[Written 14 October 2012] Just thought I’d post a couple of pictures from Bjarki’s ‘Sport-School‘. He started attending one on the west side of town a few months after we moved to Iceland to help with his (preemie-related?) unsure gross motor skills, and since he’s really enjoyed it, we’ve kept attending ever since. Sadly itRead more
[Written 12 October 2012]
Last year, when I was still in a mood to say ‘yes’ to most everything, I agreed to be on the ‘Program Committee‘ of the 27th NORDUnet Conference, to be held in Oslo on 18-20 September 2012, serving as the ‘Icelandic delegate’. (NORDUnet is: “a joint collaboration by the 5 Nordic National Research and Education Networks in Denmark (Forskningsnettet), Finland (Funet), Iceland (RHnet), Norway (Uninett) and Sweden (SUNET) and operates a world-class Nordic and International network and eInfrastructure service for the Nordic research and educational community.”)
I am of course pretty clueless about both networks and eInfrastructure, but probably know more than the average Joanne, so I figured I’d say yes and see what would happen. Mostly I got to meet interesting and pretty cool people, read over a few abstracts, but most importantly, travel for free twice to Oslo, and once to Copenhagen, neither of which I’d ever visited before!
Anyway, fast forward a year from saying yes, and the conference itself was about to begin. One of my duties as an organizer was to ‘chair’ a couple of sessions (The Data Deluge, and Campus Issues 1) so to Oslo I went. (Being a ‘chair’ means you introduce the next speaker, and then watch the clock and tell them when time is running out. That’s it.)
Monday 17 September 2012
For a span of 24 hours Finnur was in England and I was in Norway, and the kids were in Iceland! Thank goodness for grandparents!! 🙂
[Written 27. September 2012] On Saturday, 15. September 2012, Finnur took off at dawn with some of his buddies to fly to England to worship their football-gods. The morning went pretty much as planned, I took Bjarki to his sports-school session before lunch while Anna disappeared to visit a friend. After lunch I took theRead more
[Written 27. September 2012] I’d say that the week starting on 3. September was the the week when I started ‘waking up’ from my pregnancy-induced slumber for ‘realz’. Which means that weeks 6-16 were pretty much a wash. That started an era of doing multiple things per day at home, I even joined a ratherRead more
Anna had a cast-removal appointment yesterday morning, but 30 minutes before she was due to arrive, I got a call from school saying she’d just vomited all over the floor. Once I’d brought her home, I called the hospital, and the lady there told us to just come whenever she was well again. Anna spentRead more
My brother Pétur and his fiance, Signý, very kindly invited us to see Peter and the Wolf, as performed by the Icelandic Symphony Orchestra and a puppeteer in Harpa. I was too wrapped up in the show to record a video until the very end. I tried to catch the kids on video, but failedRead more
Saw the midwife this morning. Nothing much to report except that she did find a heartbeat that most certainly isn’t mine, so that’s a good thing. My blood pressure reading wasn’t terrible either (115/87, although I’m not sure I buy the top number) considering that my insides were feeling like I was about to goRead more
So it’s raining again today, which is fine by me. But it did put a little damper on the whole ‘let’s bike to the swimming pool’-mood, so instead I pulled forth… I may have been secretly jazzed that I can still squat for a good while, probably thanks to all that prenatal yoga I didRead more
Finnur and I had a very relaxing Sunday, which translates into us being the very laziest and worst parents ever. Anna was clever enough to disappear out the door at 11 am to a neighborhood friend of hers, and we only saw short glimpses of her until we summoned her home at 5 pm. BjarkiRead more
A couple of days ago Finnur caught the nasty cold bug that’s now claimed all of us sequentially and he’s looking pretty useless. I’m hoping he shakes it though because the weather service claims tomorrow might be the last dry day for a while, and we have a lot of fencing that still needs staining.Read more