Good luck..

In case you forgot ..flogsta..

Congratulations..wow. another article published! And of course we ALL remember the essay's don't we...smiling..Happy for you!! Yes it is dying, but you and I resusitate it once in a while-I'm doubtful of the other two..

I miss the friendship, and having something concrete to work on. But, soon, another adventure is likely to show its face, San Francisco, looks more likely..what with the bombs and no work still..

Keep up the good work! Bisous

Hello!

I know that this blog may now be close to death, so here is a possible last post - imagine an early morning with bugles and khaki!

One of the essays I wrote for VEMS has, after more work, been accepted for publication in a journal that should be out in June, and online next year. It's the one about the Norse kingdoms in England and the way the used locals as client kings at first - I'm sure you all remember as we all read everybody's essay VERY carefully for the seminars...... :-)

And as a bonus my uni will give me $200 for having it published in a refereed journal! Partly as it's good for their prestige, and the government gives them $2000 (I think) for each article a member of staff has published so they obviously want to promote publication as much as possible!

Alex is now officially my external supervisor and the university will bring her here next May for a conference and to give me some in-person supervision, so it will be great to see her again.

So I hope that everyone is well and coping ok with Uppsala withdrawl symptons, and Europe withdrawl symptoms for some of us! Uppsala was a fantastic experience and I hope that we all manage to stay in touch over the years.

Someone's Birthday??

Hej!

a little birdy told me it's your birthday..(thank god for photos) SO...how old are you now ;) smiling ruefully, I've left off at 34..nice age..doubt I will ever get older!

Enjoy your day, big hug
(I'll leave the kisses to Aurore...smiling)

Warning..addictive

hello..

A bit of nostalgia...sigh very tempting !!!

OH and just to update I quit my job..yes yes but I was being worked like a slave turkish mentality, milk them for whatever its worth for little pay! (got my paycheck and left)...

yes i'm finally working..

Hej all,

if there is anyone who still reads this blog -smiling..i've found a job with a teacher recruiting firm, they just started, irony is i went to apply for a teaching job and they needed an adminstrative position -which i was happy to fulfill. I make a better assistant then i do teacher, have had more experience.

HELIO!!! write me, i feel bad you happened to chat with me right when my boss was around most times i'm free for now...

All the best..

Most time on my hands..

Besiktas, Istanbul at sunset..

Just to keep someone happy(smiling)..and as I've got the most time on my hands..thought I'd update. Well chatted to Alex, and all seems to be going well with her and Egil in London. Though the research is progressing slowly so she says. She'll be going back to Sweden for the summer and Iceland. She reminded me to contact Rak in Iceland about possibly doing fieldwork there in the summer. Having nothing to lose I reined in my pride and asked her, just sent it out today, so if I get an answer will let you all know. My current status hasn't changed, wish I could say that I've been doing many wonderfully interesting things but sorry..life continues as usual. Found a small private research library which has a small interesting English collections-Pagan and Christian creeds..written in 1920's but it has some interesting articles..Happy to have found even that. Shane good luck with the phd..Aurore you must be doing some serious studying because you are never online (not complaining) just congratulating you..but now that Shane is studying as well -we all know how disciplined he is!!!! smiling. Helio, are you among the living!! Miss you and a bit worried so drop a line somewhere!

Gros Bisous to all of you..thankful to have my blog and taking photos to keep me sane...

Of course it gets read..

Just writing which is sometimes difficult!! So don't get huffy please thank you-I've enclosed a picture of a few friends and family. Congratulations, I can't say that I don't envy you because I do, I'm very happy for you though, don't ever doubt that you made the right choice. So has Aurore, I'm flabbergasted that they would pay you so much!!By the way Bergen liked the idea of my proposal now I just have to actually submit it, and they will be having a research topic that will study the laws soon, so thats good. However, I really don't know when or how I will do it, finding work has become a never ending pain in the ass! smiling hugely. I've been forced to defend why I haven't worked seriously in the past 6 years- by saying I was studying and traveling enriching myself- good isn't it.(laughing) but seriously I can't sleep at night sometimes worrying. So hopefully Helio is out there somewhere as well, unfortunately Helio you write in portugese and though I'm keen to learn latin, portugese..well..so can't keep up with your blog. I've put my blog on my cv, not sure if that is a good idea or not but to hell with it. The weather is springlike so it's great for the morale, sorry Shane you would love it.
This damn internet!!! doesn't work well, will upload the photo later.
Stay well all, and don't kill the blog-smiling..just needs a push start once in awhile.