Hello there mateys!
Guess who’s back? That’s right, the most fabulous, the extremely amazing, the one and only… ME!
If you’re following me on Twitter you already know the reason to my absence but for the rest of you, one word: school. Yes, unfortunately I haven’t been absent because of amazing adventures but rather because I’ve been studying, studying and then studying some more. I’m now done with my two very first university courses ever. Yay for that! I made a (ugly) site for my CSS class which you can look at here and a really god damn crappy movie for my Flash class which you can view here. I will keep the site I made for my CSS class but I will change the layout. The current one sucks so bad but this assignment was about code and not design so I just focused on incorporating all the codes my teacher wanted us to use and then some more just to shine. So, code-wise it’s excellent. My first semantically correct layout ever. That’s what I’ll try to do with Whirlwind next, make it semantically correct because right now semantically it’s a complete mess. The list of my books on the site isn’t complete yet by the way. There’s some fifty more to be listed. Most of my antique (19th and early 20th century) books that is.
Anyway, moving on! I got some great news the other day. I got a job at this years Hultsfred festival! If you don’t know what that is, it’s one of Sweden’s biggest rock festivals with 20 000 – 30 000 visitors every year which, that’s right, takes place in my home town. Living here sucks big time but once a year it’s really great! So, I got a job as a stagehand at the Hawaii stage. That’s the biggest stage (where obviously the biggest bands play) and I’ll work backstage! Can you say absolutely fucking amazing?! This is the job I wanted and this is the job I got! Talk about unbelievably good luck considering there’s many different jobs at the festival. I think I got it because of the fact that I’ve worked backstage at the Hawaii stage before, back in 2008. I loved that job so that’s why I wanted to do it again and now I get to!
To even things out and make sure my life isn’t too good of course something bad had to happen to balance things out. So, my external hard drive crashed. Actually it didn’t just crash, I think it short circuit or something because there was a spark, a poof and then my apartment went pitch black. The worst thing is that since the HDD was connected to my (brand new) laptop it damaged that one as well. The DVI socket to be exact, which means that I now can’t connect my external screen to the laptop. I hope the warranty covers this because I need to be able to use my 20″ screen. That’s what I’m used to so the 15″ one on the laptop really isn’t enough. I wouldn’t even have bought a laptop if it wasn’t for the fact that it’s possible to connect a external monitor to it.
Speaking of computer stuff, I bought two new domains. www.whirlwind.se and a domain with my full name, which I’m not going to write here since I don’t want people who google my full name to find my site. Doesn’t make that big a difference really since I’m not exactly hard to find but still, at least it’s a little harder to find me now than it would be if my full name was written somewhere on the site. I don’t mind people I know visiting my site nor strangers. It’s those people I don’t know, that don’t know me but know of me that I don’t want here. Basically people who aren’t my friends or acquaintances but know who I am who just visit to snoop around.
I got a interesting mail by the way, from a company that wanted to take over whirlwind.se. I said thanks, but no thanks, only if you pay me a couple of hundred dollars. They weren’t interested which didn’t surprise me. I kind of expected them not wanting to pay that much for it but that’s fine because I don’t really want to sell it. I would never let go of it for less than a couple of hundred dollars. I now own whirlwind.nu and whirlwind.se, which besides .com are the most common top domains in Sweden. That’s great. Now I only need .com as well but that one’s taken.
Last but not least I want to show you my new lamps. After buying the lamp I posted a photo of a few entries back I became obsessed with the idea of replacing all the lamps in my living room. There’s nothing wrong with my old lamps but I wanted something more elegant looking for the living room. My old lamp for the ceiling was moved to the hallway and the desk lamp and lamps for the window are now retired. I got all of those when I was thirteen or fourteen so it was about time. So here’s the lamps I bought. The first one is for the ceiling (obviously) and the second one will hang on the wall above my couch bed.
