Letters from my travels, be they mental or physical, as well as musings on art, photos, and rather self-important philosophical soapbox stuff.

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the War of the Roses

the War of the Roses

I woke up on the 23rd of July, 2011, to learn that disaster had struck at home. Where do we go from here?
Rush

Rush

Being an exchange student is challenging. So is coming home. I wrote this about a month after I got back to Trondheim, about the expected and the unexpected difficulties of being back: re-orienting oneself in familiar surroundings and realizing that I did change after all.
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exhibit

exhibit

Gallery-wandering should count as a sport, I feel. It ruins your feet, requires skill and knowledge, and you can perfectly well compete in it. If chess counts…
the view

the view

View from my window in Fisher library, one sunny afternoon…

Editing is what December is for

NaNoWriMo - why I like it.

Psychological defense and writing therapy

Musings about writing and processing memories and events in your life. Psychology has a lot to say about this, and in my personal experience the techniques suggested are quite effective.

Tourism

Where Mother and I go on a tourist bus and take pictures.

NaNoWriMo Ate My Blog

And Other True Stories. Picture time!

Regn, språk og biologisk determinisme

Det har regnet i det siste. Jeg liker egentlig regn, men når du er blitt bortskjemt med sol hver dag i to måneder er det en nedtur med nedbør. (Ja, jeg kom nettopp med tidenes dummeste bokstavrim). Jeg savner den obskønt dyre paraplyen min og Ilse Jakobsen-støvlene mine :( For de som bor i Trondheim...

anthem

A long, stream-of-consciousness post, in which I say many things and refer to many more. I'm not sure what it's about yet, but I like it. You might not. / Lang tankestrøm full av rare ideer og merkelige sammenhenger. Jeg vet ikke hva den handler om, men jeg liker den. Det gjør sannsynligvis ikke du.

savn og situasjoner

Sandalskille, hjemme, ting man savner og ting man kommer til å savne. / All Norwegian, sorry. About things I miss, things I will miss, as well as some anecdotes of from the past days.

Utveksling til Berkeley, del II: Invitasjonsbrev

Del to av utvekslings-oppskriften min. Her: Hvordan ordne seg invitasjonsbrev fra et institutt på Berkeley.

Ut på by’n

Jada, jeg vet! Jeg har vært en dårlig blogger. Midterms slo meg ned slik de gjerne gjør studenter som egentlig bryr seg mer om andre ting, og jeg var opptatt hele forrige uke med dem. Denne uka hadde jeg en ganske viktig oppgave å levere inn, og innimellom alt det der var jeg opptatt med...

cracks in the wall

Musings about the relative immediacy of social environments, connecting to new places, languages and emotional response. Bottom line: I'm pretty sure I'm somewhere real.