Icelanders

Me and Freyja went to town tonight to see two new Icelanders who just moved to town. One is studying at Leeds Uni, and the other one not. We went to Akbars and ate, then to Sela Bar, and saw some jazz while we drank beer and wine. Lana came to meet us and it was fun.

Manchester United Meber again

I just renewed my membership to Man-Utd and will be going to a few games before I go home. My hope is to get tickets to the Manu-Everton game. I will know in 10 days time. Annyhoo..aaaah crap. Blank...or writers block sounds better :)

Manchester United goal
Paul Scholes scores for Man Utd against FC Copenhagen... Shot from the South Stand at Old Trafford....by me

You Tube.

I just set up an account on YouTube so I can publish my videos. Here is my first one. Manchester Unted v FC Copenhagen, Paul Scholes scores.

New Look

Just trying a new look. Here is a picture from Manchester United v FC Copenhagen at Old Trafford, Oct. 17th. 2006

Thorunn and Sveinbjorn

Thorunn and Sveinbjorn came to visit us last weekend. It was fantastic to see some freinds, since we have been alone here in Leeds for over a year and have had no visits from any freinds. We met them at Manchester Airport, and took them to Leeds, and the day after we went to Manchester again, but this time to see a football match. England v Macedonia at Old Trafford. It was a boring game, but the everything around the match was fun, the people, atmoshpere and all that. We did some sightseeing in Machester before and after the game. Sunday was just shopping in Leeds and then we went to the movies and saw The Departed by Martin Scorsese, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Jack Nicholson, Matt Damon and many many others. Great movie. And as a result I am listening to the fantastic band, The Dropkick Murphys. We then went to Akbars to eat, a good Arabic place. The Monday went into more shopping and walking around the University area. That same day I picked up the flu and have been sick since. It was sad to see them leave.

The Gym

We went to the gym today for the first time since we came to the UK. It was fantastic I had forgotten how good it feels to work out. Yesterday we went to the Wike Ridge Golf club and tested the driving range there. My swing was rusty, but it was not as bad as I thought.....well.. kinda..it was shit. But so was Freyjas swing... But there where indications that we had done this before, and we have not forgotten it all. Both showed signs of earlyer form. We will go again, and then we will be better.

I will be posting a few images and reviews on concerts I have been to here in the UK, but to brag a little here is a picure of me, Freyja and Jeff Healey....a genius and an inspiration. See his website and Wikipeadia.

In the news...

Freinds leaving left and right. It is hard to say goodbye to freinds who are leaving to their home after finishing school. But we will survive. One of the Icelandic girls who was here, Lovisa told me that there are two new Icelanders here in Leeds now. I sent them an e-mail and one was eager to meet up, and the other one had no interest what so ever. But that is her choice. Annyhoo.. we went to Sheffield the other day and it was raining and the city is crap. I am teaching one man Icelandic once a week after Rory McTurk set that up for me. The ICS Newsletter is up and running again, and new people taking over, but I will have a hand in it until I leave Leeds. The new guy Tom, seems to be cool. And yes...we survived the Leeds tornado the other day, it ripped up trees and roofs in Harehills that is close to where I live. I have some video of the rain I took on my digital camera. I need to find a good place online to store small videos and images to use on the blog.

lets try again

After a loooong pause...I am blogging again. The reason for the absense is fist and foremost my work on my MA dissertation. After I handed that it, I was so tired of computers and had not will to write. But I have been getting the urge to start blogging again and the urge to write more. So here goes.

We both finished our work and are in that sense: "When we allow freedom to ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, "Free at last! free at last! thank God Almighty, we are free at last!" I took the liberty of quoting Martin Luther King and his I have a dream speech to show my feelings after finishing my hard work. Actually he has a point in this fantastic speech that you can see here.

