Spinning Words

It’s been a long time since I wrote something here but I have a good excuse for that, a very good excuse. So here I am sitting at my desk in the evening and writing this while enjoying a cold glass of lemonade. Since the last time I wrote I had the opportunity and the honor to see Alice Cooper play live for the second time in my life. To my shame I should have written a blog post just about that show, because it was worth it, but I didn’t, I apologize for that. I will however mention him here and now and say that, besides feeling like I was 6 again, I don’t know exactly if I assisted to a rock concert or a Broadway play. His show was complete, it was a full act that brought in front of my eyes not just a musician but a complete showman. Hats off, I enjoyed it a lot!

Soon after I entered some holiday mood that I am still trying to snap out of so I can successfully finish my thesis that I’ve been working on quite hard for the past months.

Not long into my holiday, while I was in a very special place that I am going to talk about in my next post, more precisely in Båstad, something great happened. Something that I’ve been dreaming of for a long, long time and I was really close to see my dream come true 3 times before: Horia won Wimbledon. I think that was one of the best afternoons ever. I remember the tension of the first set (they defeated Murray/Peers in 3 straight sets) and then I just saw how they distance themselves and just fly towards the victory in the two that followed. It was a totally twisted and opposite story compared to the three previous finals that he played in Wimbledon alongside Robert Lindstedt (2010, 2011, 2012). What joy to see him lift that trophy by his partner’s side, Jean-Julien Rojer, Juls for the ones who are familiar with the team.

This summer in maximum 28 degrees I probably ate more ice cream than I have eaten last summer back home in 37. I also dared to go to the beach and splash around in the, surprisingly, not so cold water of the sea around Stockholm. I still remember how to ride a bike but my skills in the city traffic are horrible, thank God for the bushes on the side of the road. My favorite thing though was swinging. And I noticed that I managed to go out in a t-shirt in 17 degrees, sweat and think it was too warm for what I was wearing. So far I can say that my Summer was amazing, too bad it had to end, and for a good reason now I have to snap out of it and go back to focusing on school and research.

I will wrap up the stories of my Summer tomorrow with an entry about the amazing days I spent in Båstad and the wonderful people I had the pleasure to see again or meet for the first time. I end writing this post while listening to Måns Zelmerlöw perform “Heroes” at a near by concert. The audience seems to be going crazy, sounds like fun.

I am a little behind with writing about what I’ve been up to, had a good reason for that. It’s been a crazy and busy week, the second in a row actually and there are at least two more coming my way. The reason behind the craziness will however, be different.

Slash in Gröna Lund

Latest wave of craze started with the Slash concert last week-end. As a person who has known Guns’n’Roses since I was 8 or 9 (wish I could remember), it was somehow normal that I’d like to see them live. So I did about 2 years ago. Can’t say I was that impressed probably because I saw them in a festival and a lot of great artists played before they actually took the stage . However, seeing Slash rock the stage last week was absolutely amazing plus the artists he is touring with are quite a treat to listen to: Miles Kennedy and the Conspirators. Myles Kennedy and Todd Kerns take care of the leading vocals, in turns, and I must say that they do justice to the old G’n’R songs. Their new material is very rock’n’roll and full of energy. Fortunately they didn’t play any of the old ballads and fortunately they played “You Could Be Mine”, a song I always had a weakness for, some sort of guilty pleasure of mine. Yes, “Sweet Child of Mine” was also included in the setlist and it sounded great.

With that energy boost I entered a week full of important events: exams and project meetings.The exams didn’t involve me directly but this doesn’t mean that they didn’t demand my full attention. For the project meetings there were a few expert researchers discussing important things around a table and…me. How exactly I got there I still have no idea though I remember every step of the process but in a way it still seems a reason to ask myself “what am I doing here again?”. It was stressful, tiring but exciting and interesting. Looking forward for the next one.

Now it’s time to focus on my own project that I’ve been working on for nearly 3 months now. Hope it turns out OK.