Benrik diaries - A lovely sweater and a few options

My co-worker wore this lovely sweater today and it got me into this really good mood. : )


After completing my task early I this week I got some extra time to think about some real-life tasks and options. (random-day-to-day thoughts.)

Options:
- Finnish my degree
- New job
- Brain-surgery
- Career
- Find meaning of life

- I’m leaning towards the degree-thing. Am going to the guidance-counsellor to explore further.
Down-side of this is economics, I could go somewhere else to study and that would lower my costs. Or study half time but that would obviously take twice the time.

- Find a new job, maybe a new place all together. Sometimes I’m thinking Dublin (as I can’t redo Prague, it wouldn’t be the same).
This would be a fun thing to do but not leading anywhere else besides yet another bonus on the experience account. (Well, like most things.)

- Brain surgery, for this one I just have to make an initial phone-call and be on my way. 08-320 100.
Need to check up eventual down-sides of a brain surgery. I don’t want to end up like Jack Nicholson in ”one flew…” do I?

- Work harder at what I do, get more involved and put some effort into my career(?)
Truth is, sometimes I get a real high and a feeling that what I do really makes a difference, that I’m an essential part of something bigger and that things would fall to pieces if I didn’t do it. That's a good feeling.

- Find meaning of life.
This would take a course in mathematics (my least favourite subject) then I would have to make some kind of calculation. And not just a regular everyday-kind-of-calculation like all the others. No, we’re talking a very BIG and extremely BOMBASTIC calculation with plenty of X:s and Y:s that would take you from one side of the problem to the other and back again, several times!
Oh yes, a calculation so grand that it would take enormous amounts of time to think about, both how to get to the answer and then how to interpret, adjust and adapt the answer to reality. Might take forever.

Just thinking…

Benrik diaries - My true opposite

First off I'd like to thank Yrla, Yrla Virvelpike (pige?) for recomending me Kim Hiorthöy. I've fallen in love with "This record can not set me on fire".
9 minutes of pure pleasure.

Secondly - attracting my opposite-tasking.
Mission completed as I got one reply.
"Here I am" he said and further confirmed his oppositeness by adding that he's taller than me and blonde!
He surely must be my opposite.
And I his.

Thirdly:
Lots to do. I'm beat.
What I really want to do is soak in my tub, pointlessly watch the Olympic games or any of the movies J and S lend me.

Benrik diaries - Advertising Space

I'm not really in the mood for charming, dating or pressing up against another so I've been thinking about ways to escape this one.
Then realized it's just about attracting the opposite, nothing else.
I decided to advertise and if anyone answers that equals successful tasking.

To know who's an opposite of you must first know who you are. (Forgive me for not following the benrik-hints here. The list was amusing but not very practical.)

So:
"Seeking: Neat/tidy, athletic man from the country-side, with an interest in engines. I don't mind if you like cats, Westlife and *Kåldolmar!"

It was published today in "City".

Am uncertain and don't think that anyone will "buy" into it. It’s so obviously a prank right? But then I asked a couple of (very amused) friends and they thought there would be enough loonies out there for some of them to answer.
"You're anonyms right?"
Of course I am.


Please give me some credit for this one.


(*Kåldolmar is a very distasteful-cabbage-food)

Benrik diaries - How to fold a dog

The fact that I oversleep everyday is something everyone's learned to live with, accept and adjust to.
Everyone but my dentist.
A couple of weeks ago I got a wintery postcard saying I was welcomed there at 8 o'clock Friday, 9th of February.
Talk about some heavy tasking.
I got to bed at 2.30 am.
I got up at 7.30!
(It might have something to do with the launching of my secret weapon earlier this week.)

In early December on a Saturday I decided to join my dog-loving friend to a dog show. She said that she'd pick me up at 6.45 am. I didn't say anything actually (took it as a challenge). "But you better call me a couple of minutes before, just to make sure I'm awake".
Said and done. Saturday came. I woke up. Got descent. And lied on the bed (fell asleep again) until she called.
"Are you awake?"
"Yes!" (of course)
"How do you feel?"
"Shocked, but alive."
That's almost how I felt this morning. (The dog-show itself is another story.)

Anyway I went to the dentist (where I found an angry father with two kids).
The dentist didn't find anything.
She thought I took really good care of my teeth and that's almost a skill isn't it?
(going to the dentist is really expensive in Sweden.)


