Fika

Fika is a Swedish verb that roughly means "to take a coffee break".
Fika is a social institution in Sweden: it means taking a break from work or other activities and having a coffee with one's colleagues, friends, date, or family. The word has quite ambiguous connotations, and can at its its extremes denote a date or a small meal with your boss. This practice of taking a break for a coffee and a light snack (some biscuits, cookies, or a sandwich) between more substantial meals like lunch and dinner is central to Swedish life, Swedes being among the heaviest consumers of coffee in the world.
Since the word implies drinking coffee, just having a sandwich would not really be fika, although these days tea or a soft drink instead of coffee is becoming more frequent. In recent years, too, fika has also come to mean simply going to a café and having a coffee with someone, though this technically deviates from the strict "taking a break" meaning.[citation needed] The word is an example of the backslang used in the 19th century – where the syllables of a word are reversed – deriving from kaffi, an earlier variant of the Swedish word kaffe ("coffee").[citation needed] The word is also used as a noun, meaning the actual event of having a fika, i.e., "a lovely fika." From fika also comes the word fik (a colloquial term for "café") through a process of back-formation. In northern Sweden and some of the more rural areas, fika is synonymous to coffee without any treats: Ta en kopp fika ("Have a cup of coffee").

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Disconnect Anxiety

1. 
   Strongly or somewhat agree with the statement "My cell phone goes everywhere I go?"
2. Use your wireless device "frequently" at home instead of your home phone?
   Strongly or somewhat agree with the statement "When I leave home without my cell phone, I feel cut off"?
3. Spend four hours or more using the Internet—work or personal—per day on average?
4. Used IM (instant messenger) in the last week?
5. Have a Facebook profile that you visit at least once a day?
6. Strongly agree with the statement "The world is not as safe as it used to be"?
7. Used a laptop in your living room or bedroom in the last week?
8. Text-messaged on a regular cell or sent email using a BlackBerry, Treo or similar in the evenings or the weekend in the last week?

reference:http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080312-disconnect-anxiety-a-malady-for-the-21st-century.html