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AUUGHHH CRAAP D: Have you tried to get rid of the worst garlic breath ever by using mouth wash while having a terrible head cold? No? Then I suggest you think twice before doing it, because the feeling of trying to breath trough a mouthfull of the stuff is much like drowning in burning, minty-fresh liquid. Ie BAAD >.< So yeah, I hope think that used up my entire quota of fail for today.

One of the lectures today also made me realize that whoever claimed mathematics is a logical subject must have been an uneducated dimwit. Okay, I'll admit that 2x =4 -> x = 2 makes sense, and maybe even that 1000 mm^3 = 1 cm^3 is understandable from a logic pov, but I'll have to draw the line somewhere. And that somewhere is when you show me an equation which you can't solve because *gasp* it has no real solutions. And then you go ahead and solve it anyway, using some asshat's rule which basicly says "remove stuff until it works".
And also, PLEASE stop using the term imaginary numbers like it's perfectly normal. Or, you know, at least explain to me how you can use a number which doesn't tecnically exist. And how can it not exist anyway, since you just wrote it? *epic facepalm*

So it might seem like this day is going rather badly, but no :D Because while waiting for a friend today I spotted what has to be the most hilarious display ever:

Oh, the similarity says it all :D I have always said that there's something fucked up about The Game... and since it apparently can be compared to what's basically The Evil Book Of Evil, I guess I was right xDD Aw bookstore, I hope you did this on purpose <3

You know what I just realized?
I was awake for 8 hours yesterday D: That has to be a new low, even for me... And I was only a little sick and a little hungover. Hum that can't be good, one way or another. (I went to bed around 1 am. I'll leave it up to you to figure out when I got up xD)

A short rundown of my week:
♬ On Monday I was fortunate enough to get stuck in Oslo Airport for almost three hours waiting for the fog to clear and the airlines to fix their mess. Always a treat >.> When I got home I made some dinner, and I still had pleeenty of time. Watched some tv, and still plenty of time. Got in the shower, and oh crap I'm late again *facepalm*
But I did make it to mr. T's almost on time, and we spent a couple of hours drinking a little and discussing Stephen Hawking - good times haha. Then we walked down to the Gorgoroth concert, and that was...nice. Only by nice I mean plain cheesy. Because you cannot wear black leather underpants with spikes and still claim to be grim and metal. NO.
A small problem turned up after wards though: the band came on at 11.30 pm, and my last bus home left at midnight...no good. But mr. T saved me from having to spend two hours walking home by letting me stay at his place. He was even gentleman-ly enough to sleep on the couch and give me the bed. And that's pretty aww-worthy:p

♬ On Tuesday I had the pleasure of going straight from mr. T's and to class, which always is a great way to make sure you feel fresh and nice looking. Or not >.<

♬ The rest of the week was pretty much like any other week: chemistry, chemistry, maths, mother fucking excel exersise from HELL, anatomy and some more chemistry.

♬ Saturday night it was time for another concert - Gåte :D Once again I went with mr. T and some other friends, and it was great. Mmmm folk rock <3
After wards I got home, had some more to drink, talked to some nice people I had never seen before, and then came the...rather lazy Sunday:P

All in all, I'm not complaining. College life is pretty nice when you completely ignore the lack of money and the hugh workload (:

Yesterday I took a plane back home for a long weekend, and the woman sitting next to me was reading something. Naturally I tried reading over her shoulder just to see if it was anything I recognized. It was - the top of the left page told me it was a Harry Potter book (which made me smile), the size told me it had to be book 1-4, and after reading about one paragraph on another page I concluded that it was indeed POA. Then it hit me that being able to identify one of the books based on a single sentence on a random page makes me a hugh dork. And hell, I love it :D

I kind of hate how my desire to read goes up and down like a moody jojo though. Sometimes I'll read 50 pages in a month, other times I just want moar books as fast as possible. Right now I blame thank Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game for pulling me back into the later category. I haven't finished it just yet, but will happily recommend it to anyone who enjoys sci-fi ^_^
And after I'm done with that one, I'll head back to my very favorite sub-genre: bio sci-fi. Yep, it exists. And I'll never understand how people can not love it:p

Today, I smelled some bacteria. Yep. It was the first day of my "field study" in the micro biology dep. at the hospital, and this was definitely one of the strangest things they showed us xD Smell is apparently an important tool when it comes to identifying bacteria colonies... Kind of makes me wonder what the hell kind of job I'm going to get oO

