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Yesterday, a 29 year old man jumped from the 24th floor down here in Battery Park. He landed on a car driving by. I noticed that it was a lot of traffic outside our door in the afternoon, which was kinda strange since we usually don’t have that much traffic, but after reading about the incident I understand why. Anyway… In the article that my husband sent me about this jump it said that “Tourists in a nearby open-air bus that was stuck in traffic, saw more than they bargained for when the gruesome scene unfolded right in front of them. Then they quickly found their bearing and realized the tragedy would look perfect on their Instagram profile, and scrambled for their cellphones to snap pictures of the body, said workers at the building.” 
This made me think. Isn’t that just sick? Someone is dead and people see an opportunity to put a picture of it on social media. Can’t we just be there in the moment, feel sorry for the man who jumped, try to help or walk away from it? Do we really have to share it on instagram? And also, do people really want to see those pictures? 
We are constantly connected, we live our lives through a camera lens and our memories involves checking updates on our phones. I am very tired of this. I have a blog, I have a new phone, I have a camera, we have internet on all the time etc, but I also take time to enjoy things without all this. For example, I usually don’t bring my phone when I take the dog out. I also get really annoyed when my husband is doing stuff on his phone when we are having a nice dinner in a restaurant. 
Soon we might not know if things are our own memories or someone else. Soon we will all stay inside while selected ones are out taking all the pictures to share with us. Soon we end up like the kids movie Wall-E. Or, what do you think? 

Today is finally the day they open the One World Trade Center Observatory Deck to the public. I’m very excited about this, I have been waiting. We look at the building from our windows every day and we have seen the process of getting it ready. I would love to go there this weekend but we’ll see how long the line is. The tickets for adult are $32 which is the same like The Empire State Building. 

Idag ar antligen dagen da de oppnar One World Trade Center Observatory Deck for alla. Jag ar valdigt exhalterad over det har, jag har vantat. Vi tittar pa byggnaden fran vara fonster varje dag och vi har sett processen att fa den iordning. Jag skulle garna ga dit i helgen but vi far se hur lang ko det ar. Biljetter vuxna kostar $32 vilket ar det samma som for The Empire State Building.

Last night I fell asleep while I listened to a podcast. I woke up when it was finished and fell back to sleep thank G. An hour later I woke up by that it felt like my brain got slapped. Very strange feeling. The slap gave me a whole bunch of way too deep thoughts and questions that I didn’t want to answer in the middle of the night. I was awake for quite some time in our sweaty bedroom with a snoring husband and a puppy that moved around every 3rd minute.
I have never woken up in that way before. Like if some mini person had crawled inside my head and gave my brain a hard slap. Strange and probably sounds totally insane. 
Today I of course woke up super tired and with a swollen throat. Wanted to take class, got ready but I just didn’t have enough energy for it. Instead I have been frustrated with that my brain did this to me last night. But in a way I’m happy it happened. I clearly need to do some serious thinking. 

Igar natt somnade jag medans jag lyssnade pa en podcast. Jag vaknade nar den var slut och somnade som tur var om. En timme senare vaknade jag av att det kandes som att min hjarna fick en orfil. Valdigt konstig kansla. Orfilen gav mig en hel hog av alldeles for djupa tankar och fragor som jag inte ville besvara mitt i natten. Jag lag vaken lange i vart svettiga sovrum med en snarkandes make och en valp som bytte plats var 3e minut.
Jag har aldrig vaknat pa det sattet forut. Som om nagon mini person krypit in i huvudet pa mig och gav min hjarna ett hart slag. Underligt och later sakert helt sjukt.
Idag vaknade jag saklart super trott och med en svullen hals. Ville ta en dansklass, gjorde mig iordning men jag hade helt enkelt inte energi for det. Istallet har jag varit frustrerad av att min hjarna gjorde sa mot mig igar natt. Men pa ett satt ar jag glad att det hande. Det ar tydligt att jag behover do some serious thinking. 

This morning. I’m happy I didn’t go to class actually. 

Freedom Tower’s antenna has the American flag colors tonight.

Freedom Tower’s antenn har Amerikanska flaggans farger ikvall.

We brought Thor on the subway up to 14 St and had lunch at our new favorite place Brazen Fox. New York is a very expensive city but this place has amazing prices and awesome food (fantastic bacon!). Plus you get a mimosa or bloody mary with your food which is a great deal.
After lunch, we walked to Tompkins Park in East Village. They have big dog parks there and we thought it would be fun for Thor, but it was so many dogs and T was already tired, so we sat on a bench for a while before we walked back to the subway.
Thor did very well, he didn’t freak out too much. He has to get used to be among people and to come with us to stuff. We don’t wanna leave him home alone too much, we want to enjoy stuff with him.