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It's summer, and it actually feels like summer in Finland too, which is surprising but lovely. Anyways, new Friday Five:

1) If you could be either a fish or a bird, which would you be, and why?

Probably a bird? Seas are cool but like, I think the average fish is in much larger danger than the average bird. Plus flying would be awesome.

2) Would you rather it be 10 degrees too hot or 10 degrees too cold? (Does your answer change if that’s indoors or outdoors?)

Answer doesn't change based on location and like, that depends on what too hot and cold means? My ideal temperature is ~25-35C, and +10C to that is dangerous but -10C to that isn't even though I don't like it, I'm used to it. And barely never get to >25C ;;

3) What is the best thing that happened to you today?

It's early morning, so nothing has really happened yet ^^'

4) Is youth wasted on the young? (Follow-up: are you old or young?)

Wha? Kinda? I'm mid-20s. And I'm wasting everything~

5) Pasta salad or potato salad?

Hmm. Both are good. Pasta salad, maybe.

Friday Five ~

1) Has the weather where you are finally started acting like spring is here?

Well, the snow is starting to melt... 😬 There's still quite a bit left though.

2) Do you have any special spring activities or outings planned?

Not really? Some things I could do but they're still far away.

3) Have you started wearing different clothing appropriate to spring?

Not yet, unfortunately. Will probably switch to a lighter jacket when it's above 5C in the mornings, too.

4) What signs of spring are manifesting around you?

I saw a flower a bit less than two weeks ago! A real flower! Also, willow catkins and icicles.

5) Are there special foods you enjoy preparing and/or eating in the spring?

Drink, but mead! I love mead, and it's traditionally drunk on May 1st.

Winter Questions in the Friday Five (╬ Ò ‸ Ó)(╬ Ò ‸ Ó)

1. What are your feelings about snow?
Fuck snooooowwwwjh kasnmd as hdJAH sthere's so much snow it's been snowing all day

2. What is the one thing you really dislike that is associated with snow
Its inherent snowness

3 What is the one thing you really like that is associated with snow
When snow melts in the spring

4. Do you anticipate or dread bad weather reports?
??!?? Dread

5. Are you dreaming of a White Christmas?
Yes it's definitely one of my nightmares, and a very likely one at that

Tbh for the last question, it's fine since I can stay indoors. It looks nice. As long as I'm warm and don't have to be anywhere near it.

Half an hour until the next lecture and I couldn't be bothered to go to the store so here's a Friday Five.

1. Have you come to the conclusion that your parents music (music popular in their time) isn't so bad?

Depends I guess? I never thought it's particularly bad compared to the popular music today, but popular music in general? Ew : P dons hipster glasses

2. Is there a song/group/singer you once adored, but don't now?

Yeaaah but really only from when I was like, younger than 13. I guess Sonata Arctica was the last one, I stopped listening to them around that age.

3. Is there a song/group/singer you once despised, but is okay now?

Too many to name! With a lot of them I just assumed I wouldn't like them because of the genre or style or whatever and found myself enjoying the music once I actually listened to them, but an example I always think of where I'd listened to the band years before I started enjoying the music is 東京事変 / Tokyo Jihen, mostly due to the vocalist's voice requiring some time to get used to.

4. Have you ever heard a favorite song and suddenly had a reinterpretation its meaning?

I don't think so... I'm generally kind of weird when it comes to lyrics, the voice of vocalists (voices in general) and the way the lyrics sound is really important to me, but I very rarely think about the meaning when I listen to a song, and instead do that separately by looking up the lyrics? Idk if that makes sense.

5. What song would you just as soon never hear again?

The advantage of only really listening to music you like is that this almost never happens ^_^'

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Have been very bad at posting recently due to being in the mountains for a summer school and actually doing things with other people (ikr!? X_X). Lots of pretty mountains, old towns, waterfalls and walking and deer and cool people and stuff. I've spammed copious amounts of pictures to the LGC discord, might post some here too after I return to Finland in a ~week. The lectures and things have also been very interesting, but I've admittedly gotten fairly little actual PhD work done in the last three weeks. But I guess meeting other people and learning new things and enjoying the lovely weather and having fun is also important. I meant to write something else here too but I forgot what. Oh well, maybe I'll update this...

(From thefridayfive, thanks wolfpurplemoon)

It's Friday, more or less everyone else left uni already and I'm bored & tired so here's a "The Friday Five" about summer.

1. Have you ever been to summer camp?
I have, yes! Scout camps, theatre camps, science camps 🤓 (They weren't "proper" camps though, you went to a science center every morning and went back home for the night),...

2. If so, was it fun or did you hate it?
They were fun! I usually had some friends who were in the same camp, and there was always a nice balance of pre-planned activities and just wandering around with friends, and you ended up learning or doing something new.

3. If not, did you ever wish you had?
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4. What movie says "Summer Time" to you?
This is a tough one :X I feel like I don't really watch enough movies to give a good answer.

5. Did movies like "Friday the 13th" put you off summer camp?
Nah, all the summer camp movies &c I saw when I was summer camp-aged showed them in a positive light.

Appropriate timing with these questions. Summer solstice & midsummer are next week and I'm going to a summer school in France in just a couple of weeks for a month (and will have a few weeks of actual summer vacation after that, too 😱) – I guess summer schools are the PhD student equivalent to summer camps XD