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Busiest time of the year at work for me, this week that’s just gone and next week.
New courses,new teachers,new students! It’s always chaotic for the first couple of weeks.
Do you have a ‘busiest time of year’ for your work? Or is it kind of steady? Or randomly quiet and then busy?
Yesterday’s prompt was [crown](https://www.deviantart.com/tereyaglikedi/art/Inktober-2025-Day-3-Crown-1248716451). This one was fun and my white gel pen is still alive. I hope they’ll last this month.
Yesterday was so perfect, and today is so horrid, rainy and blegh. So, I was outside most of the day yesterday and this weekend is a workend.
My husband made onion pie yesterday, which is his speciality. The house still smells delicious. I don’t know why we make this only in October, onions are readily available all year. I guess Germans consider it something seasonal. Do you tend to bake according to seasons?
Speaking about seasonal bakes, [King Arthur website has a list of autumnal bakes](https://www.kingarthurbaking.com/best-fall-recipes). They all look amazing.
Looking forward to graduating soon. I’m a bit stressed and also not sure how I’ll find work in the field I’m studying. It’s been a long ride and exhausting and I’m not necessarily the best student.
I’m making Pesto Genovese and smash burgers for lunch and dinner.
Is anyone following the Chopin competition? I am amazed at how high the level is. I highly recommend it, it’s only once every five years!
I’ve only ever heard Romanian sung, thanks to bangers like Dragostea din tei, but today I by chance heard it spoken in a video I was watching and it sounds more like Portuguese than any other Romance language to me. I’m not sure why I’m surprised about that, but I am.
Btw this is completely unrelated, but [this performance of Dang by Caroline Polachek](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UsIcDivsls) is probably the best stage design I’ve ever seen on a TV performance.
Gosh, this is weird. I just got a really loud alert sound with a government text on my phone about sirene test alarms, don’t call emergency numbers it’s just a test, etc. Well duh. The sirene test alarms go off literally every week, and have done so forever. Though I guess they’re doing the whole program today, not just the weekly test.
Looked it up and apparently they’re testing whether warnings via phone work. Sure do.
The storm Amy is currently raging across southern Sweden and has been for hours, with pouring rain and stormy winds. The authorities are encouraging people to stay indoors and not go outside unless absolutely necessary. A lot of public transportation has of course been cancelled as well. Lots of trees have fallen and there has been a lot of flooding, although the full damage will of course not be evident until after it subsides. Still, it’s quite cozy as well in a way to be indoors and observing the storm and rain outside.
Wikipedia’s front page has told me that today is Cinnamon Roll Day in Sweden and Finland, so in honor of the ~3% Swedish DNA that Ancestry.com told me I have, I think I’m going to try and find a bakery that has them. I’ve barely eaten cinnamon rolls since they were sometimes included in school lunches many years ago, but now I’m really craving one.