A very busy fall

Denne høsten har jeg tilbragt langt mer tid enn hva jeg pleier på jobb. Årsaken er grei nok; det er ingen som venter på meg hjemme, så jeg har ikke noe sterkt incentiv til å begi meg hjemover. Da er det faktisk like greit å bli sittende på jobb, løse saker, og la hjemme være hjemme.

Derfor gleder jeg meg stort til neste uke; tirsdag setter jeg meg på flyet til Alta. Dels for å besøke Panda, og dels for å ta henne med meg hjem igjen, på juleferie. Det blir deilig å ha henne hjemme igjen, og det blir fint å dele seng med henne igjen.

Mest av alt gleder jeg meg til å sitte i sofaen og holde rundt henne; jeg gleder meg til å være nær henne.

^^

Coulda Woulda Shoulda

I should blog about my trip to China, the trip I just returened from to Russia and what we're really doing up here. The only problem it that I don't have any energy to do that nor time, so all I have to say this writing is; Enjoy you inner child and always take care of it. Don't care about what others think. Live your life to the fully! Do the things you enjoy and makes you happy.

Ferdaminne frå sommaren 1985

Old town hall, Prague
Originally uploaded by razumny

Haldis Moren Vesaas

Vi har fått rom i 2.etasje.
Da er det vel ingen vits
i å ta heisen?

Sei ikkje det.
Vi tar alltid heisen, opp og ned.

Innestengd i den vesle boksen
blir vi med eitt
så inderleg to-eine
at vi alltid må kysse kvarandre
så snart heisen set seg i gang.

Korleis det er inni deg
den blunken det varer
veit eg ikkje.

Men inni meg boblar kvar gong
ei lita spenning:
Rekk vi det?
Rekk vi det før heisen stansar
og vi må ut?

Og jammen rekk vi det
gong etter gong etter gong.

Vi tar alltid heisen.

Savne på

Det er ikke så lett, å sitte i Oslo, og savne kjæresten sin. Det er lite motiverende å skulle gå og legge seg i en kald, kjæresteløs seng, og det er tungt å skulle stå opp om morgenen når kjæresten ikke er der så jeg kan klemme på henne. På deg. På Panda.

Derfor er det fint å vite at jeg i alle fall kan hjelpe til med å snakke deg gjennom ting, forklare ting, og være der slik at vi kan snakke sammen. Iblant er det bare "Hei! Hva skjer? Hvordan har du det? Elske på! Hadet!", og iblant er det som i går kveld, hvor vi snakket i nesten førti minutter om alt mulig.

Det er vanskelig, og til tider vondt, å være så langt unna deg, å ikke kunne plukke deg opp og holde deg i armene mine til du har det bra igjen. Men det er også fint, for avstand gjør jo, som vi vet, hjertet enda kjærligere.

My weather for the next few days

After a great week at home in Oslo I'm of to China. This is approximately how the weather is going to look during the days I'm there. I think I've backed a bit too warm clothes. Maybe I should find a shorts and my razor so I can use that instead.

Else has the week been great. He got his girl home with better self confidence and even stronger options. I'm completely in love with Trampe and things couldn't be better. Or maybe they could I could be at home, but at the same time we learn to remember and treasure the great things about each other. During the days I was here I've visited Trampe at work both for lunch and just to meet him to do something after work, and I saw something fantastic! He has a picture of ME! YES ME!!! on his desk. After I mentioned it he told me it was the first picture I'd ever had of someone he knows on his desk. That being not a clip from the newspaper or something. I love you loads and loads Trampe. Going to miss you. See you in December. That's way to far off. Hopefully the time will fly away.

Just a curiosity

Geek, n. - slang:

"A person who is interested in technology, especially computing and new media...

who had chosen concentration rather than conformity;

one who passionately pursues skill and imagination, not mainstream Social Acceptance."

Who needs mainstream Social Acceptance anyway? :p
I don't really agree with that saying.... I think...

