I smelled something today that reminded me of bowls of duck noodle soup at Rod Dee and/or the now defunct chinatown mini-FOOD COURT. For about five minutes I would have all but killed someone for a bowl of SPICY DUCK NOODLE SOUP and an order of f'n greasy scallion pancakes. Kanskje (maybe) I can make something of the sort here but I think duck would cost me a pretty penny.
Talking to Ethan on GTALK right now and tearing up at the memory of the dance flurry last february and how amazing it felt that ya'll wanted me there to the point of paying my way for the weekend. I haven't had a real hug in so long. Now I'm just crying. I don't think they make J.P. flavored friends here. My american classmate paid something like $5.00 for a can of pumpkin.
I rode to class today. The temperature dropped drastically and there were waves of snø. Den første store(=big) snøfallet. It was bloody cold but none of it stuck but my hands were freezing on my ride home. Tonight I can either go to a casual norsk conversation (practice) group or I can stay here in the student village and borrow a sewing machine and try sew gloves out of a blanket that I got from the overnight train that I took here from Oslo. It's a sort of stretchy material so I think I can make some half-decent gloves (I scratch-made a halloween costume a few years ago with built-in glove things that turned out great...) maybe make them longish so if they ride up they will not leave my wrists too horribly cold. Some sort of over-mittens so I can have two layers when I don't need finger separation. Maybe with a drawstring in the bottom... Or should I make "glittens" (gloves with a mitten flap) or lobster gloves (1-2-2) or index finger mitten things (1-1-3)? Send votes if you like but I shouldn't really wait for them - I'll post pictures of my successes and failures.
I wish I could be bothered to take out my camera now and take a post-cry smiley picture of me smiling at you all. I wish I could take care of people here as much as we all took care of each other but I haven't the resources right now. I am really going to miss Halloween. Please take lots of Halloween pictures. I was going to write more but I got into too many chat conversations and I should just post this rather than saving it to finish later.
SMILE! CRY! I wish I had some Katamari to play.
This is what I will be doing this weekend.
http://www.matchmaking.no
Pretty faen impressive for altfor nør norge.
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1 comment:
dear, dear seth,
today i wore your "40 isn't old if you're a tree" shirt and everyone who saw me talked about how it was your shirt, and awesome. i went on annie's "wild ride"--a tour of the orchards, and it was partly in honor of that.
my vote for your mittens is maybe the lobster kind, although i think those are actually best if you do it 1-1-3. that way your pointer finger can point on its own.
let us talk more soon.
jp love and a big bear hug to you.
laurie
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