Me and Freyja went to London last weekend. We met my brother that I had not seen for over a year, and it was nice not being on the damn sighseeing tour yet again. We had not tourist places to go and see, so we just hung out, and drank beer. We met my brother in front of the UBS bank on Liverpool Street and while he and his bank buddies went into the UBS bank to see some brokers, we went to the pub across the street, and the first thing we hear is Icelandic being spoken at the next table. Three Icelandic guys sat talking and what a conversation :) One of them was talking about a freind who walked into Rod Stewart while he was banging this chick in a bedroom and then he wanted the icelander kicked out. Then one of them wanted to revenge for his father, but we missed the whole story, but it sounded like something out of the Sopranos. Then they went and my brother walked into the pub just as they left. We had a few beers and I drank for Freyja as well. So after talking to my brother and his freinds and some other English bankers I was feeling ok, but after we walked out the beer started to kick in, and adding to my headache, and they painkiller I was eating to battle that, I was more than drowsy. :) So me and Freyja ended up eating Ben & Jerry's ice cream we bought on Leicester Square.

The Saturday was spent in Camden Town with Reynir Thor, and old freind of Freyjas who we met at a party in Leeds a few months back by a very strange coincidence. He showed us the Camden market, and we sat and drank beer and talked for hours and hours. Then in the evening we went to town to see my brother again, and the Icelandic candy he brought us, and we ended up at a chinise reisturant in Soho with him and two other Icelandic bankers. It was great.

The Sunday was simple, woke up late, went to the TATE Modern museum and saw some Picasso, Warhol, Kandinsky and so on... very arty and very touristy. Then we took the tube to Kings Cross and landed on our couch here in Leeds around 21.00

Thanks

Gunnar and Herdis. Freyja was happy to read you birthday greeting.

The day went ok, did nothing for a while, then we did some writing and around 9 we went to an Italian restaurant in Chapel Allerton. Had a very nice pizza there and a glass of Peroni, the Italian beer.

I am trying not to talk about terrorism and all that Middle East bullshit going on today. I am thinking about it every day and night, and in fact I am becoming somewhat of an expert on the subject. The main reason I am trying not to talk about it is that I probably will get boring if I dont talk about anything except terrorists.

But I just want to say that Al Qaeda does not exist as it did. It is now more an idea, or an ideaology. And one of the points in my essay will be that Bin Laden has lost the plot, and the control over his group in most aspects, simply because those who are taking control are more media savvy than he is. And he is good at playing the Western media.

The same thing is happening to parents who have kinds who are surpassing them in computer literacy. Next, we who claim to be able to work pretty well on a computer, will be surpassed by our children at the age of 13 when they are using programs and programing languages we dont even know about in a few years time. We will all turn into a computer illiterate dinosaurs. I love being optimistic :)

Freyja has a birthday

My girlfriend for the last 7 years has a birthday today. But she did a very common thing today. She was so unhappy about getting older and started crying. I had to comfort her by holding her, and letting her hold 3 teddy bears telling her that we are not old. Well, she stopped crying and became her happy self again. But it was soooo sweet.

Nancy Sinatra

is the person I have been listening to those last few days. The best of album is Awesome!! Lee Hazlewood is the man behind her, and he is fantastic. Here is a video with the two of them, a song that was voted to be the best duet in history.

It has been warmer in the city today then expected and I have had a hard time working in this heat. But the good news is that I got a reply from one of the people I sent questions to and it seems that I am going into the right direction. My research and way of thinking seems to be paying of. Now the issue is just to write it down.

Part of my dissertation....Al Qaeda doesnt exist as a group, just an idea, and the governments and the media keep telling us that there is a sophisticated group out there. When there is none.

Many things

Freyjas family came here, we went to London and just had fun here in Leeds, York and Manchester also.

Then I met Arnoddur and Harri who I know from Iceland. I met them in a small town called Keighley (pronounced Keithley) It was so much fun to see them, I have not seen any of my Icelandic friends since August last year.

Gunnar got married to Herdis and I was very dissapointed for not being there. But I have talked to Gunnar alot the last few days, and that has been quite nice.

