The rough plan is done until September so this is where I was and will be this year:
1) starter was a small ski trip in February to Trysil about 200 km north of Oslo - it was a very nice but way too short weekend - the weather was nice but I didn't dare to take my camera to skiing and I don't have a cheap digicam anymore ;)
2) At the beginning of March, we had a more or less internal student conference at Oscarsborg - which is a fort ind the Oslofjord - close to Drøbak. There is a small ferry going to the island - I took some pictures and they will be uploaded when I can motivate myself.
3)The first big conference this year and for myself will be in Vienna in mid-April(it's called EGU). I will have a 15 minute talk but it has to be well prepared. Never made it to Vienna before so I will also try to get some impressions of the city.
4) The next but much smaller conference will be the Kongsberg seminar which is in May in Kongsberg - very nice place with a dinner in the Silver mines. The program does not seem that interesting for me and I only have to present a poster. I might sneek out from time to time and hike there because it is a really nice region.
5) Right after my mum comes over to celebrate a round birthday so we will do a trip here in Norway. Hopefully we make it further to the middle of Norway and can see Jotunheimen and Rondane and Sognefjord but we will see how that goes. Then we will drive to Germany.
6) In June there is a meeting in St. Petersburg. I don't know about the details yet but I might also have to present some of my work - St. Petersburg is another first and it will also be the first time in Russia for me.
7) July will be fantastic because in mid-July I have a conference in Vancouver and I am really looking forward to that.
8) In the end of July, I will do a field trip to the Karelian Kraton - so this will be half in Finnland and half in Russia. Finland will be another first ;)
9) Another conference ... a huge one in August but it will be here in Oslo - how boring ;)
10) Field trip mid-end August - transect through Norway - I always wanted to see those high pressure rocks there.
11) Which is a maybe - Barcelona in September - there will be a workshop and I might go there .
So that was about the plan for this year - there might be some conference in St.Fransisco in December but only if my supervisor forces me to go there ;)
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Saturday, March 1, 2008
Huh hah huh ha
... yeah still listening to that song. Funnily enough people end up here when searching for 'missä miehet rastastaa' what do you expect (especially after all the you tube videos which are found on top of the google page)?
At least my very profound internet research (of 50 seconds) has given me an idea about the title - 'when men are riding' ;).
Anyway that guy has an astonishing voice - I could not sing that high ;)
At least my very profound internet research (of 50 seconds) has given me an idea about the title - 'when men are riding' ;).
Anyway that guy has an astonishing voice - I could not sing that high ;)
Friday, February 29, 2008
Missä miehet ratsastaa
No - I can't speak finnish (don't even really speak Norwegian although I should by now) and I just understood that this is something about riding(?). This is just a song of Teräsbetoni. (Warning if you open that you will have to play a crazy game and moving a sheep around trying to eat grass while there are knights coming from right and left and when the sheep is hit 3 times it will die). Anyway why I am writing about this is because we have such a nice word in German which is called 'Ohrwurm' and basically means catchy tune but a word to word translation would be ear worm. But I really love the German word because it is like a worm in your ear which is not going away - catchy tune just doesn't really describe it. And this song is really my 'Ohrwurm' at the moment.
And yeah I lost my mind ;).
And yeah I lost my mind ;).
Thursday, February 28, 2008
Inactivity due to sickness
Yeah - cold is going round and I wasn't spared. Although taking all the medication available I just could not get rid of the sore throat and coughing and the annoying headache. Well, maybe it would have been worse without taking anything - who knows.
That was not really a good week - two abstracts to be submitted and one talk to be prepared - the abstracts are luckily written the talk still has to be prepared but well it is just a student conference and I can take something from a presentation i have done before since the audience is not the same.
That was not really a good week - two abstracts to be submitted and one talk to be prepared - the abstracts are luckily written the talk still has to be prepared but well it is just a student conference and I can take something from a presentation i have done before since the audience is not the same.
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Seven reasons ...
... why I hate mobile phones. Usually I like technical devices although some might not really be needed. I am a computer junkie and I am also addicted to the internet. I love my digital camera and my usb radio. In addition I am thinking about getting a portable mp3 player. But one thing I really really hate: mobile phones. And that is not because I cannot handle them that is because those damn little things became more important than all the rest which is going on around the people using them.
- I hate sitting in a train or subway with 10 people around me screaming into their mobiles while I would like to read a book or just relax (and I don't feel like listening to music all the time).
- I hate it when you are talking to a person and that person is constantly busy with the phone because someone might have written an sms or might call just in that minute.
- I hate these things going off during a lecture or even during a PhD defense (happened here recently). People - can you not live without that damn thing for 45 minutes? And I regard it also extremely unpolite to play around with a mobile during a lecture even if it is not ringing.
- I hate it when I am in a supermarket and the shopping cart is pushed into me because the person behind me is (of course) on the phone. If you would not shout at the person he/she would not even realize that they push the cart into your ass.
- It is also extremely impolite to hang on the phone while paying at the counter and realizing that the wallet is on the bottom of the bag - it takes double the usual time but who cares about other people waiting behind you.
- Even worse is crossing the street while on the phone or standing in the middle of the road because the phone rings or stopping while going over a pedestrian crossing (I saw all this here).
- And what I think is really annoying - there you are out skiing and enjoying nature and silence just to realize that some people are standing somewhere and talking on a mobile phone.
And yeah I have a mobile phone ... I use it approximately twice a month - when my mum sends me an sms because she wants me to call her (we don't have a phone here).
My friends want me to get a Norwegian provider because they think it is hard to reach me - I tell them: it will not be better because the phone is at home and I will not bother taking it with me - period.
- I hate sitting in a train or subway with 10 people around me screaming into their mobiles while I would like to read a book or just relax (and I don't feel like listening to music all the time).
- I hate it when you are talking to a person and that person is constantly busy with the phone because someone might have written an sms or might call just in that minute.
- I hate these things going off during a lecture or even during a PhD defense (happened here recently). People - can you not live without that damn thing for 45 minutes? And I regard it also extremely unpolite to play around with a mobile during a lecture even if it is not ringing.
- I hate it when I am in a supermarket and the shopping cart is pushed into me because the person behind me is (of course) on the phone. If you would not shout at the person he/she would not even realize that they push the cart into your ass.
- It is also extremely impolite to hang on the phone while paying at the counter and realizing that the wallet is on the bottom of the bag - it takes double the usual time but who cares about other people waiting behind you.
- Even worse is crossing the street while on the phone or standing in the middle of the road because the phone rings or stopping while going over a pedestrian crossing (I saw all this here).
- And what I think is really annoying - there you are out skiing and enjoying nature and silence just to realize that some people are standing somewhere and talking on a mobile phone.
And yeah I have a mobile phone ... I use it approximately twice a month - when my mum sends me an sms because she wants me to call her (we don't have a phone here).
My friends want me to get a Norwegian provider because they think it is hard to reach me - I tell them: it will not be better because the phone is at home and I will not bother taking it with me - period.
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