Also, somewhat school related: the girls in our class have been asked if we want to participate in the clinical trials for a new HPV vaccine (the cancer thingy, you know:p) and I'm thinking about accepting. If nothing else, at least I'll get free medical check ups for the next three years... but then again it's more needles, and possible side effects. Hm I hate that I can't decide :s

And for the sake of my sanity I think I need to throw in a rant as well - re: The Vampire Diaries. I watched the pilot last night, and for some strange reason I was under the impression that it was a show that I might like. Right.
After about 30 sec I was rolling my eyes at the oh-so-obvious emo!pires. And after maybe 2.5 min, I realised that if the thing on Hunk McEmo!pire Tortured Brat the main character's finger turned out to be the Gem of Amara, I might burst into frustrated tears. Of course it was *headdesk* In case you never watched quite as much Buffy as I did, the Gem of Amara was the ring Spike came to Sunnydale to steal because it made it possible for vampires to survive direct sunlight. The ring was handed over to Angel for safe keeping. Hmm I wonder if Hunk McEmo!pire had to go ask Angel for permission to borrow it to go find his one truu vuw?.
I don't think I could even have imagined anything that so openly tries to ride the Twilight-wave if I tried.
World, why do you have to fail so hard?

Lectures and cursed maths exercises from 8:15 am to 6 pm cannot possbily be good for your health. Or your head. Urghhh. And why won't anyone make me dinner when I finally get home? *sigh*

But all in all I think I might like these studies. Which is pretty comforting, since it hits me sometimes that not only is this my life right now, but the subjects I study will very likely be my whole life. As in this is what I'll do for a living once uni is over. Hm.
I just cannot picture myself living in an actual apartment (or god forbid a house of my own :s), having a job and you know, not being in school anymore. Because uni may be different from high school, but in many ways it's still just school. Which I find rather comforting actually, because it's nice and familiar. I'm not saying that I wouldn't love to move out of the dorm though, because 7 people and one kitchen? That's 4-6 people too many -.-

It's late, and I really don't know where I'm going with this. But the conclusion has to be that epiphanies make me uncomfortable, because change is scary oO
/tired rambling

*points to title* my favorite Neil Young quote, in case anyone was wondering^^

First of all:NEW NAME at last! Goodie :D

And now; guess what I did today? I had my very first visit to the med. lab, that's what. And our teachers thought it would be a great idea to let a bunch of people who had mostly never been in a hospital laboratory before discover the joys of it by playing with needles. (Since I promised to put up warnings: yes, there will be very mild needle-and-blood-talk now)
First period: this is how you draw blood from someone without causing permanent damage or accidentally infecting yourself with HIV.
Second period: now you do it. We did, and it actually went really well :D I managed to fill my test tube with blood without hurting my poor partner (or myself). Hee hee I am actually a little proud of this - it's really nice to have my first time not ending in tears and panic.
But I also found out something rather creepy that I never considered before - when you fill a test tube with fresh blood it will be warm. Like body temperature warm. And this freaked me out a bit oO Hm

Then on to the fangirling Important Discussions:
( ie Torchwood )

Today I bring you words from a somewhat confused and completely broke girl in a strange new city. I moved away from home (for real) for the first time a week ago. And I think I like it. A whole lot.
I have a dorm room of sorts, with my own bathroom (so much LOVE) but a shared kitchen/living room and it's pretty nice. And pretty affordable. But I seriously had no idea how expensive food is! D: Eeep I'll have to live on oat meal and dry cereal by christmas by the look of things oO
Another problem is that my skills when it comes to navigating in new places are poor at best, so I do get turned around a lot. But then I get saved by a bus that can take me where I need to go even if I don't actually know the way, and things have a happy ending anyway. It is my firm belief that buses is civilization's greatest achievement yet. Forget about sliced bread - it will not help you get home in the evening!

And what moving-out-and-going-to-uni-post would be complete without lecture-talk? I am in fact aiming for a bachelor degree in biomedical science, in case you were wondering. This week we have been shown around campus, or in our case the two campuses we will be moving between. As if trying to find my way around one wasn't bad enough D: And of course getting a whole lot of info about the coming year. My (only!) four subjects this year will be anatomy & histology, general chemistry, maths & statistics and uhh medical lab-tech-something-ish. Oh, and you know what no one told me before I begun this thing? A big part of my future job apparently is taking blood samples, so of course we have to practice this. Using each other as guinea pigs. STARTING IN TWO WEEKS. Yeah, just wait for the horrified What To Do When You Accidentally Mutilated Your Classmate With A Hypodermic Needle posts to come :S We will also be playing around with fun stuff such as E-coli and staphylococus..... hm I am actually quite pleased with that prospect xD

To sum this up: school looks good, people are nice, the weather is crappy and I'm tired. Maybe that wasn't the world's greatest summary..

