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Re: Joanna Shmoanna

joannas — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 12:41:53 -0000

testing...

Re: Joanna Shmoanna

joannas — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 20:09:23 -0000

It wasn't so hard. But I don't know the language that I'm coding in, and when it got tricky--like with the audio and link format --I had to just give up. I look forward to hearing your comments ;)

Re: Princess postdoc

joannas — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 15:04:41 -0000

HFSP. It's a bit of a niche grant. But, if you are switching fields within the biosciences, and switching countries, it's just the thing ;)

Re: Princess postdoc

joannas — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 03:21:34 -0000

Thanks! Very much looking forward to meeting your kids :) Will they be around for 7th and 8th days? I will of course pass along your regards. See you soon!!!

Re: "Settling" in

joannas — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 14:41:43 -0000

_you_ play settlers too?! We'll have to play next time you are over for Shabbos. Fabian is in as well!

Re: Joanna Shmoanna

joannas — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 11:11:42 -0000

Really? I've been giggling about it all day! I thought maybe "sweet" love was the sarcasm give away. It makes him sound like the chef from South Park.

Re: long day

joannas — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 16:08:11 -0000

Oooh. Thanks. http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...
Did you see Sthlm got a shout out? "Above roughly 60.5°N or S (e.g. Anchorage, Yellowknife, Salluit, Helsinki, Tallinn, Saint Petersburg, STOCKHOLM [emphasis mine] and Oslo), civil twilight lasts all night at midsummer..."

Re: Joanna Shmoanna

joannas — Wed, 07 May 2008 15:41:25 -0000

Baking soda found. Susanna and Marie from my lab suggested it would be in a bag in the spice section. I used this recipe http://allrecipes.com/Recip.... Which is delicious. Though if I make it again I will halve the sugar.

Re: I made one of my DNA constructs!

joannas — Mon, 12 May 2008 16:31:13 -0000

Yes, professor fancy pants. How's your organic chemistry coming?

Re: Stadium

joannas — Sun, 18 May 2008 14:30:01 -0000

Thanks, V. I know I shouldn't. Just reflecting on how hard it is sometimes when I'm overwhelmed by the parallel universe of commercial beauty.

Re: A setback

joannas — Tue, 20 May 2008 17:31:46 -0000

Moving to Kungsholmen on July 1. The new place is a little less photogenic, but i will do what I can with the video.

Re: Joanna Shmoanna

joannas — Thu, 22 May 2008 17:54:58 -0000

They're tigers.

Re: Joanna Shmoanna

joannas — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 02:00:39 -0000

Oh! I thought the fullmäktige had promised to accept the decision. Sigh. So, complicated.

Re: Joanna Shmoanna

joannas — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 02:22:17 -0000

I thought the same thing!

Re: Joanna Shmoanna

joannas — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 09:50:24 -0000

Yes! At least, I thought it was. A light-hearted look at Isreali/Palestinian relations with lots of sex jokes-- how could that go wrong?

Re: furniture in its natural habitat

joannas — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 18:12:31 -0000

Wow! Thanks so much! I'm so glad you are enjoying it. When you say, no matter how long any Jew lives in Sweden, they'll never feel really Swedish, do you mean even those born in Sweden? Do you feel Swedish? Also, does the Jewish community ever capitalize on this Swedish nature spirituality link? Outdoor davening or meditation? (obviously not in a park in the city, chas v'chalilah, we might be seen-- that much I have learned)

Re: Joanna Shmoanna

joannas — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 01:32:56 -0000

You're right. It's really only because they compared Sweden with northern Canada, which is HUGE--but who would want to live there? However, i think it shows quite well that the rest of Europe is smaller than I would think.

The lists are great! Is Sweden is the 5th biggest country in Europe (behind Turkey, Ukraine, France and Spain)?

Re: Joanna Shmoanna

joannas — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 18:25:12 -0000

Thanks! I made it (adding an extra clove of garlic 2 dried chilies and a smidge of bacon salt--couldn't resist). It took much longer to cook than it said, but came out thoroughly delicious!

Re: Joanna Shmoanna

joannas — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 18:26:57 -0000

mmm... made an olive quiche for the occasion-- after all he was accepting olive the mitzvot (not just some of them).

Re: Joanna Shmoanna

joannas — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 20:10:48 -0000

Awesome. I can't wait until my Swedish is good enough for me to read it.

Re: Tiselius symposium

joannas — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 17:28:07 -0000

Ha ha! (But that's _Dr._ Stubbe...)

Re: kissing regrets-- a second look

joannas — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 12:16:27 -0000

I'll pass the question on to a genuine Swede. Can I assume that if this is the shape this thread is taking that no one is interested in kissing but me?

Re: German guilt

joannas — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 12:28:22 -0000

Re: Why is guilt bad?

I think guilt is bad because it's an unpleasant feeling. If I don't like feeling it, why should I want anyone else to feel it. If someone has done something wrong I suppose it can be helpful in persuading him/her to act differently in the future. But otherwise, I'm against it.

If you think guilt is good, where do you draw the line of prescribing guilt to someone else? Should we be prescribed guilt over what American's did to Native Americans (I do feel guilty about it, though I wish I didn't). In America we certainly don't have nearly the same laudatory, consistent and universal education about the atrocities that the American's committed that Germany does about their atrocities. Do we have to feel guilty about how the whites treated the blacks in America (again I do, though I wish I didn't). How about the Japanese internment camps? Should I feel guilty about those (though they were awful, I don't feel as much guilt about that, and I don't know why I don't)? How far back should my guilty conscience go? How should I feel about the Israelite treatment of Amalek? How about the Cannanites?

I know that children of alcoholics are more likely to be alcoholics, and children of abusers are more likely to be abusers. There are parts of home life--or on a broader level part of a country's social culture-- that can make certain awful things more likely to happen. So, it's important to be educated about one's own history and to know that one must act in awareness of that history. But, we don't tell the children of abusers to feel guilt over their parents abuse. It probably stands to reason then that we shouldn't want Germans to feel guilty about the Holocaust.

Re: kissing regrets-- a second look

joannas — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 01:22:49 -0000

Chana (above) was worried about the same thing! That surprises me because googling the whole internets resulted in only 7 hits for my first four queries on the subject-- I should/should't have kissed his/her ass. Which means we have the same order of magnitude of mentions of regret about kissing ass on this thread as there is on the whole internet!

If you'd like you can search for other bottom euphemisms, but I'd be surprised if you get the tally to go above 15. Please let me know if anything exciting results from this line of inquiry.

Re: kissing regrets-- a second look

joannas — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 01:25:22 -0000

Someone else asked about the bottom kissing, so I commented on that below. But, yes I'm supposed to be researching something else. I'm also supposed to give group meeting today, and the nervousness over that has been resulting in increased blogging this whole last week! Wish me luck.