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November 6th, 2009
i_like_music
 | 08:23 am - Jul
My Christmas mood has arrived already now, by the way. The weather, darkness, cold, stores beginning to decorate for Christmas and selling stuff for it helps.
I started on the Christmas carols yesterday. It was fantastic!
My head told me to start buying Christmas gifts too, but I managed to shush it on that part at least.
Current Music: On your own, D'lay
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i_like_music
| 08:03 am - studering og korpsnerver
It's Friday and I've yet again managed to wake up at 07:28 am (it's important to keep a random time). Possibly not as impressive as 06:28 am would've been, but... I'm a student!
Hopefully I'll manage to act like a student today too and get some uni-work done. I ditched a guest lecture yesterday, but managed to finish reading the mandatory curriculum in one of my two courses. This one was historievitenskap(history science) and is the one where I've got a written exam coming up in some weeks from now, so I'm pleased about having been through those 1000 pages in advance now. When I get closer to the exam, it'll just be to refresh things rather than not having finished reading and then wasting time on something that might not be relevant.
I'm up to ca. 5 pages on my assignment too. Which no, isn't much seeing that I need about 17-20 of them, but compared to few days ago when I had 1 page, it's good. I've still got about 100 pages left to read in that course (historiebruk= history usage), and 60 of them will be in Swedish. Now, I've heard a lot of Swedish during my life and I can understand it for most parts, but reading it will take some time to get into. Whilst being semi-similar to Norwegian in some ways spoken, it's really not that similar when written. Note, however that all the Scandinavian languages are similar, so these are just general thoughts on details with the similarities. I prefer reading Danish to Swedish any day, btw.
Kenneth's coming to visit today. Hurrah! :)
I wonder how he'll like hearing my band play in the contest tomorrow - he's not a fan of brass band music and he's never heard us play before. =S
The band had a rehearsal yesterday too - it's really coming together now, but I know that the stage in the concert hall where we're competing is completely different sound-wise to play in, so I suspect that the band will yet again be shocked when we're on stage. For this contest we're playing: The magnificent 7(Western music!), Fiesta(solo for trombone), Onwards!(disco version of "Onward Christian Soldiers"), Shekinah and The muppet show. None of them are technically too difficult(the level has sunk during the 3 years I've played there now, which kind of sucks as my personal development as a player has made a stop then), but the band struggles enough with playing well together right now(compared to earlier when there were barely players, we're now plenty), so that's the most important at the moment to get right.
Current Music: Gi' mig Danmark tilbage, Natasja
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November 5th, 2009
i_like_music
| 11:31 pm - t.A.T.u.
I know it's years since they were popular and all, but... I still like t.A.T.u.'s songs. Something hauntingly beautiful about their voices.
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i_like_music
 | 11:13 am - svineinfluensa vokser raskt her nå
The swine-flu has hit Norway pretty badly. Apparently compared to the amount of people living here(aka. few), more people here die from the swine-flu than in the other European countries. Hurrah for good statistics... :S
Vaccines for people who aren't within the risk groups won't be available for another couple of weeks still and I wonder if there'll still be people then who haven't had it already.
Two weeks ago Hilde visited her old class(she changed schools this year) and where her new class then didn't have anyone ill, her old one was down to 2/3 with at least one confirmed ill.
There's a brass band contest this weekend and seeing that it takes around 30 people to fill an ideal brass band, I can't help but wonder how many bands that will play without one or more players. On our rehearsal Tuesday, three people in my band were home ill(and one euphonium player actually stayed there with the fever! Horribly rude to danger everyone else, I felt). At the concert last night, we were missing one person, while other bands were missing more. There'll be a new rehearsal tonight, so I wonder how many men down we'll be then.
By the way things are going, it'd be foolish of me to think that I won't get the swine-flu. Everyone here will probably get it at some point soon, seeing how rapidly it is moving right now.
I know it's silly of me to worry, but I do. Everyone is talking about it these days and the media is stuffed full with it. People are growing suspicious and scared of others and when someone you know has been confirmed sick, everyone goes around worrying if they have spent much time with that person lately and they'll be next.
It's kind of like how I hated having the mono, because it would take up to a month to find out whether I had given it to someone or not and it was a really nasty guilt feeling to have. I didn't, but still... it was a month of not knowing and the people around you growing paranoid about you having been with them.
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://piktures.deadjournal.com/mood/fire4ice/sporkies/sad.gif) worried
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i_like_music
 | 11:07 am - kulde
Just over the last 24 hours it's become even colder. My bedroom last night was colder than our hallway(which is always freezing). I could barely sleep. I'm currently in the living room, where the oven has been on all night and it's hours since I upped the heat there too, yet I'm still freezing!
The rest of Norway is rumored to have snow now. Here the wind has been crazy - no, actually CrAzY!
It's just so very coooooold.
