A Merry Christmas to Everyone and so on

... sentence and that would just be ridiculous. Hey, look at the time, it's the day before christmas. And what couldn't be better that get the result from the latest exams and finally finish them of. Nice presents indeed. Now I can at least focus on the next exams and essays... it feels like a never-ending circle does it not? Should probably make my New Year vow to get a job before the end of 2011. If I ever get home that is, the winter has struck Sweden once again and the communications has been caught in the heaps of snow... like every year. Think we should be used to it by now. With some luck it should be no problem, but with my exams passed I might have used up all my luck. *knock on wood*

There is nothing left for me than to wish everyone a Happy Christmas (or whatever people celebrate) and a Happy New Year. Actually it's kinda interesting to think about why Christmas is located where it is. Just a couple of days after the winter solstice it's pretty easy to see the return of the light as a metaphor for Jesus by the Christians, then in extension the summer solstice which the the Christians tried to associate with John the Baptist. Therefore the celebrations (at least the Nordic Midsummer) would be a metaphor for the dark days to come as well as that after the darkness salvation shall appear in the shape of Jesus (or more correctly the winter solstice and the sun). Kinda fun when you think about it (and maybe to clarify, no, I'm not religious, but it's always fun to philosophizing).