http://clovergiles.com/blog Sun, 05 Sep 2010 19:55:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en There is no solution. Life is inevitably an unsolvable problem - but it is not improved by shouldering impossible burdens. There is no limit to good will, but ability, and time, are resources. They should be spent as equally wisely as our money. A couple of stress filled weeks and ... http://clovergiles.com/blog/?p=933 Five weeks after my last blog and it seems like 15 eternities have passed since I myself was in the 'new foreign student' position and beginning my courses in 'självsabotage på svenska'. The position of Project Leader for the International Committee at Mälardalens Högskola is apparently much wider reaching that ... http://clovergiles.com/blog/?p=929 So, a month into International Committee and things are coming together. This week has been 35 hours in the office. Despite taking 9 days free for Interrailing and visits in the the South of France I have clocked up roughly 70 unpaid hours work. Rather a lot of work when ... http://clovergiles.com/blog/?p=925 [gallery columns="2" orderby="post_name"] http://clovergiles.com/blog/?p=897 It's been a while since I blogged. One of many reasons being that I now spend a large part of my working day in front of the computer and have little lust to spend my freetime there either. Another being that a large part of my working day is much ... http://clovergiles.com/blog/?p=888 A large part of the day has been spent in front of db.de - a wealth of trainy goodness. It looks like a couple of mega-trips are on the cards. First it's off to the overtly exotic South of France via Cologne (food, coffee, wine, wedding,  Swede of fine build, ... http://clovergiles.com/blog/?p=884 There are few moments so simply contented than re-entering consciousness after deep, dreamless sleep and realising that there is the physical warmth of another soul beside you. The half whispered hello and a weighted hand creeping round your waist. The air is full of human, in it's most honest state, ... http://clovergiles.com/blog/?p=880 It's nearing my second midsummer in Sweden and days are skipping by in their usual fairytale style. Much of what has occurred could easily have been conjured by my fantasy but there are occasional reminders that it is in fact reality. As usual, events are nothing short of extreme, and ... http://clovergiles.com/blog/?p=877 Goodness gracious, what a lot life changes! Yesterday my status changed twice. First from unemployed to employed as, after my first ever interview in Swedish (slightly more nerve racking than muntliga tentor) I was invited to join the Kåren team as the chairperson of Mälardalens högskolas International Committee. It's going to be ... http://clovergiles.com/blog/?p=872 It would seem that there should be no such thing as regular routine... or rather, there should be small regular routines enveloped by a non-matching mishmash of experience and ideas. Keeps the brain wandering (if not organised) and healthy. The weekend has been spent in celebration, desperation and intrepidation. We returned ... http://clovergiles.com/blog/?p=866