Week 47

Posted on 19/11/2012 by Ingeborg

Last week ended on a very good note, with the offer from Ås. And then we had a really good weekend. We visited Mathallen, had brunch with Beate and Ruben, did a big house cleaning and ended Saturday with a spontaneous cocktail party. And Sunday we slept in, had pancakes for breakfast and saw both the new James Bond (Skyfall) and an old one (Die another day). A weekend filled with good friends and good food, just like it should be.

This week will be all about finishing my Udacity class and getting everything ready to start working. And I am a very good girl, going to the gym three times a week. Maybe I’ll get stronger and faster sometime too.

There is choir practice on Tuesday (the concert is getting closer) and I have both melodies and text to remember. Christmas is all around.
There is a meeting with my soon-to-be supervisor in Ås, where we will make plans for the future and decide when I will start.
This weekend we have a meeting in the Programme Committee, Komité Speiding, so I have to prepare for that as well.
And if I have any energy left on Sunday I will help my dad move all my granmother’s things. She died a little more than a week ago and she left a small mountain of possessions that we need to get rid of.

Sunday walk

Posted on 18/11/2012 by Ingeborg

I really like Bjølsen and Sagene. It’s calm and peaceful, but also urban and close to everything else. We did a little walk in our neighbourhood our first Sunday here, to see what we had actually moved into.

It was cold and sunny, so the ground had thawed just where the sun was shining.

Walking!

Autumn is my favorite season. Who can resist all those golden leaves?

Sagene church, quite pretty in the sun.

Someone’s back yard

The Turkish grosery store at Advokat Dehlis plass. They have got the best variation and quality in greens I have ever seen. Love it!

I especially love that they have a lot of greens I have never seen og heard of before. We have already tried a couple of new ones 🙂

Then we went to Mat og mer. We didn’t buy lunch, but we bought some cheese 🙂

Thursday treat

Posted on 15/11/2012 by Ingeborg

I bring you… Cats that look like pin up girls

Move it!

Posted on 27/10/2012 by Ingeborg

Today is the big moving day! (again)

Keys

Posted on 25/10/2012 by Ingeborg

This is me last night. Terribly happy about our new keys. And remember that you can find me on instagram as @bulldozerborg.

New apartment!

Posted on 23/10/2012 by Ingeborg

Tomorrow we’ll get the keys for the new apartment 🙂 I can’t wait to move out of my parent’s house again. Not that it has been terrible, but now we’ve lived here for months and I am very eager to have someplace that is home again. Someplace that is mine (even though it really is ours). It is tiny, but just big enough for the two of us. We won’t live there for long, because some day very soon I hope I get a job, so I know where I really should live. And Erik wants to buy an apartment, so we will just live there for 6 months or so. But still, it will be good to have a new place.

It is difficult to keep moving forward.

Det ordner seg til slutt

Posted on 12/10/2012 by Ingeborg

Det føles som jeg har bladd om i boka og fått en ny side. At jeg har lagt et nytt kapittel bak meg. Ikke at jeg egentlig gjør noe annet nå enn jeg gjorde i august, men alt føles annerledes allikevel. Jeg har vært igjennom første runde med jobbsøking og har fått kjent på kroppen hva som virkelig er viktig for meg. Kanskje det er derfor jeg føler meg ny. Jeg har funnet ut at jeg faktisk er ny. Jeg er ikke den samme som jeg var for to år siden. Jeg holder på å bli voksen. Noe så veldig, faktisk. For første gang i mitt liv har jeg valgt mennesket over egne ambisjoner. Jeg har bestemt at jeg ikke vil ha en doktorgrad for enhver pris. Jeg vil fremdeles ha en doktorgrad, men jeg vil ikke bytte Erik mot karriere. Det var skikkelig vanskelig å bestemme seg. Ikke at jeg egentlig var i tvil, det var bare vanskelig å tørre å kjenne etter. Å åpne dørene på vidt gap og tørre å se hva jeg egentlig følte. Jeg var litt redd for hva jeg kom til å finne. Men da jeg endelig klarte å roe meg så mye at jeg fikk til å kjenne etter så fant jeg ut to ting; når alt ligger til rette så tør jeg å satse og ta doktorgrad og jeg kommer ikke til å andre på at jeg valgte Erik over doktorgraden i Tyskland.

