It's getting cold !

Yippie! Well, I can read and hear it everywhere ... people are complaining about the temperatures dropping and fall coming. Recently the weather wasn't so bad - we had a few sunny days with blue sky and the trees showing fall colors - it was so beautiful but of course it was during the week so I sat inside and worked. I have to admit that I really like the cold and extremely fresh air, the ice cold wind when biking downhill in the morning and I even don't have to sweat when biking uphill. In addition, it is getting darker and darker - I almost cannot wait for the first snow!

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Hardangerfjord

Just some impressions of the Hardangerfjord in the evening:

Hardangervidda II

As promised for a long time: pictures from a hike to the Hardangerjøkulen. My mum and I tried to reach the glacier while hiking an unmarked trail along a river but unfortunately we missed the trail at the beginning so we lost quite some time and energy and couldn't make it all the way up to the glacier. Nevertheless, the hike was great and the Hardangervidda is such a fantastic place as you can see here:


This picture was taken shortly after we parked out car.


Soon we reached the river we were supposed to follow for the rest of the hike but we had to cross it first (fortunately there was a small dam ). After crossing the river we didn't find the trail so since we were supposed to follow the river, we tried to stay as close to it as possible. First we had to fight the bushes:




This picture taken by my mum shows it better ;).


Then it became more a climbing tour because the border of the river turned out to be very steep.


Finally, we found the trail and very soon we got a better view of the glacer.




We also met those guys.


And continued on the trail.




Further up...


...and up.


And this one is to show that I was really there ;)

Actually...

... I planned to put in more pictures but I am so extremely tired and hungry and desperate for a shower when I come home. In addition I have these stupid thermodynamics equations in my head (you don't really have to understand what I am talking about since I don't even understand it myself;)). It all started because my crazy Russian supervisor decided to organize a workshop as kind of birthday party for a guy working at ETH in Zürich and that guy wrote a program to calculate phase diagrams, pseudosections etc. (for non geoscientist - ignore). So we (mostly the PhD students) were supposed to do some projects in order to understand what he is dealing with and also because we want to have solutions ourselves - to cut a long story short we just didn't have enough time so it was thermodynamics all day for one week. The workshop at least is done and was quite helpful but unfortunately our solutions are not done yet so I guess we have to work more on this project.
Anyway - tired- bed - night ;)

Odysseye

You probably think that doing the laundry is a pretty easy job. And it actually should be - just sorting the clothes putting them into the washing machine, add some washing powder and choose the appropriate progam ;) Well, this part is the easiest here in the student dorms (I don't have my own washing machine and drier so I have to go to these laundry facilities they offer here in some of the buildings). Since during the week I come home so late that I cannot run the machine and the drier (the rooms close at 11 pm), I have to do it on the weekends and unfortunately almost all other people seem to do that, too. So on Sunday I move my stuff to the closest laundry room, put my clothes into the machine, add some detergent, put in the washing card and want to start the machine but it refuses to start since suddenly there is not enough time for the machine to run because there is a reservation of exactly this machine. It could not tell me before .. NO! Ok, so I am looking for another free washing machine - three are busy and the other two are out of order so I have to go to another laundry room (before I try to get out most of the washing powder because I didn't want to leave it there). In the other room I finally succeed to get in my laundry so I come back and am happy that there is one free dryer - so I put in all my clothes and then realize that the door is not closing. Well, all clothes out again and to the other laundry room to put the laundry in the dryer there. The same thing is done with a second load of clothes and when I start the second dryer the machine claims to be busy since I stopped it too early so I put in the wet clothes and let it run for some more time (it does that without paying again) and tried to start the machine later ... that worked.

Nice weather...

... and I cannot walk (not to talk about hike, bike, jump, climb). Well, everybody is telling me that soccer is bad ;) Sure but it is fun to play and this was the first time in a very long time that I actually got some injury. I guess, it will be fine in two or three days. Anyway since I didn't feel like working all Saturday (Friday, I stopped working on our actual project around 0.15) I was just doing some random reading an stumbled upon this (found here):

Your Score: Linear B

You scored

You are Linear B. Even those who can follow you think you're all Greek to them. Which, after all, is true - Linear B being the first known text for written Greek. To most people, you're incomprehensible. But what do you care? You're tough, hard, long-enduring and have greater nobility than most. Naturally, you don't admit to borrowing extensively from your brother Linear A.

Now I wonder...is that really me?
And I don't get this picture in the right format - annoying!