1. i am sitting in the kunstark ark space at KiT (Kunstakademiet i Trondheim) waiting for more people to show up for some lecture/discussion on "competences and incompetences". my slovenian friend, eva, will hopefully show up some time soon. yes. here she is.
2. i crashed at carin and troy's last night because they live close to the art school and we played settlers of catan (my first time. i won.) until about 11:30. carin is my american classmate. troy is her husband and my frisbee teammate. i slept in rain pants and am feeling a little unfresh.
3. tonight i have to make a banana dessert. eva wanted us to spend more thought on what we cook for meals so she made a list of words and cut it into strips. we each pulled a word and have to make something that fits to the word. i pulled "sweet" - then yeah... i pulled the bananas. i should stop blogging and go meet the art kids who are standing around. oh and the lecture thing is maybe starting.
Thursday, March 27, 2008
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
scoring
1. took two guys to the fields today. stefano (STEFano-ital.-1.timew/) and stefan (stay-fahn-nedrl.-2.timew/). major post easter jackpot ("score"). ten big big sides of salmon - as long as my arm w/o hand. half a case of bananas (there were three or four full cases) to turn into dessert for a dinner on thursday. chicken and juices and more. i think this marks the first time i have been fully inside a trash compactor (without a wookie sidekick).
2. been making a drive towards the wrong basket. well. not the wrong basket. just. someone else's basket. not a waste of time but i feel a bit deflated now.
3. been playing a really basic stupid flash zombie wars game in my "spare" time. inflated point scales do mean lots of time wasted. also been watching episodes of The Critic - jon lovitz is probably the most ridiculous and adorable man to ever do a hilter impersonation. if you never saw it or did and don't remember it - do yourself a favor and try to find a torrent. or let me know and i can pass you some eps.
2. been making a drive towards the wrong basket. well. not the wrong basket. just. someone else's basket. not a waste of time but i feel a bit deflated now.
3. been playing a really basic stupid flash zombie wars game in my "spare" time. inflated point scales do mean lots of time wasted. also been watching episodes of The Critic - jon lovitz is probably the most ridiculous and adorable man to ever do a hilter impersonation. if you never saw it or did and don't remember it - do yourself a favor and try to find a torrent. or let me know and i can pass you some eps.
Friday, March 21, 2008
goodbye tino goodbye mira goodnight moon
1. goodbye tino. goodbye mira. i went to sleep after four am last night and forgot to set an alarm to get up for a nine AM goodbye breakfast. the sun roused me to enough of a half state at eight am that i bolted upright and checked the clock. yah. set an alarm for another half hour's doze. got up showered and made over in time to cook some well appreciated eggs. thank you to the sun. and the people. all the people.
2. booked flight for myself and two friends to return from the first outdoor tourney of the year in copenhagen. oh. the flight is exactly a month from now. i will miss a full week (and a day) of class and i tried long and hard to find a way to get back without flying and not miss more. i didn't get it sorted. so now i am flying. with guilt. err. so. yeah. i am away from 11.-15. in oslo for NM norges mesterskap ultimate and then 16.-21. copenhagen.
3. my flatmate is... oh okay ... hi thomas. go away you smell like smoke. anyway. he's better than great and has not only made me feel very comfortable at home but man. yeah. i have been absorbed into his italo-venezuelan friend circle. which included tonight a funny amount of couched man-snuggling ... or at least shoulder lean snoozing. tomorrow he is taking us all to his mom's house and feeding us whatever we find in the fridge. maybe reindeer. um i forget what. anyway. stop smoking you dummy.
the design thing will have to wait a few more days.
2. booked flight for myself and two friends to return from the first outdoor tourney of the year in copenhagen. oh. the flight is exactly a month from now. i will miss a full week (and a day) of class and i tried long and hard to find a way to get back without flying and not miss more. i didn't get it sorted. so now i am flying. with guilt. err. so. yeah. i am away from 11.-15. in oslo for NM norges mesterskap ultimate and then 16.-21. copenhagen.
