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Over the last couple of days I've been preoccupied by gingerbread cookies..urhm.. You know what I mean..
As I at some point was an engineering-student, I still find matters up that alley interesting, and when I found that the Norwegian Bureau for Buildings- and safety published instructions on how to construct the purrfect gingerbread-house (found here http://www.sintef.no/Byggforsk/Nyheter/Unnga-byggskader--bak-pepperkakehus-etter-forskriftene/), I simply HAD to see how it would hold up in practice..
Of course, I engaged my so-often accomplice in this matter and we scheduled the erection of the structure to be this weekend.
As she is actually an engineer, buildings are even her speciality, I thought she'd be fit for the task.


I followed the instructions on how to make the dough to perfection. Or not exactly. I doubled it. Expecting, after many previous attempts, failure.
My accomplice claims she did so too, but for some reason, hers ended up way to dry.. So dry, in fact, it crumbled.. Cookies are supposed to crumble, not the cookie dough..
However.. It turned out, that since I'd been lucky with my doug AND made a double batch, it was no crisis..
With only half the dough spend, we'd managed to build 2 houses.. Or managed to perfectly and meticulously cut out perfect pieces of house, and then bake them to perfection.
Assembly was done fearfully, as hot,melted sugar is something like edible Napalm - sticky and burning..
Unfortunately, the measuring, meticulousness or other attempts to be accurate did not pay of... the chimney still didn't fit in the end. Despite the fact that we followed the instructions to every last point.
Im disappointed! what has the world come to?Why publish inaccurate gingerbread house building instructions?! Imma gonna let them know at SINTEF!
Nevertheless, we managed to assemble the structure, and when it was done, we had a massive amount of dough left.. "What to do?" we thought.. what to do indeed..
See what we ended up doing ;)

Revival!!

...Oh wait.. sounds like some religious thing.. Although Id love for my few readers to be religious about me, I realize thats not really healthy in anyway..
Anywho..It's alive again. The blog.
Just wait for it ;)

New blog adress: http://luskelurk.com/

I have moved my blog to another page
http://luskelurk.com/

Phew!

Friday, I finally finished my pharmacology, 6 months or so overdue. Wonderfull to finally get it off my shoulders! As I went in for the examination i was quite terrified, nobody in my class had had the examinator I was having, and I was completely in the blind on what to expect. Luckily, it all went well and i can now focus on the subjects i neglected for the past weeks in order to stuff my head with pharma.
As the Friday was also the day of of the Norwegian's  "Russefest", the timing to pass an exam couldn't have been better;Sand volleyball games, barbecue, cheap beer, 2 concerts with student-bands,  annoying technomusic designed for 18-year olds about to finish 13 years of more or less compulsory education, perfect, mild weather and a huge bonfire in the late hours.
As the day grew older, the sun gradually sank down behind the mountains, and the mild breeze resulting from it swept across my face, I think i felt a hint of bliss; In 4,5 weeks I'm going home to Norway for the summer, to relax and to enjoy times like this without having to worry about school next week and all the exam-questions I really should be doing instead of indulging. The very special feeling in those early summer nights, when each night still gets a bit longer than the night before really do serve as  good motivator to finnish all the exams as fast as possible, go home and savour the freedom!

sand- volleyball, friends jumping, and the last picture still makes me wonder what i tried to take a picture of.. I see a glass of beer, and part of my jacket, so maybe a combination of the 2 ? Or maybe something completely different?

Not only did I get to celebrate the russefest,I also got to celebrate Anicka's b-day yesterday :) I know she's completely mad about Poodles, moomin and iq-games, and since she already has a poodle, moomins are hard to come by in Slovakistan, i got her an Iq-toy. I felt quite stupid when she opened it, as she seemed to solve it in less than 10 seconds, even though i spent time finding the absolutely most difficult one: Its one of those games made of wooden pieces that are supposed to fit in a wooden box so that you can put the lid on it. Turns out she only solved the one part and forgot about the lid. Hopefully she will spend a little bit longer solving the whole game (i'm guessing 2 mins).

Besides me being there, there were other people there too :P (figures, I know :P), and we all had a great time, all of us. Even though I've had my cam for half a year now, I'm still not used to have one, and such miss a lot of the "kodak-moments", as I did yesterday :P I guess it came from all the people having so much fun and just enjoying themselves. I'm really happy Anicka had a really great time and got to celebrate it the way b-days are supposed to be celebrated. Shame I had to go before the cake (if there was one? )

I said I missed a lot of the kodak-moments, but i still managed to catch some of them :

Dunno what i was trying to illustrate here, but i think it might have been big.. or?

I really love this picture! Often when you order coffe here in Martin, you get nice cookies with it, and last night we did. I, having eaten a whooooole brownie before the party only had coffes. However, i did not settle with only 1, i think I had 4, hence 4 cookies.
As I was still on a sugar high, I passed them on to my friend, and after a while he got a bit to much sugar: he wanted to take his wifes cake too; she didn't want it, but there was no way he was getting either :P

Paracetamoxyfrusebendroneomycin

This just about sums up how I feel, and why I feel the way that i do about pharmacology..

I know I'm not supposed to write anything here, especially since I should be immersed in pharmacological mechanisms of actions, vasodilators, antiepileptics and so on. However, as I had a short break, and was lurking around on the wonderful world wide web, I could not help but to notice that two of my friends both have written posts about friends just recently, and it god me inspired. to write about friendship:) 

I really appreciate my friends, but sometimes I am not very good at telling them that. Sometimes I get too immersed in something I'm doing, and totally forget about the "outside world" including my friends. You might say I take absentmindedness to a new level. Sometimes i forget all about them for just a bit too long, and it goes awkward when i try to recontact them, my excuse being "I was to busy with my head" Sounds like a mental diagnosis, right? And I get the awkwardness, I mean, usually, when people stop speaking to you for 2 months pr so, you assume that there sis something wrong somewhere.
Luckily most of my friends have gotten used to this by now, and just ignore this little fact.
Anyways, I was not planning to write a post about my absentmindedness; I wanted to write something about how much I really appreciate those I have.

When living most of the year in country that isn't yours, away from your "old" social network and family, you do get more dependent on your friends. When I get upset, I cannot just run home to mum to tell the tales of all my  woes; I would take too long, and I would've forgotten and suppressed all the things bothering me :P

(and yes, of course, I have both skype and msn, but one cannot expect ppl to sit in front of skype the whole day

 and wait for you to call).

Of course, having friends have other advantages to, don't think for a moment that the only advantage I see in friendship, is that I have someone to complain to!

Anyways, being down here, far away from home and the safe surroundings there, being surrounded by the constant stress of studying medicine makes you a bit more dependent on good friends than you otherwise  might be.

So, maybe not very poetic about friendship, but what I want to say is that i really appreciate all of my friends, even though I'm not the best to tell them that, or to keep in touch.