Category Archives: My microcosmos

So, eh, umm…

By terje | Published: July 7, 2009
I succumbed to the dragon, and if any of you did too, we have an easier way of keeping in touch, yeah? In case you do later, I added the link to my blogroll.
Also posted in Ambiguity, Blogroll, Conflicting emotions, Discomfort, Links, Oh noes!, Pain, Panic, Paranoia, Pessimism, Scepticism, Why do I think anyone cares? | 9 Comments

An Update, Telegram Style

By terje | Published: July 7, 2009
Saw Athens with fun people. Loved it. Stayed home, wrote papers. Got bored. Visited Rome with nice persians. Hated leaving. Wrote paper. Worked. Bought tickets for Dinosaur Jr. Found out 6 months had passed. Wrote this post. Send more money.
Also posted in Bliss, Boredom, Conflicting emotions, Education, Gloating, Goosebumps!, Greek stuff, Hodge-podge rambling, Impressions, Language, Laziness, Lists, Love, Rant, Regret, This Blog, Why do I think anyone cares?, Winter, Wistfulness, Words | Leave a comment

The Awesome Epithets of European Nobility and Royalty, part 1

By terje | Published: March 30, 2009
General Introduction Whenever someone distinguished themselves in olden days, be it positively or negatively, it was customary to give them a nickname (also known as an epithet). Some of these are plain and dull (Haakon the Good, Louis the Pious), but some are more fascinating (Philip the Handsome (an epithet which sounds ridiculously more fun in [...]
Also posted in History, Roman stuff, The Awesome Epithets of European Nobility and Royalty | 3 Comments

A brief update

By terje | Published: March 24, 2009
As mentioned somewhere before, albeit probably on my ridiculously short-lived Norwegian blog, I didn’t have access to the Internet where I lived in Athens. I also tended to prioritise other stuff than blogging or the Net in general when I actually had access, and in combination with my well-known erratic posting habits recently, this has [...]
Posted in My microcosmos | 6 Comments

New blog! =D

By terje | Published: January 24, 2009
My travel blog is now up and running, over at Onkel Reisende Terje.
Also posted in Links | 3 Comments

YES! (And a call for assistance)

By terje | Published: December 4, 2008
Yesterday, I got got an e-mail notifying me that I have been accepted as a student at the Norwegian Institutes at Athens and Rome next semester! Along with about 20 other students from various Norwegian universities, I’ll be spending first six weeks, from January 26 to March 6, in Athens, followed by six weeks, [...]
Also posted in A Moistening of the Eyes, Bliss, Dumb luck, Education, Glee, Gloating, Goosebumps!, Gratitude, Great Expectations, Greek stuff, Help!, History, Hodge-podge rambling, Hope, Lists, Optimism, Pride, Roman stuff, Strategy/Plans, Whoa, Yay! | 24 Comments

An awesome coincident

By terje | Published: November 23, 2008
So I’m sitting in my room, working on my linguistics home exam, and I’m trying to explain why the verb paint in the sentence his father was painting a picture is not the same verb as the paint in the sentence his father never painted again, right? My line of resoning is the kind I [...]
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WALL-E

By terje | Published: September 20, 2008
As I went to see WALL-E (from now on Wall-E, as Nature abhors a shout, even though it’s supposed to be an acronym) last a couple of days ago, I was feeling highly ambiguous and thus also a bit scared. You see, my hopes for this movie were nothing short of astronomic, as just about [...]
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Not again!

By terje | Published: August 30, 2008
Shit. Here I turn my head for a second, and when I turn back towards the ‘net again, two months have passed. If I’d had a dollar for every time this has happened (or, perhaps more precise, for every time I’ve done this) in the last three years, I’d probably have… enough for a soda, anyway. So, [...]
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I still don’t quite believe my own eyes…

By terje | Published: August 29, 2008
Because of the extensive coverage of the American presidential election in the last couple of weeks, I’ve suddenly found myself wanting to see the complete West Wing series — of which I’ve seen the occasional season, but never the whole shebang. Subsequently, I go to Amazon.co.uk, search for “west wing”, and get this as one [...]
Also posted in Collections, Dumb luck, Glee, Great Expectations, Links, Procrastination, Recommendations, Revelations, Television stuff, Weird stuff, Whoa, Yay! | 14 Comments