We went on a trip to the fjords on Saturday, and we were super lucky, because it has basically been raining for the whole of September, but the weather on Saturday was amazing.

This waterfall is pretty amazing – there is a little road behind the waterfall, so you can walk under it. Not the easiest thing to photograph, but really beautiful 🙂

This is what you do: You take a couple of Japanese people and stuff them in a car together with your very nice mother, and then you head for the fjords! We had a great day on Saturday, and more pictures of the actual fjords and waterfalls will be posted as soon as I have time to edit them. For now, here are a couple of shorts of yours truly + company.

Yes, it is true, Japanese people always take outrageous pictures when they are sightseeing. I was worried that they might fall in the water, but I figured they could probably swim, so I crossed my fingers and everything went fine! And they even got new pictures for their facebook profile 😉

Hiya mom!

I saw a couple of these guys in front of the house. This particular picture is older, but I am pretty sure it is the same guy. It was late when I saw him and a couple of friends this time around, so I didn’t dare to approach them, because wow, they look so much bigger in real life than in pictures!

So, I guess I can conclude that September was an awful month blogging wise, but university-wise it is going grand! I hope I can find more time for this place now in October, I really miss blogging. I have gathered up at least 20 links, I just need to sit down, type them out and tell you about what makes all of my little internet finds awesome.

I feel really lucky right now – the rain was pouring down for most of the month, everything was dark and dull, but lo and behold – the sun has peaked out for the past three days in a row – and that alone is enough to make me feel happy as a bird with a french fry.

Hope you all are doing alright this autumn, hang in there even though the days get shorter. Apart from school work, I am filling my days with amazing coffee, good people and a little bit of wine. Now I am of to town to spend a couple of hours with beautiful people and gossip about our week! Cheers and g’night!

Want to know the common element for the entire group?… I’ll tell you the answer: I’ll tell you, ’cause I had that one. I had that question… Carbon. Carbon. In pencil lead, it’s in the form of graphite and in coal, it’s mixed up with other impurities and in the diamond it’s in hard form.

I am writing on my papers, watching clips from Magnolia in the background (saving the best part with the falling frogs until I am done with at least one big chunk of work). Everything is going like it is suppose to go. The rain is falling, like it is suppose to do, every single day. However, saying that I am enjoy philosophy class would be an overstatement. I feel it is fluffy and unclear, maybe I am reading too much or too little into it, not quite sure if I understand the content on the pages, or if the words just accumulate in my head as well, words. I prefer more concrete, tangible things. I wish that my philosophy course was more like this and this. (I haven’t watched Monty Python in years, but I am making an exception today.)

Japan. Obviously. I haven’t had much inspiration to blog, my weeks are filled with deadlines and classes, and despite having a million things I want to share on the internet, like nice links and pretty pictures, I just haven’t felt any inspiration to actually log into wordpress and put thoughts, pictures and links on the screen. Right now, I am thinking that it is 84 days until I…

… have made yet another trip around half the globe…

And walking through the little side streets in Shinjuku, looking for food and fun things.

I really miss the inside of Lumine Est, I love their dining floor. (If you are ever there, all-you-can-eat-chinese-buffet, 2500yen, just a tip!)

I am looking forward to see pretty manholes and get lost in Akihabara again.

Or jump on the Shinkansen, just because I can, and see someplace new. Or spot Mt. Fuji in the distance.

And find small ryokans and places to rest for the night, Japanese-style breakfast included.

Right now, what I probably miss most of all, is that clear September light that used to fill the room everyday, and the small shrines right next to busy streets with tons of people dressed to the max in expensive suits.

I haven’t drawn anything in ages, because well, I can not bring myself to sit down and just doodle when I have a million other more important things to do, but here is a small one for now.

Every time I think things will slow down, they just speed up up up. I think I have to start accepting the fact that life will not slow down again. Come to think of it, it isn’t the worst situation to be in, I feel at my happiest when I am busy and have more than enough tings to do. Right now I am trying to make space in my evenings, at least a 10 minute break every day enjoying avocado and fake caviar, it is a fabulous combo, and you should try it as well.

Okokok, what do you do when you have deadlines and homework? Listen to cute Japanese birds on youtube singing the totoro-song. Obviously. Have a great Sunday, everybody! Remember to take a break every now and then and listen to pointless bird chatter, it’s good for the soul!

Packing and repacking, finding tidbits of memories, things.

The difference between being a student now and earlier? A prominent difference has been the increase in the size of the goodie bag. I remember the day, many moons ago, when I was offered a paper diary filled with commercials, a sanitary pad and a pack of noodles, I politely said thank you, but no thank you. But this year, oh boy, look at what was in the bag this year! Real products. I never cared about free handouts, because I figure there is no such thing as a free lunch, but I actually got excited about the amount of things they had stacked in this bag. I can not remember the last time I ate chocolate, but yesterday I finally did eat a piece. And it actually wasn’t too bad.

asdjhf; completely unrelated. I wanted to make sashimi for dinner, but I went to three (THREE, 3) grocery stores without finding cilantro (koriander?). I need it for the sauce. Where can I buy cilantro? I need the fresh kind. Cilantro isn’t that common in Tokyo, but I thought it was used pretty regularly in Norway? I feel like I have seen cilantro plants around, but I can not remember where. If I wasn’t such a klutz with plants, I would make a herb garden in my window. Sigh.