First of all: I absolutely refuse to believe that it has been a full year since the last time I wrote one of these entries! That's just...no way. And what's even worse is that the festival is over for this time, and I have to wait over a year for the next one D: (it's 366 days until Wacken 2010, yeah I checked).
Anyway, Wacken '09 = epic win in so many ways.
My original plan was to go with margull, but he had to work and ditched me (then he quit his job, but still didn't come with me to Germany meh), so I ended up going with Gar and two friends of his that I had never met before. Turns out I could not have wished for better company! They had good taste in music and were great fun.
Compared to '08, this year can be summed up with one word: drunker. I think I can say with some certainty taht I consumed more alcohol during those six days than what I have done in the rest of my life up to that point. And I loved it. We spent a lot of time just sitting around in our camp being silly and laughing our asses off. Good times indeed. And because it turns out that we are somewhat more creative in that state, we did come up with some (utterly ridiculous) inventions:
1) the cucumber shot - you hollow out a piece of cucumber, pour in some spirits and use it as a shot glass. It tastes good and it looks awesome xD
2) rum and chocolate milkshake - you won't believe how good it is until you have tried it!
3) about 55 different uses for gaffa tape - seriously, it can fix everything from shoes to socks to open wounds.
4) the Drink of Death - the taste was a whole lot better than expected, but the effect was about the same as clubbing yourself in the head with a shovel. Not all that surprising when you consider the ingredients: some vodka rasberri, a couple of seaman shots, a little jäger and some nasty spirits that Sister Girl left in our camp. *facepalm*

There was some music in between all the drinking too: Motörhead, Heaven and Hell, Machine Head, Einherjer, EPICA, Lacuna Coil and Nevermore were all great. The price for this year's best concert easily belongs to Korpiklaani though. The music is sort of happy folk-metal with songs named Beer Beer and Happy Little Boozer and so on. They went on at 1 am the last night, and the crowd was amazingly happy and drunk. And I crowd surfed for the first time :D I kind of can't hate the crowd surfers who fall on your head any more, because I can totally see why people do it. Tis awesome I tell you. Even if people were handsy as hell xD

The conclusion? I'm definitely going back for the third time next summer.
\m/

Today, at work, I was sitting at the register as usual and the store was pretty empty and quiet. Then this guy comes up to me and he buys two bottles of bleach and misc stain removers, and of course the first thing to pop up in my head was "oh, trying to get the blood out of the carpet, are you?". What do you mean I have seen too many movies? There is no such thing!
Anyway, in addition to the bleach he also bought steel wool, rope, rubber gloves, a knife set and a small chocolate. And then he spent ten minutes asking me detailed questions about where I lived. At this point I was pretty much doing this o.O and trying not to laugh out loud. He was not being overly creepy or anything, I just found the whole situation pretty damn amusing.
That was about the only entertaining thing that happened today though, the other 4h50min of work was excruciatingly boring. Thank god for short weekend-shifts!

I tasted summer on your peppery skin.
Hm I really like that one small piece of lyrics. I love that they used the adjective 'peppery' rather than 'sweet', 'hot', 'silken' or any other common word. Plus it's a really cute and happy song - Summersong by The Decemberists, if anyone were wondering. I downloaded their album The Crane Wife a while ago, and fell in love when I caught the line "but you are in the ground with the wolves and the weevils" on the first listen. Uh I know that's kind of grotesque and all, but I found if fascinating:p And the album fits right in with my brand new pop-rock obsession xD

But now it's meme time! ~yay~
Rules: You pick your musical artist, then answer the questions below using their song titles.

