Some pics and the immediate future
Aug. 22nd, 2011 02:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tilly_stratfordTiny and Morten are well on their way back to eastern Norway, while I'm slipping back into my Bergen lifestyle.
Like I said, Linni handled the trip so well that I opted to have the carrier open for the majority of the trip, for easy petting access. This is how we spent the trip:
She never even tried to jump out - she just seemed to appreciate being able to stick her head out and see what was going on.
On the whole she doesn't seem to be in any way traumatized by the day-long trip anyway, and she's not holding a grudge neither. On the opposite, she seems much more interested in sticking close to me than she's previously been.
Anyway, remember how I didn't intend my vacation to be quite this long? Yeah, Pete the Potted Plant spent one and half months without a drop of water in the middle of summer. This is how he looked when I got back:
Not too good. (And yes that's my signed Ian McKellen photo on the right. U jelly?)
But as I've mentioned before I have a strong suspcion that Pete Plant is immortal - and sure, after a day and a cup of water he currently looks like this:
The very picture of health! Pete Plant has stayed alive with me for FIVE YEARS so far. Have you any IDEA how many other plants I've managed to kill during that time?
And finally: I got my record player set up again! I haven't had it around since I lived in Oslo four years ago, but man have I missed my records. Most of it's on Spotify these days, but there's something about good old LPs. For one, when I put on a record I listen to it all the way through, I appreciate the music in a different way. Also while I use Spotify to listen to music while I sit on the computer or do chores, when I listen to a record I like to sit back and just listen to music, to focus on it. I don't know why I can't do that when I'm playing music on the computer but it's how I'm wired.
Look at this beauty:
And that's some quality music too, I might add.
So speaking of my Bergen lifestyle - see, this is the first time since infancy that I'm not working on my formal education, where my day isn't spent on school work in some way. And for the last five years I've been extremely comfortable with the "student" label. Losing that, it's like I'm undergoing some sort of identity crisis. I mean, what other label do I get now? "Unemployed", I guess. I'm not at all comfortable with that one, so I'm going to have to fix that ASAP.
I'm a young, intelligent and educated person in the best of health, I've held a handful of interesting creative jobs (go into any major Norwegian bookshop and there's a real chance you'll find at least one product with my name on it), I'm very prepared to be an asset somewhere! My immediate challenge is to find out where I can be an asset, to find out who'll have me. I already know my degree in Medieval History isn't worth a thing, so at least that won't come as a shock.
Out into the world we go.
Like I said, Linni handled the trip so well that I opted to have the carrier open for the majority of the trip, for easy petting access. This is how we spent the trip:
She never even tried to jump out - she just seemed to appreciate being able to stick her head out and see what was going on.
On the whole she doesn't seem to be in any way traumatized by the day-long trip anyway, and she's not holding a grudge neither. On the opposite, she seems much more interested in sticking close to me than she's previously been.
Anyway, remember how I didn't intend my vacation to be quite this long? Yeah, Pete the Potted Plant spent one and half months without a drop of water in the middle of summer. This is how he looked when I got back:
Not too good. (And yes that's my signed Ian McKellen photo on the right. U jelly?)
But as I've mentioned before I have a strong suspcion that Pete Plant is immortal - and sure, after a day and a cup of water he currently looks like this:
The very picture of health! Pete Plant has stayed alive with me for FIVE YEARS so far. Have you any IDEA how many other plants I've managed to kill during that time?
And finally: I got my record player set up again! I haven't had it around since I lived in Oslo four years ago, but man have I missed my records. Most of it's on Spotify these days, but there's something about good old LPs. For one, when I put on a record I listen to it all the way through, I appreciate the music in a different way. Also while I use Spotify to listen to music while I sit on the computer or do chores, when I listen to a record I like to sit back and just listen to music, to focus on it. I don't know why I can't do that when I'm playing music on the computer but it's how I'm wired.
Look at this beauty:
And that's some quality music too, I might add.
So speaking of my Bergen lifestyle - see, this is the first time since infancy that I'm not working on my formal education, where my day isn't spent on school work in some way. And for the last five years I've been extremely comfortable with the "student" label. Losing that, it's like I'm undergoing some sort of identity crisis. I mean, what other label do I get now? "Unemployed", I guess. I'm not at all comfortable with that one, so I'm going to have to fix that ASAP.
I'm a young, intelligent and educated person in the best of health, I've held a handful of interesting creative jobs (go into any major Norwegian bookshop and there's a real chance you'll find at least one product with my name on it), I'm very prepared to be an asset somewhere! My immediate challenge is to find out where I can be an asset, to find out who'll have me. I already know my degree in Medieval History isn't worth a thing, so at least that won't come as a shock.
Out into the world we go.
