my application to register as residing in Sweden (folkbokförd) has been approved, no longer a ghost merely living here.
I can now get a convenience store membership since the systems can look me up 🙄🥳
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October 4, 2025
All I got up to this day (as far as you know)
2 posts on this day
Being back and speaking Swedish every day, and more than in years, I have felt that my Swedish has atrophied a bit. That I’m not able to express myself as well in it as in English, so I decided to read a bit more in Swedish.
August Strindberg’s Dödsdansen & Spöksonaten and Fredrik Backman’s Björnstad
I ended up getting a very contemporary author and one very much not. I read Backman’s blog back before he got his first book published, so I knew how funny he was and I read half of Beartown yesterday, he’s really nailing the storytelling. I had a hard time putting the book down.
Strindberg is famous and I haven’t ever read or seen anything by him (that I know of), so why not. I suspect it’ll be a harder read in many ways. It was a very random pick, because I just strolled around the library (second library card down, now I can use Libby from my Kobo), and I totally picked it because Ghost has a song called Spöksonat, so why not…