Apr 26: What did I do this week?
2026-04-26
Song of the week: Slowdive - Sugar for the Pill
Emoji of the moment: 🥱
Finished The Passion by Jeanette Winterson
I quite liked it. Short but sweet. Some quotes:
There’s no pawnshop for the heart. You can’t take it in and leave it awhile in a clean cloth and redeem it in better times.
I didn’t know what hate felt like, not the hate that comes after love. It’s huge and desperate and it longs to be proved wrong. And every day it’s proved right it grows a little more monstrous. If the love was passion, the hate will be obsession. A need to see the once-loved weak and cowed and beneath pity. Disgust is close and dignity is far away. The hate is not only for the once loved, it’s for yourself too; how could you ever have loved this?
There was a woman of the parish, very devout with a bosom that preceded her,
I had never been to a Casino before and I was disappointed the way the brothel had disappointed me years earlier. Sinful places are always so much more sinful in the imagination.
The end of every game is an anti-climax. What you thought you would feel you don’t feel, what you thought was so important isn’t any more. It’s the game that’s exciting.
He loves me, I know that, and I love him, but in a brotherly incestuous way.
That’s why he hates him so much. He disappointed him. Passion does not take disappointment well.
What is more humiliating than finding the object of your love unworthy?
Went to the Gothenburg Botanical Garden
I'm going to try to go there once a week in the spring and summer and take pictures as it gets greener. It's just a short tram ride away, and it feels good to spend time surrounded by nature. Might skip next week since it's supposed to be a little colder and cloudier again, though.
Some pictures from this time (click for bigger):
Switched Linux distros
An Arch update broke something and I was annoyed, so I did the sensible thing and installed NixOS. I've used it a little bit before, but then I didn't take the time to really learn how Nix works, and I found it impossible to diagnose and fix some issues I was having. But now that I've read through Nix language basics and some other stuff and also I have more Linux experience in general, things are pretty smooth so far. The whole reproducibility thing isn't super useful to me with only one computer that I'm using it on, but I like having my system configuration all in one place. It makes it easier to know exactly what your state is, which should make debugging easier.
Enjoyed being praised at work
I've been told multiple times that I'm doing a good job, and also that my outfits look good. I'm useful and pretty!
