Doctoral tattoo :)

About a week after starting my life as a Doctor of Military Science, I went to see an artist I had contacted some weeks before.


This piece has provoked some and fascinated others. Obviously it first appears as a fairly provocative theme, but the wings and the text, I think, show that after all, nothing is as serious as it seems :) And, after studying war for years, I think this is what was coming.

Best day of my life

  

  

 

Wine & academia

Breakfast at a nearby café. Ordered the flowers for the venue and then attended the last doctoral defence before my own. Now focus. Focus.

I cried but got the dress!

Last weekend I hit some sort of a psychological rock bottom. I went to Katajanokka, started to cry, and then drank so much wine that I ended up taking the taxi home after I had passed out on the couch for some time.

On Monday I made a day-trip to Tallinn to get the drinks for the dissertation dinner. On Tuesday I drove to the country, got there in the afternoon and went straight to bed. I got up to eat, and then slept for a few more hours, only to go back to bed at 11 again. Tired?

But it's only going to get crazier now. I picked up my promotion dress today, and tomorrow I'll visit the doctoral defence venue to organize a few things and see another defence just to be clear on a few things. Then in the weekend we're meeting up with the girls to have a little planning session, as on Monday we're invited to meet minister Haglund! Then, on Tuesday my opponent will arrive from California, and it will be one crazy week from there. MILjazz on Wednesday, preparing on Thursday and then Friday... BOOM!

But what's most important is the fact that the dress is looking AWESOME!

Give a dick!

Today could have been great. I was planning to go see the Japanese war ship that is visiting Helsinki this week, but when I say the queue I turned around and went for drinks and sushi with a friend instead.

But, somehow I've been battling some major mood swings the past month. I know it's the infamous post-dissertation feeling of emptiness and that it's a phase that passes, but somehow it feels like my life as I know it has come to some sort of an end and everything is changing at once.

That, and three of my close friends will be gone in September. Two in Afghanistan and one in Brussels. I'm left behind with friends most of whom have no idea what I've been dealing with all this year.

Three pictures of the past days

I snapped this picture on my way to the gym. What I love about my neighborhood is its small village atmosphere. Apple trees between the houses and no cars in sight.

 I also needed some girl-time and that's what I got - or new eyebrows, rather.

And I looked after a very special friend's dog and the dog totally stole my heart. I swear she told me she loves me.

Fuck upset

So, I was horribly upset about some friendship/relationship related ongoings yesterday, and today I've just wanted to get out of the house.. I slept in, made a long walk with F and as she almost had a heat stroke, I took her to Rajasaari for some doggy time and swimming. Unfortunately V is such a bully I have to leave her home at occasions like this.

I got myself a Saima Harmaja biography and that's what kept me entertained for the those few hours on the rocks by the water.