A song for the day

I really wanted to just play the song and have it like something to listen to. But I feel that this soon suits our reality even better now than we actually lived together and I just had loads of time left to finish school.

'Nough said

I found this at one of my favourite bloggs today and loved it. It is so ture. After I've started to remeber the technical parts of photography my pictures has gotten so much better, even with my lousy compact!

Tidsmaskin

Tidsmaskin
Originally uploaded by razumny

Morobildet!

Jeg har sett dette bildet før, og det var vel du, Panda, som pekte det ut første gang? Bildet er fra Geitmyrsveien, på vei mot Bergstien fra Ullevålsveien.

Always keep in mind

Trips to here there and everywhere, or "hytt og gevær"

I'd love to post more blog updates than I do. But as we seem to travel everywhere all the time, seeming to travel after the rain and sleet all the time, walking for miles looking for motives(motifs?) and driving for miles it doesn't seem like there is neither time nor energy to do so. But here it goes.

We've been to a lot of trips to;
Gjesvær(in Norwegian); where we looked for birds and took a boat trip out to a bird/nesting cliff. Slept there for one night before we went on to...

Knivskjellodden; Norway's most nothern point, sometimes considered the nothernmost point of the entire conitnent of Europe. Kinnarodden on the Nordkun peninsula is the nothernmost point on the mainland. I've never been to the latter though. This place we only spent one night as well

Kanootrip down Alta river with the dogmushing girls. As photographers we detected a horrible side of oursleves. We actually almost got a bit sad/disapointes when the others didn't overturn(kvelve is sucha better word for this). Slep one night outdoors.

I've also been on tips when the nature photography group.
One more trip to Gjesvær(sleeping there for one night).
A trip to a place close to the hill top named Komsa (just like the house I live in), where we had some education and possibility to try what we learned quite immediately.

The last trip we(the photogroup, not nature photography)'ve been to was to Seiland. Seiland looks like a fairytale. Trampe; we have to go there one time! I've even gotten to know the man to runs the boat that makes it possible for people to go there without ending on the completely wrong side of the island. We saw a glacier, raindeer, grouse and loads of astonishing scenery/landscape. All this with a huge dash of rain during night, long trips during day and bonfire the night it wasn't pouring down. We came to the conclution that the only thing that saperates the photostudents form the rest of the school is that we actually HAVE to stay inside when it's raining to protects our equipment. Yes I know, bat excuse to escape the bad weather. Though if I'd had a waterproof camerahouse/waterfroom camera equipment I'd been out there taking pictures in the rain. The trip got a sad and sudden ending as one of the students fell down a hill side and it stared to seriousily sleet.

This is what has happened so far. In addition to indoor education/lessons and some common program for all of the students.



Here is the student rapport from the trips;
The photogroup's trip to Gjesvær and Knivskjellodden. (In Norwegian)
Kanooing from Sautso down the Alta river. (Also in Norwegian)








As you understand things are happening all the time. There is almost no time to miss anyone, exept from when you're going to sleep. But then again, when you're going to sleep you're so tired that you fall asleep the moment your head hit the pillow, or normally sleeping bag laying on the ground/sleeping mat.

Cuteness overload!

Panda: trenger du noensinne å bli minnet på hvor godt vi har det sammen, anbefaler jeg denne:

Dyrsku'n uten Panda

Så kom dagen da jeg skulle til Seljord første gang uten Panda, og så til Dyrsku'n da.

Dyrsku'n er altså Norges eldste landbruksutstilling. I år var jeg der for andre gang, og det var like morsomt som i fjor, med unntak av det faktum at Panda ikke var der da. Men, til tross for at hun ikke var der, følte jeg hun var der i ånden, spesielt fordi det skulle handles inn en god del ting til henne.

Lørdagen ble for det meste tilbragt med Daniel og Atla, vi vandret rundt på plassen og så oss om, snakket om diverse og hadde det generelt hyggelig. Senere var det Dyrsku-spel, om Dyrsku'n i 1965, med navnet "Ein sjangs skå koma te kon". Morsomt og underholdende!

