{"id":328,"date":"2008-02-08T02:07:11","date_gmt":"2008-02-08T00:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/?p=911"},"modified":"2008-02-08T02:07:11","modified_gmt":"2008-02-08T00:07:11","slug":"living-at-a-distance-of-400-kilometers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/living-at-a-distance-of-400-kilometers\/","title":{"rendered":"Living at a distance of 400 kilometers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Being in Stockholm I&#8217;m not really taking advantage of the situation. There are so many things to do that one is hard-pressed to choose.<\/p>\n<p><img src='https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/blog_uploads\/2008\/02\/00_img_0162.jpg' alt='Afrikansk dans' \/><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/blog_uploads\/2008\/02\/00_img_0041.jpg' alt='Bird skeleton' \/><\/p>\n<p>Most of my social life is managed at a distance &#8211; every three days I Skype with Anna to see what&#8217;s up, and I&#8217;m staring into the camera at the top of the screen and imagine that I&#8217;m still partaking in whatever hijinx they are up to back in Gothenburg.<\/p>\n<p>I visited over the last weekend, helping Hanna to move her tremendous amount of <del>crap<\/del> valuable items into her apartment. (the roof is, like, 5 metres high!) Good fun was had, and Saturday was spend being exceptionally drunk and giggling like a school girl, while talking about hard AI and wallet design with P\u00e4r and Petter.<\/p>\n<p><img src='https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/blog_uploads\/2008\/02\/rivnings-hus-centralen.jpg' alt='Rivningsk\u00e5k' \/><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/blog_uploads\/2008\/02\/scaledanna_mateusz_skype.png' alt='Skype Mateusz och Anna' \/><\/p>\n<p>One month has passed of my employment, much faster than I had imagined. I am working at the national museum of Architecture in the middle of Stockholm, on a web project about to the history of city planning.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s great fun, but I haven&#8217;t worked, as in <em>work<\/em> worked on any long term project since I did that flag burning thing four years ago. I&#8217;m not used to it, is all, but it&#8217;s progressing.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a sign of the times &#8211; someone demolished a bus-stop using a 17&#8243;computer screen. Back in the day, <del>we<\/del> vandals used <em>stones<\/em>. It&#8217;s like stone-age to technological society in fifteen years time, from a destructive point of view! Progress!<\/p>\n<p><img src='https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/blog_uploads\/2008\/02\/00_img_0197.jpg' alt='Sk\u00e4rm genom rutan' \/><\/p>\n<p>It was a hoot getting the first paycheck. I visited Albrecht in Karlstad, and only wish that when my 30th birthday rolls around I will behave with equal dignity and class. I still own him a present, but since I&#8217;ve spend my first paycheck on debts he&#8217;s just gonna have to wait until the end of next month.<\/p>\n<p><img src='https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/blog_uploads\/2008\/02\/00_img_0201.jpg' alt='Ali' \/><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/blog_uploads\/2008\/02\/00_img_0052.jpg' alt='Karta' \/><\/p>\n<p>For the next couple of weeks I hope to explore the city a bit better. Right now I only find two beer halls and one Chinese restaurant. Haven&#8217;t seen any exhibitions, and travelling three hours each day just to commute to the suburbs kills my ability to do anything except sleeping and smoking.<\/p>\n<p>So, in order to cheer me up, you should invite me to meet people at least as fun and charming as I am. And even though my sexdrive has driven into a wall, I have been imagining standing behind someone cupping their breasts. I don&#8217;t know why that image has stuck with me, but there you go. If you know of someone who would appreciate being <em>cupped<\/em>, you know where to turn.<\/p>\n<p><img src='https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/blog_uploads\/2008\/02\/cup.gif' alt='Cupped breasts' \/><\/p>\n<p>And if you want to talk to someone who has had nightmares about programming two days straight, I&#8217;m your man as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being in Stockholm I&#8217;m not really taking advantage of the situation. There are so many things to do that one is hard-pressed to choose. Most of my social life is managed at a distance &#8211; every three days I Skype with Anna to see what&#8217;s up, and I&#8217;m staring into the camera at the top &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/living-at-a-distance-of-400-kilometers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Living at a distance of 400 kilometers<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[16,45,154,208,228,271,341,360,394],"class_list":["post-328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doodles","category-friends","tag-albrecht","tag-birthday","tag-fodelsedag","tag-karlstad","tag-lon","tag-paycheck","tag-stockholm","tag-teknologi","tag-utveckling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}