Had my last exam yesterday, it was the toughest one this semester and it was the one exam I had been dreading. I managed to answer most of the questions, which should at least get me to pass the subject. I hope. I left the exam room feeling quite satisfied, although seriously relieved. It could have been worse. (Maybe its to early to say, but lets stay positive!)
So, now my summer holiday can start! As much as I want to laze (is that a word?) around at home with nothing to do but watch all the tv shows and movies I have put on hold, I know that won’t be the only thing keeping me busy this summer. These first couple of days and weeks will be pretty free, after that I will start working full time at my summer job (the one I am kind of tired of, but I don’t really have anything else lined up and, who am I kidding? I need the money).
Anyways, I am feeling such big relief and I cant wait to sit down and make a list of all the little things that I want to do and have been putting off because of my exams. Yay, for making lists!
... So, I made it through the holidays, where I visited relatives, got a serious case of being cold, having a fever, sore throat and all that goodness topped with some oh so awesome diarrhea.
I came back from my relatives, and a cant-be-named- chaotic country of millions, still a bit cold, and sick. Then I went back to work for a couple of days before my classes started (which starts this week). Realised I was sick of my current job, as I also started applying other places for a new summer job. While it is not realistic at the moment to get a new job I am still holding onto my current one, but it would be really nice to get a new job, I would like a change of environment and coworkers this summer... we'll see, though I am not overly optimistic about the prospects. Oh well, I know what you are thinking (without knowing where or what I do at this job I am complaining about though): I should be thankful to even have a job/summer job lined up.
Anyways, so the start of 2013 has been meh, meaning I have started planning this semester, school vise and other aspect-vise. I don't know why, but I am still super tired, and hungry!? all the time. So, right now it is probably good to get back to reality, classes and some routines.
Oh, and what is a new year without a new tv-show to obsess about right?
I came across, (after hearing about the show, and being excited a while ago) The Mindy project. And well, when you dig Mindy Kaling and you love her in the Office, and her book: "Why is everyone hanging out without me? And other concerns". You will love her new show. It is like a smart Kelly Kapoor character meets new girl meets Bridget jones with smart office humor with some curry. (lol, what?) The best part, Mindy Kaling is a writer and producer of the show, and from all the episodes I have seen of the Office which she co-wrote, I knew it wouldn't disappoint!
In the show, Mindy is a doctor, looking for love. I know, soooo original right? But, the show is super funny, and has its own unique charm and thus seems different from other similar "doctor" shows or comedies :) It is probably because of Mindys character being a indian, "plus-size", girly, ditz-but-doctor character (Something that has never been shown before?)... So, yeah. I like it.
One thing, I at least want to take with me from the show and into my own "life project" is not being afraid of being your self, however crazy you might be, being stronger and going after the things you want in life (lol, i know a comedy inspired me THIS much, trust me I get "insipiration" from the most random things so don't judge!).
Enough ranting. Enjoy this clip from the mindy project:
Ok, so after completing my second exam, one which I am not so happy with how turned out. I was literally seeing RED! Basically this is what made me irk!: There were two essay types of questions, where I was supposed to pick one. After picking the first one and completing the essay, I realized or I felt like I knew very little about the subject. I feel like my answers were more "general" ramblings on the subject rather then actually using facts and theories from our curriculum. What made the situation worse was realizing that the other alternative essay topic would have been a better choice, since I clearly remembered more relevant themes, theories and arguments around this subject. One might think I just should have went for the other alternative, but stop, there was a catch. I realized this startling fact when there was about one hour left of my exam. I could have tried to write a whole new essay, but at that point I just wanted to finish. Oh, and by the way (this might get gross, but I don't care!) I got my period during my exam -_-. Don't freak out, I was prepared so there was no bloodshed in the exam halls of Oslo university, not today at least.
So, yup. Hopefully some of my (what I think) pointless random bull*** will touch some bored professor, and at least, I hope and pray, let me pass the subject!
Anywho, I came home in a slight pessimistic-fml-mood, took a nap, listened to some Taylor Swift and voilà I (kind off) felt a bit better. I mean whats been eaten has been eaten (ah, my favorite Norwegian saying!). Yes, so I found some new Swifty music, and while watching one of her videos I suddenly wanted to wear red lipstick. I am probably catching on this red lipstick trend somewhat late(or?), but I have never been a fan of lipstick in general. It makes me think of 40 something year old women :/ So, I jumped out of bed, put some on and had some iphone+bathroom+mirror+emo-tween- fun!
Mmmkay, so to end this very "red" day, Ill shower you (whoever you are, even if you are my only reader, you know who you are :P) with some pictures of red lips!
... You start sabotaging your studying by doing the most random things!
At least for me, and for the third year now I have realized that there are certain activities I start picking up right before my exams come closer...
And when I say activities, I am talking about ONE particular activity that neither require much physical nor psychological effort. Guessed what it is yet?