Søndagen var det handling av ting til Panda, og så avreise som på en og samme tid var for tidlig og senere enn jeg likte det.

Mye kø på veien førte til at vi ble over en time forsinket i returen til Oslo, men ellers kom vi frem uskadet.

Can it be said better?

Not that different....

Yesterday we went to Alta Museum, where we looked at petroglyphs. Before we went we had a bit about Alta's history. The day turned out to be nice and kind-of-sunny weather wise, even though it didn't look like that turn out at all during the dawn. The dawn looked like a day with rain and no sun at all. Real bad weather, whch never really occurs in Alta. I love peroglyphs, they are quite awsome. One "fun fact"; someone had trashed some of the petroglyphs by spraying something over it. This is not allowed. Hence it made out guide/teacher quite furious. It should be mentioned that the tagging of the rock with petroglyphs had happened some time ago and had been cleared out quite well. But still. It's not nice to do such things with historical evidence anway. Though, misinterpret me the right way; what does it really matter that a museum exibiting petroglyphs also shows some grafiti/tagging? Yes, it origiantes from completely the wrong periode. But itn't it it a way this times answer to the petroglyphes? Here's some pictures from the trip;

Elizabeth; the teacher we had as our guide

Us on the way to the are with petroglyphs

And to finish of the picture sesion; some artsyfartsy pictures.


Noooo... We do NOT at all learn about picture composition in class. Og til slutt noen litt mer kunstneriske bilder. What brought your mind to something like that?Nevvah.. :p

To finish it all off, something strange happened. I was checking my mail, when one of the stipps came to pay some bills on line, hence he had to use the computer. To do that it turned out he had to logg of from my mail, wich really didn't matter to me. Though it would have been nice if the person told me before the person did so. That's life... These things happens Anyway, when I tried to get back into my mail I got this message;


The pictured did something strange with it selv, so you can't really see what it says. But the point about the message is that my mail is to be blocked for 24 hours due to unudual activity. Strange. (If you really want to read it you could click the picture and get to see it in a larger version.)

Today Marlene left Øytun, a tomboy who was taking huntiung and fishing. A girl to to different from me in fact. If I hadn't tanken photography I'd been attending the same course. Though; today I'm kind of happy that I'm not attending hunting and fishing as one of the pays has a bit to many wet dreams about me for my likeing. She and I has really hit it off, so when she was tanking the bus home today I got this message from her;

"Heia! :-) e kjempe glad før at æ blei kjent me dæ, du e ei helt hærli pia... Kommer til å savne dæ mest, guttejenta :-* håpe vi kan holde kontakta.. Så kommer æ snart innom å hilse på dæ:-) <3 klem Marlene"

"Hola! :-) I'm really happy I got to know you, you're a great gal... Going to miss you the most, tom boy :-* Hope to keep in touch.. Comming back to visit you soon:-) <3 Hug Marlene"

Sun on Rails

Sun on Rails

Jeg sa jeg skulle prøve å legge opp et bilde hver dag, så her er dagens.

Favorite Kung Fu Style

I thought this was kinda cute. Click the comic to view the full size.

Høsten er her

Høsten er definitivt over oss, enn hvor lite vi måtte ønske det. Da er det godt å ha gode minner å varme seg på. Minner som for eksempel vår første ferie sammen, til Mykonos:



Jeg savner deg kjæresten min, men er glad for at du er i Alta og opplever nye ting, knytter nye kontakter og får nye erfaringer.

Home again

I'm just home from a one night trip to Laukvik/Svartskog. We went close to the place by car. Walked for about 2 hours along the coast before we found a place to camp. I meant to post this comment with a picture but I'm scared I won't have time to do anything today, as I can't access internet in my dorm. Or I probably could if I bought a license of some kind. I also have to excuse for not having published the posting I started about what Id been up to the days since I left Oslo until my birthday. But now over to tell about the last two days.

