I'm really looking forward to the Blogathon thing now. Yesterday, I announced that I had signed up on abcbc.net, which is a joint weblog for local bloggers, and since then I've been getting a lot of traffic from that site and from Emme's site (she's my partner in crime on this project), which hopefully means that a lot of people will check in on us this weekend. And this afternoon less than 24 hours after signing up I got my first sponsor!

Mad props and shout-outs go out to Lasse Rimmer, who has been kind and generous enough to sign up and sponsor me and hopefully some of you will follow his example. If you decide to pitch in you'll not only get my gratitude, but I'll also mention you right here on my weblog and add a link to your weblog, website, LiveJournal, Tiffany fan page, or whatever you wish.

Not a lot of Danes have signed up for the Blogathon (which I keep misspelling "Blogathong") yet, so in a brilliant attempt to get some high profile people involved Emme has emailed former Prime Minister and blogger Poul Nyrup Rasmussen and informed him of the event. She hasn't heard back from him yet, but it would be awesome if he signed up like British Labour MP Tom Watson has.

In other blog-related news I actually got around to read through more than two thirds of my paper this weekend and my notes, combined with the structural advice my Dad gave me, has left me a lot more confident about the quality of the paper than I ever been before. I still need to produce at least 15 more pages and I have barely looked at the final third of my paper since I wrote it, so I'm sure it needs one or two serious rewrites. But I think it's beginning to look like I'll be able to hand in a fairly respectable paper around October 1st (which will then forever be known as my independence day). So between the amazing weather, getting off early from work, the blogathon, and the paper looking less and less like a mission impossible my mood is reaching Roberto Benigni heights, which is remarkably pleasant.