Well, it is *drum roll please*.... Watching Gilmore girls reruns on tv! I weirdly start to slowly move towards the TV if I am at home studying before an exam at the exact time it comes on, and it is even weirder that it (still!) makes me soooo calm and happy. I don't even care what episode or season they are showing (As I have at least seen season 1 - 3 about 10000 times, not the rest of the seasons though... if your a Jess and Roy fan-girl like me you know why the rest of the seasons don't need obsessive re-watching...) I just overly enjoy the show, and usually strategically plan my "lunch break" around that time. What I am trying to say is that this is the third year and maybe, 3 semester? That I am turning to this habit right before my exams. Not only do I start watching it on TV.I also start reading Gilmore girls fanfiction "every" night before I go to sleep. So, I basically revisit those good memories of watching my all time favorite show during exam preparations, and I have summed up the reason for it (no need for professional therapy here!): It is freaking comforting! It takes me back to all the good times I spent watching the show, and it takes the exam nerves and stress away for the short period of time I spend watching the show or reading whatever fiction out there. The other day I even started watching fan videos on youtube... hah...
Once I also remember having a vivid dream of coming to one of my high school exams, where the exam paper asked me to describe and analyze my favorite TV-show (Hmm, what would I answer?!)!... Awww, they don't call them dreams for nothing :( Anyways! Exams are coming up, and at the end of December I will be done and then I can finally relax, get a hair cut, watch random shows and movies and slouch around without feeling guilty about school and so on... What about you (invisible people following my blog) what are your annoying/positive pre-exam habits?
Well. After not "blogging" for a while, I'm back (and guessing by the many comments people left for me I see that have been greatly missed... not. hah.). Anyways, the purpose of this blog for me was to air some of my day to day thoughts or whatever, so I guess I finally have something to rant about... Though I would be lying if I said that I haven't thought about stuff, trust me it is usually the opposite with me, I think about stuff way too much... The blog just hasn't been my outlet these last couple of months, and I have like I often do around fall, gotten stuck in a dont-wanna-talk-to-anyone-rut kind of mood... Ok, enough about that, I promise to however post a longer rant about some of the more deeper, darker stuff at some later time. Yay!
Back to the point, (surprise) I have found a new favorite TV-Show (Still to come on the blog: my list of fave-shows, wohoo!)The show is New girl and, well at first I was skeptical. I mean, a new American sitcom with a quirky girl living with three guys, I can't remember seeing an exact show like that but I still felt like I had seen this kind of plot a hundred times before. So you can add that initial thought with my general opinion of new shows which kind of goes like this: "ugh, I have seen enough comedy, teen dramas, scifi, romance etc. TV-shows , I don't need nor want to be obsessed with anything new, been there - done that, time to move on to more mature hobbies". On that last note, I have clearly failed. New girl turned out to be a pleasant surprise, the characters are well played and most importantly believable in their roles. It has yet not disappointed me in the comedy section and it is light. So it was just the kind of show I would want to watch right now, and I spent maybe under a month watching all of season 1 this summer.
My point being that I try not to start watching to many new shows, I am especially OVER new teen dramas, the vampire diaries, pretty little liars and so on, it don't fascinate me, sorry. Sci fi shows, I feel take to much concentration and dedication to actually follow (I mean I am still healing from watching LOST back in the day)! Now comedy shows and especially new comedy shows is something I am trying to catch up on, I still want to watch Modern Family, 30 rock, parks and recreation +++. And I am currently watching New girl, The office and community (when they come back for the season!) And not to mention Glee (which is its own genre I guess). SO, the point is yes, I am a huge tv nerd. I have cut back on watching TV, but when I find a good TV-show there is always a honeymoon period where I go into an online-fan-girl-stalker mode, downloading pictures and watching youtube videoes and so on...(if I just also made fan videos, chatted in fanforums and read spoilers daily you would have moi le year 2005 - 2009).
Rant over.
Now enjoy these lovely pics of the New girl cast and Hannah Simone, girl is super pretty and HOT (Major new girl crush!)
And also enjoy this awesomely funny videos of Max Greenfield as Scmidt (maybe my favorite character on the show? He's the funniest and most tolerable douche I have ever seen on TV, someone else would annoy me, deeply.
Tried to balance out the "hot"-girl-slouching-at-home pics with the more "elegant" ones... I guess you can see which ones got my attention atleast... Just don't have fit, cuz girl is fineeee! :P
Now some Schmidt!
So, does anyone watch New girl? If yes, why, if no, why? What other tv shows, new or old are peoples favorites? (Anyone ? lol)
Meaning some real quiet time with no obligations and no stress preparing for exams or such. Time and space to read other things than university assigned books, and time to properly relax. And of course I want to travel, preferably to a far away exotic country where there is nothing else to do than sleeping and walking around.
What I have planned and appointed myself to do instead is: WORK.
Last week I went away for a short trip to the UK. This was my first time traveling alone, and it was by plane and train (Oops, unintended rhyming, son!)
It was surprisingly easier that I had imagined (Might have to do with the very organized railroad system in London, and for the fact that English was the main language spoken everywhere.) So there I was, vividly reminded of the Harry Potter movies (You know, the 9 3/4 platform and awesome train coupes.)