3. my flatmate is... oh okay ... hi thomas. go away you smell like smoke. anyway. he's better than great and has not only made me feel very comfortable at home but man. yeah. i have been absorbed into his italo-venezuelan friend circle. which included tonight a funny amount of couched man-snuggling ... or at least shoulder lean snoozing. tomorrow he is taking us all to his mom's house and feeding us whatever we find in the fridge. maybe reindeer. um i forget what. anyway. stop smoking you dummy.
the design thing will have to wait a few more days.
Thursday, March 20, 2008
W.I.P.A. - works in progress administration
is it funny to riff on the WPA? whatever.
i actually have good stuff today. i thought about my bits through the day. had three. forgot one. wrote down the other two. did more stuff and found a new third. came home and remembered the old third.
1. wow. tracking on USPS international priority mail work damn near magically in norway. i woke up. did usual morning who know's what. got an email. "attempted delivery" on my package. which i interpreted to mean that my package pick-up form was sitting in my mailbox. and it was. i grabbed it and hustled over to the post office and retrieved. !!! my NEW LEATHERMAN SURGE!!! this seller was kind of a major headache but the tool is finally in my hands (well - on my belt - more on that later). i already had to use the included diamond file to file a spot on one of the blade-locks that was not getting proper clearance. i just forgot something to say about this.
2. if you throw discs in light, even, powdery snow cover -- sometimes when they fall and roll to a stop they do so in a way that makes perfect fiddlehead/nautilius curves. mmm.
3. the original third will have to wait because it involves some drawing or photo taking. anyway. i owe in part to indirect inspiration from stuff on my friend sasha's blog which i think i started reading today because her birthday was today or soon. anyway -- links and documentation of some sort tomorrow.
4. today a venezuelan somebody who barely knows me -- trusted me with important life information. that was nice. i was going to explain more but i am just going to shut up knowing that i spent another day consuming not a lot and making some folks feel alright with fun and food and companionship.
i actually have good stuff today. i thought about my bits through the day. had three. forgot one. wrote down the other two. did more stuff and found a new third. came home and remembered the old third.
1. wow. tracking on USPS international priority mail work damn near magically in norway. i woke up. did usual morning who know's what. got an email. "attempted delivery" on my package. which i interpreted to mean that my package pick-up form was sitting in my mailbox. and it was. i grabbed it and hustled over to the post office and retrieved. !!! my NEW LEATHERMAN SURGE!!! this seller was kind of a major headache but the tool is finally in my hands (well - on my belt - more on that later). i already had to use the included diamond file to file a spot on one of the blade-locks that was not getting proper clearance. i just forgot something to say about this.
2. if you throw discs in light, even, powdery snow cover -- sometimes when they fall and roll to a stop they do so in a way that makes perfect fiddlehead/nautilius curves. mmm.
3. the original third will have to wait because it involves some drawing or photo taking. anyway. i owe in part to indirect inspiration from stuff on my friend sasha's blog which i think i started reading today because her birthday was today or soon. anyway -- links and documentation of some sort tomorrow.
4. today a venezuelan somebody who barely knows me -- trusted me with important life information. that was nice. i was going to explain more but i am just going to shut up knowing that i spent another day consuming not a lot and making some folks feel alright with fun and food and companionship.
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
snotty
i should really take notes for this at points during the day. or just start writing it in the morning and plug things in as the day goes and not all at the end when i am overly sleepy.
1. i am still pretty congested.
2. i like fish a lot more than i used to.
3. the names mike and miike are damn close. one is a friend's husband and the other is an off-kilter japanese film director. there was confusion. it would have been funny if either of us understood it sooner -- but then it wouldn't have been confusion.
4. some things in the world change very fast. if you wait for a slow thing to happen before responding to a fast thing - oops. might not be a weekend trip to the coast now.
5. german academic semesters start at very different times and a lot of people have left/are leaving in march. actually i already mentioned that yesterday maybe.
