After being grilled for an hour on an opposition paper this friday I got into the car around 5pm with a friend, heading up for Jokkmokk. The reason was that one of my oldest and best friends turned 30, and this time, I was in Sweden to actually be at the event.

The trip wasn’t without complications. Around 9pm as we stopped for a 10 minutes dinner the cars battery light started to act up and by the time we were about 1 hour from home, the car just died. (Turns out the coal in the generator that recharges the battery went MIA) and I had to make an emergency phone call to my dad who came and picked us up.

Arriving late, around midnight, it was a blast to see the surprised face of my friend and the celebration lasted until early morning.

The day after, saturday, me and another friend got into a car, drove to where my car had stopped working, charged the battery enough to make me last home and into the garage where I did some emergency repairs, taking out the generator, replacing the coal and putting it all back together since we had to get back down to Umeå the day after (sunday).

It’s been nice to spend so much time at my home town. When I was living there, I dreaded the place and all I could think about was getting “out into the world, living life”. But after being away from home for such a long time, spending a month in Thailand and roughly 6 in the US, I have started to appreciate the comfort of home and friends. Being back in Umeå feels like a whole new challenge as I turn my attention to my last paper before graduating this summer.

I’ve spent a couple of hours going through all the news that’s been reported the last couple of days and I’ve also taken time to go over some new trailers for movies coming out this spring/summer and some of the clips that has got me longing to hit the cinemas is the following: Street Kings, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Hancock, Leatherheads, The Fall, Chaos Theory, Where in the world is Osama Bin Ladin?, The Bank Job, Hellboy II: The Golden Army, How to lose Friends and Alienate People and finally, Midnight Meat Train. As well as Dark Knight that I mentioned earlier, this might be a good time for the movies..

Now I’m going to kick back for a while, watching Walk the Line since I’m probably the only one in the world who hasn’t seen it..