Plugs: Shaina, Angie, Joebs, Maria, tiff k, Ashley, clarity, Luna, Grace, April, Jennifer, maria, kitty, Regan, Zanna, Elizabeth, Aly, Mallory, Kristine, Malin, Kristen, Deanna, Lady, Alyssa, Citrine, Britney
Welcome to Whirlwind, the online home of a 28 year old Swedish artist, web designer and blogger who goes by the name Angelica. The site consists of 544 MB words, photos and art. Please do take a look around.
Hey and welcome back! I know how it is… I’m on hiatus now because of school also… that and the stress of transferring to RU in the fall. It’s very exciting though!
Congratulations on your job! That sounds amazing! Be sure to take some pictures if you get a chance.
Those chandeliers are amazing and very you. Keep it up and you’ll need to update your room pics!
That’s so great that you can make your own cartoons now. It was cute and was kinda funny since I didn’t know what was going on. I like your illustrations!
And congrats on your job! Take pictures of you with the famous musicians so I can experience it vicariously through you.
Welcome back! It’s good to know that you’ve finished your two courses and learned a lot.. I like the drawings in your flash movie! I really hope I could learn to do that kind of thing one day.
Congratulations on your job — that sounds so terrific! I’ve experienced working backstage for school events and even for a presidentiable’s campaign and it’s always a lot of fun.
I look forward to pictures!
Gratulerar till de färdiga kurserna.
Wow awesome lamps dear and good job with finishing your 2 subjects! WOOT!! hhahaa i still don’t know how to do a proper CSS layout and that’s neat!! I wanna list down all my books too, I’ll try to really find time coz I wanna fix my bookshelf now while it’s break.
Aww man!! Sorry to hear about your HDD grar!! I need to back mine up and fix it!
Wow another domain? ehehe what will you do with it dear? hhehe take care now! 
Well, I’m glad school has been going well for you. Your CSS website looks very nice and neat! I watched your Flash video. I think it was cute…I have no idea what was going on, but it was definitely cute. I’m sorry about your laptop and external hard-drive. I hope your warrent covers it.
Your laps a very lovely by the way.
lamps are cool at first I thought you made em. Yes Alicia has some hits and misses with me. Also I think that music in general is becoming more boring with this whole digital age thing.
Amazing lamps! They are soooo cool. O_O Nice stuff. *u*
It’s okaaaay. I’ve also been busy. XD What matters is you still returned! So happy. XD I saw your two finished works. Congrats! I love the CSS layout that you’ve created. :3 However, I do not understand Swedish language so I failed to get the meaning of the flash movie. =[
OMG! Really nice job! What are some of the bands that will play? :]] Awesome job. Coolest…. ever! :]]
I saw you tweet about your external HDD. =| So sad that it happened. I hope that the warranty of the new laptop covers it. *u*
Congrats on your two new domains!
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The CSS site looks really great! How can you think it looks ugly?! I love the header and the colours. And the flash movie is awesome too, although I don’t understand the Swedish captions. The animation is really cute.
Ahh that is so cool about your new job! Will you get to hang out with loads of big bands? Haha
And I have never seen such cool lamps in my life o_O I want!
Congratulation for finishing your first 2 subjects! Yay for that. The CSS doesn’t look bad after all. I still find it good because I can’t code. It’s good to know that you got a job of what you really wanted. It’s rare in this world so you’re very lucky!
LOL if I were in your place, too, I won’t agree to sell my domain unless they pay me hundreds of dollars. Haha!
I love the 2nd lamp!
I know what it is like to be busy with school! Keep at it, it will all pay off in the end! As far as the domain name goes, I think you made the right choice. It is silly to give it away for less than what you think it is worth. And I adoreeeeeeeee those chandeliers!
how the hell did the crash happen? It must be terrbile! gah im suffering with you..
fucking awesome job! congrats!
Too bad I can
too understand the cartoon!
Congrats for the job!
I know you work there every summer, but you always do different things there, don’t you?
I LOVE the lamps, great taste!!!
Put pics of the newly decorated room
I love the first lamp, its very cool!
