Steve McQueen

This post's title refers not to the actor, but rather to the finest album ever released by the insanely wonderful Prefab Sprout. Steve McQueen was recently re-released in a new, digitally re-mastered version that also includes acoustic versions of the album's songs. I simply must go out an get it. My beloved copy of this album has been lost for some years, so I have ample reason to spend some money on intellectual eighties pop.
I'm back in Denmark now. The weather here is ridiculously nice. The sun is shining, the birds are singing and the temperature hovers around 25 degrees celsius. I have so much work to do that I intend to simply draw the curtains and not leave the house today. I have a meeting with my supervisor tomorrow, and I really want to sound like someone who knows just a little bit about their thesis topic. I'm actually quite happy to be back in Denmark because I spent way too much time socialising when I was back home in Iceland, and, sadly, not enough time working. The good thing about Copenhagen is that I don't know that many people here, so I have more time to work and can spend less time feeling guilty about neglecting my loved ones. For students, the hermit lifestyle comes highly recommended.
But back to the weather. Apparently this has been the warmest April ever here in Denmark. I was watching the news a couple of days ago, and they did a story on this unseasonably warm weather. Much to my dismay, the story was all upbeat, featuring interviews with scantily clad people eating ice cream. Needless to say, they all said they were delighted with the weather and hoped that it would stay like this, permanently. Now, I have nothing against nice weather, I enjoy it as much as the next guy. But I gotta tell you, I find this upbeat style of reporting kindof irresponsible considering that our own lifestyles are directly contributing to climate changes that, while currently delightful in Denmark, are likely to be catastrophic on a global scale. Ice cream or not, we shouldn't forget our responsibility to try to live in some kind of harmony with our environment. So, I hereby protest to upbeat weather stories on the news, and suggest that TV stations should be made to broadcast those two great films An inconvenient truth and The day after tomorrow constantly until we get the message. Cos the power of the media is awesome, you know?
Anyhoo, all this talk about the weather is really just to distract the world, and myself, from the fact that I have no knitting content to offer. I've been knitting some, but not much, and photobooth pictures will have to wait until I have the thing off the needles. It's just that kind of a thing.
The books are calling me. Ciao!