Movers and shakers

I've been commuting from this student mecca Uppsala to a town outside of Stockholm that would have no reason to exist if it wasn't situated so close to Arlanda Airport. I ride rails and buses while reading the newspaper in my new language. "I get the gist," I think to myself after giving up halfway through an article about politics or sports or an editorial. When I'm feeling adventurous I don't swipe my train card, hop on the train and play dodge the conductor.

At the job I lift and move boxes around a warehouse. Sometimes I work outside with a fellow named Kent. We talk about how to place boxes on pallets and what time we should eat lunch or call it a day. He spent a majority of his life in the Swedish military and runs a tight ship. Everything he says has precise meaning, no wasted words, and I like that.

A girl at work brings her dog Rocco everyday. Rocco runs the place; he's my boss. During slow stretches of the day we've been known to rile up Rocco and then sit back and watch him tear apart cardboard boxes with his pearly fangs and teeth. Rocco has dough eyes and eventhough he runs the place and is my boss, he doesn't have thumbs and therefore can't quite unwrap the candy that everyone else on the job continuously eats. He uses his dough eyes as a device to obtain the candy. It doesn't work with me. I know dogs don't need candy even if they are positive that they do.

When I do my daily tasks at this job I listen to my iPod. Today my favorite song turned out to be Defeated and Lonely by Dear Nora. I'm not feeling defeated by any means. Lonely? Not at all. No matter, with the way that the melody falls over the bass and drums she could be singing just about anything and I'd love it. I came across this song the other day on an mp3 mix organized by Yacht.

I'm not lonely because I have m'sweet. She makes my life better in every possible way. M'sweet landed a fancy job in Stockholm the other week. She commutes too. I'd like to point out that commuting is the opposite of good times. We've decided to fix this problem and are moving to Stockholm in January. We'll be living extremely close to this wonderful view in an apartment on a hill in a section of town called Kungsholmen.

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