Ahaha flashfilmen var assöt ju xD
Grattis till jobbet! Det måste vara helt sjukt kul att jobba backstage ^^
Your flash video makes me happy. Especially the ever-expanding smiles. Awesome.
I know, it’s terrible how school keeps us so busy like that – uni’s been eating up a fair chunk of my life lately too. Oh, the curses of getting an education!
That’s so awesome that you’re working at the Hultsfred Festival again! I actually remember you mentioning the event when it was on last year and saying that you’d worked there before. I hope you have a fabulous time!
Broken HDD and laptop though…not so awesome.
Surely it’s covered by warranty if it’s only new though? Even without the extended warranty, you usually get around 12 months, I think (well, at least you do here – maybe in Sweden it’s different…beats me).
Lastly, I love the new lights! They’re beautiful and I think they really fit in with your gothic-meets-vintage style (I’m so sorry, I can’t think of how else to describe it!). But yes, they’re lovely.
Oh.
My.
God.
Even though I haven’t heard of the Hultsfred Festival until now, I’m so freaking jealous that you got a bloody BACKSTAGE JOB there! Holy shit, that’s like fucking epic — But like I said, I’m so jealous. x.x; My dream job is to work at the only CD store in my city, but I’ve been handing in resumes for years and they’ve never showed so much as a shred of interest in hiring me, bleh. ;__;’ Any place else just seems so boring and so … Not-Mallory-ish, lol. But FFS! Enough about me.
I’m so sorry that your external harddrive just sort of, um, exploded upon itself. x.x; D’you have any idea why it did that, or is just one of those freak things that just … Happens? Either way, it sucks massively. Is there any way of recovering your data …? And if not, can you at least complain to the company and act like it’s their fault for making a shoddy product? =O Maybe they’re give you your money back!
Although I only understand a word of Swedish here and there, I still loved both your CSS site and your flash movie, haha. The flash movie was so cute! Did you draw/design the characters yourself …? If so, you should feature them in a future layout, haha! x3;
And the CSS site was like, drool worthy, in my opinion! I’m again jealous over how perfectly semantic it is, haha! Even though my own site’s semantic, it, well, doesn’t LOOK semantic, LOL. Whereas yours just looks so professional yet cool! Awesome job. ^_______^
And of course, I fuckin’ LOVE your lamps. But you already knew that, whether or not I already told you. XDD;
Hope you’ll be blogging again more regularly!
I miss your entries. ^^;;;
6. I took my piercings out because of school.
10. I broke my ribs playing softball in high school. Ouch it hurt!
28. I figured my lucky number is 8 because it tends to follow me, if that makes any sense.
I like your CSS site, it’s cute!
Congrats on getting the job at that Festival, that’s really cool.
I love the lamps, they are gorgeous
Gratulerar till jobbet och de färdiga kurserna!
Jag tyckte inte att dina skol-projekt var dåliga alls! Eller har jag dålig smak? Haha 
Nu blev jag genast mer peppad på att plugga själv, jag hoppas jag kommer in till hösten!
00; those lamps are soo beautiful!
That’s awesome that you got the job that you wanted. It sounds pretty cool. I can’t wait to hear all about it!
That’s cool that you have both domains under the same name. I hope the .com one expires soon so you can have that too.
Cool lamps too. Wow, I’ve been saying cool a lot in this comment lol. I am very interested to see pictures of your home. It seems like it would be very Gothic looking.
Hope all is well with school!!!!
Those lamps are lovely!
Congrats on finishing your first two classes! It’s always a nice feeling to get classes behind you and know that you’re farther in school and closer to your career.
Congrats on the job too! That sounds like it would be so much fun.
I’m sorry about your HDD. That would really suck. I have an external hard drive that I use all the time. I even have movies and TV shows stored on it, so I would probably cry if something happened to it.
Awesome about your new job! It sounds like it’s going to be a lot of fun, I think a job like that would really suit you.
Nice lamp as well, the top picture. I don’t think I could put something like that in my room in Auckland, it wouldn’t go with anything
Do you know anything about that company that wanted to buy your domain?
I love that black chandelier!