Pick Your Artist: Sirenia
(I wanted to go with Kent, but found that listing song titles only in Swedish would be kind of lame, and that I did not have the skill to translate them properly xD)
Are you male or female: Sister Nightfall
Describe yourself: Star-crossed
How do you feel about yourself: Voices Within
Describe your current boy/girl situation: In My Darkest Hour
Describe where you currently live: Lethargica
If you could go anywhere you wanted to go: Glades of Summer
Your favorite form of transportation: My Mind's Eye
Your best friend is: Absent Without Leave
Your favorite color is: Sundown
Favorite time of day: Euphoria
If your life were a TV show, what would it be called: In A Manica
What is life to you: A Shadow of Your Own Self
What is the best advice you have to give: Seven Keys and Nine Doors


And and and *jumps up and down* you know what I haven't mentioned in a really long time? WACKEN! WE ARE LEAVING IN 4 DAYS! Awesome :DD

Re: the name change - I've sort of landed on Ingriae. If anyone thinks it sounds horribly stupid, please tell me, because I am still very insecure about it :S

No, I don't know what I was thinking either. Probably inspired by something I made for a game another website several years ago, and by the fact that it's getting close to 4 am and I'm not thinking straight. Anyway, get over it.
(It's likely that it won't last that long either - it will probably make my eyes sore when I look at it in daylight xD)

Just to warn you: in this post I will not be raining on just butterflygirl_3'S parade, but I will in fact harsh all over everyone's HBP squee. Because I am only mildly impressed. Okay, sure the movie had many awesome scenes and...shiny things. But over all I feel it suffered from the same thing as the book did in my opinion - a complete lack of an interesting plot. Just try making a summary for someone who doesn't know the story - the only thing I could come up with was "Dumbledore dies". And for a three hour movie that's pretty short.
But okay, stuff I liked:
¤ Tom Felton as Malfoy - I think he did an amazing job. Draco was unpleasant, insecure and a hugh coward, just like he should be. And Felton grew up fine. Uh who said that? *whistles innocently*
¤ The way the memories looked in the penesive. They were memory-y and awesome.
¤ BELLATRIX LESTRANGE. The scene where she was running away from the Burrow was great.
¤ I think I have a crush on Snape's voice. Not his character, not Alan Rickamn, just the voice <3

And the things I liked the least:
¤ Dumbledore. At least the first time Harry met him. I just found him kind of cold and...arrogant.
¤ The way Lavender Brown was portrayed. I know she is supposed to be girly and giggling, but they didn't need to make her retarded.
¤ What they have done to Hermione's character. But this is nothing new, so I'll leave it alone.
¤ They did not use the same Tom Riddle as in CoS. Which was really too bad, because he was awesome. And Hot.

Hm this entry turned out kind of...not the way I wanted it to. I DID like the movie, I just didn't love it the way most people seem to do.

Oy, before I forget: what was Malfoy doing with Snakey daddy's snake-cane in his trunk? I tought Lucius hid his wand in it or something...
Aand why are they always wearing muggle clothes? It would look so much better if people wore their school robes more :/

I just finished watching season 1 of Torchwood, and I'm all kinds of hooked. But holy cow season 2 is taking forever to download, and it's making me saad! D:

But considering the dream I had last night, I think a Torchwood-break might be good for me. Ehhm. I usually never dream of celebrities (which is really sad btw *sigh*), but yesterday apparently made an exception. Only problem was that the dream featured Owen (from Torchwood, of course), who I think looks a bit like a frog.... And he happened to be pregnant. It is also possible that it was my child, I can't quite remember the details. I'm used to pretty fucked up dreams, but this is a new level of strange, even for me. Mpreg? Really? I even skip fic with that warning, because I find it plain weird. But apparently my subconscious doesn't agree *facepalm*

Don't think that this is all Torchwood has done for me lately - it also inspired me to finally start reading wonderful old poetry again. One of the eps featured a line from W.B. Yeats' The Stolen Child, and I fell in love instantly.

Come away, oh human child,
To the water and the wild,
With a fairy, hand in hand,
For the world's more full of weeping
Than you can understand.

♥

I'm a little embarrassed that I needed a silly sci-fi tv-show to get back my interest for poetry, but whatever. At least I got it back :D

Oh, and there is a (potential) name change ahoy. I don't like this name much anymore, so I've been wanting to change it for a while. What I've been considering for a new one is some kind of anagram of my two first names...prefferably Ingria, but of course that's taken by someone who hasn't posted in three years >.< So maybe Ingaria or Ingriam then, I'll have to think about it for a while:p

