Swedish adventures aka my PhD

The ‘new normal’ of isolated life continues. While we still don’t have any drastic restrictions here in Sweden and when walking past packed bars and restaurants in the city centre, I wonder for a moment if I just dreamt up this entire global pandemic, life certainly is a lot quieter and in many ways more routine then it was three months ago. I’m now very settled in my new little apartment and within the next week should even have a sofa and chairs to make the many hours spent within these 4 walls that bit more comfortable. I feel like time has taken on its own new pace; you’d expect an empty schedule to drag yet the weeks are rapidly slipping by and when each evening comes I wonder where on earth the past 12 hours went and how we possibly managed to fit in all those social events and appointments before this ‘new normal’ began. I guess  for the many parts, afterwork drinks have been swapped for ‘Zoom’ video calls, group sports replaced by socially distanced runs or online class...