1. i am still pretty congested.
2. i like fish a lot more than i used to.
3. the names mike and miike are damn close. one is a friend's husband and the other is an off-kilter japanese film director. there was confusion. it would have been funny if either of us understood it sooner -- but then it wouldn't have been confusion.
4. some things in the world change very fast. if you wait for a slow thing to happen before responding to a fast thing - oops. might not be a weekend trip to the coast now.
5. german academic semesters start at very different times and a lot of people have left/are leaving in march. actually i already mentioned that yesterday maybe.
the tiger's meal
1. slept only 5h30m last night but popped out of bed for disc drills. slipping later on my sleep patterns. it will easily be 0330 before i lie down to sleep. quite possibly later.
2. having a good flatmate to talk to is gold if gold were something that i actually cared about. fred moved back to leipzig today but thomas and i are holding strong. we're more like synthetic diamond.
3. it is lame to be a decent cook but think and claim that you are bad. but it is worse to be a bad cook and think you are good. thankfully tonight i only fell into the first category. potato-carrot fritters for monday "pot luck" - ginger-garlic-red pepper-onion-salt-pepper-piripiri-eggs and flour for binding-coat in (all :( of my) sesame seeds and rough sea salt and fry. duh.
the dumpster feeds new masses.
the beard (like everything) is ever in question.
the games get played.
2. having a good flatmate to talk to is gold if gold were something that i actually cared about. fred moved back to leipzig today but thomas and i are holding strong. we're more like synthetic diamond.
3. it is lame to be a decent cook but think and claim that you are bad. but it is worse to be a bad cook and think you are good. thankfully tonight i only fell into the first category. potato-carrot fritters for monday "pot luck" - ginger-garlic-red pepper-onion-salt-pepper-piripiri-eggs and flour for binding-coat in (all :( of my) sesame seeds and rough sea salt and fry. duh.
the dumpster feeds new masses.
the beard (like everything) is ever in question.
the games get played.
Monday, March 17, 2008
discless/smellybug/waffle
i have nothing clever to say tonight. maybe that is not the point. i had a nice day. filled with the usual confusions but nice anyway.
1. disc is the lynchpin of my week. it helps me keep my head and everything together. i always know where and when the week starts and ends. a sunday without disc throws me off. but. we played on friday evening (and then i skipped the art school kids gallery thing i was supposed to go to cuz chest cough and walking to town in the rain for just the last 40 minutes of something = not fun) and will play tomorrow morning. so more play than usual and no usual play. norwegian ultimate nationals on the 12th of april and if i get leave i will play hooky the next week and do an outdoor tourney in copenhagen the next weekend.
2. not having sunday disc meant i could go to the sunday cake buffet for the first time. only five kinds of cake - but good. a bunch of us played card games pretty much all day. cockroach poker. bluffing singles cards (cute little drawings of ugly animals) at time. can you tell the truth but make the other person think you are lying. can you lie and get them to think you are telling the truth. can you distinguish from the other side. i can't lie to save my life but i have very very high success rates on the receiving end. anyway. there were more at the beginning but a full five of us played games from a little before 4:30P until almost 1:00A breaking only to walk back up from the sunday cake buffet in the city center and eat a snack and then resume on my kitchen table. sentence structure failing me at this late hour.
3. can't stick to any decision. there is only one good reason to stay here. and i think i can eventually find it somewhere else. i can get more education later. it might be more difficult then but i want to be young and explore things for a little while longer. this means not being here. this means living in a big city with enough room for layers of culture and subculture and it also means living nowhere and riding a bike around and waking up in strange places. many things have to be done. i have been wanting to do a bike tour since before i quit working at children's hospital. since about jan 2006. so. it is time. this summer. up to the russian border? who knows. education schmeducation.
i guess i need sleep now. disc drills in seven hours. but not tired or at peace enough to sleep.