Current Mood: cold
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November 4th, 2009
i_like_music
| 11:04 pm - 45 life lessons
A chain email a friend sent me. Plenty of good points and pointers in it, I feel, so I'm sharing/saving it here.
Written By Regina Brett, 90 years old, of The Plain Dealer, Cleveland,
Ohio
"To celebrate growing older, I once wrote the 45 lessons life taught me.
It is the most-requested column I've ever written."
My odometer rolled over to 90 in August, so here is the column once more:
1. Life isn't fair, but it's still good.
2. When in doubt, just take the next small step.
3. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone.
4. Your job won't take care of you when you are sick. Your friends and
parents will. Stay in touch.
5. Pay off your credit cards every month.
6. You don't have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.
7. Cry with someone. It's more healing than crying alone.
8. It's OK to get angry with God. He can take it.
9. Save for retirement starting with your first paycheck.
10. When it comes to chocolate, resistance is futile.
11. Make peace with your past so it won't screw up the present.
12. It's OK to let your children see you cry.
13. Don't compare your life to others. You have no idea what their journey
is all about.
14. If a relationship has to be a secret, you shouldn't be in it.
15. Everything can change in the blink of an eye. But don't worry; God
never blinks.
16. Take a deep breath. It calms the mind.
17. Get rid of anything that isn't useful, beautiful or joyful.
18. Whatever doesn't kill you really does make you stronger.
19. It's never too late to have a happy childhood. But the second one is
up to you and no one else.
20. When it comes to going after what you love in life, don't take no for
an answer.
21. Burn the candles, use the nice sheets, wear the fancy lingerie. Don't
save it for a special occasion. Today is special.
22. Over prepare, then go with the flow.
23. Be eccentric now. Don't wait for old age to wear purple.
24. The most important sex organ is the brain.
25. No one is in charge of your happiness but you.
26. Frame every so-called disaster with these words...'In five
years, will this matter?'
27. Always choose life.
28. Forgive everyone everything.
29. What other people think of you is none of your business.
30. TIME heals almost everything. Give TIME time.
31. However good or bad a situation is, it will change.
32. Don't take yourself so seriously. No one else does.
33. Believe in miracles.
34. God loves you because of who God is, not because of anything you did
or didn't do.
35. Don't audit life. Show up and make the most of it now.
36. Growing old beats the alternative -- dying young.
37. Your children get only one childhood.
38. All that truly matters in the end is that you loved.
39. Get outside every day. Miracles are waiting everywhere.
40. If we all threw our problems in a pile and saw everyone else's, we'd
grab ours back.
41. Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.
42. The best is yet to come.
43. No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.
44. Yield.
45. Life isn't tied with a bow, but it's still a gift.
Current Music: I want you, the beatles
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November 2nd, 2009
i_like_music
| 11:36 am - Fish
... I think there will be a lot of seafood restaurants in Bremerhaven -as there is bound to be in towns close to the sea.
Typical my luck to always be going to sea-side locations where others will choose the restaurants for dinner. <- aka. we will visit a sea-food restaurant at least once during our four days there. Hopefully it won't be like it was when part of the group was here and everything was ordered already(I managed last minute to change my first course from a fish soup to a vegetarian dish).
I'm incredibly picky when it comes to seafood and that just makes it difficult when I'm supposed to be polite and eat everything without making a fuss.
Yes. I'm currently worried about some dinners in December. I clearly have too little to worry about in my life. :P
(or am just looking for distractions from my assignment writing)
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November 1st, 2009
i_like_music
 | 09:22 pm - Emigration
Hurrah! I might get to visit the German emigration centre in Germany when I'm there. It's on the programme for the trip. Awesome!
I think I actually visited their website while writing my bachelor's thesis on a related topic last autumn.
Current Music: think, aretha franklin
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October 30th, 2009
i_like_music
| 10:44 am - 6 months
Yesterday Kenneth and I had been in a relationship for half a year. <- My previously longest relationship lasted about that time.
<3!
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October 27th, 2009
i_like_music
| 11:12 pm - fagemner og overraskelser
Best surprise today: Kenneth might come tomorrow rather than on Friday! I haven't seen him in nearly two weeks now and I'm going mad.
Worst surprise of the day: Standing on the bus stop this morning and realizing that unlike most years, my morning lectures don't start at 10 am, but 9 am. For some reason, despite having been there at 9 am all the other Tuesdays, I immediately thought of 10 am when I thought of morning lecture. Only because I was running early, did I make it to my lecture within half an hour.
Nneh thinks I should start marketing my master's programme solely because of the topics we have lectures on:
- pirates (today)
- lobotomy (yesterday - it was gross!)
- females who kill their kids
- the history of madness
- the art of torture people
- how to punish criminals
- how to tear bodies apart
- prostitution
- how mental hospitals are built
- incest
- whether rape is rape or not according to the laws
- what insanity is
etc
btw: Seran is awesome, like always!
Current Music: Bright lights, Placebo
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