The college experience

Sometimes I read books. Sometimes I read books that are prescribed to be read by professors. When I do read the books, and well enough to understand them, I really appreciate it. I think... But the book I've been reading for environmental ethics class is really worth it. While it's confusing and sometimes super technical, it does make me think. Surprise surprise. Yes, I can do that sometimes. But now I was seriously thinking. 

Back in the day, when countries set out to 'colonize' places, what made them think when they landed on a new land, sometimes even seeing people there already, that this was now their land? They claimed land already claimed. Power and winners write history, right? They also decide who owns what and who can own what others already own. Winning has a different meaning in countries that feel they are better, more modern, more forward, and just generally the country. 

Those that landed in a country that seemed uninhabited soon afterwards found people. It was rarely the feeling of being completely alone. It was never really: we landed in some empty land that is absolutely ours. It was rarely ever completely empty. Say, America. The Indians were there, right? So what made all the countries believe they could rip it apart, take the land, lock up the people? What makes it alright and how could we accept that so readily? It underlines the whole egocentric idea that we're trying to shake. So many countries are guilty of such a move. France, Italy, Germany, Sweden, England, the US, etc etc. Oh wait, what's that? The Western countries? Yes, look at that. The Western countries are especially guilty of this and it's just been accepted. I don't know what to do about it now, what we are guilty of as individuals, but please think about it next time you disrespect people, foreigners, locals, or natives. 

Maybe they're not so different from you?

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Pies R Us

Hello friends,

I made a pie the other day and would like to share the amazingness that is this pie creation. I don't do recipe writing well, so just imagine the following as a well structured, professional looking recipe

Pie number 1 is a pie with puff pastry, mushrooms, chicken, and leek. I cooked the chicken after cutting it into bite sized pieces, added the mushrooms, garlic, and the leek. I let it all cook until the mushroom sauces were cooked away and the chicken and leek were nice and juicy. Then I put the puff pastry in the pie form, added the mixture that was herbed with a mix of Italian herbs, and baked it for some time, like 30 minutes or somewhat. I added eggs to the top too, so it looked nice and shiny.

It was awesome.

Pie number 2 was a little more challenging, for me, so for everyone else it would have been easier... anyway. I made a potato cream, mushroom, and turkey bacon pie. I cooked the thinly sliced potatoes in half cream half milk, enough to cover it, and let the cream thicken. Once it cooked well through I added sauce thickener so it would solidify a little. Then I cooked the turkey bacon and the mushrooms, sliced too, and let both things cool down. I put the puff pastry in the pie form, added the now cool potatoes cream mixture, and then added the mushroom bacon mixture on top of that, folded the pie over, added a shiny-fying egg, and baked for another like 30 minutes or whatever. It looked like following-

It's delicious also..

I also made this one day!

That was good too. it's cheese cream sauce with peas and turkey bacon.
I like turkey bacon...

Where grown-ups are made

I thought, at the age of roughly 20, people would have learned most of the basic life skills out there. But I was wrong. I think there are plenty of people out there that have somehow missed all the important lectures in life, slept through the tests, and just generally disregard the notices and emails from their professors informing them about their pending failure.

I thought one of the most important life lessons most people will have learned at this point is that you need to flush the toilet after use. Sadly, many university students and others around here still fail to do this regularly and leave toilets unflushed every day. This probably country wide epidemic is not only gross, but also limits my abilities to rush to the bathroom if needed. Luckily I have not experienced this first hand, because I have heard enough about this and tend to avoid such public/uni bathrooms, I have obviously heard of many of them... It's disgusting. 

Grow up people. 

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Like Crazy, seriously

Sometimes relationships baffle me. People say I love you, and I care for you. But once they're apart it's a whole different story. Long distance relationships baffle me the most. Not that people are in them, or that it's hard not to see the person you love for so long. The thing I don't understand is that people think it might not work. Does love dilute after a certain amount of km? Is it dough that thins out and eventually breaks if you pull it too far? I just can't grasp the idea of: If you're with me, then you're physically with me. If you're not physically with me then you're not with me.


The title of this blog is referring to a movie that is coming out. You can watch the trailer for "like crazy" on youtube, and you'll understand hopefully what I'm talking about. I just don't get it that people can't deal with long distance relationships at ALL. I understand it's difficult because you love them so much. But does that mean if you love them so much and can't do it long distance you should start seeing other people? Is it about the physical contact that you're missing? Is it the kissing and the sex? I just don't get it.


I thought that if you love someone, I mean, really love someone, then you can make long distance work, even if it hurts. You don't have to say "Would it be easier if you could see other people?" and keep going with the relationship. Does that mean you're breaking up? Well, not in all cases, open relationships are the new IT thing.

I'm not the expert on how it feels in a long distance relationship, I just can't grasp the idea of saying something like "lets see other people but still be together". If you love each other and want to still be together, you should have the need to see other people on the side. Then you're letting your physical being take over, don't you think?
Please, can someone enlighten me?

Bodentag

Today has been an interesting day, and a pretty big failure. Lets start at the first event. I passed a dead squirrel, and by dead squirrel I mean it fell of a tree and died right there, for no apparent reason. I passed it and thought some deep thought about immortality and the circle of life. But then I realized, up until then I just always assumed animals disappear when they die. Poof, dead and gone. It's a harsh reality out there, harsh life...

But then comes the even better part of my day so far. Oh mind you, it's only like 6pm, so this can get a whole lot worse still... We'll see. 

But anyway, I made lunch, leftovers from a meeting yesterday where we cooked. I made it nicely, had a veg, a meat, and pasta salad. I even got a glass of water and brought it up to my room. Not having a real table really changes things, so I set the plate down on the edge of the little table i have, in front of my computer and next to my bed. As I turn on my computer I think, "I hope I don't spill this all over the freaking floor..." Then, my computer slips and what happens? My plate spills on the bed and on the floor. All i could catch was the chicken. Great, my entire lunch lost. Good thing I had dinner planned... except, I don't. Orange juice for dinner it is...