I have never really spent a Valentine's day, especially because in Finland it's translated to "Friend's day", so we have more focused on sending cards to our friends to remind them what they mean to us etc. It sounds weird anyway to think that if you're in love with someone you need to celebrate it only on one day a year and then you can just forget about it, which is why I prefer celebrating your friends to your valentine. Also, I am always amazed if I hear someone weeping for not having a date on Valentine's, as if it made them a sub-human or something. Though people are different and I'm just not that type that tries to find a relationship just for the sake of having one. It surprises me every time when someone asks if I have boyfriend, and I answer no, the following question is "Why?". I don't go around asking from people in a relationship why they are in a relationship (though I feel like it sometimes and I have theories of some people ;). Anyway, not getting the concept of Valentine's is also why I don't really understand "anti-Valentine's"-thingies, because it just means that these people let the concept get under their skin maybe even more than the ones who celebrate it, but try to show as if they despised it. If you really didn't care, just have a regular Tuesday today. But I do have a Valentine's day related news, but I think it's not public yet, so I can't write about it yet.
I have to post this video just for the sake of it. Now I've done my part for today.
And then something completely different.
A lot has managed to happen during a week and the biggest thing was me getting out Aberdeen, to a weekend trip in St. Andrews. I went with the Pol & IR Society to a St. Andrews Foreign Affairs Conference, which included several lectures from professors of different universities, on the topic of the Arab Spring. Too bad we had to wake up before 5 am on Saturday morning (and I had been working till 1:30 am... Also, having a hungover that continued two days didn't help), so were all pretty much walking dead during the first part of Saturday's lectures before the ridiculous amount of caffeine consumed kicked in. St. Andrews is such a beautiful little town! However, the students in the university were completely different planet with me, because I would have realised that I would have to wear a fancy dress and pearls for a STUDENT conference. I got some of the coldest looks with my leather jacket, boots and jeans. But I really enjoyed the conference anyway and I had an amazing weekend with the Society. I could write so much about it, but it's mainly just inside-jokes, so I don't think that anyone else would get anything. I'll try to post pictures at some point, unless I put them in facebook before and most of you can find them from there then.
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