tirsdag 24. august 2010

As time goes by..

Time is passing by so fast! In one way so much has happened, in another way it doesn't seem like anything have changed.
Quick resume of the past week events:

Dinner with Ida and her friend at the Prudential Center (the tallest building in Boston) with a great skyline view last Saturday. Not only did we have delicious food and great service we also witnessed a marriage proposal which was successful! The skybar was very elegant with a jazzband playing, dimmed lights and poshy old women sipping martinis. I bet Frank Sinatra would have loved it, so as you probably can understand I fitted right in.

Sunday I went to the Museum of Fine Arts after a quicky in the lab. I came right before they closed and skipped through all the boring history and went straight to beautiful exhibition on a fashion photographer for Vogue in the 50s and 60s, I really wanted the catalog but it was very expensive so I settled on a pin showing Audrey Hepburns eye. Very chic. Haha.

The rest of the week so filled with work. Nothing more to say if you're not really into molecular biology.

On Friday Janelle joined us from NY to go to Caryns friends birthday party. Janelle is the girl who also joined us on the duck tour and she is a lot of fun. Me, Caryn, Janelle, Daniella (Caryns other amazing friend, she has a lot of them) and Jen (the Black-Irish) went to this club called Sanctuary where this birthday girl had reserved a table. Here they had, like I've seen some other places, sugar-shots served in reagent tubes which you can buy to get that extra sugar-kick going on top of your drunkenness. We met this guy from Brazil which bought us 15 of those. Cool stuff.

On Saturday I met up with this girl I'm going to live with, because after a lot of weird and strange e-mails I have finally managed to get myself a new room/apartment. Its a little outside town and its going to take me much longer to get to work, but she is nice and I think it will work out good. In the evening I celebrated Idas birthday with her and her roommate by having a nice dinner at a seafood restaurant downtown. Later in the evening I met up with Janelle and Caryn and we went to the Donkey Show which is this crazy club/musical/theater/show based on clubs in the 70's. Its like a club with these crazy actors dressed as different characters from Studio 54 which after a while starts singing hits from the 70s. It was so FUN. I tried to take some pictures of it, but they were a bit dark but maybe you'll get a feel of it. The name the donkey show comes from a popular show in Tijuana which involves a donkey and, well, not a 70's musical to put it that way. Haha.

That was a quick summary of what I've been up to for the last week. Send me a summary of your week/weekends!
I miss you!

xxxo
One of the great views from the Prudential CenterAnother view, you can almost see my house!"Will you marry me?"
"Yes, I will!!Janelle and Daniella, not looking into the camera
Janelle, Caryn again avoiding the camera while Jen, the Black-Irish doesn't mind her picture taken
Ida and her free birthday cake!
Donkey show!
The courtyard behind my work

lørdag 14. august 2010

Hola!

I'm sorry for being sooo slow on updating my blog. I'm obviously not a hardcore-blogger. I've started working a lot more, its so fun so I don't mind working late. Also we have had cake four out of five days. Keep in mind that these people study diabetes!! Ironic or what. Anyway, I love ma pastries and have found a new favorite in the cake/cupcake red velvet, its red chocolate cake with carrotcake frosting (and a LOT of it), so good.
Everyone in the lab is really nice and there is a lot of people which makes it easier to ask every one of them stupid questions and not bothering one person.

Last weekend me and Caryn went to her friend Ronaldos MIT fraternity house, I'm posting some pictures of it here. It was exactly like in the movies. After that we went to this club called the Good Life which had some kind of break dance or old school night or something. Anyway, most of the people there looked like they came straight outta Fresh Prince in Bel Air, I mean, you people working at "Stress" trying to dress hip-hoppy, you haven't seen nuthin. I will try to post a video of one of the girls break dancing here, I also have a picture of the circle, try to notice the yo-hipsters in the background. Fun.

The rest of the weekend I worked, until Josse, my long lost Rognan friend came to visit us on Sunday. He had been in Peder and Danielles wedding and is going to tour the US and Canada. I haven't seen him in 8 years and it was so much fun. Of course on his last night we took him to Border Cafe, the margherita place, where Josse had his first "cocktail", then we went to Middlesex where there were some house-dj playing. Matt, my smoking neighbor, also came and we had a great night.

