1. Norway is really expensive! More expensive than Iceland. It’s a bit shocking. 2. It’s weird that I understand what all the signs say, and I can sorta read papers and magazines. But I can’t speak the language.Read more
I (Hrefna) am in Norway! As of today! Until Thursday morning! Why? Because I decided to be adventurous and gullible at the same time. The backstory is that last May, the managing director of RHnet (they have an astoundingly bare-bones website) contacted me seeking my assistance with a couple of conferences on networks (the data kind, notRead more
Today is the day Bjarki and Reynir should have been born. They weren’t so lucky, yadda-yadda-yadda, and that was that. If they had been born today though, they would have been four years old, and not four years and three months old. Which won’t matter much down the line, but during this age it stillRead more
After a remarkably dry fall, rain is now upon us. Today was the first day I biked home in solid rain the whole way home (35ish mins). I therefore found it fitting to post some wetness-related pics.Read more
The university has been in session now for a month (give or take a few days). In that time, things have slowly gotten up to speed, and I think it’s safe to say that things are in full swing by now. There is never a dull moment, that’s for sure! I think the best adjectiveRead more
When we bought our house, we assumed that we’d be keeping the green/blue/gray-ish tinted accent-wall in the living room. It looked like a nice color, that would go well with everything. Then we moved in and it turned out that our sofas and that wall had precious little in common, which was unfortunate, since one ofRead more
A season of change is upon us. Fall. Autumn. The leaves have started turning yellow and red. Today was the first of the winter storms, with lots of rain and strong winds. Thankfully both seemed to have calmed down this evening, or I would be in serious trouble biking to work tomorrow morning. In spiteRead more
Some decades ago, Icelanders discovered that certain poplar trees (aspir, see for example Populus trichocarpa) grew very quickly even on wind-crazed bare land and as a result they were planted everywhere. These days people have started to view the poplars as almost weeds in habituated areas, because they have insane roots, and will spawn other poplars using theirRead more
Tonight was the first evening I’ve had to do work this semester – and that was only because this day turned out to be entirely packed with meetings and interesting lectures. I learnt for example that there are very few female professors in the medical department, and that when one of the first women doctorsRead more
The Sunday was just beeeaaaauuuuttttiiiiffffuuul! 🙂 I think we most definitely got a small taste of “indian summer”, which was nice just before the winter hits the fan. My main project of the day was tending to some trees we’d planted 15 years ago or so. These were trees that had been planted densely inRead more
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