So I’m walking down the hallway at TMU. Towards the coffee/lunch room. And I see a circle of people. Looking at something, talking excitedly. And I wonder to myself “what’s all this then?”.

It was Trine and her little baby boy.

Aw. Ain’t it sweet? That is Trine and her boy, Søren. Trine is one of the students. She is not the Trine who is my contact person. There are two, count ’em, Trines. She’d been gone for a little while. To have her baby, of course.

I’m glad I worked up the courage to ask her if it was okay to take a picture. I was sitting there, watching the commotion, for ten minutes thinking “come on, do it, she’ll just be happy about it”. And she was. When I showed her the picture she said “keep it!” and I did.

And what a precious boy. Babies are so sweet. Pure innocence and hope for the future. Melting everybody’s heart. The daddy is a sort of stern looking type. Shaved head and piercings. Not that he was a nazi thug or anything. But you know, tough macho-looking man. But when he was talking about the baby he was soft like cotton. Animals and babies have a great effect on people. Most people anyway.

No new foal by the way. But there was a slightly surprising visitor…

Magnethe is back! That was quite a surprise. So good to see her again. Okay, it’s only been 3-4 days. But that’s still long! I’m afraid 3-4 days isn’t enough for her to have gotten pregnantized, though. I can’t imagine that. I didn’t get a chance to talk to Kurt today. But I imagine that she has “gone out of heat” and that’s why he’s taken her back. If that’s the case then she’ll have to leave again some time later. But for now I’m just happy to have the gruesome threesome back together.

You might notice that she is in the goat fold. Yes, finally their wanderlust got them locked up again. I hope they won’t have to stay in there all the time now. Maybe I can get permission to let them out when I’m there, they won’t go wandering off as long as I’m near. We’ll see.

And that is all. May you all sleep safe tonight, like a little baby in your mamma’s arms.

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Current music: Eels – Crazy Love (060630)
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I woke up this morning with pains in my leg. Cramps. I must take better care of my calves. Not let them stay out and party all night.

So I was up half an hour too early. Spent the extra time in the shower. For a Monday morning I was actually feeling quite good. It’s just really good to be sleeping properly again. Don’t get me wrong, I am still tired a lot. But not so sleepy at least.

No new foal at the playground yet. And it turns out there might not even be one coming. Alice told me that they weren’t even sure there was one in there (referring to Sille’s tummy). I thought you’d be able to tell or something. Maybe I’m not able to tell because she isn’t pregnant. Hah. But I do hope there will be a foal. I have had baby sheepies and goaties and piggies and kitties and chickies and bunnies. I would like some baby horsies too.

Mads checking the picnic table, to see if I have set up dinner for him, no doubt.

Vanilje coming over. I am glad she’s still there. Now if I can just have Magnethe back soon.

From the back of the playground. I should draw a diagram of the whole place to lessen any confusion there might be. If you look at the fullsize picture then you might spot the lambs on top of the slope. Vanilje a little further down and then Mads looking up. Lots of mud too. The new buildings in the background,on the left. They are almost done. And the place is starting to return to normal again. More space for the animals, that’s good.

A veedeeoh: http://youtube.com/watch?v=kK_ugoSpj8g. The piglets. Lots of oinking. No high-pitched squeeealing, though. I’ll get that another time. I love their muddy snouts, they have lots of ground to dig through.

I finally called the eye doc today. And of course the place was closed. D’oh! But I’ll try again tomorrow. At least I’m getting it done.

Do you remember my mountain climbing? The Mols mountains. I posted a billion pictures from that trip. But I was not the only one taking pictures. I got my hands on some of the pictures taken by the others. And I appear in a couple of shots. I figured you might want to see those. So I will post them. Even though it goes against my religious beliefs. (Rule #14: Thou Shalt Not Inflict Pain Upon People’s Vision By Posting Pictures Of Thine Own Poor Appearance).

Hah. Funny shot. Me on the left. Sleeping. And woman on right, sleeping as well. I forget her name, sorry. Actually I was only half asleep. It was more sort of a defense mechanism. Instead of dealing with a bus full of people I closed my eyes and pretended to sleep. I do think I dozed off once or twice, though. And I certainly didn’t notice anyone taking pictures!

My head has an odd shape. Or maybe I just need a better haircut. But anyway. There you go.

Wow, I can’t believe we’re a week into May already. There’s less than two months left at TMU, dontchaknow. Hopefully they’ll be able to finish my case so I don’t need to come back after the summer break. Imagine, in two months I could have my future more or less settled. What an odd thought. Not that it will all be over from one day to the other. It’ll take time to get my case through the system and work things out and apply needles to the proper voodoo dolls. But I’m nearing the endgame, with any luck.

The future is right around the corner.

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Current music: Nephew – Taxa Triumf (061026)
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