Se! Helg!
Sommerkjole og verdens beste pumps på fredag.
Soft-is til lønsj på lørdag
Mulig nytt skjerf?
På vei til Munkholmen
Det regnet, men var fint ute på Munkholmen. Nå har mamma dratt, sola kommet fram igjen og helga er snart over
(Photo from Instagram: bulldozerborg. My lab journal, the samples (DNA extractions) I am using and the ones I selected for today’s run)
The lab work seems to be over now. I will complete the PCR and gel electrophoresis I’m doing right now and then the next thing on my do to list is to send everything to Germany and then wait for my results. And then we will see if we get the same patterns (or lack of patterns really) as I did with the microsatellites last year (aka in my master thesis).
As I have told you, I am applying for jobs like my life depended on it (because it does) and yesterday I was invited to my first job interview! I know an interview is not a job, but it was a great boost to get invited after only four applications. It made me believe that I will actually manage to find a job before the summer is over and all my money has run out.
I have started to come to terms with the grade on my master thesis and as I have had to look at other options than only PhDs (even though I am still able to do a PhD in some universities) I have begun to wonder if I really want that life. The secure and safe life in an ordinary company with an apartment and 8-4 days sounds better and better every week. Maybe what I need now is not a life of even more uncertainty, but the boring A4 life. I mean, I have never tried it. This summer I have completed 18 years of continuous school attendance. That’s a lot.
Well, we’ll see. The next month will be exiting, to say the least.
Hvit bluse fra H&M, blått skjørt fra Zara, svarte ballerinaer fra Paris. Det er sommer i Trondheim, folkens 🙂
Var på spontanbesøk etter spontanmiddagsgjest i går. I dag blir det atter en feiring av vel gjennomført master. Ellers skriver jeg jobbsøknader som en helt, trener og gjelder meg til mamma kommer på besøk til helga. Da skal vi være sommerturister i Trondheim, det blir fint.
Håper dere koser dere med ferie, jeg koser meg med å få lønn 😉
Almost as pink as my shirt 🙂 Second round at the gym this week. Erik says I’m getting fitter. I think this will be an excellent summer.
The recent week in pictures
Graduation party
Late walk home
The dome and the sunset / sunrise
Asparagus, possibly one of the best things in the world
Cinnamon rolls
Us
Me trying to upload my pictures to my domain
As I am currently working in the lab, trying to figure out how to do this PCR, I will give you this
I have found it on the internet, so thank you internet. So you can think about this important issue, while I worry about concentrations, cycling times and temperatures.
But, there will be beer tonight (not that I can afford it at this moment)! I love how people are finished with their masters and want to celebrate. Now there are celebrations almost every day 🙂 And I have managed to get my excersising plan back on its feet. Hurray!
No, this is not really about money, but about these beauties that are on sale on Net-a-porter.
My thing for orange/red/pink is never ending and I am getting more and more into this more bulky look
And then there is my never endig love for Burberry Prosum coats. I have even bloggedabout this particular one before
Leather sleeves are such a nice touch and makes the classic trench more edgy
But I think this one would be perfect for me. Don’t you?
Mmmm, this emerald green suede coat would complete any outfit
I love the clean lines of this one.
I am glad that I have absolutely no money right now, or I would have bought myself some new coats… Some day I will earn enough to be able to spend 10 000 NOK on a coat.
🙁
It didn’t work. I realize how spoilt I am, but it still makes me sad that I failed.
But I will be working in the lab to get more results for an article based on my master thesis and everything will work out fine (just as everyone says it will). But I’m sad anyway.
This is the first time in eight years that I will have to reconsider my plans for the future. Good luck, to me.
I am back in Trondheim, I am busy, but have a social life and get enough sleep at night. I just, haven’t had time to sit down with my computer (or Erik’s computer as it really is), to post pictures from Romania, because this final oral exam is hanging over me.
TWO DAYS!
Then I’ll get my final grade on my thesis and will finished at NTNU (and probably in Trondheim as well). It is such a strange feeling.
Thursday we’ll barbeque with people from the Museum and this weekend Erik and I will go hiking and get some fresh air. And on Monday I will start working in the lab and continue to apply for jobs and PhDs. I sent one while in Romania and will send another this week. This job hunting business is tiresome. But I still have no clue where I will be in the end of August, so I just have to keep on writing (and googling).
