Dissertation Accomplished!

 This was me at approximately 6:20 a.m. on Friday morning.

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This was me at approximately 15:57 p.m. on Friday afternoon.

I would have written sooner, but I was very busy with enjoying my new freedom. While waiting for the dissertations to get bound me and Roomie went downtown to do important stuff, such as buying me a recipe folder, going to the library and borrow comics, a book on sausages and a book on cheeses. Most importantly, we bought cake! After walking back to uni and submitting the dissertations we went via the grocery store and bought lemonade and fresh live mussels (£2.80/kg was quite decent I'd say), and ate a really delicious mussel soup for dinner. I had never cooked live mussels before, and big thanks to Roomie and Longhaired Roomie for their help with cleaning them (such a time consuming hassle, but well worth it, I'd say). I'll definitely cook mussels again sometime, apparently they seem to be in season now. It seems to have been a good bag overall, I don't know about the others but I discarded three mussels in total, and there were loads and loads.

(Thanks to Roomie for the photos!)

 Cleaning in progress. . .

 

 How beautiful!

 Mmm-m-mmm!

Ooh la la! Fresh coriander on top, aww yeah!

Other than that I have mostly been playing games, reading books, eating chocolate and filling my recipe folder neatly. Best weekend ever! We also had pizza yesterday! And brown sausage sauce today! Woohooo!

And the deadline isn't until 12 at noon tomorrow, but I don't even have to go to uni at all. I could just lie in bed all morning and eat chocolate or something. The world is in my palm. All it took was 9874 words of academic English.

Deadlines, deadlines

Soon, we have been back in England for a week. The trip went well, I began feeling better on the plane, after eating my provisions (I managed to get another bout of stomach flu the day before the flight). Yesterday we had a deadline for the studio unit, so life feels much better now, although there isn't terribly much time to feel smug, as the deadline for the big bad, the dissertation, is approaching quickly. Luckily I have pretty much enough words, my work is going to be about rewriting parts and polishing it until it shines brightly like a bautiful star. Or a piece of illegibly academic writing.

Happy holidays!

Hyvää Joulua, God Jul, Merry Christmas! Hope you all have a good one, whatever you celebrate and in whichever language you do so.

UWAA!

Oh wow, time really flies, doesn't it!?

Flying back to Finland TOMORROW! We have to wake up a little before 5 a.m. so I'll be going to sleep pretty much now. I'm switching to my Finnish SIM-card as well.

The huge plus is that we are taking a cab to the airport, as it's so early in the morning that a cab actually proved cheaper than train tickets for four people.


See you soon (if you're in Finland)

I have been a very nice girl. . .

The last week has been rather eventful!

Bad things:

- Our oven had a partial breakdown

- Our boiler had a full-scale breakdown (no hot water!)

Good things:

- I managed to repair my other bicycle brake myself (100 Big Girl points, right?)

- The oven got fixed.

- The boiler got fixed.

- We had tortilla today

- We had an Australian guest over yesterday

Time flies, it would seem it's time for the Wish List again! Please note that I gladly accept other types of chocolate than the ones listed here, such as Fazer's Blue, Tupla, Dumle, Toffifee and so on.

The List



Money
Rahaa  
pengar 

Always appreciated.


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Let's wish for something really girly for once:



Body Scrub
Vartalokuorinta

I just really kind of like it, and I would probably never buy it myself.




Okay, back to normal:




The Elder Scrolls: Anthology

 

Look at all these games! And there are even maps included!
I would never need to play anything else again, not for, like, 500 hours at least!





Angel Chocolate Bars
Enkelisuklaapatukoita
Änglachokladstänger

Mmmm.






Cloetta Center Toffee (original)

 Oh, yum yum yum!



Punch-rolls, or just green marzipan (Sallinen)
Punssirullia, tai ihan vain vihreää marsipaania (Sallinen)
Dammsugarbakelser, eller helt bara grön marsipan (Sallinen)





Naminami.



Arrack
Arrakki
Arrak

For baking (mostly, ahem)





Glögg-concentrate
Glögitiiviste
Glöggkoncentrat

Glugluglug.




Recipe Journal
Reseptivihko/kirja
Recepthäfte/bok










Should have a combination of pages to write in and plastic pockets to
hold cut-out recipes. Super plus if it has different sections for starters,
soups, main meals, snacks, desserts and so on.




Who Cooked The Last Supper?
by
Rosalind Miles


Seems like a funny and interesting book.


Dough
Fyffee
Stålar

Can hardly have too much.

Only two weeks until I arrive, be prepared!

Circular Heating Element.

Another chapter in the "everything breaks down in our final year in this house" story. Apparently the circular heating element at the back of our fan-assisted oven has decided to suddenly stop working. The good news are that the grill element still works, so the oven is not completely useless, and that the reparation shouldn't be too expensive, if it is indeed only the element, and not some strange electrical fault. We noticed this yesterday when we made lasagne, and put it into the supposedly pre-heated oven only to find it cold, although the light was on and the fan was blowing merrily away. 

The next tenants will find themselves in a truly pristine house, at least when it comes to all kinds of appliances, we'll eventually have them all broken and switched to new ones before our time is out.

In other news it is steadily getting colder, someone told me they heard a long time cold scare prognosis of this winter going to be one of the worst in all time British history, with temperatures possibly plummeting below -25ºC. Hopefully it won't happen, for the sake of everyone living in these poorly insulated houses, and England will simply cease to function.

A couple colder days would be nice though, since the freezer really needs defrosting. It builds up frost really fast, due to the outrageous indoor humidity.

Announcement

This beautiful MS Paint still life portrays an earring that seems to have been lost here by one of our guests last spring. Does anyone recognize it?

In other news the dissertation draft deadline is on monday, so this weekend seems to be destined to be filled with writing. Today, however, this dreariness is considerably lightened up by the plan of preparing and eating sushi. We actually bought a tiny piece of fresh salmon to use in it. Wow-ow!