Yesterday I had cake at Lisas surprice party.
I've never been to a surprise-party before, only seen it in movies and read about it - people dying of heart-attack, getting caught with their lover and killing "burglars". Need I say my expectations were high.
This was my experience:
- Objective sat down and didn't know quite what to say.
- Lots of candy.
- A few un-easy conversations.
- Discolight.
- Some coffee.


Newspaper this morning:
"All the regular TV-shows will now be replaced by some jocks playing in the snow."

Not that I mind too much.

Benrik diaries - February 7th

The morningbus was crowded.
One man couldn't get on and shouted "fuck you!" to the busdriver.
The man was really upset.
But I'm back to normal.
I continued reading my book.

I'm still reading "Expedition L" but am thinking about shifting to "All Families Are Psychotic". And I'm waiting for the book about 'deep throat' (watergate-thing) to get to paper back.
I sound like a book-worm.
Truth is I should read more.

A list of recomedeble books (no order):
- "The curious incident of the dog in the night-time" Mark Haddon
- "Dilledagboken" Juha Vuortinen
- "Naive. Super" or "Expedition L" Erlend Loe
- "Life of Pi" Yann Martell

Today me and my benrik-partner made 100 hearts together. 'Weeee' to us! : )
I must recomend you to read his blog (especially this week.. some great tasking going on).
I've decided to celebrate this with some beer and pool.

Cheers!

Benrik diaries - 2:2 February 6th

I’ve been in a low. Don’t know if I should talk about it or just focus on getting out of it.
I'm gonna do the later. (it just chemicals playing tricks on the brain anyways).


It’s theatre-night. That usually sets me in a good mood.
Fact: I need to practise on being more firm with my own ideas.
I’m gonna take some time to explain this:
Improvisational theatre is much about letting go of boundaries, take the first God damn thing that pops up in your head and go with it - we don’t have scripts just “games” and different techniques.
Also it’s about listening to others at the same time, since they’ve got ideas of their own and this way you build a scene, the ideas go back and forth and you never really know what’s gonna happen.
(There are of course a few other aspects to it in order to make a scene more interesting - spacework, storytelling, building a character).
I think I’m descent at spacework and I’m good at listening to other peoples ideas.
For tonight I’m gonna try building a character that’s not yet another version of me. (Perhaps someone from the future?)


I think I made the goal of getting 5 people to understand the greatness of Richard Cheese, or at least tolerate him.
Thursday I’m going to a birthday-party and ofcourse I’ve decided to give away a Cheesy CD (+ some wine). : )


Enjoy your night!

Benrik diaries - Travelling and time.

Well before trying to start tasking I decided to do some research (at wikipedia).

What is travel?
Travel is the transport of people on a trip or journey. Reasons for travel include:
- Tourism—travel for recreation. This may apply to the travel itself, or the travel may just be the necessary investment to arrive at a desired location.
- Visiting friends and family
- Trade
- Commuting–going to various routine activities, such as work or meetings.
- Migration—travel to begin life somewhere else; nomadic people do this
- Pilgrimages—travel for religious reasons
The word originates from the Middle English word travailen ("to toil"), which comes from the French word travailler ("travail").
(Travel or traveling is also a name applied to a specific violation in the game of basketball.)


What is Time? (I found many answers on this one and chose the physiological explanation.)
Different people may judge identical lengths of time quite differently. Time can "fly"; that is, a long period of time can seem to go by very quickly. Likewise, time can seem to "drag," as in when one performs a boring task. The psychologist Jean Piaget called this form of time perception "lived time".

Time appears to go fast when sleeping, or, to put it differently, time seems not to have passed while asleep. Time also appears to pass more quickly as one gets older. For example, a day for a child seems to last longer than a day for an adult. One possible reason for this is that with increasing age, each segment of time is an increasingly smaller percentage of the person's total experience.

Altered states of consciousness are sometimes characterised by a different estimation of time. Some psychoactive substances--such as entheogens--may also dramatically alter a person's temporal judgement.

In explaining his theory of relativity, Albert Einstein is often quoted as saying that although sitting next to a pretty girl for an hour feels like a minute, placing one's hand on a hot stove for a minute feels like an hour. This is intended to introduce the listener to the concept of the interval between two events being perceived differently by different observers.


I have to think about this for a while.