Wednesday, January 10, 2007

Hibernation


My parents live in a village in Sweden, I grew up here til I was 16 and moved to boarding school in Scotland. The village is called Sjötorp and has around 700 people living in it. Sweden's biggest canal starts here; Sjötorp is its connection to the biggest lake in Sweden, Vänern. It is not famous for much more than that. I think it should be because it is a beautiful place, especially in the summer. However, regardless of the canal it also has a magical effect; the village is able to freeze time.
Well, it doesn’t freeze it as such, but it makes everything go really really slow (maybe much like any small town anywhere in the world I guess). So I have been here for the last week and nothing has happened, I have done nothing, I have spoken to no one, I have written nothing, I have not seen anyone; it is much like a short-term human hibernation. I actually think my heart is beating slower than ever, that is how relaxed I am.
It has been great, I say I haven’t done stuff but I have done something; I've started knitting a scarf, and read loads of books. These activities are a good change from my usual slightly more hedonistic pursuits. Vie read The Perfume, which is a great book describing a travel through France in the 18th century by the sense of smell (its just coming out as a film too). I have now started reading the bible. Yes, a very surprising choice I know, but I wanted to read a classic, you know, find out what all the fuss is about. And wow, you have to look hard to find a more patriarcical book. I am only on like page 20 but there has only been two women of any mention so far (but there has been a hell of a lot of men) and one of them screwed up the whole world because she wanted knowledge (I think we girls really deserve to be held to that for the rest of time), the other one is the wife of Abraham, and she so far she hasn’t said anything she is only so beautiful that the whole of Egypt wants to sleep with her and might kill her husband for it.
I go back to the normal universe on Friday when I first go to Oslo, and then I am back in the US on Monday. Hibernation is great but only short term and it’s going to be great to go back to DC. I’m going to try to maybe get an internship or something. Be a better person. Have more fun. See more than Georgetown. There is a lot to do in my final 5 months there!

2 comments:

HomeImprovementNinja said...

Hope you have a nice trip back.

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