beards and bum outs

rebuilding my OS did not go well because my optical drive shit the bed
i am writing from an empty computer lab in an empty building
will be mostly offline until i can find a bootable external optical drive

please comment/write to me and convince me not to shave my beard again
tell me that some rad girl out there swoons for unkempt beards
and is out there looking for me

hot dogs

i am sick so i don't feel like cooking but i haven't eaten yet today. the team of dumpster and handy extra wide sandwich grill gives me these guys. salmon and trout hot dogs (laks og ørret pølser). there is a third grilled cheese at the back of the plate. i have eaten one hot dog and one gr.cheese in the time it's taken to write this. with some sort of bleu-style cheese. tomato and yellow pepper and butter. the dumpster provides.

everything is hot dogs here.
they love em.
there are like 70 kinds of hot dogs.
mostly involving pig so i don't go near them.
but fish hot dogs.
eh they are okay.

tonight i go to a house meeting at the eco-"collective" -- to find out if i get to move there.

eat. nap. the last two hours of frisbee practice before our tourney in oslo on saturday. meeting. hot water with garlic and lemon. sleep. sleep. wake up. travel eight hours south in a car with one nordmann and three germans. m.m. (etc.) maybe they will have some daylight for me in oslo.

SITTING IN

At one point today I sat in my room and watched this while my roommate sat in the living room and watch this... I couldn't find a link or image capable of accurately presenting the brain liquefier that is MTV's "DATE MY MOM" Spring Break Edition. If someone can... please drop it in a comment. Or rather... please don't. Her reasoning was that there was nothing better on TV.

I need to get out of the student village.
My life (enjoyment) depends on it.


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This is what I will try. First I will write in Norwegian and the next time I will translate the last one. If my english is a little strange, it's because I will try to translate almost exactly (CLEARLY NONE OF THIS WORKED AND I AM GOING TO TRANSLATE THIS ONE JUST CUZ - AND I WILL JUST TRY HARDER TO BLOG).

I am sitting in the living room of a friend of my mother, her name is Eevi. Today I was not at the course because it is too simple for me and Eevi became sick and I wanted to be helpful. I haven't paid for the course but I don't think it is a problem because it cost the same as the supplies cost. (I think I made a made a lot of mistakes in that sentence.)

But I want to stand in connection with the Japanese musicians who are the teachers, a little more than I stand now. Last night we were together in a club where one of them played "music" - the music was actually shiny karaoke. To be able to write, I am sitting uncomfortably and I am too tired to do that more now, but I shal write more when I am back in Trondheim and then you will understand what I have written. I made many mistakes just now.

UNCOMFORTABLE POSITIONS

ubekvem holdninger

Dette er hva jeg skal prøve. Først vil jeg skrive på norsk og den neste gang vil jeg oversette den siste en. Hvis min engelsk er litt rar er det fordi jeg vil prøve å oversette nesten akkurat.
Jeg sitter i stua av en venn av mora mi som heter Eevi. I dag var jeg ikke på kurset fordi kurset er for enkelt og eevi ble syk og jeg hadde lyst til å være hjelpsom. Jeg har ikke betalt for kurset men jeg tror at det er ikke en problem fordi det kostet det samme ettersom utstyrene koster. (Jeg tror at jeg tok feil med den setningen.) Men jeg har lyst til å stå i forbindelse med de japanske musikker som er lærerne litt mer enn jeg står nå. I går kveld var vi sammen i en klubb hvor en av dem splite "musikk" - musikken var faktisk skinnende karaoke. For å skrive, jeg må sitte ubekvemt og jeg er for trøtt å gjørde det mer nå, men jeg skal skrive mer når jeg er tilbake i Trondheim og da vil dere forstå hva jeg har skrevet. Jeg tok mange feil nettopp nå.

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Finally I have heard the crunch of snow beneath my feet and finally I live with norwegians. In three hours I shall to Oslo through the night to attend a coure where I shall make a little instrument and a little guitar pedal. I shall stay there until tuesday evening when I will travel one more time through the night back to Trondheim. I have a wish to write more, but I should prepare my things and myself.

I still hate commas.

We'll talk soon.
Bye AWESOME friends.


A SHORT ONE

en kort en

Endelig har jeg hørt knasingen av snø under føttene mine og endlig bor jeg sammen med nordmenn. Om tre timer skal jeg til Oslo gjennom natta for å gå på et kurs hvor jeg skal lage et lite instrument og en liten gitarpedal. Jeg skal bli der til tirsdagskveld når jeg vil reise en gang til gjennom natta tilbake til Trondheim. Jeg har lyst til å skrive mer, men jeg bør forberede sakene mine og min selv.

Jeg hater ennå kommaer.

Vi snakkes snart.
Ha det AWESOME venner!

TO DO?

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.

"Hello, World!"

That's embarassing. I haven't posted in over a month. I just had a week-long høstferie (autumn vacation) and I didn't post. Now, monday morning 45 minutes before I should leave for class I finally feel like I have put it off long enough. Putting things off all the time.

Things that have been good:
- Indoor frisbee people have been getting better.
- Lots of shared dinners hosted and attended.
- A dumpstering compatriot. (I let him keep the food processor.)
- Moving at the end of the month to finally live with some nordmenn. (Closer to the good dumpster.)
- I can write norsk like nobody's business.
- Tiny bits of snow.
- Lots of people...?

Things that have been less good.
- Even with new shoes, my feet/legs hurt after playing disc indoors. Hard floor.
- I only get to play disc once a week. (Working on that one.)
- The water out of the tap is ridiculously hot, I come close to actually burning myself at least once a week.
- Locks and compactors and mysterious invisible arrangements make for limited dumpstering options. (And now I have to split my haul.)
- I don't have the confidence to speak norsk nearly as well as I write.
- Cultural confusion and tension regarding "propriety" in conversation.
- I think I need to get a job now.
- I can't seem to get organized or keep my spaces clean.
- The prices of everything other than some produce.

Now I have to get ready to go to class. I will have class and then try to rush to the other campus for a Yoga class. I don't really have anything to wear to a Yoga class but I have put off going for far too long. I hope it doesn't bite.

I promise a better post snart.

"Hello, World!" completely inapt reference that jumped out of my head explained: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hello_world here.