🙂 Noen ganger så får jeg blomster når Erik har vært ute og jogget. Veldig fint med overraskelser når man har vært flink og sittet på kontoret hele dagen. Takk!
Overraskelse!
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Life part 2.3.6
Ok, so today there are exactly 14 days left until the deadline of my master project.
TWO WEEKS!!
This is the most important thing I have ever done. Nothing has defined my future like this project will. And yes, I know that you can do anything, that I shape my own future and that this is just one piece in the puzzle, but this is also one of the most important opportunities I have to succeed in academia.
This weekend was my last two days off before May 15. I might have a beer and I might go see G7 at Avant Garden, and I most definitely will continue exercising three days a week, but other than that I spend 14 hours in the office every day.
Worst part? I am actually a bit thrilled. This is exhiting!
Hugs
Hotel
Right now I am at Britannia hotel here in Trondheim. Why? Because Erik and I are escaping real life and spending the weekend in a nice hotel, alone. We realised that we needed some time alone and that we really didn’t need to go to another city to do just that. So then we ended up packing a suitcase and going across town instead. We saved time and money not travelling and now we will just enjoy the SPA, the wonderful breakfasts and each others’ company.
It will be a weekend of champagne, good food, board games and fun.
PS: we have been super cultural lately, I just haven’t had the time to blog about it. Theatre and concerts 🙂
Moar pictures
I think wordpress has started talking with my phone again, therefore:
Erik on the way to a party all colours.
Roses from Ola for my (our) birthday
Drinks in Oslo sometime this Easter
Very funny title for a master presentation on grasses in Niquaragua
Pictures
Nice pictures I have found on the internet lately
don’t you love this cup?
Wedding cake for Tone from the Cake Wrecks blog. The blog is wonderful, btw.
Some fresh-from-uni-designer with knitted animal print.
I have a not very secret crush on insect jewelry
Ring
Brooch
Down time
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4 weeks left before master thesis deadline
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not enough blogging
(might have time this weekend though)
Stress!
I can feel my stress level rising as Easter, the master project dead line and summer are approaching. Even though this March has been the quietest March I have had in years, I worry more than I usually do. I know I should spend 10, rather than 8 hours working with my master every day. And even though I have less to do in scouting, I still have some projects and I know I don’t supervise them as well as I should.
There is still so much left to do with the project and I have only 8 weeks to go. I have gotten myself a sommer job, so I think I’ll have enough money for the summer and maybe September too. We’ll see. But less to worry about there 🙂
Tomorrow is my presentation for the Department of Biology and even though I have worked with my presentation this week (and gone through it with my supervisors) I still haven’t tried to talk through it… And I have to admit that I am a bit nervous. It is my whole master, what I have done the last 1,5 years. Scary stuff. Have to rehearse later today.
I am too slow. I wonder if I should start a new regime in the office, so that I am not allowed to leave before I have finished the goal I have set for the day. Either it works or I die of exhaustion. I think I need a hug.
On Friday I’ll be in Oslo and I will go wisit the PhD that made the genetic markers I have used in my project to discuss my results. I wonder how it will be. Can’t wait for Easter. Even though I will have to work with my project, there will be some time off and Erik will be back.
My lovelife
Do you know what’s the biggest influence on my lovelife right now? This:
This is a map of the undersea internett cables that go to Africa (from here). And apparently ships keep tearing them, and then internett goes slower. And then Skype and everything else gets grumpy and I can’t talk to Erik. Oh well. He had better internett in Malaysia than in USA, so we’ll see what happens when the internett in their office gets upgraded. For 4,5 years now I have only used the internett at my uni and I have to admit that I am not looking forward to super slow internett when I finish here. Can you believe that youtube came in 2005? Amazing, right? I can’t believe how much my life depends on internett these days.
But now: back to work!
Home
Going home today. This is the view from Sogndal airport. An airport so small they scan luggage and carry-on in the same machine. Where the airport shuttle bus driver also is the one taking the luggage out of the airplane.
Sometimes you get just as much culture shock in the “next valley” as on the other side of the world.
