davemessina.com » Site News http://davemessina.com Tue, 11 Nov 2008 20:20:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 I’m back! Sort of… http://davemessina.com/2007/09/11/im-back-sort-of/ http://davemessina.com/2007/09/11/im-back-sort-of/#comments Tue, 11 Sep 2007 18:18:48 +0000 Dave http://davemessina.com/2007/09/11/im-back-sort-of/ busy_street_scene_sm.jpgWow, has it really been over 2 months since I’ve posted? Shameful. As most of you know, I’ve moved to Stockholm, Sweden. I’ve been here for about a month now, and it’s been wonderful so far.

The biggest surprise has been how excellent the summer climate is. Typical is 72 and partly sunny during the day, dropping to about 60 in the evening. This is perfect weather. Los Angeles weather. Of course, that’s all over…it’s now decidedly autumn.

Overall, though, it hasn’t taken me too long to feel “at home” here. Or closer to it than I expected anyway. Occasionally I have to remind myself that I’m living in a foreign country. I thought I’d still feel like a tourist at this point, and yet it’s still kinda like I’m on vacation.

That seems silly to say, but really, nearly everyone speaks English here. While this has kept away the feeling of isolation, it has contributed to my greatest challenge: learning Swedish. Yeah, big surprise, right? I’m finding it rather difficult to learn. Sure, I can tell I’m getting better, albeit slowly. But dammit I’m impatient.

All right, well that’s enough blathering on about myself. I know this is a blog — self-absorbed by definition — but really…

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My apologies for being slow with moderating comments — for some reason I’m not getting emailed when a comment is submitted like I should be. Consequently, I’m opening up comments to be unmoderated. Unless comment spam becomes a problem, I’ll keep it that way.

So there, now you have no excuse for not saying your piece…

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* Chances are
* it won’t be all that up-to-date

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