Freyja has been working extremely hard at the lab for the last 10 weeks, and Lana stayed at our house for 2 weeks until she got her place up in Roundhay. Now she takes the bus past our house all the time, and we met up with her on a very warm night and had a beer at a Tapas bar in Chapel Allerton the other night.

The heat has been quite high, and now it is humid...that equals sweat. I have been very busy the last few weeks.

I have now finished my research and can start to write.

Guests arriving.

Freyja's parents and sisters are on their way for a visit. It will be fun, but hard at the same time since I have to study alot at the same time.

My dissertation is going ok. I have an extensive material and there are so many books and articles on it. My main problem is focusing down on a line of approach. But I think I have it now.

Next on my reading list is the Al Qaeda media strategy vs the USA media strategy. But I hope to talk to my supervisor early next week non the less. Need more focus. I have stopped searching for articles and stuff online, there is so much material there. I only have one book to buy and I am ready. Then just keep reading and putting stuff down on paper first.

I need to read about 30 articles more and 5 books. Then I am all done and ready for writing a good draft. Takes about a week to do so.

My battle plan is to finish a draft in about two and a half weeks. Because of the guests I wont be able to study as hard as I would like to, but...I as we usually say...Things will work out. Eda, thetta reddast.

The beer issue

Gunnar said...

It won't work. Buy your self a case of beer and keep it in the fridge. Then restrain your self from having any beer until the dissertation is finished. That is a very good pressure with a nice ending.

This was Gunnars reply to me question yesterday. I very good answer, but with one major flaw. Beer in England is liki water in Iceland. Almost free, at least compared to the beer prices at home. I have a case of beer and have had for a long time, but I dont drink beer at home usually, I go to the pub. I need stronger motivation people.....!!!

I can and will drink myself silly when the dissertaion is over. And a case of Carling beer for example is only about 10 pounds. That is a pretty cheap price for a MA dissertation. Good try Gni, but we need more ideas.

Out of print quota, shit have to walk all the way down to the library to buy more, and then back here to the Hauldsworth. Crap.

MA dissertation online?

I have been thinking about putting my work in progress online so people can follow it and at the same time I put pressure on myself to do well and do it quickly. What do you think?

Sunday is Brazil Day.

This is what I heard on TV yesterday, because Brazil are playing Australia in the World Cup today. But before that Freyja and me are going to the Farmers Market to buy jam, and some stuff before her parents come here for a visit next week. Then there is BBQ in the garden with our neighbours who are going back to Vietnam for the summer. And then Brazil is playing...and in the evening there is study and reading for MA project. Fun.. all planned to the detail.

Washing day

Not much happening today. Hot in Leeds. Around 25 degrees, but no sun.

Did our laundry, and in great volumes to. Towels, bed sheets, clothes... all of them almost. But it was nice, while the dryer was working, we just sat down outside and had a pint of beer at The Hub. Peetermans from Artois that do Stella Artoise beer and I liked it alot. Then we were supposed to go home to study, but postponed it for Sunday, and did what we wanted to do then. We went to town and bought a little bit of clothes Freyja needed, and two magazines.

Eidur Smari Gudjohnsen gone from Chelsea to Barcelona, hope he will do well there. Better there than at Chealski. All their Russian mafia money.

Books and money

I just spent hours in Borders and two Waterstone bookshops in Leeds today. I was looking at the political and media sections looking for books on terrorism. I bought 4 books. And today only was 15% discount in Waterstones, so I made some money...in that sense.

Heat

Hot... it was hot and humid, then the rainstorm came and things have been fine since then. Only about 20 degrees. Still warm though, but not searing hot.

We have I think a BBQ on Sunday, but I am not sure. The North-Vietnamise neighbours mentioned something about it, but their english has deterriorated since they came here. It was ok when they where only two, but then the third one moved in, and now I hardly understand them.

Did ok in my research for my MA dissertation yesterday and today. Will start reading when I get home, and then when Freyja gets home, the laundry must be done.

Then at 21.00 Brazil v Croatia in the World Cup.

