, I just don’t have time.

On Friday when I was coming back to university I encountered a little problem, the door which I usually use to get in was blocked. University has to make a new agreement about security because in the door was a cat watching that no-one was going in… Or at least I decided that it was better to go inside from another door than trying to get past the cat, specially when it was sitting in the front of door so I wouldn’t been able to open the door even.

Today I started a little project, one photo per day. I will be posting a one new photo every day for (at least) a year. I will try to post a new photo every day, meaning that it has been taken in that day or in the last week but because this is not always possible, I will also allow myself to use nice photos from my archives. But I promise that archive photos are only in the last resort.

One photo per day -project has its own blog, please see photos in here.

Today I noticed that it starts to feel like it is spring soon. Roads are getting free from snow. Again yes, not first time this year, no but this time feels different. Now the sun is melting all the snow, roads are full of slush and it is simply sunny, warm, spring like weather now. And today I was feeling like it is spring. I actually had a tough time to decide if I go to take photos by walking or just go to bicycle first time this year (and no, I don’t think that cycling to the work is cycling).
Second thing I noticed is that I have been taking too many photos from my neighborhood, I just seems to be hard to think something new and interesting out there. The nearby forest is boring, it is just too clean, simple and there is just nothing interesting for a photo. And it is really boring looking forest to take photos.
Maybe I just should cycle somewhere where is a little bit more interesting sceneries and stop to take photos there…