Escape from boredom

I’m very fascinated of the wake up scene of todays episode of Medium http://www.nbc.com/Medium/. They both woke up, husband and wife, wearing their t-shirts, in fact Allison had on shirt on top of the other one. My first reaction was that it must be hot (like in warm) to wear so much clothes when sleeping. I sweat just wearing my panties…

And then the next scene, they get into the kitchen where their three kids are already awake, dressed up and sitting quietly around the table. If having kids is like that, sign me up! But I also realized the good thing about sleeping with your clothes on, because the grown ups did not need to do anything, they just got right out of bed and into the kitchen where mummy started making pancakes. Their hair was all done, what a wonderful world it must be! They even drive an old Volvo 245.

And I even feel sorry for the husband in the serie, he never seems to get a whole night of sleep, since his wife wakes up screaming each night…

My latest book “Stalingrad” by Antony Beevor. Stalingrad is considered the turning point of WW2, and I find it very interesting to get to know how the Russian victory of Stalingrad would then again strongly influence how Europe was divided into West and East after the end of the war. More, it was frightening to read about the suffering on both sides during the battle. We are never able to understand it by just reading about it, but then again, at least when having read the book I know more…

Read more at Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Stalingrad
Review of the book in Norwegian http://www.dagbladet.no/kultur/2002/12/09/355882.html