Yesterday we went for a camping trip. Arriving at the place we put up the tents, made dinner and had some time to take some pictures. It was really funny, but I feel I have A LOT to learn. And this feeling makes me feel worthless. At the evening we put up a bonfire down by the shore and played a game named Mafia. After we were done playing Marina(a girl from Russia) and I went to sleep down where we had the fire. Today I woke up at 5 and took some pictures. Though I know all of the probably are bad and not really worth keeping. Then at 9 we had morning gathering and ate breakfast. Then we had a lecture and I felt even more like a person with no potential as a photographer. After that we walked as we wished and took some more pictures. Then, all of a sudden it was time to take down the tent and lave. Now I'm back at the school trying to solve a task from photography class and getting some stuff I wish to do done to get up to day with everything. But I'm so tired and know I need a day off to get up to date that it almost feels like I'm falling apart. I hope this feeling soon will disappear.

As soon as I get to it I'll post some of the pictures I've taken. I the mean time enjoy some of the many blueberries I picked on the trip.

Enjoy!

Btw, now I've solved a really annoying task as I am way too critical towards my self and suffer from lack of selv confidence and a terrible fear of failure. But hopefully this year will help and make me take things as they more often as well as love ME of who I AM and not who I wish to be.

Birthday

To day is my birthday and I feel kind of lonely. I'ts probably my own fault as I tend to put my self away from many of the social contecsts and live in my own world.

Thirdteenth 24.08.2009;
I've had my elective; Nature Photography. I got some dust inside the "house of my camera" (I have no idea what this is called) which was kind of sad. Now I'm trying to get a hold of some equipment to clean it. Else I've been sung to during dinner and had to stand on a chair in the middle of the food hall. Then I had in mind to go with the shopping bus down to the city to get a water tight bag, but it costs 50NOK to travel to and from so I think that's a bit to much money just to get a water thight bag to about 200NOK. And now I'm writing this blog entery, drinking tea and knitting. A boy here needs some wrist warmers for the hunting season.

Why was she born so beautiful...

Gratulerer med dagen Panda!

Jeg håper den blir kjempe fin og lærerik, og at folket på Øytun feirer deg skikkelig. Jeg skulle gjerne vært der sammen med deg, og feiret deg, men det går dessverre ikke.

Til trøst har jeg rekruttert litt hjelp fra Stevie Wonder:

Good morning kitty cat

Jeg fant denne på nettet, og syntes den var så avsindig søt, så den måtte bare opp her:

Puss, puss

Kvelden har minnet meg om den andre gangen vi var fra hverandre etter at vi ble sammen. Da, som nå, hadde jeg the Verve's Bittersweet Symphony på hjernen. Da, fordi jeg hadde hørt den på vei tilbake fra innspillingen av QI, i kveld fordi jeg har sett Trond-Viggo og Christopher Schau.

Å ha sunget "Puss, puss", "Hjalmar" og "Tenke sjæl" sammen med mange andre i storsalen på Chateau Neuf var helt klart morsomt, og jeg hadde det hyggelig en god stund. Problemet kom etterhvert, da jeg innså at noe manglet. Panda manglet.

Den følgende videoen er derfor dedikert til Panda:

Savn

Det er en merkelig følelse å, på den ene siden, være veldig i et forhold, og på den andre siden føle seg ensom fordi du ikke er her.

Savnet vil muligens bli enklere å takle etterhvert - jeg satser på det. I mellomtiden lar jeg Arne Ruset trøste meg litt (diktet heter Vi kan ikkje eige kvarandre):

Vi kan ikkje eige kvarandre
tusen dikt har fortalt oss
at vi kan ikkje eige kvarandre,
men vi kan låne kvarandre
og gløyme levere tilbake.

My first few days away from you

All my life I've heard persons talk about how fanstastic, majestetic and astonishing this counrty is. To be quite frank with you I've never really understood all the fuzz about it. But now when I travel though it, almost all the way, I undersand. I've fallen in love with my own country. I'd love to show you a picture of what I've been seeing the last few day. The beauty of my own country.

