"Oavsett vad du ger en kvinna så kommer hon att ge dig någonting bättre. Ger du henne en spermie ger hon dig ett barn. Ger du henne ett recept ger hon dig ett mål mat. Ger du henne ett hus ger hon dig ett hem. Ger du henne ett leende ger hon dig sitt hjärta. Hon multiplicerar och förstorar allt oavsett vad du ger. Så....... om du ger henne någon skit så kan du förvänta dig ett helvete tillbaka!!"

Translated:

"Regardless of what you give a woman, she will give you something better. If you give her a sperm she will give you a child. If you give her a recipe she will give you a meal. If you giver her a house she will give you a home. If you giver her a smile she will give you her heart. She will multiply and grow everything no matter what you give. So... if you give her shit you can expect hell back!!"

I received this sms from a woman who is quite dear to me, colourful and strong, to me she embodies the empowered woman in many ways. And yet she sends me this, which on closer inspection turns out to consistently paint a woman as someone who will simply react to what you offer her, rather than be an agent in her own right, or her reactions depending on any other thing but her womanhood. (Such as, would any random woman want to cook for you, just because you handed them a recipe?) I was surprised.

I guess there are many memes floating around in the guise of "female empowerment" where it's sort of tricky to spot that they're really just about gilding the cage from the inside...

Going to the funeral of my aunt, who passed away a short while ago, cancer finally claiming her after two previous attempts over the last fourteen years.

Perhaps ironically, choosing something to wear to a funeral is somewhat difficult for me. I want to wear something that is appropriately somber and tasteful, and doen't scream "Hey, look at me! I'm a big gothy goth!"... which makes me wonder at those "Are you going to a funeral?" unoriginal "wits", would they, seriously, ever go to a funeral in stompy boots? Or fishnets? Or massive amounts of buckles? Or with a dramatic eyeliner design?

And if not why are they asking stupid questions they already know the answer to?

Have a link since LJ seems to eat embeddings for snacks
http://www.tv4play.se/nyheter/lokala_nyheter/umea?videoId=1.1721543

Translation:
Me: "Most of all being able to listen to this music without having put it on yourself we hope will appeal to the black-clad in Umeå"
Tv-woman "Dark Afternoon, in all the sunshine, what do you say about that?"
Me: "It's more of a metaphorical dark rather than an actual dark. We like the sun too, we just want to wear sunblock."

I had morfeusz take these pictures of me quite a while ago when visiting my parents, and then life happened and I didn't get around to posting them for a long time, but here goes

( All dolled up )

I realize looking back that I never did write very much about my weeks of practical math-teacher training this fall, ah well. Either way I'm having another stretch of practical training now, this time as an English teacher for ten weeks, and an amusing thing happened that I wanted to share.

One of the things our own teachers do, and that we are encouraged to in our on classrooms as well, as to encourage/badger the students about using english at all times during the lessons, both when working together on tasks, and when they stray onto other topis to at least do it in English. Exceptions are made, of course, for when you can't quite ask about or define an unknown word by circumlocution.

I overhear the following utterance in... not quite Swedish... not quite Swenglish... Swowish?

"Det finns just [somethings] du inte kan [somthing]a och humanoids du inte kan sap-a"
I didn't quite catch the first half but I've heard enough, I head over in the direction of the speaker and tell him:
"If you're going to discuss World of Warcraft, why not do it in English since it's the language the game is actually in?"
The recipient of the information just brightens up when he hears me and exclaims
"She knows!"
While the speaker enthusiasticly turns and asks me if I play... I'm forced to admit that I only really played a little and mostly it was my brother who played, but I think I scored a few points with the gamer boys there, which felt nice, go me! :)

( Fairly big screenshot )

For the english-speakers on my f-list.

The news today is primarily about the huge-ass fire that has destroyed the entire top floor plus attic of a huge 3-part apartment building last night. 70-90 apartments of which a large chunk is probably completely destroyed, and the rest likely has quite some smoke and water damages. Luckily nobody was hurt, but a fair amount of people (including an aquantance of mine) had to be evacuated, and many people who were away for the holidays now have no home to come home to.

The advertisement above the main news is for the huge middle-day (between Yule and newyears) sale, and has some animated flames to show what a very hot sale it is... *cough*

You can go to VK and read the news if you know the language, the ad in question seems to have been pulled by now though.