1. disc is the lynchpin of my week. it helps me keep my head and everything together. i always know where and when the week starts and ends. a sunday without disc throws me off. but. we played on friday evening (and then i skipped the art school kids gallery thing i was supposed to go to cuz chest cough and walking to town in the rain for just the last 40 minutes of something = not fun) and will play tomorrow morning. so more play than usual and no usual play. norwegian ultimate nationals on the 12th of april and if i get leave i will play hooky the next week and do an outdoor tourney in copenhagen the next weekend.
2. not having sunday disc meant i could go to the sunday cake buffet for the first time. only five kinds of cake - but good. a bunch of us played card games pretty much all day. cockroach poker. bluffing singles cards (cute little drawings of ugly animals) at time. can you tell the truth but make the other person think you are lying. can you lie and get them to think you are telling the truth. can you distinguish from the other side. i can't lie to save my life but i have very very high success rates on the receiving end. anyway. there were more at the beginning but a full five of us played games from a little before 4:30P until almost 1:00A breaking only to walk back up from the sunday cake buffet in the city center and eat a snack and then resume on my kitchen table. sentence structure failing me at this late hour.
3. can't stick to any decision. there is only one good reason to stay here. and i think i can eventually find it somewhere else. i can get more education later. it might be more difficult then but i want to be young and explore things for a little while longer. this means not being here. this means living in a big city with enough room for layers of culture and subculture and it also means living nowhere and riding a bike around and waking up in strange places. many things have to be done. i have been wanting to do a bike tour since before i quit working at children's hospital. since about jan 2006. so. it is time. this summer. up to the russian border? who knows. education schmeducation.
i guess i need sleep now. disc drills in seven hours. but not tired or at peace enough to sleep.
Saturday, March 15, 2008
first day off
1. i have the next two weeks free. lots of half willed half(quarter) plans for travel based on half conversations with half friends. have to write papers and apparently i should think about filing taxes. i tend to file about every year on average for the last six years or so. i tried to borrow the sewing machine that the resident assistants manage but it's out at the moment.
2. "spring has sprung" does not translate into anything equally clicky. i have been back on my bike for about a week dealing only with winter's loose gravel leftovers (still potentially injurious) and not so much with ice. i miss riding. i miss riding in the city. to cycle safely in the city one has to be supremely focused and present. to really close down a lot of the connections that scream for attention all of the rest of the time and just do that one thing. focused time. mentally restful even if it is physically dangerous. most of my confusion and stress comes of managing too many connections too much of the time. i now think of life size and complexity in terms of numbers of connections requiring management and i am after a more manageable scale. i will really try to do some solo bike touring this summer.
3. there are big heady books written about a lot of things i am interested in but i am a bit intimidated by a lot of them. i don't have much history as a "reader". i have to use really awkward tricks to not get stuck in little loops rereading the same sentence. someone gave me a trick that works but it is just so awkward - i cut a slot in a piece that is the width of the page but no higher than one line of text. i can only see one line of text at a time and can't double back on myself. i think i should read some of that thoreau emerson crap or some serious anarchic bits stuff from the wobblies or just some modern naomi klein type stuff. a friend had something for class about localization -- in the sense of being the opposite direction of globalization that looked maybe like the right sort of thing. i want to read e.o.wilson and all this other itelli-crud but i feel like my reading commitment level is somewhere mid-high school. that i just don't know how to approach anything scholarly. i need training wheel recommendations. bunny slopes. dunno.
2. "spring has sprung" does not translate into anything equally clicky. i have been back on my bike for about a week dealing only with winter's loose gravel leftovers (still potentially injurious) and not so much with ice. i miss riding. i miss riding in the city. to cycle safely in the city one has to be supremely focused and present. to really close down a lot of the connections that scream for attention all of the rest of the time and just do that one thing. focused time. mentally restful even if it is physically dangerous. most of my confusion and stress comes of managing too many connections too much of the time. i now think of life size and complexity in terms of numbers of connections requiring management and i am after a more manageable scale. i will really try to do some solo bike touring this summer.