Det er en annen ting som har skjedd også, som gjør at det er et nytt kapittel. Erik har takket ja til jobb i Oslo, så nå skal vi finne en leilighet som vi kan bo i mens Erik leter etter noe å kjøpe. Som betyr at vi om ikke så lenge har et sted å flytte til etter at vi flyttet ut i Trondheim. Snart får jeg et nytt hjemme. Det skal bli veldig deilig å kunne pakke ut alle tingene mine, selv om jeg sikkert ikke får jobb i Oslo, og derfor må pakke alt sammen igjen om ikke så lenge.

I dag våknet jeg og gledet meg til resten av livet. Jeg lå i armkroken til han jeg liker best i hele verden og kjente at det boblet i meg av glede. Resten av livet, tenk på det! Det kommer til å bli innmari fint. Det kommer til å bli en hel del andre ting også, men akkurat nå gleder jeg meg bare. Det er mange ting jeg kan bekymre meg for om jeg vil, men som alle jeg kjenner forteller meg om og om igjen, så kommer det til å ordne seg til slutt. Og jeg tror at det ikke er så lenge til til slutt, egentlig.

L.I.F.E.G.O.E.S.O.N.

Posted on 04/10/2012 by Ingeborg

I miss my smart phone. I’m sorry, but I do. I miss the little things, Instagram, my WordPress app (to blog directly from my phone), my playlists, the Gule Sider app to recognize phone numbers, boarding card on my phone, calendar, the automatic backup of all texts and contacts. Oh, well, Erik has given it a good scrub and ordered new speakers, so we’ll see in a week if we manage to repare it. Else, I’ll just have to buy a new one.

Tunisia was good. It wasn’t great, but I think I was too tired for it to have been great. I read a really good book “1Q84” by Murakami. And got a nice tan. And after a week I finally managed to have “The Talk” or perhaps I should call it “The Think”. I had enough peace of mind to really dig deep and find out what I felt. Less than two days after arriving from Tunisia I went to Germany to decide if I wanted the PhD I was offered in Halle (Saale).

I have decided that I am not going to take it. I have decided that I don’t want a job that is so far from Erik that we won’t have enough time for ordinary life. You know, ordinary Tuesdays, or Fridays. I think I actually have changed after I met Erik. And I have travelled too much the last two years. It is no fun at all. Just tiring and lonely. This still doesn’t mean that I will find a job in Oslo, but I won’t find a job more than six hours’ travel away from Oslo… Which might not sound that dramatic, but it is.

To sum it up, I did get a job offer, but I declined because of personal reasons. I went to Tunisia. I learned some basic bioinformatics. And now I’m back at square one. (but I have a lot of pictures)

Job offer, Tunisia and bioinformatics

Posted on 20/09/2012 by Ingeborg

My life is terribly crowded this week. I had three job interviews in 8 days and now I am learning to program in BASH, Python, SQL and R. And I have gotten an job offer while I wait for two other offers (hopefully). And I’m leaving for Tunisia on Saturday, so there are a lot of things I need to get done this week before I leave. And when I come back, there are four weekends on a row with scouting.

Stressed? Me? Noooo

So yeah. Bioinformatics is nice, I’m starting to get the hang of Python and I think I will manage this programming. I finally have to decide what I actually want to do with my life and there are so many things to consider. The most important thing is probably if I really have the guts to do a PhD. Three years in Germany. We’ll see.

But I did have the time to have a meet with a personal trainer last night, and got a really good work out. Haven’t worked out in three weeks or so, so it was really good. There has definitely been a big change in my life the last year when it comes to exercising. A good change. I like it.

Phew, I have to continue. And try to decide. Wish me good luck.

30 år

Posted on 12/09/2012 by Ingeborg

På mandag hadde foreldrene mine 30års bryllupsdag. Fordi pappa er på reise i en måned spurte han meg om å overraske mamma med blomster. Dessverre var han utolmodig (jeg kom sent tilbake fra jobbintervju i Molde), så det ble ingen overraskelse, men hun ble glad 🙂

Triks: kjøp to blomsterbuketter og sett dem sammen selv, da trenger du ikke å rekke åpningstidene til blomsterbutikkene.

