-I got a Swedish cell phone, although I still can't figure out how to set up my voicemail.
-I got a bank account at Handelsbanken.
-I met most of the people I'm going to be working with at the Center for Health Equity Studies, and got my key and a pretty office with a phone and a computer that says things like "logga in."
-I discovered my new favorite food (rimmad lax, which is like gravad lax but the salmon is cured without dill and with more salt, and it's served with dill cream potatoes).
-I despaired about ever finding a place to live because housing in Stockholm is unbelievably impossible and so tightly controlled it's like a joke, but by some miracle today I found a beautiful apartment in a great neighborhood called Kungsholmen which I can rent for a few months starting October 1.
-I joined a beautiful gym/pool/spa/bathhouse called Sturebadet where Greta Garbo used to go and which I am counting on to make me happy during the very dark and very cold days ahead.
-I learned how to buy alcohol (vodka and aquavit, to be specific) at a System Bolaget, the very tightly regulated government-run liquor stores.
and many more things, but now I'm so tired from trekking around all day that I think I'm going to pass out.
This is how they serve the aquavit at Sturehof.
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Östermalmshallen, a tremendous indoor food market.
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My mom in front of Svenskt Tenn where small pillows with Josef Frank fabric cost a hundred dollars.
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My new Klippan wool blanket.
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