My master thesis as a video if anyone is wondering what I am doing :)

Paris and Switzerland

A couple of weeks ago I was in Paris on a meeting in Arctic Materials talking a little about my work. Since I was down there anyway I descided to go and visit Anita in Geneva and Marianne and Andreas in Zurich. It was totally awsome to be back in Switzerland! If only for a very short while... I wanna go back more!!!

The reason I haven't been writing much on my blog lately is that I have a masterthesis I am supposed to write on instead. Apperently it's supposed to be more imporatant, and I now have 26 days left on it....

Total tower, Paris - where the meeting was. Cool building :)

Christer, me and Paris!

Next stop was at Anita in Geneva. She is doing her master on CERN, on a project called CLIC (Compact LInear Collider) (CERN likes fancy acronymes...) .

I have always imagined CERN to be really fancy and high tech, but seriously, the place is incredible ugly! This is Anita and Anitas lab building. And this style is the standard on the houses... It seems like all the money goes on research instead of fancy buildings... If you want to see som pictures from inside, check out Anitas blog, because I didn't get the chance to go down in the accelerater or anything unfortunatly.

I managed to get well planed and organized Anita to go with me on a unplaned impulive trip to Zurich :) We had an awsome train ride with picknic and view to the alps!

Good old beutiful Zurich seen from ETH.

Marianne, Andreas and me outside the church Grossmünster.

Back at Anitas place outside Geneva (actually in france), Anitas scottish flatmate made typical german food called Saumage (meaning pig stumack), wich actually was good! (I'm just glad he didn't make haggis..). A nice thing with visiting one of the geekiest places in both europe and usa (CERN & MIT) is that I get to compare which is more geeky :) Unfortunatly most people I met both places was more very nice and cool but just really smart than typically sterotypic geeky. I'm kind of disapointed! Where are all the wierd geeky people with thick glasses??

Fløtatind

This weekend me and Anette organized a ski and mountain club trip to Fløtatind. Campfire, sleep under the sky and awsome skiing!

Anette and Matias

Campfire and grilling

Nothing like waking up after a night under the stars!

I love wearing heels!

Going up

To this!

Group foto on the top

Anette

Matias

I have a plan for my life! (or at least for the next three years or something...)

I got accepted into grad school! I signed my contract today, I am going to do a phd in modeling of fracture... Gonna be fun! :) (yea, I know, it's geeky.... I'm officially beyond hope)

Financial cricis and grad school enrollment...

just another normal day....

Summerjob

A new summer job add for SINTEF applied mechanics and corrosion is out. Espesially I like this part:

We appreciate if you were enthusiastic, creative, curious, offensive, attentive, sensitive, infinitive, musical/unmusical, positive, adventurous, a bit crazy, and a dedicated fan of Brunkeberg, Gryllefjord, Innset, Kåfjordkameratene or Odd, whether it is football, hang gliding, biking, swimming, drowning or mountain climbing.

And ofcours this year it is with another story/poem by my supervicor Erling (yes, I know, it's awsomly geeky!):

Thy King said:
”Thou shallt not fracture under strain and hardship”
Thy Arctic Knight rides in shining armour

Thy steel glimmers in the moonlit sky

But the villain speaks of eldritch intentions

“Thy armour will crumble, it welds will yield”
Thy Knight crashes on ice paved ground

Thy armour ruptured, his soul broken
Thy fracture surface lies bare and naked

Telling tall tales of fate and misfortune

His last words uttered:

“Damn those evil MA-phases. I thought I was above the ductile-to-brittle transition temperature”

Thy King addresses his court of Lords:

“Good men, thy council has spoken, we crave for steels much better. Summon the masters of the trade. Thy villain will never find shelter again”

- Sire Erling Østby -

Translation:

MA-phases = brittle phases initianting fracture

Ductile-to-brittle transition = the temprature above where the material starts deforming before fracturing and we therefor avoid brittle fracture

Famous?

I kind of always wished that I would be so good in something it would make me just a little bit famous, not to much ofcourse, just a little. And now it seems like my climbing has taking me somewhere! In a way....

Coach course - Show what you can! Mari sitting in the rafter, I'm hanging upside down and Kristin spotting.... From the 50 years anniversary of the NTNUI climbing club in the student cabin (and yes, this poster is hanging around at uni...)

Actually it also turns out me, Kristin and Jake made it to a climbing blog about Yosemite this summer. This time, not for our great climbing either....
http://outdoors-adventures.org/camp4july2008.aspx

A quite perfect weekend

This weekend me, Matias, Gaute and Ian went to my familys cabin in Eresfjorden to ski a little. Which turned out to be quite absolutly perfect. Sunday we had sun and 50 cm powder, I can't possibly see what more I could want than that, good company and some nice mountains with perfect slope!

Ian, Gaute, Matias and me (I actually look taller than Matias! :) Skjorta in the background!

I did however from time to time during the weekend wonder why I bother to go skiing with three boys, that are:

• Smelly!
• Annoying
• Quarreling and discussing about everything
• Eating a LOT (and mostly crap...)
• And generally behave as 8 years old

Well....

But then again, they do:

• Break the track throung the deep powder snow!
• Teach me skiing better
• Fix my car
• Make bread :)
• Sing, because apparently singing while skiing makes you ski better

The number one reason to ski with guys :)

Matias version of packing light, skies and bread baking maschine....

And then ofcourse.... (I'm not really sure if this count as plus or minus... :)

And then there was the skiing! indescribable!

Gaute
Brothers everywhere raise your hands into the air

we're warriors, warriors of the World.

Like thunder from the sky sworn to fight and die

we're warriors, warriors of the World

(Manowars - Warriors of the world)

Ian dropping!



Gaute somewhere.... :)

Matias

An' if you wanna get high,

Close to the sky,

Welcome to the mountain!

(Bigbang - Welcome to the mountain)