Spillkveld

Posted on 10/09/2012 by Ingeborg

Bare noen bilder fra spillkveld for to uker siden.

Og bare for å ha sagt det, ubåten vår sank. Vi samarbeidet som best vi kunne, men det kom stadig nye branner og oversvømmelser og det er grenser for hva stakkars dverger på en atomubåt kan få til 😉

Takk for å få prøve morsomt spill, Kristian!

Good bye, Trondheim

Posted on 09/09/2012 by Ingeborg

Today I’m leaving Trondheim. Not on an airplane, but in a van. I have lived here for five years now and, not surprisingly, my life has changed a lot. It’s perheps more strange that I still feel like the same person. I more or less have the same interests, scouting, music, culture, fashion and more or less the same friends. I know different things and want to learn other things than I did then. I think I am a better person now than I was then. I better at caring for the people I love. I am as happy and smile as much, but in a way I am more settled with my life. I could live my life, just as it is right now, for the rest of my life. I like the pace, I like the people, I like my surroundings, I like the possibilities.

It’s strange to leave a place without arriving at some other place, but I guess that just makes you think more about the things you leave behind. I still know just as little about my future now as I did in March. I now have three new interviews, but still no job offers. It’s already September and I am ready to find a place where I know I can stay for a while.

I like Oslo, but this state is just too temporary for me. Especially now that we’ve been here since July. 2.5 months already. Two and a half months. Twoandahalfmonths.

Travelling

Posted on 07/09/2012 by Ingeborg

The last six months I cut down on my travelling to have time for writing up my thesis. But now that is over, my travel shedule is back to normal. Which means A LOT of travels. Because of all the interviews I’m going to, there is even more travelling than normal.

Already I have been to Uppsala for an interview and Stavanger for “Lederløft”. Last week we were in Trondheim to pack all our belongings and this weekend we are going up there again to move everything into storage in Oslo. On Monday I’m going to Molde for another interview, Thursday I will do a Skype presentation of my master project and an interview for a PhD position in Germany (Halle) and on Sunday I’m flying to Bergen for yet another interview.

That week I am also doing a course in bioinformatics (you already know that I’m learning Python from Udacity) at the University of Oslo, so we’ll stay in the city for a week. And when classes end on Friday I will pack up all my summer dresses, because on Saturday we are off to Tunisia!

So Uppsala, Stavanger, Molde, Trondheim, Bergen and Tunisia in just six weeks. And October is just as bad. Elverum and Fredrikstad for scout events, London for my grandfather’s 80th and Geiranger for the annual general assembly of the Norwegian Scout Association. I just realised I don’t really need someplace to stay, I’m never there anyway… But hopefully I will have someplace new to move to soon. It’s time to get a job (and maybe some money as well).

Moving

Posted on 01/09/2012 by Ingeborg

I’m currently doing the first of two weekends of moving. Hence the lack of blogging. Am also catching up with my favorite Trondheim people and places 😀

Talk to you later!

Never leave

Posted on 24/08/2012 by Ingeborg

Now I have been in Oslo for a month. A month already. Still have no place to go and no place to stay here. I cleaned out almost all the stuff in my room in my parent’s house, to leave more room for Erik and me when we stay here, but we can’t actually live here. The situation feels too permanent and jobs keep eluding me. I’m going back to Trondheim to see if there is anything I can do there, but I doubt it. But I’ll try, can’t not try.

Luckily I have something to do, the Python course with Udacity and scouting. There is so much scouting right now. I’m trying to get back in the loop after 6 months of pause because of my master thesis. So now I’m picking up all the loose ends and trying to make things better. Also I’m rounding up the rest of the Rover camp (budget, report etc.) and preparing for next year. In addition to the two projects that are running right now… And yes, this is perfectly normal.

I’m in Stavanger this weekend doing some workshops and talking to people. Might hand over some flowers and get to meet some nice people and good friends as well 🙂

Oh, and I’ve been to Elixia three times already 🙂 Am trying to keep up the good work exercising three times a week and eating only what I need and not everything I want. Maybe I’ll actually loose a couple of kilos.

Søndagsfika

Posted on 21/08/2012 by Ingeborg

På søndag var det veldig deilig vær og jeg hadde en nydelig fridag. Det var første dagen på lenge uten en eneste plan og det gjorde veldig godt. På tross av en sein kveld på lørdag var vi på vår aller første gruppetime på Elixia og pumpet jern. Det var deilig å trene styrke igjen etter 6 uker opphold.

