Cherry Blossoms

There are days when your actions save you. Like not crossing the street for some reason and a maniac drives so fast you would've died if you actually had walked. Or when you really feel like ordering, say chicken, at a restaurant, but you change your mind at the last minute and order fish instead and then find out that everyone who ate the chicken got really really sick. None of these have actually happened to me lately, but today I decided to check my university e-mail with a risk of being too late for the bus and there was a mail saying that today's mandatory lecture was cancelled. It's a bit of an anti-climax though, because I wasn't planning on being home before 5pm and now I have all day. Yea, I know it can't really be compared to any of the above, but well, this is my writing and I write whatever I want to, damnit!

I've been feeling great for almost a week now and then I've still:

• Missed the exam I had last Monday because some egghead cut some wires on the trainstation and cancelled all trains to and from said station
• Been woken up at 3am twice this week because my neighbour is... I'm stopping here for security reasons, haha.

I don't know - I still manage to be happy and smiling and I like it! Gimme, gimme, gimme!

Most of the people in my class have anxiety over the last exams. I don't. I got 4 exams in 8 days so there's not really any time to panic. So as I say every Monday: "We don't do this because it's easy - if we wanted something easy we wouldn't be here!" (Actually I say "if we wanted something easy we'd do 'Trial of the Crusader', but I figured the other way would be better here.) I mean, now we're reading labouring rights and "Employment Protection Act" and "Union participation in decisionmaking regulated by law" ('Co-deciding-law' in Swedish - much easier). This is one of the exams a lot of people freak about. Personally I really want to have it - if there's something in writing I can use then I will find it. Especially since we're allowed to bring the laws to the exam (without writing in them of course). What I've learned so far is that I can claim whatever I want - as long as I can prove it in the law somewhere. Yesterday I claimed that it wasn't wrong to get drunk at work as long as one can still handle the job. Yes, of course I know it's not alright - but we have a very self-absorbed little girl there who always has to be right (no, not me - yes, one would think, I know) so of course I had to...

The question was: Thomas Beaver, responsible for forklift drivers, has been intoxicated by alcohol now and then and every now and then he pats and hugs female personnel. Is it alright to terminate his employment?

As I wrote earlier nothing here says that he can't do his job and there's nothing saying that he's actually a danger since he's in charge of the forklift drivers. He probably does drive a forklift himself, but the question doesn't tell us. So how about harassment of the female employees? Well, there's nothing saying that they don't enjoy it or do the same thing themselves. Yes, I could answer like this on the exam and then refer to some section in the law. I love this!