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Back at Linn's parents apartment (and Emma's computer) for the moment because tonight we're all going to see Pirates of the Caribbean, which premieres in Stockholm tonight (and it'll be MY third viewing!) For the occasion I'm wearing the shirt Linn and her sister made me last summer. It's perty.

My country blogs are still sitting on disk, with no disk drive, but they won't be stale by the time I get to post them. Country-time exists outside of normal chronology. Country-time is timeless.

Linn started her classes on Monday. She told me how to use the subway and yesterday I actually got out by myself and went into the city. My first time completely alone on a foreign subway in a foreign city. I was ever so proud of myself. I went to the Lush store and stocked up, and then I bought some new comfy shoes. Of course it helps that as soon as I open my mouth, the other party switches seamlessly to English. So it's not the scariest foreign city to start out in. But I'm still proud of myself. It took me a long time to work up the nerve to leave Linn's apartment alone. I'm such a grownup.

While I was waiting for her yesterday, sitting on some steps, a guy from Tangiers sat next to me and tried to pick me up. So I really have to stop complaining that guys don't find me attractive. They do. They just never speak English. Seriously: in the last two weeks, two different men have asked me out, and both of them were so heavily accented that I could barely understand them. And the last two men BEFORE that were barely-understandable as well. I am irresistable to the international community.

I don't look down on them for that. The contrary: I greatly admire anyone who can speak more than one language. God knows I can't! But I'm not talking slight accent here; I'm talking unintelligibility. I just can't see myself going out with someone that I can't have a conversation with. That doesn't make me rude, snobbish or in any way stuck-up, does it? Intelligible communication seems a perfectly reasonable prerequisite for social interaction to me. It would also help if they were somewhere vaguely in the vicinity of my age. Older, foreign men just love me. But I can rarely reciprocate.

Oh, well. At least I'm not the LEAST attractive person in the human race. Lara Flynn Boyle still holds the title! Hurrah!

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