The kids these days

With Eddie organizing an old-school LAN party for six-seven of his friends today, I got my fair share of contemporary meme culture, ritual burnings of German exams, and the deep joy that only a screen can bring (to paraphrase Tage Danielsson) – even if one door remote. By the time the party was over, I had submitted my grading protocols and followed the runners of the Sandsjöbacka Trail as they struggled through the snow (luckily for me, this year’s race had sold out before I got a chance to register).

Considering how much the world has changed since the early 1990s, there is a certain comfort in the fact that the kids could just as easily have been me back then, with the same non-diet Coke, teenage jokes, and pizza. Smelling the pizza, I could not resist making a schiacciata with mozzarella and pesto rosso. As for bread, the day had otherwise begun with a bagel and twelve kilometres in the forest which, unlike 192 kilometres, were just lovely.