Keeping Score
The rest of March flew by in a whirlwind of exams, presentations, and projects. A brief spring break trip to Athens, a reprieve of architecture, history, and cats, then I came back to Finland and was once again in the thick of it. Writing my masters project proposal (MP2 for short), putting together my masters project proposal presentation (MP3, if you will), accumulating hours upon hours in the library. Redbulls sprout on desks near hands of students, ripe for plucking, the air tense with concentration, hundreds of hands typing, pencils scribbling, track pads clicking. Boredom feels to me as far away as the heat of summer, this northern country, these days in late April, trees just beginning to bud. Temperatures just on this side of freezing, I leave the house with mittens but leave my hat at home. Drooping piles of snow desperately clinging to solidity in shadowed building corners, ice on the lakes completely gone. Spring came early this year I’m told, a quick snowmelt, weeks o...