can we write joy?

why is it we mostly write when we're sad, pondering or in two-minds? why do we rarely write when we're happy and screaming with joy?

busy being in a jolly state of mind....

next time i'm happy or at least content, i'm going to write. will i be able to remain in a good mood or will my constant analysing kill it? can i express my warm thoughts without considering next days downfall? will the unreliable future bring me down and remind me of how short lived my happiness might actually be?

the irony of fate which always seems to track me down....

white fog

there is a blank sheet of paper in front of my window
i see no difference between the wall in my room and the window
i can't see outside
i feel my eyes have been covered up and i'm sheilded. What am I hiding from?
at times i think i can see it shifting but the paper lies thick
the whiteness brings with it the silence,
i can hear the ships struggling through their blindness
blindness to an outside i want to take part in, i want to see and experience
white
shadows moving
stillness
struggling
fear
fear of what can't be seen or known
if i open my window will it come inside? will i put out my hand and touch it? will i know when it's here? will it have a smell, a sense, a sound, a taste? will it catch me off guard and impose on me? will i find my way out?

noisufnoc

is it?

the direction of life...which way to go..how to turn...around and around...updown..hmm

does this make it better? does it solve the problems? it makes no sense...as does everything else.

how can i make it better? how can I see forward when I'm already here....

back, future...present?

up
up
up
up

circles, dizziness and blankness.

Vad blir en litteraturvetare?

Det är få förunnat att kunna kalla sig litteraturvetare till professionen. Det är egentligen bara lärare och forskare vid universitet och högskolor som på det sättet har litteraturvetenskap som sitt yrke. Men många fler har glädje av litteraturvetenskapen efter avslutade studier. Lärare i för-, grund- och gymnasieskola, bibliotekarier, journalister och kulturskribenter är några yrkesgrupper för vilka ämnet är av stor betydelse. Till den gruppen kan man också foga förlagsanställda, informatörer, reklammakare och andra.

Men även inom andra yrken har man nytta och glädje av att ha läst litteraturvetenskap. Litteraturvetaren lär sig inte bara litteraturhistoriska fakta, han eller hon besitter inte bara kunskaper om enskilda författare och verk. Litteraturvetaren utvecklar också viktiga färdigheter som förmågan att kritiskt analysera texter av olika typer, organisera ett stort textmaterial och presentera det muntligt och skriftligt. Den som studerar ämnet lär sig både detaljerad analys och att dra stora historiska linjer. Litteraturvetaren kan betrakta texter ur en rad olika perspektiv, och utvecklar sin argumentationsförmåga, sitt eget språk och sin språkkänsla.

Dessa färdigheter och denna språkliga kompetens är viktiga egenskaper i hela det moderna arbetslivet. Också litteraturvetaren är alltså anställningsbar: en litteraturvetare kan saker, är en högt utbildad och kompetent person. Så framhåll detta kunnande när du söker jobb eller sitter i anställningsintervjuer!

http://www.littide.su.se/pub/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=2450&a=26341

Global Nomad

Where are you from? Where do feel most at home? Where did you grow up?
If you have trouble answering these questions, or have experienced trying to answer them and testing your listener’s patience—or find yourself getting more attention than you really wanted at that moment, then maybe you are a global nomad.

A global nomad is anyone of any nationality who has lived outside their parents’ country of origin (or their “passport country”) before adulthood because of a parent’s occupation.

http://www.globalnomads-dc.org/

7 days to go

i'm so excited

and i just can't hide it

i'm about to lose control

and i think i like it!!!!

7 days to go and the lovely Obama will have taken a big step not only for himself but for his own generation and the ones to come. It will be difficult to follow Obama. He is idealised and has become almost like a god figure. The expectations of him are now high, will he be able to achieve everything he has set out to achieve and everything which is expected of him? Hope. Is he already backing down from the things he promised? It will take a long time to close Guantanamo he has said. A long legal process. Is this new information? Did he not know that when he spoke about closing it down in the first place? Or is he trying to wind down the expectations. Change. Will he and Hillary Clinton be able to make a difference in the Israel/Palestine conflict. I believe they can. President Clinton came a long way. Wouldn't it be so cool if his wife then finished the job! As always the women are picking up the broken pieces which the men have left behind. Strength.

I'm scared. Scared that Obama will turn out like all the others. That as soon as he comes to power he will forget about the people and his well chosen advisers opinions and only do what looks good and not what actually needs to be done. Fame goes to ones head and so, for that matter, does power. Although they usually go hand in hand so it's difficult to separate the two.

I have reached the point of blankness in my mind...