two posts in one day! Lucky you!

Okay, so this is something I’ve been thinking about for a while, and it doesn’t have anything to really do with my exchange, BUT I think it’s important.

So I changed my name, and I like it a lot better. It was weird at first, but now I’m used to it. I know that y’all back home (and Ollie) are always going to call me Alexa because that’s what I’ve been called forever and it would feel fake to call me anything else, but I think that when I go to college and beyond I’ll keep the name Kate.

Those of you who read as voraciously as I will recognize this name change as an awful plot device to show character development, and if I ever do something really cool and have a biography written about me it’s gonna be hella rad to have this little thing put in, but beyond that I feel like Kate fits me better and that’s how it’s going to be.

The only problems that I can really forsee arising is that when I get married, how are people going to refer to me and my husband? Are they going to say Kate and Johan or Johan and Alexa? If mom is ever talking to one of my college friends at a party or something and she says “Oh yes, Johan and Alexa are so adorable together!” my college friend is going to be like “VA?!” and think that we’re in a polygamous marriage or something! The other problem is what if something really traumatic happens to me, say, being kidnapped and thrown into a river, and I develop Multiple Personality Disorder in order to suppress it? Who will be the real me? Kate or Alexa? Schizophrenia will be hard enough to deal with without not know what my name really is. Dang you guys. Dang. If this ever happens, don’t even use my name. Just pat me on the head and tell me it’s okay.

Infection :(

The lymph nodes on my neck are getting bigger and they hurt really bad and I don’t want to be sick. I mean, I don’t actually feel sick aside from my (now daily) headaches, but I’m obviously infected with something. YOU GO, IMMUNE SYSTEM! In all reality, my nodes are probably only the size of peas, but they feel like grapefruits to me. I complain a lot. Forgive me.

In other news, I’m going to Sam’s house tonight to wish her a hip hip hooray happy birthday! Grattis and all that! I can tell you that I got her a necklace for her present because she doesn’t read this blog. It’s got a wishbone charm and a feather charm and it’s super cute. Anywho, I gotta go all the way to Taby to get there. I’m not sure if I’ll survive the trip. The buses here scare me. I feel like I’m paying 20 kr for a messy death on public transportation. If I paid that is. SL cards work on buses too. I get to die for free! Sam said that she saw a bus driver texting while he drove the other day and he kept driving over the sidewalk on the roundabouts. Golly.