I am returning home to an empty apartment and I have to admit that I am already missing him a lot (but not the alot, for those of you who know the joke) and really hate being alone. Especially now that communication is difficult and expencive. I know it is only two weeks, but I still miss him.
So if you see me, give me a hug. I’ll be happier because of it 🙂 Now; new week, new job applications…
Boller og slaps
Det er boller og vekslende vær i Sogndal i helga. Kos!
Right versus pragmatic
I am stealing the title of a very good blogpost about fighting piracy in media. He starts with an easy example, the refers to the Oatmeal comic about the same problem and then, without any bad language or anything suggests that publishers should take a more pragmatic stand and spend their money on beating the pirates on their own terms. That is, giving the costumers something that is faster and easier. And I have to agree with him, it it had been easier, I would have done things differently. And there are things I see that I would never have paid for.
Leap year
Ok, so I’m a leap year baby. Or leap year grown up, more like. So today we are going out for a three course meal at emilies, just around the corner of my office and then some beers with friends at Lyche. It’s a very good day.
And btw, listen to these, they are good:
The newest from Coldplay (for good, clean pop with a hint of electonica)
Or from Den Svenska Björnstammen (for Swedish indie and groovy times)
Or Emeli Sandé (for everything from pop, electronica, rock, soul, she is amazing)
I dag
07.45: Styrketrening
Frokost
Valgmøte til museumsstyret på NTNU Vitenskapsmuseet (valgt som vara)
13.00: journal club på museet
Etterlengtet tid til masterarbeid
18.00: radioamatørlisenskurs med ARK
Tid til å skrive CV og søknader?
Ikke travel i det hele tatt, nei. Godt vi skal være hjemme i helga 🙂
Scouting vs student life
For all the scouts & students out there.
Utsikt: lys og mørke
Jeg elsker utsikten fra pulten min, spesielt med det skiftende været her i byen. Her har endelig sola kommet ordentlig ut samtidig som en mørk vegg ned snø kommer innover fjorden. Er det ikke vakkert?
Happy single’s awareness day
En kombinasjon av bursdag om to uker, fest om 1,5, plutselig tid til å gå i byen og flaks gjorde at det ble utveksling av bursdagsgaver i dag. Jeg har noen dager på å bestemme meg for at disse virkelig skal bli mine, så nå går jeg og kjenner etter. Hva tror dere?
Vi så forresten verdens søteste gullarmbånd også. Det var på halv pris og jeg lurer på om jeg må gå tilbake i morgen og kjøpe det i bursdagsgave til meg selv. Begynner å bli gammel nok nå, ikke sant?
Ny uke
Sist uke endte veldig bra og jeg er klar for en ny en, kjenner jeg. Vi har et ambisiøst mål om å stå opp 7 hver dag denne uka og det var deilig å være på kontoret 8.15 i dag.
Det ble en deilig helg. En helgete helg. Deilig middag før jobbing på samfundet på fredag. Rolig morgen på lørdag. Vi lagde en kjempelang gjøreliste og fikk gjort alt sammen. Nå er bilder hengt opp, vi har knagger til treningstøy og “klær som er i bruk” og flere bøker i bokhylla. Vi har også masse plass vi ikke bruker til noe, men vi skal jo leve også, så vi finner sikkert noe å putte der. Vi har en stor vegg over senga uten noe på som vi kan gjøre hva vi vil med. Det er ordentlig fint hjemme.
Og så dro vi på fest. Vi drakk masse drinker og jeg ble skrekkelig full (som jo ikke er så rart når man drikker masse alkohol), men det var veldig hyggelig og vi har nå spurt Regi om en kjempetjeneste. Jeg kan jo si det slik at bursdagsfesten vår kommer til å bli veldig bra 🙂
Søndag ble egentlig (nesten) bare tilbragt i senga. Vi rakk akkurat å spise frokost før vi skulle klatre kl 17 og fikk deilig middag hos Ruben etterpå. Tredje søndag på rad med klatring/buldring nå! Dette ser bra ut! Til helga skal vi på tur, men vi håper å få til klatring på søndag allikevel. Det er ordentlig deilig å klatre igjen. Og så er det noen bra folk som har skrudd 5+ ruter i veggene med overheng, så det er morro å klatre, selv for oss som ikke er supersterke i fingrene.
