Lighten up

Woah, this has been an unusual week. Lots of studying and stress and stuff. But my sense of humor is not dulled too much by recent life experience. Yesterday i got a good laugh out of an article in the paper about some guys who were busted in Eskifjörður (my wife's home town) for smuggling meat into the country on the trawler on which they crew. A man was quoted as saying that they were, "Just some guys trying to save the holidays after a period of little work." That is, there hasn't been the customary flood of capelin (a small fish used to make fish meal) that these men rely on during the winter months. A possible collapse in the capelin population has really stirred things up-on the other hand, what caused the collapse? Could it have been overfishing at a time when the water is heating up to a temperature uncomfortable for the capelin causing them to school farther north? Hmm. Aaaanyway, the funny thing was that these guys were said to be smuggling in enough to feed them for the holidays. It was funny beause there were 12 of them (I think) and they had half a ton of meat with them! Admittedly, one of the guys has a huge extended family and was most likely just going to give all his relations the meat. But, c'mon guys...HALF A TON?! Did they really think it wouldn't be noticed? If smuggling were tht easy, there would be a lot more drugs here.

The weather here has been phenominal lately. We've gotte na cold snap and there is no wind. The sky was so beautiful yesterday evening that even my five year old boy noticed it. This morning, we got stiff necks on the way to playschool because we were looking up at the myriad stars glittering in the sky.

I'm in a good mood despite the fact that I have an exam in about 3 hours. Partially because tomorrow is going to be Thanksgiving in my house and tonight I'm going to make chocolate truffles to have with coffee after dinner tomorrow.