User:Staffanlindell

Me, myself and I...

June the 6th 1978 a boy was born screaming to the world... Or maybe not screaming since I was actually delivered through a caesarian. A fact that has left me scarred for life, literally actually since the surgeon performing the procedure carved me in the back leaving a mark that roughly resembles a gunshot wound.

From there I took the usual route through preliminary school, high school, college (2 of them actually, the Royal institute of Technology in Stockholm and the Business school of Economics at the Stockholm University) and proceeded out into what most people consider to be real life.

Real life... let's all take a moment here to contemplate what real life is. To most people real life is what hits you in the morning just after you've had your coffee and wakes up (yes in that order). It's the realization that you have to go to work again and spend 8 to 10 hours slaving for your employer just to go back home and do some more afternoon slaving. (Afternoon slaving can either be cleaning the house because your girlfriend tells you to, working out because otherwise your ultrafit girlfriend would leave you or working from your home because otherwise your boss will fire you!)

My real life is in some parts just like any other person's real life. I have a day job, or rather three, and I have a girlfriend who nags at me if I forget to do my cleaning chores (She is otherwise a very loveable person and I do love her very much, but in this aspect she is like every other girl out there). I work as an assistant project manager for a research project named e-Me, a COO at a small IT bureau and an assistant book keeper at a consulting firm.

After hearing about my musings about real life you might wonder what a person like me do for escapism. Luckily for me I like sports, above mentioned reason for staying fit does not apply to me, which ensures me of keeping my girlfriend forever and ever (A good thing!). I also enjoy scuba diving and am the proud owner of a recently acquired PADI open water certificate. My self destructive side also enjoys playing football, american style where you carry the ball in your hands and throw it, which leads to me spending a lot of my time semi-injured or injured during the summer, but still deliriously happy.

--Staffanlindell 12:54, 4 August 2006 (UTC)