Jeg har gjort en avtale med André i ARK om at jeg skal lære ham knuter mot at han hjelper meg med amatørradiolisensen, så de neste 6 ukene blir det lesing av ting jeg ikke vet noe særlig om, nemlig elektronikk og radio. Men jeg gleder meg til å lære 🙂
Denne uka skal jeg være med ARK, på Førvisning av vårkolleksjonen på Shine og drikke cava, ha veiledermøte med Roverleiren 2012, på siste styremøte med SiT Kafe og SiT Tapir på To rom og kjøkken og så skal jeg på bursdagstur med TSSG. Litt av en uke!
Still early
So it is still early in the week, so I thought I might write a couple of words on what happened this weekend. Friday we went to a Charity party arranged by TSSG, the student scout group. I only took pictures with my phone, and few were any good, but I’ll put some of them up shortly. Especially Erik’s outfit pic. He looked lovely.
Even though we left early, Saturday started late and was generally calm. Since I had finished the week at the office in style, I did absolutely nothing without a thread of guilt, for the first time in a long while. Lovely. In the evening we were invited to Pia to have dinner. She made us the most delicious meal (pictures later when I find an easy way to get pictures phone -> computer), we had wine and went to the Jaga Jazzist consert at Samfundet. It is definitely jazz and very modern, so much time at the consert was spent not understanding very much. But it was very nice, anyhow.
Sunday as the best day of the weekend. We mangaed to clean the whole house before Stian came for brunch. We had eggs, bacon, freshly baked bread and so much spread it was impossible to eat it all. I always say that it is a good breakfast when you have more than three glasses or more 🙂 Then we went climbing for a couple of hours. It was wonderful to climb again. I hope we manage to get Amund and Anne out to play more regurlarly 😉 The rest of the evening was spent on the sofa. We had dinner, watched “The king’s speech” and just had fun.
So you can see, best weekend in a long while.
Hipster Jesus
Bildet er fra Elsa Billgren og er tatt et sted i Stockholm.
Først da jeg så det lo jeg fordi det la seg pent inn i en lang rekke med hipstervitser som verserer i min nærhet. Jeg føler meg akkurat nære nok hipsterne til at jeg kan le av dem, akkurat lik nok til at jeg ikke er slem og akkurat teit og A4 nok til at de synes det er greit. Så det er liksom greit.
Men så tenkte jeg på det som står på bildet. At Jesus elsket deg før du var kul. Som ikke spesielt religiøs fikk det meg ikke til å tenke noe særlig på Jesus, men på dem som elsker deg hele tiden. De som elsker deg selv når du er på ditt verste, selv når du ikke elsker dem tilbake. På dem som holder med deg selv om du har hele verden i mot. Dem som tror på deg når ingen andre gjør det. Jeg tror målet på et godt menneske er at du takker dem og holder dem nære selv når det har gått over. At du tar dem med deg ut og opp i sola når du ikke trenger dem lenger. At du bruker overskuddet du har fått på grunn av dem til å gjøre deres liv bedre.
For det er viktig å ikke bare være en god venn når dine venner trenger deg, men også å vise at du setter pris på vennene som passer på deg. Ikke la dem bære deg på skuldrene sine for så å gå din vei når de ikke trengs lenger. Jeg har veldig mange mennesker som passer på meg. Folk som er glade i meg og som passer på meg når jeg trenger det. Og etter hvert har jeg funnet ut at det som gjør meg gladest er å gjøre dagen bedre for noen jeg er glad i. Strekke ut en hånd når noen trenger det. I speideren heter det godt tørn. Det er egentlig ikke så dumt.
Backstage tech
After one year at Studentersamfundet I know quite a bit of people working backstage (I have had to deal with on-stagers myself too) and I just wanted to post this one for them. I like knowing the people who do the work and to know how much work that goes into it. Smile to the next tech you encounter 😉