3. there are big heady books written about a lot of things i am interested in but i am a bit intimidated by a lot of them. i don't have much history as a "reader". i have to use really awkward tricks to not get stuck in little loops rereading the same sentence. someone gave me a trick that works but it is just so awkward - i cut a slot in a piece that is the width of the page but no higher than one line of text. i can only see one line of text at a time and can't double back on myself. i think i should read some of that thoreau emerson crap or some serious anarchic bits stuff from the wobblies or just some modern naomi klein type stuff. a friend had something for class about localization -- in the sense of being the opposite direction of globalization that looked maybe like the right sort of thing. i want to read e.o.wilson and all this other itelli-crud but i feel like my reading commitment level is somewhere mid-high school. that i just don't know how to approach anything scholarly. i need training wheel recommendations. bunny slopes. dunno.
Friday, March 14, 2008
keep on trying
trying a new general format. mmm specifications. right?
sometimes easier to work with constraints.
so three simply stated thoughts/observations/realizations/updates per day then walk away. occasional longer format breaking things when i need to but.
not often.
1. it seems i actually am in some way trying to work towards some sort of enlightenment. any pictures i have of my future involve incredible solitude. one image is just bike touring. another that has stayed with me for a long time involves living in a reconditioned service station on some lonely road in the american mid-west - i would throw open those upward sliding garage doors and great the nigh silent morning. there'd be a bit of a chill. for some reason i am holding a cup of coffee though i still never plan on adopting the habit. solitude. tranquility. serenity. <=====> enlightenment. or just peace.
2. norwegian are very very proud of norway. many people wear things with the norwegian colors or the norwegian flag or simply NORGE. daily wear. it helps that the flag isn't as heinously ugly as the american flag. *SHRUG*
3. i think i need more handkerchiefs. i lost one of my oldest softest favoritest ones a month or so back. i have been a bit sick the past few days. using the ones i have, washing them out at the end of the day or whenever they get too gross, hanging them over something to dry, using whichever one has dried. i guess i have more than two so i don't actually need more. i just wish i hadn't lost the one i connected with the most.
let's see if i can do this again tomorrow.
sometimes easier to work with constraints.
so three simply stated thoughts/observations/realizations/updates per day then walk away. occasional longer format breaking things when i need to but.
not often.
1. it seems i actually am in some way trying to work towards some sort of enlightenment. any pictures i have of my future involve incredible solitude. one image is just bike touring. another that has stayed with me for a long time involves living in a reconditioned service station on some lonely road in the american mid-west - i would throw open those upward sliding garage doors and great the nigh silent morning. there'd be a bit of a chill. for some reason i am holding a cup of coffee though i still never plan on adopting the habit. solitude. tranquility. serenity. <=====> enlightenment. or just peace.
2. norwegian are very very proud of norway. many people wear things with the norwegian colors or the norwegian flag or simply NORGE. daily wear. it helps that the flag isn't as heinously ugly as the american flag. *SHRUG*
3. i think i need more handkerchiefs. i lost one of my oldest softest favoritest ones a month or so back. i have been a bit sick the past few days. using the ones i have, washing them out at the end of the day or whenever they get too gross, hanging them over something to dry, using whichever one has dried. i guess i have more than two so i don't actually need more. i just wish i hadn't lost the one i connected with the most.
let's see if i can do this again tomorrow.
Monday, March 3, 2008
unDROPPED OUT
plop plop fizz fizz (it's a vitamin C tablet)
my head hurts because i grind my teeth at night
i grind my teeth at night because ??? tension
i should be sleeping in a hammock in a tropical jungle
dreaming of climbing trees for fruit
instead i am dreading yet another snowy walk and
three hours of bleh
my head hurts because i grind my teeth at night
i grind my teeth at night because ??? tension
i should be sleeping in a hammock in a tropical jungle
dreaming of climbing trees for fruit
instead i am dreading yet another snowy walk and
three hours of bleh
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