How’s your summer holiday? Started yet?
Two weeks ago, when I had handed in my masters, I went a bit crazy at H&M.
Yesterday the faculty threw a big party for all of the master graduates. It was really nice seeing all of my biologists again and interesting to hear what they think of the future. Some already have jobs, some don’t have a clue what they want, others are applying for anything, some are trying to get PhDs like I am.
I wore a white dress and pearls. It was graduation after all.
And my favorite red ballet flats.
The weather was wonderful, even at ten in the evening.
People were having a good time 🙂
Kristin had just had her final oral exam (mine is on Thursday) and was very happy and exhausted at the same time.
I walked home at twelve and the summer night was beautiful.
I’m back from Romania and studying for my final exam. I have just been busy, but while I try to catch up with friends and Erik, here is the last week through Instagram (bulldozerborg).
Studying at Trondheim airport.
Group sessions and presentations for four days. This was about employability and entrepreneurship in scouting.
The magnificent rover program in Ireland. I have brought back a ton of inspiration and plans for the future of our program.
This was dessert one night. Dessert. One apple. The Romanian food was strange and far between, but the hotel was nice (even though people would smoke indoors).
Almost home in Trondheim. The sun is shining even tough it is in the middle of the night.
Today I’m talking about demography and social change and how it influences scouting
Look what I found on the plane. The time for sigarettes on planes is evidently over and electronic devices have taken over.
And yes, I am now in Romania. I’ll be back on Monday 🙂
A week ago I had Ruben over for dinner. I ended up making spinach pie by accident. This is how it looked.
It was really good. So spinach pie has always been a favourite of mine. I really like spinach, pie and feta cheese and this spinach pie includes all of that into one. It has to be good.
So how to you make it?
Pie is always super simple to make, but you need to have time to make dinner an hour before you are going to eat it, so I make it more seldom than I would have liked. I love how pie makes left overs much more fun and that you can put almost anything in a pie. all you need is flour, butter and eggs in your pantry and then you put anything from your fridge in the pie and call it dinner. Perfect!
It might be the sun and the lack of Erik to entertain me, but I really like this instagram business.
My new skirt and blouse (both H&M)
My mortar in real granite, a gift from SiT when I left the board in March
Wonderful flowers that love the sun just as mutch as I do
(but I get more sunburned than they do)
Dinner last night. But the beer after was good! Today I have bought wegies, so today will be better.
Det har vært helt magisk vær i Trondheim de siste dagene. Og selv om jeg har nytt været, solt meg og til og med tatt årets første bad, så slår sol med kjæreste sol uten kjæreste ned i støvlene.
(blomstrete kjole fra H&M, solbriller fra Fendi, øredobber fra søndagsmarked i New York)
Sitting at home studying. Today it is warm and sunny, so no tights and I am giving myself some air and sun through my kitchen window.
After weeks of “OMG I have so much to do!” I have now arrived at “I have no idea what to do to fill all this time”. I blame lack of master thesis and lack of boyfriend. So my plans for the next week are:
1. study for my exam
2. exercise a lot
3. do all the chores I have postponed for 6 months
4. spend time in the sun (which is here! Yay!)
5. no idea
In a week I’m going to Bucharest in Romania for a forum/conference/thing with WOSM Europe and I am actually very happy about it. It will be fun. And I will have two whole days in Bucharest to relax and study as well.
And when I get back from Bucharest, Erik will be back again 🙂 and you know what? Then the summer will be here! Can’t wait!
First, breakfast with our neighbours, already in our finest.
Mandatory bubbles
A great start 🙂
We were just in time to join the parade in the rain
Happy people and their umbrellas
We hid in a coffee shop to dry and get warm. Woolen clothes were just right.
After a quick dinner we met up with GS, Erik’s group at Samfundet for some wine
Everybody loved Erik’s hat (inherited from his grandfather)
Fits him best, though
Then, a reception and more bubbles. Look at those pretty people
Many familiar faces at the reception 🙂
Even the leader of Samfundet. That was his last day.
More pretty national costumes
I think almost ten people tried the hat on during the day
Then there was cake!
It was a very good meeting. Two especially good speaches and a very worthy recipient of an honorary membership of Studentersamfundet, Eskild Pedersen.
<3
It was late, we were tired, so we went home
(some weren’t as tired as others)