These photos from the trip are quite random. Just to give you an idea of my last few days. Hopefully, or maybe not as that would mean I'm bored, I'll have time to post some more later and comment all of the pictures. In otherwords is this post likely to be modified.

Adding these pictures I realise that they are really not worthy of showing you my country. My country is much more beautiful. Maybe I one day will have time to travel through it again and take all the pictures I want and capture the real beauty. It should be said that all of the photos are taken from the car. We didn't really have time to stop. But at least, by showing you these you might get an idea of the beauty. Probably not... But... Nah... Enjoy these few and hope for more to come.

~ Panda

Wear Sunscreen

Wear sunscreen.

If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it. The long-term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by scientists, whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience. I will dispense this advice now.

Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth. Oh, never mind. You will not understand the power and beauty of your youth until they’ve faded. But trust me, in 20 years, you’ll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can’t grasp now how much possibility lay before you and how fabulous you really looked. You are not as fat as you imagine.

Don’t worry about the future. Or worry, but know that worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubble gum. The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind, the kind that blindside you at 4 p.m. on some idle Tuesday.

Do one thing every day that scares you.

Sing.

Don’t be reckless with other people’s hearts. Don’t put up with people who are reckless with yours.

Floss.

Don’t waste your time on jealousy. Sometimes you’re ahead, sometimes you’re behind. The race is long and, in the end, it’s only with yourself.

Remember compliments you receive. Forget the insults. If you succeed in doing this, tell me how.

Keep your old love letters. Throw away your old bank statements.

Stretch.

Don’t feel guilty if you don’t know what you want to do with your life. The most interesting people I know didn’t know at 22 what they wanted to do with their lives. Some of the most interesting 40-year-olds I know still don’t.

Get plenty of calcium. Be kind to your knees. You’ll miss them when they’re gone.

Maybe you’ll marry, maybe you won’t. Maybe you’ll have children, maybe you won’t. Maybe you’ll divorce at 40, maybe you’ll dance the funky chicken on your 75th wedding anniversary. Whatever you do, don’t congratulate yourself too much, or berate yourself either. Your choices are half chance. So are everybody else’s.

Enjoy your body. Use it every way you can. Don’t be afraid of it or of what other people think of it. It’s the greatest instrument you’ll ever own.

Dance, even if you have nowhere to do it but your living room.

Read the directions, even if you don’t follow them.

Do not read beauty magazines. They will only make you feel ugly.

Get to know your parents. You never know when they’ll be gone for good. Be nice to your siblings. They’re your best link to your past and the people most likely to stick with you in the future.

Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on. Work hard to bridge the gaps in geography and lifestyle, because the older you get, the more you need the people who knew you when you were young.

Live in New York City once, but leave before it makes you hard. Live in Northern California once, but leave before it makes you soft.

Travel.

Accept certain inalienable truths: Prices will rise. Politicians will philander. You, too, will get old. And when you do, you’ll fantasize that when you were young, prices were reasonable, politicians were noble and children respected their elders.

Respect your elders.

Don’t expect anyone else to support you. Maybe you have a trust fund. Maybe you’ll have a wealthy spouse. But you never know when either one might run out.

Don’t mess too much with your hair or by the time you’re 40 it will look 85.

Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it. Advice is a form of nostalgia. Dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts and recycling it for more than it’s worth.

But trust me on the sunscreen

Put in words by E. E. Cummings

i carry your heart with me

i carry your heart with me (i carry it in

my heart) i am never without it (anywhere

i go you go, my dear; and whatever is done

by only me is your doing, my darling)

i fear

no fate (for you are my fate, my sweet) i want

no world (for beautiful you are my world, my true)

and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant

and whatever a sun will always sing is you

here is the deepest secret nobody knows

(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud

and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows

higher than soul can hope or mind can hide)

and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart

i carry your heart (i carry it in my heart)

- E. E Cummings

Mark Twain sa...

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

Dit skal du

North
Originally uploaded by razumny

Dit skal du, elskede Anne; Nord.

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