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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