It's a bit like singing really! You listen to a tune for long enough and, even if you don't like it, you start singing it! Why do you think this is? Perhaps it's your voice telling you that you need to express yourself more, I don't know....it's really weird!
And, speaking of weird, I ran into someone I knew from a long time ago today, and, although I think they knew me, they just completely blanked me! It's this "familiar stranger" concept! If you want to find out the time, and there is a choice between asking someone you are sure you don't know, and someone you think you might know, you will choose the complete stranger every time! Or at least science tells us! Science, I hate science!

Well, I don't hate science, I find it at times too boring, so I have to get some way of disconnect from that side of my nature. So I write or swim. I really love swimming. When you swim you don't have to think about what you're doing.
You don't have to think at all. You can just blank out and concentrate on swimming faster and smoother, but I like to think while swimming. I consider what I've done during the day and what I have to do in the evening.
And I look forward to stretching out in the Sauna afterwards and relaxing totally. I could live in a Sauna, only it's a bit uncomfortable with clothes and if you're to entertain you're really expected to wear some.
Strange about having someone over for dinner in Sweden. I saw Maud Adams, from my hometown Luleå, on TV and she said that in the US you cook while talking to the guests and they are in the kitchen helping out.
Should you do that in Sweden you wouldn't stay popular as a dinnerhost. The food should be ready and just materialize on the dinnertable looking beautiful and then get cleared away as if by magic and then the coffee is taken in the living room. This is a fancy dinner, naturally. If you have some close friends over you can get some help, but not too much. And the coffee is still taken in the living room.

I never have fancy dinners! Too formal! I love cooking so much and I like to have others watch me cook. So if they are not happy to help out in the kitchen then they can find somewhere else to eat! In fact, to me, cooking is part of the meal. I have such fun when I'm cooking, especially with others, and the eating is just the natural climax of that!
Watching comedy on TV with others is also cool! People laugh at different things. I have a Greek friend who laughs at exactly the points where other people don't. I often debate on whether he finds these bits funny or if he is just slow at getting the bits I find funny! But in my opinion, the funniest things are those moments of spontaneous humour that arise in everyday life! You know what I mean? Like when some guy walks into a lampost because he was staring at some girl across the road! A bit cruel, but funny! Definitely funny!

Another thing I can always laugh at is stupidity. Well, not always, sometimes I get mad instead. I get so angry with stupid people. And impatient. Thank all my guiding stars I was not born stupid. That does not mean I'm a genious, but still I'm not stupid.

96-10-25
By Jenny in association with Keith