http://roguepolitical.net being the life and times of a twenty-something University graduate in London Tue, 16 Mar 2010 20:14:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The second pair of in-ear headphones I owned lasted longer than the first pair, but failed on me last night just as I got out of the tube. I figured I'd reward myself given I've spent quite a bit of time recently racking my brain on a job application. Plus, ... http://roguepolitical.net/2010/03/16/third-pair-lucky/ I may have found an advert for my dream job. At least, that's kind of what it feels like reading the description. I've been looking at it for a few days now, while furiously trying to piece together whether I am hopelessly underqualified for it, and in the hopes I am ... http://roguepolitical.net/2010/03/07/quandary/ A year ago, almost to the day, I arrived at this house, dropping my luggage in an empty square-shaped room that fit a double bed, a chest of drawers and a wardrobe. Feeling a bit confused, I unpacked my things and thought I'd get used to it all. I remember ... http://roguepolitical.net/2010/02/23/one-year-cycles/ Google opened Street View for Finland today. While the Finnish press is going on about the privacy implications that have been rehashed with every new launch of the service in a new country, as well as asking readers to find "sensational" or "funny" scenes captured by the camera vehicles, I've ... http://roguepolitical.net/2010/02/09/instanostalgia/ Arriving back from African sunshine to a bright but breezy and cold London was a shock in a multitude of ways. Not only was my body unused to the temperature and artificiality, I got a few big pieces of news as well. Two rooms in our house are becoming empty ... http://roguepolitical.net/2010/02/08/what-a-week/ Going away for two weeks with no internet access and scarcely any phone contact made me think about the interconnectedness of these times. Who among us blog-reading (and -writing) folk doesn't have a list of RSS feeds continually ticking new information to our screens? Who isn't on social networking sites ... http://roguepolitical.net/2010/01/14/off-the-grid/ Neither my body or my mind have quite grasped that not two weeks from returning from a constant -15 or lower, I'll be jetting off to the heat of southern Africa. I'm not a complete newbie to the place, but the last time I was south of the Equator in ... http://roguepolitical.net/2010/01/13/what-do-you-need-to-pack-for-africa/ London is in the grips of the coldest weather in memory and the supposed "extreme weather" is on everyone's lips, if only in relation to their commute. I took off from home yesterday morning ten minutes earlier than usual, and took a different route to work from normal due to ... http://roguepolitical.net/2010/01/07/down-with-the-house/ I couldn't help read an email a gentleman was typing on his Blackberry on the tube this morning. In the throng of the rush hour, one's eyes are almost inevitably somewhere inappropriate. Anyway, this gem with interesting grammar was what he wrote to someone named Jinny: Praise the name of Jesus His ... http://roguepolitical.net/2010/01/06/i-know-its-rude-but/ I've been back in London mere hours, and I'm finding myself missing Finland a lot. Somehow it being really cold and really wintery, completely different from London, made it that much more attractive. London seems dimmed and grey, even bleak, compared to the strict monochrome of Finland where, even in ... http://roguepolitical.net/2010/01/03/two-worlds-and-in-between/ I never used to be into winter weather. When people in the UK ask me what Finland is like in the winter, my first response has often been "awfully cold". But now, when all of Finland is blanketed by snow and gripped by proper frost, I'm really happy about it. ... http://roguepolitical.net/2009/12/31/must-be-the-old-age-setting-in/ Writing this from the cab to the airport at stupid o'clock. Part of me would like to stay here, in the house all decked out for Christmas by my housemates for their celebrations here. But a big part of me is so, so glad to be going to where it's ... http://roguepolitical.net/2009/12/23/radio-silence-merry-christmas/ And it was immense. http://roguepolitical.net/2009/12/15/i-have-seen-the-end-of-music/ A year ago I was gearing up to spend the Christmas holidays in Peru, on the other side of the world. It was a lovely experience, and I loved discovering things about the country and its fascinating culture. But this year, gearing up to go back to Finland for the ... http://roguepolitical.net/2009/12/14/tis-the-season/ Seeing Eddie Izzard at the Wembley Arena was an experience. The stage was kitted with the scripts of various world religions and seemed huge for one man to take and control. He must have guts to do what he does, and he did it well. Though I wasn't in stitches ... http://roguepolitical.net/2009/12/07/seeing-eddie/