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December 12, 2004
Winding Down
Even though I should be going full steam towards Monday morning (when the first of two presentations begins), I am starting to feel the burden lessening. Part of that is surely because I just spent 7 hours re-writing the Strategic Management report. About half of it was good, but there was a lot of redundant information, missing information, confusing information. Since I was responsible for polishing up the report while Jo and Paulo work on the PowerPoint presentation, I spent the better part of today working in front of the computer.
I took a brief break this evening and went to Barbro Johansson's house. We met Barbro at the last Karlskrona Dialogue seminar, in which Karl-Henrik Robert, Per Carstedt, and Manfred Max-Neef spoke about the challenges to sustainability in the future. I had just stepped of the train coming back from D.C., so I was pretty exhausted and don't remember much of it. But several students (including me) talked to Barbro, who is distant family friends with Dave Nelson, one of our classmates. She remembered talking to us and invited us along with Dave to her family Christmas party tonight.
It was really fun to be in a Swedish house, celebrating Swedish Christmas. We had a special visit from a couple St. Lucia girls, who sang Swedish holiday songs in their white robes and candle-wreathed heads, and ate ride porridge with sugar and cinnamon. It was quite the experience.
Then, of course, I came back and worked for 3 more hours on my paper. It's almost 2 a.m. now and I'm due at a group meeting at 10 a.m. Sigh. Soon it will be over...