Yesterday, mr mongo and mr bongo (Niklas and Bea) broke into my Spotify account and made the worst playlist ever. They said they had sent it to all of my friends, so if you have received Margrethes all time best, I'm sorry, they're kids, don't go to hard on them.

New words I've learned lately:

WASH = White trash
Guidos = Italian Americans, the jersey shore type, just google image guido, you'll see what I mean
T = Too (can be used on everything; "its so T" like its too much.)

I had my first peanut butter and jelly sandwich the other day and I immediately fell in love with it. Scott however, felt that this wasn't the right kind of peanut butter and jelly sandwich for me and gave me some more "synthethic" ones. They were good although extremely synthetic. A pre made sandwich which you just thaw...its nothing natural about that, but who cares.

This weekend I'm home alone!! Yeey! No, its kind of sad actually, Caryn is in NY celebrating her friends birthday and Scott is going home to Cali soon. I have a date with Ida, my fellow Norwegian and I think I will work a little. I've begun to read the daily horoscope in the NY post, Anna Anka once said that this horoscope was the most correct one and its true!!! My horoscope this weekend said that I would be wise to relax this weekend because I would need all my strength for next week. So maybe I'll do that. Or maybe not...?

Song of the weekend: Big Boi - Shutterbug, I loved it for weeks now, I still love t, the album is amazing as well.


Peace out!





mandag 2. august 2010

Loser in 3D

A few months ago my dear friend Benedicte taught me a new joke. It went like this; Benedicte: What's this? (showing the loser sign on her forehead using three fingers),
Me: Loser?
Benedicte: No, loser in 3D.

I thought it was hilarious and apparently I was the only one. Out of the 20 people at home I told this joke to, only 10% (that is 2 people) thought it was funny, I was therefore nervous when I set out to introduce it to the US, however, I soon realized that it wasn't me there was anything wrong with as it became an instant hit. It maybe the most international joke ever. I'm thinking of copyrighting it and distributing it worldwide. Unfortunately, I didn't make up the joke and I don't know where it originated, Benedicte told me she heard it from someone else, so Benedicte if you're reading this; please help me out so that we can find this genious and share our fame and fortune with him/her?

Friday night I was at Daniellas 22nd birthday party! I was the oldest one there. As some of you may know I'm having a 25 year old crisis with death lurking around every corner and it got even more apparent when I was there. But as the night progressed I forgot all about the crisis and just went with the flow. I had a great time and I think Daniella had too, thank you for inviting me:)

On Sunday, me, Caryn and Caryns friend Janelle went on a Duck Tour. A Duck Tour is a touristy sightseeing tour which involves you getting in a painted car/van/boat/machinery and being driven around the city told fun facts about the history of Boston. At the end of the tour the car/van/boat/machinery goes into the water and is transformed into a real boat! It was incredibly fun! Caryn, Janelle and me all got these duck bills that made a duck noise when you blew into them!! SO FUNNY! We used ours actively and started communicating by these instead of talking. It should be noted that it was only us and an 8 year old boy who had this...Anyway, we also go to steer the boat, I had to manouver the boat through a bridge, this is not an easy task I tell you, I also got to drive for a long time compared to the others, I think it was because I was foreign.
Afterwords we went to brunch, I ordered the crispy calamari without knowing that crispy equals FRIED.

I am struggling to find another place to live from the 1st of September, it takes a lot of time and energy to write e-mails and check adds but I'm hoping it will pay off soon.
At work my new cells are looking splendid, I know I might sound nerdy but it made me so happy to see them on Sunday doubling away. Hopefully I can do things with them soon.

That's it for now. Please schedule me for skype-sessions!

Thank you Karoline for learning me about blogging, you're the best! I loved the picture from both wedding parties! I have another question for you: How do you get the Blog text (the blogspot text) another color?

Hugs, kiss and best wishes