Og så dro vi til Stabekk og Strand restaurant (anbefales!) for å nyte solskinnet.

Det var så varmt at vi måtte sitte i skyggen… De hadde deilig hjemmelaget is og det var BBQ konkurranse i hagen 🙂 På kvelden laget vi deilig grillmiddag og avsluttet dagen med spontanpai:

Standard paibunn, fyllet var bringebær, bringebær- og blåbærsyltetøy, revet parmesan og hakkede mandler. Deilig!

Norheimsund

Posted on 20/08/2012 by Ingeborg

Innkalt på nytt intervju! I Bergen! I Mattilsynet! Har jeg flaks får jeg kanskje jobb innen utgangen av september. Men det betyr vel også at jeg snart må bestemme meg for hva jeg vil gjøre…

Siden det ikke er så mange stillinger å søke på for tiden er dagen i dag satt av til å tømme innboksen (man merker godt at sommerferien er over nå, epostene bare strømmer inn) og å gjøre en del to dos for Komité Speiding. Jeg skal jo til Stavanger til helga og holde kurs og vi skal ha første møte med den nye lederen vår, så det blir spennende og interessant. Jeg er veldig spent på hvordan dette halvåret blir. Også fordi perioden min i KS egentlig går ut i januar (da har jeg sittet i to år, allerede) og jeg må bestemme meg for om jeg vil fortsette to år til.

Men planer bare strømmer på, Bekkestua denne uka og så Stavanger i helgen. Og neste uke ser det ut til at vi skal flytte alle tingene våre ned til Oslo. Så nå er det om å gjøre å finne et minilager i Osloområdet og kjøpe flytteesker og plastbokser med plass til hele livet mitt i. Og når alt er på plass i Oslo må jeg skrive flere søknader og så er vi langt ut i september. Denne høsten kommer til å gå fort.

Jobbsøking, altså

Posted on 14/08/2012 by Ingeborg

Nå har jeg vært aktivt jobbsøkende i to måneder. Jeg har ikke meldt meg som arbeidsledig til NAV og lever på sparepenger og to sett foreldres kjøleskap. Jeg har hatt litt sommerjobb, litt ferie og har begynt å lære meg å programmere. Jeg har vært flink jente og trent, jeg har begynt å bruke en slanke-app (for det er så teit jeg er) og jeg har blitt overtalt til å dra på en ukes ferie Tunisia i september.

Det er mye rart som skjer til at det egentlig ikke er noe som skjer. Folk spør meg om hvor jeg skal og blir overrasket når jeg sier at jeg ikke skal noe sted på en stund. Jeg skal flytte fra Trondheim, men vet ikke helt hvor jeg skal flytte til ennå. Jeg skal på jobbintervju (mitt andre), men synes det har vært stille fra alle de andre plassene jeg har søkt. Jeg tenker nesten bare på framtiden, men prøver samtidig å la være. Det er jo helt umulig å planlegge noe som helst, så jeg later som om livet fortsetter som vanlig og sier “ja” til å bli med på ting langt fram i tid.

Til å ikke ha noe å gjøre har jeg en travel timeplan. Og så er jeg veldig glad for at jeg har med meg Erik. Det hadde vært slitsomt å være alene om dette her. Litt mye usikkerhet for én person…

Like mye for meg selv som for Det Store Internettet, en oversikt over den nære høsten:

august

intervju i Uppsala, fest hos Ruben, Lederløft i Stavanger, tur til Trondheim (flytte?)

september

kurs i programmering på UiO, ferie med Sara til Tunisia, sikkert helgemøte med KS

oktober

veldig mange helger med nasjonale speiderarrangementer

Det var ikke så mange planer, det. Det er vel kanskje sånn det blir. Vi må flytte ut av leiligheten innen utgangen av september og annet enn det har jeg ingen planer. Nå håper jeg bare at jeg får tilbud om en jobb jeg har lyst på. Det hadde vært fint, det.

Music festival

Posted on 10/08/2012 by Ingeborg

I’m having a really good time. Ola’s apartment is a very good spot, the weather is nice most of the time and I have seen a couple of really good concerts.