I came back from the Roskilde festival a few hours ago, and I thought I'd be feeling better by now because of the shower (I have never been that covered in dirt before in my life!) and the good 12 hours of sleep I got on the boat on our way home. But not so. I'm still tired and uncomfortable, and I think the fever might be sneaking back -.- Since I don't feel I can go to bed quite yet, I'll write my festival review post instead.
You won't get a day by day/concert by concert summary this time though. ( I'll simply try to find five words that sum up my Roskilde Experience. )

i - I was browsing through threadless and cafepress last night, and I think it's ridiculous how literally every other shirt in the 'most popular for women' categories have something to do with Twilight. Don't girls have anything else on their minds any more? The exception being this one because it's awesome.
What made me feel a strange mix of utter embarrassment and pride in my inner geek, was the fact that the only design that actually made me laugh was this, with this one as a good runner up. Or myabe not so much laugh as gigglesnort, but still... and I don't even like maths!
I now fear that I must spend way too much money on t-shirts, because if you ignore all the Twilight crap there are still a whole lot of shexy shirts <3

ii - I think this video is made of awesome. The video part is very high on the wtf-scale, but the song is strangely charming :D Plus Nimoy = some kind of god.

iii - The only movie I'm really, fangirlishly, high-expectations excited about this summer is Neil Blomkamp's District 9. And just so we're clear: this is a mockumentary about discrimination against aliens. The marketing campaign around it makes me wish I lived in NY so that I could see it first hand :/ Creativity = win. If you haven't checked it out already, you need to get over to d-9.com and look around.

iV - The love affair between me and my iphone still hasn't cooled down after I've had it for almost a year. When I came home from Bergen and found out there was a hugh software update available I was actually excited about installing it and getting the new features it promised *facepalm* It's a horizontal keyboard and a copy & paste feture, not something important xD

I'd also like to mention that I'm going to Roskilde TOMORROW NIGHT! Whee party time :D haha

Rl stuff first, as usual: on Saturday I am going to travel 7 hours by train to Bergen to visit MMR. Should be fun :D I'm a little surprised that it's actually going to happen though - it started with a msn convo, and me rambling about wanting to see Star Trek again. He joked that I should come visit him so we could see it together, and then it somehow ended up as an actual plan :D Yay haha

But what I really wanted this entry to be about was The Demon's Lexicon. It's Sarah Rees Brennan aka sarahtales's first published novel, and I finished it a few days ago. Damn that reminded me why I was such a hugh fan of the stuff she used to write online. She is an amazing author, plain and simple.

I love books that take a well known theme or thing and does something completely unexpected with it, but in a this-is-how-it-really-is-and-everyone-else-just-got-it-wrong kind of way. Just like Sarah does in this book. If the main character in TDL was seen from an outside POV he would be your typical tall, dark, brooding and unwilling hero. You know the type: doesn't speak much and has obvious Emotional Problems, but so good looking that no one seems to give a damn.
But since the book is written from Nick's own POV you realize from the first page that he may be tall and dark, but he also has some pretty serious issues. He is fiercely possessive, close to emotionless, angry to the point of becoming dangerous and has an easier time relating to his sword than to other people. This is what makes Nick such an interesting, and in my opinion likable character. I spent the first half of the book not really caring how everything ended, as long as someone could help Nick so he wouldn't have to be angry all the time. Guh.

This really is urban fantasy at it's very best. Full of action and plot twists, and with a cast of (mostly) great characters. And because I love sharing great books with everyone and their great auntand because I want Sarah to do really well, I'll say this again:
Everyone should read The Demon's Lexicon. NOW.

My friend MMR has become something of an amateur photographer, and his enthusiasm is apparently contagious. Not that I have much talent for taking pictures, put it's kind of fun anyway.And because our dog is not so much a pet pure energy covered in fur I walk him a lot, which gives me plenty of chances to take pictures. The only problem is that two times in less than a week now I have deliberately not brought a camera with me out because it's dark/the weather is no good/I won't find anything now that I didn't see the last 100 times we went this way. And since this is an evil and cunning universe, I found things that would have made awesome pictures on both those occasions. *sigh*

The first time was when walked home from work last week. I turned around, and was suddenly standing face to face with a moose. We stood there looking at each other for a while, before he turned and ran out on the field again. If you've never seen a moose run, you have really missed out on something! They are amazingly elegant :D
It didn't occur to me until later that I probably should have been at least a little worried about how close it was... It clearly wasn't a fully gown moose, but it was still the size of a horse. It was just so...confused and gangly and obviously a teenager that I almost had to smile. A conversation with my mother (who grew up in Moose Country) revealed that it probably was a calf from last year who had just been kicked out by its mother.

