Of course we imported the Halloween. There is the spectacle and where people dress up, it’s easy to sell. Me, I’ve never liked dressing up. No matter what I wear, I’m always painfully aware that I am still me. And then what’s the point? The disguises don’t bring anything, it probably takes it away because the insecurities in me goes up a level. I’m about as excited for that as for the German metal band Helloween — in case you’re new here: this means “not at all.”

I do like food though, and friends. So I wished they could have imported Thanksgiving somehow instead. (And not as a Wasa bread celebration day for fuck sake.) We have far too few food-based holidays in Sweden. In a perfect world, it would be one in each quarter of the year. I think I need to invent this.