Ok, so maybe it wasn't exactly like that, the train was more like the one in that Mr Bean movie, where he goes on a vacation...
The trip it self was nice. I got to shop a little, eat stuff and experience real windy and rainy English weather. It lasted for about 3 days (wow!) and would have been "perfect" if me and my friend's return route wasn't
f**** up by Ryanair's stupid rules and regulations about baggage and hand luggage. We basically were both fined because of minor deviations from their normal rules. And don't get me started on how unfair their hand luggage check is!I was one of four people (out of ca. 100 people) in line who had to put my suit case in that stupid luggage measurement thingy! And of course it was A BIT larger than the mold.
Anyways, lessons learned:
1. Always pack light. Especially if you are traveling with Rynair.
2. You don't need five different outfits for a three day long stay in a country where an umbrella is the most important item at hand. lol.
3. Weigh your baggage before sending it off (This one applies to my friend who sadly had to throw away a lot of stuff, rather than paying a lot of money to keep them :)
4. If you are not a superwoman/energizer-bunny-esque person, don't sign up to go to work 7.45 am the day after. At least not after having traveled on foot, train and plane for a day and a half. (Sleeping on the cold airport ground was not the best idea we had, though sleeping on a very comfortable couch at some airport cafe was "awesome".
5. Remember to set your phone on local time when your back home. I forgot this in the haze of wanting sleep, and ended up waking up later than planned and coming late to work.
So basically I am tired. And I have been ever since I finished my last exams after a somewhat alternative spring semester and after returning from that short trip to going straight to work. But I am feeling better today, thanks to sleeping in and after looking forward to a lazy weekend with only books to read and tv-shows to watch and most importantly sleep! So for the next seven weeks (with one week off) I will go to work everyday, putting on my best customer friendly face, and chatting awkwardly with my coworkers in between breaks...
... When id rather be doing more of this:
Pictures: google.com
Ps. I am grateful to be able to work and to earn some money, it is just that the timing this year kinda sucks. Thats all, now don't shoot me or label me as an ungrateful-brat...at least not yet. hah.
Ok. I don't know why I am posting this but it has to be said. Wtf. is wrong with beliebers (Justin Bieber fans) or more correctly wtf. is wrong with Norwegian beliebers (since I can't compare them to fans from other countries, as I have only had CLOSE encounters with the Oslo-beliebers). I have NEVER witnessed anything like this in my something twenty years here, so in other words: sh** got cray cray! (Sorry had to say it).
Apparantly JB came to Oslo this Wednesday with plans for a "secret" concert, that obviously didn't happen. I don't think JB knew beforehand that downtown Oslo (where he stayed and performed) is very small. So, what happened? Well, tweens from all over the country ran the streets like only 14 year old Bieber-fever-infected-zombies could for two days straight. School? Who cares. Mom and dad? Who? Food/water? Have had enough.
Even JB himself had to tweet the fans for them to stay calm, and to please listen to the police... o_O haha.
Anyways, I met my friend for ice cream yesterday (cover up, so we wouldn't have to admit that we were checking the madness out. lol. No really, atleast she did not want to go, hah.) and there they were, running, climbing, fighting with the police, tearing down barricades and so on. I honestly felt like I was in on of those zombie movies, the only difference being: No one wanted to bite YOU. The girls and the very few guys that were running around had a face only focused on JB himself. There were so much teenage hormones flying around everywhere. And their desperation was quite amusing to observe. Anyways, we did not stay long as it was impossible to get anywhere near the stage (that option was gone early that morning).
In defense of these tweens Ill say that they will never get to be THAT excited about something so "unimportant" ever again. (Pessimistic, yup). When you are 14 you don't really worry about stuff (exceptions do exist,of course) so for them it was that exciting. And I would probably have done the same thing, if I ever got to meet say Justin Timberlake when I was 14. I know I would, therefore I can't judge them either, though I do think tweens today vs. tweens from my "generation" act very differently. Theres more energy and less inhibitions amongst tweens today (I personally think, so no disrespect towards my own age group!). Maybe it is the hyper-techno music craze or all the milk and "leverpostei" (classic Norwegian food, to help kids grow) that has given them these zombie-like tactics... lol. Anyways, it was interesting to witness. And now Oslo can cool down again and wait for the next tween sensation to sweep the nation... (Please be The killers so I can atleast join in a bit in the festivities!! haha.)
So anyways, unfortunately I am sitting here writing a blog post about JB and his visit to Oslo and I blame my at the moment much too "empty" calender and less stressing situation than I have had in a while. Basically that equals more time to do nothing which again = more time to obsess over "petty" celebrity news. I guess I can enjoy it while it lasts, cause soon I will be starting working full time for about seven whole weeks and after that things will probably get more serious... Lets wait and see...and along the way enjoy lazy-crazy-no-obligation-days :)
In the meantime, enjoy this hilarious clip of how things have pretty much gone down in Oslo the last two days:
