If wishes were fishes...

After that last post, I guess I kind of disappeared for a while. For a few days there I had gone back to the farm to help out. I know very few people in Sweden and who I do know, well, they're on a 100 acre farm north of Uppsala. And now, after a week of chilling in Uppsala, I'm on my way back for a few more days - quite possibly the last time I will be heading up there.

I don't know why I keep going back. Possibly because I've been partially guilt tripped: "You promised us a month but only gave us two weeks. Woe and sorrow unto us who will now be struggling to survive... Wait here while I go take a nap." More or less abbreviated for fictional enjoyment. Ah well, I am a sucker. If I ever got a tattoo, it would either be of a lollipop or a leach.

The really big occurrence of the past few days was a stupendous meal at a Greek restaurant. Dad promised a meaty meal in sympathy of my forced stint as a vegetarian and I decided: Who knows meat like the Greeks? Ah! Well, Dad, it was an absolutely fantastic meal. I also considered it reparations for missing the yearly Greek festival near my dad's work. Congrats on getting two birds with one stone! I took my Swede and we dined on the waterfront - aka right beside the river that runs through Uppsala. I got much enjoyment out of watching the ducks bob for food below the surface of the water. Something about seeing a little duck's butt waving in the air, little orange feet churning the water, makes me feel good about life.

Not much is new. I'm trying to make plans to visit Germany by using www.ryanair.com or by train. More importantly, I really want to travel more. I've become fatted by complacence and the confines of four walls (albeit four very nice walls). The truth is, I feel strangely guilty just sitting around here and wasting. Wasting opportunity, youth, blah blah. I do things here and I can't help but think: Jeeze, mom and dad would love this. OR Doug would really enjoy seeing this. Ah, sometimes I think it's all wasted on me. Truth being, I mainly wish you all were here to enjoy it all with me.