Relaxing lovely holiday (of sorts) by the lake. I’ve made my records in swimming and had a lot of sauna. No rain, no berry or mushroom picking. Perhaps its only ok, as I also managed to do some work, though today I’ve seen my childhood friend Ninni and her newest son and new house. Fantastic! It’s so lovely to see friends settling in a nice way – and in the case of her and her two sons and husband next to the grandparents. Her new house is less than 100meters from her childhood home!
Spent some time today here at the parking lot of the airport – where I found a free unsecured WLAN connection. Fantastic! Though, I think they noticed me in the morning and cut the connection. Let’s see whether I manage to post this one this time. In this rural context I think it would be just fair – my mom has done all she can inorder to save this airport which serves the industrial town of Varkaus, but is located in my village, just next to our lake. There’s no air trafic – apart from for a hobby for the moment. This is pretty universal: Finland is deep on holidays.
It will probably wake up after next week, when I’m already far away in Europe. The plan is to fly first down south to Frankfurt (Hahn), and stay over at my friends in Aschaffenburg. Then take the night train to Milan and continue to Florence and Cortona in Tuscany. That’s where there’s a summer school on Solidarity for two weeks.
Before that, I need to write two applications and one paper – and send yet another edited paper off. And make some flight bookings – naturally that’s the thing I should do here by the airport.
On the news side: I’ve been accepted to the Bauhaus Kolleg, Dessau, Germany for their first semester 16 October – 1 March. Can’t wait as they run a program on European urbanism and Capitals of Culture – prime place to be for my postdoc research. And for my research interest on politics and architecture! They offer a room and excursions but that’s about it. Hopefully I’ll get some further funding!