( Fail!pictures and ramblings under the cut )

Last week I went to see not just one, but two movies that turned out to be pretty good. How often does that happen now a days? So I thought I'd treat you all to some short reviews:
Movie number one was X-Men Origins: Wolverine. I went into this expecting pure, first class crap. It's the fourth installment in a franchise, and I was afraid it would follow the standard set by X-Men 3 (ie embarrassing fail), so yeah, I don't really know why I wanted to pay to see it... Anyway, it was very nice to be proven wrong. I don't care what the critics say, I liked it. Quite a lot actually. The acting wasn't always perfect, and Gar and I spent way too much time discussing plot holes, but I still don't get why everyone apparently hates this movie. I think it was fun, and both the plot and the minor characters were interesting enough to make it worth your time. Too bad Deadpool didn't get more screen time, but Gambit made up for it by being every bit as sexy as I was hoping :D
I have decided that I will spend some of my money on X-Men comics, because I have been wanting to read some for years now. It's just so much canon to get into O.O I'll never be able to get through it all! But I think I'll have to at least take a small look.

The other movie was Star Trek, which I expected to be good. And it didn't fail me. This too was fun Hollywood action with pretty men :D It's a bit sad that what I'll remember best from the whole thing is that they all really should have died at the end. You would need motors with a ridiculous amount of energy in them to actually stop a black hole o.O Anyway, I'll try not to let this ruin the movie:p And I don't se why it has such a gigantic fandom either...hm I don't ship anyone.

A while ago I finally got around to buying the book Wicked Gentlemen, which I've had in mind for ages. The name sounds promising, the cover is really pretty and it has gay demons in it. How could I not be interested? The main character, Belimai Sykes, may be a demon with an awesome name, but he was not so much a wicked gentleman as a sad, broken, self loathing wreck. And not even in a interesting way. The plot was a disappearance/murder case that belonged in a crime thriller kind of book, with an appropriately dark (but obviously morally superior) police man working to solve it. It reminded my once again why I really dislike crime novels - they bore me to tears. Even if this one was set in a steam punk world, with inquisitors instead of police and demons in stead of...some other ethnic minority, it was still escentially about solving the case. And Saving poor Belimai who apparently couldn't get his own life sorted. Meh.
It actually did manage to scare me a bit with some torture scenes though, and that caught me by surprise. I don't squick easily, but here everything was described so smooth, professional and Christian, that it made me flinch. Hm.
All in all I didn't care much about anything in the novel, except maybe Belimais ex-lover, but of course he was faded out pretty quickly. It was topped off with an awkward and much to detailed sex scene(I think that's the first time I complain about TOO MUCH detail). So yeah, not very impressed here :(

I repeat: O.O
It's past midnight here, and I just got a phone call from the police. Regarding my little sister. They talked to my dad for like 20 min, and guess what? She was busted for possession. Yep, my 17 year old sister was caught with two bottles of wine and marijuana. ... To be honest I'm not really that surprised, because I know what kind of people she hangs out with. What bothered me more was her reaction. I sent her a text after the call, essentially saying "WTF?" and she called me back a minute later. Her comment to the whole thing was pretty much "well, are you really surprised?" while I was more like "this is so stupid and you fail." I really didn't know what to say to her. Ugh.
And now I'm annoyed with myself because this situation actually makes me feel sad (as in I have no friends and my life sucks), because I'm stuck here alone while she is out having fun. I want parties too.
Yeah, I even fail at worrying.

Sorry for sucking at comments for a while, but many things have been happening outside the internetz lately. Lets start with the most important: I am no longer unemployed. Big fucking YAY! :DD I'll spend this summer in the same grocery store that I worked in last summer. The pay is good and the job is only a little boring, so I am quite happy with this.
You know what else made me happy? I got my vacation money today. And even better: I grossly overpaid my taxes last year, so I'll be getting a whole lot of monies back from that in June. Now for the really good news: the total amount of money going into my account in June, job or no job, is NOK 20 000 !!1! (That's almost US $3500, for all you foreigners) Hell yes.

Last weekend Gar told me that he was coming to Oslo for a couple of days, and the plan was that he would stay with some family member or other. Yay someone to hang out with wss pretty much my reaction. Anyway, siad family member was out of the country, so he needed a place to stay. Being the helpful and ever thoughtless person that I am, I told him we have a big house so he could stay with us. Turned out the guestroom would already be occupied by my aunt, so then I was suddenly stuck with having invited a guy who is nice and friendly and all, but who I don't know all that well and have never met outside of school to stay in my room for three nights. This had all the factors needed to be a really, really awkward week.

Not so. We actually had a lot of fun, wandering around Oslo, Ski and Ås, eating out, going to the movies and watching horror movies from the 40s on dvd. So yeah, good times all around :D