Monday, March 31, 2003

No more slaughterhouse
Today was my last day at the slaughterhouse, and I can´t say I was sad to leave... I was offered more work there, but turned it down. I´m looking forward to concentrating on getting my thesis finished, it is no. 1 priority now. After that who knows. I have applied for a job in practice here in Reykjavík, but I don´t know if I´ll get it. I have been offered a research job for 5-7 months, but the pay is lousy, so I will only take it if everything else failes.

Friday, March 28, 2003

How to be hot in Iceland (the country)

This link was on my friendStína´s blog. I always find it fascinating to hear what impression foreigners get of the country and it´s inhabitants. I guess we all like to think we´re special.

Thursday, March 27, 2003

My favorite artist

At the moment is American painter Georgia O´Keefe. I saw an exhibition of her work in the Loisiana museum in Denmark a couple of years ago, and it made a big impression on me. I especially like the blown up/zoomed flower pictures and the desert findings.

Saturday, March 15, 2003

The feminist association of Iceland
Was present last night, and became a founding member of the feminist association in Iceland. It is about time that we bring new life to the issues of gender discrimination in our society. Afterwards I went to a coffee shop with my friend Herdís, and her 16 year old sister who joined us at the meeting. It was inspirational and fun to talk to a teenage girl, Herdís and I reminisced of our years at MR, the oldest college in Iceland. This year it´ll be 10 years since my graduation... It should be fun to attend a reunion.
How to make bathroom slippers out of Maxi pads
This had me in fits. Just goes to show how much creativity people have!

Friday, March 14, 2003

rantings
I just realised that I haven´t posted anything for 10 days. I had an accident at the slaughterhouse last tuesday, a rack fell on my face (actually it was my own damned fault), I got a nice bruise on my cheek and a small cut as well. It wasn´t that bad really, so I continued working with a big band-aid on my cheek (of course they don´t have any small ones!). By the evening I had a terrible headache from the blow (the rack was filled with ox hearts, probably around 50kg), and the next morning the small cut was infected, so I went to see the doctor to get me some penicillin. When I got home I bumped my head, and later that day my lips broke out in cold sores, so this has definately not been my lucky week! Today I feel tired and drained, plus my face hurts. I need a relaxing weekend, but I also need to work on my thesis or it will never be finished, so I guess I will not be doing any kind of relaxing for at least a couple of weeks...

Tuesday, March 04, 2003

I´m so tired

Fortunately I´m only working this god awful job two days a week for a month. Today was the second day this week and I´m home, I desperately need a shower, but I´m too tired at the moment to move from this chair. I wish I had a bath so I could soak for an hour in lovely warm water & bubbles. The next place I live needs to have a bathtub!

I have to drag myself to the citchen to make today´s traditional pea soup w. salted lamb meat. Read about this tradition here. Everything in Iceland seems to revolve around food these days, gluttony is all consuming, mmm. Yesterday was "buns day" and we all had some delicious puffy buns filled with fruit jam and whipped cream, topped with chokolate.

The weather has been unusually mild this winter, and it´s looking more and more like springtime. Any other year the ground would be covered in snow and we would all be freezing our butts off. However, It´s not over yet, we often have a bout of bad weather around easter. It´s getting lighter, and lighter in the morning. The sun comes up around 8 now and sets around 6pm, soon the days will get longer and we will have to put up the thick curtains in our bedrooms to be able to sleep. Gísli and I stood for a while in the garden last night watching a fantastic display of northern lights filling the sky right above our house, it looked so beautiful, it´s moments like these when you cherich living on the edge of the civilised world!