Karl Jonsson’s Weblog

Låg aktivitet…

Hm, hur länge kan man låta bli att posta något på en blog? Har haft ont om tid eftersom jag både jobbar och pluggar. Microblogga hinner jag lite oftare så det förekommer ibland livstecken från mig på Identi.ca och Twitter.

Back to work

I’m on the train again . . . This time on my way back to work after spending the weekend at home. I can’t help thinking about some CC-licensed (I think) song I heard around Christmas, “Everything’s dead pretty when it snows”. It doesn’t snow today. The sun shines brightly but there’s lots of snow and Sweden looks absolutely beautiful as the train rushes through it. I wish I was on my way to a winter holiday instad of rushing between two town centers.

Going home

*yawn*

I am writing this on the train home after my first (short) week at my new job. These are just a few random thoughts really . . . First, I still don’t have a permanent place to sleep down there, which is kind of annoying. As a consequence, I don’t have internet access, except at work (where I am, after all, supposed to work). Hopefully, I’ll find a nice small and cheap flat with broadband soon . . . The job seems OK. The people are nice and i like the atmosphere at the office (even though I have to share an improvised “office” created by putting two book shelves as a “wall” between our desks and the busy corridor. The environment is more relaxed than I expected (having read Tingsnotarien). I am also almost disapointed that no one seems to have noticed my long hair. Not a single comment in three days! Then again, people seem to wear ties at random and yesterday I noticed that one of the judges was wearing sandals (he wore a tie, though). The actual work seems OK and I expect to learn a lot. The cases at this kind of court are not really the kind I am interested in, though. It’s mainly taxes, revoked driving licenses and disputes related to the social security system. Still, it seems highly educational, and I get paid. Once I get more permanent internet access down there (or at least get my Palm back from repair) blogging might get back to normal. War walking through the blizzards with a laptop did not seem feasible.

New Job

OK, the time has finally come to get a “real” job. On the first of March I will start working as a clerk in a court in southern Sweden. It is tradition for Swedish lawyers to serve two years at a court after their education and, as I understand it, the job is also condsidered as semi-education. But anyway, it’s my first paid job as a lawyer.