I bought 3 magazines all with the same cover. Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was killed in Iraq, and Newsweek, Time and The Economist all have him on the cover. I will analyze this and see if it is critical or a part of the propaganda war between the US and Al-Qaeda. Perhaps even both, I read a part of the Newsweek article on this while I had lunch at The Opposite at noon, and they talk about him as being in part at least a product of the US Government, as the face of the enemy.

So again the US Government is killing their own Frankenstein monster, or Eliza Doolittle from Pygmalion (My Fair Lady), after her transformation from the poor cocney flower selling girl into BBC talking aristocrat, and then she would have been shot by Professor Higgins in the end. That would have caused quite a stir in the literary world at that time. But in reality this is how things are. Images created and then shot down with appropriate suicide bombings and murders that follow. It is a beutiful world out there, and everyone is happy and singing with flowers in their hair and so on and so forth... nice world out there isnt it?

It has begun......

The World Cup has begun. I will either watch the England vs Paraguay game at home, or at a pub or at Millennium Square on a huge screen wiht about 5000 people. Depends on when Freyja is done having a haircut. She and Antigoni will meet up in town to do some girly things. We will see...

Long time no blogg....

It finally happened.....

I just started bloggin again. Reasons... sligtly more time.

What has happened in my life since the last blog entry..

Went to Manchester United game with Eneya.

Then my parents came to visit. Went out for fancy dinners and drank white wine as my only fluid intake for 4 days. We all went to York, saw the fantastic York Minster and had some genuine fudge.

Finished my exams and essays. Only have my MA dissertation left. Went to see Eric Clapton in Manchester. Sat on 6th row infront of the stage... Here is a review of the show. Great show. Clapton is God.

Then here I am. It is hot in the city. 24 degrees and sunny. I think I will do something fun today....like....cleaning my computer. The desktop is a mess and I need more memory.

Lazy sunday afternoon

This has been one lazy Sunday afternoon. Freyja went to town with Antigoni and some other Greek girl, went shopping and having coffee and just having fun. While I sit here doing the ICS Newsletter that will be out on Tuesday. I had to order the book for my essay from Amazon to get it in time so I can finish my essay next Friday. The book is called Perpetual Contact, and is about mobile communications. My bright point of today was Bill and Teds Excellent Adventure. Still not as good as B&T Bogus Journey. Just gonna finish the newsletter and see how fast I can do it. I predict an hour. Wow...sad...writing just to write something. Perhaps I should get a beer. Or coffee. I dont know, I need help people...what do I need...?

Missed :(

Wayne Rooney broke his foot and is out of the world cup. Damn you Chelsea. Then I missed the Keiser Chiefs concert at the Millenium Square in Leeds. Sold out months ago. But I still wanted to see them, and was planing to go and listen somewhere outside the square, but Freyja has sore feet, after I bought her new shoes that gave her blisters. She started to use them barefooted, and that only leads to blisters. Very nice blue polka dot shows with white dots. Then I was tired also and fell asleep over Navy NCIS. Crap.. didnt even find the book I NEED from the library...I have to order it from Amazon to get it.

First day of school

The first day of school was yesterday, I did my presentation...see the blog before this one. And the Professor Taylor had his final lecture. I was so glad there isnt another one, because I am going to a Eric Clapton concert the same day the other lecture would have been.

Then some brilliant student suggested we go to the pub with Taylor, and he agreed. So we sat and had a few beers and chatted. Nice to out after being sick for 3 weeks.

I hope to finish my second essay for my core module on sunday. I am busy doing the newsletter. When I had to do the graphic design layout also, that did complicate things, I only hope people will like it. If not, well.....their problem :) Last time I saw Clapton was at the Royal Albert Hall in London in 1996 on a famous week journey with my freinds. Damn there was alot of beer in those hotel rooms.

Maybe I should tell my story, or our story Gunnar :) when an American paranoid lawyer accued us of sending bomb threats....to the Cumberland Hotel. I want a permission from you Gunnar before I do this en english :) How this is connected to Eric Clapton is another, but connected story... :) give me a few beers and I will tell....So prey I wont start blogging drunk. Damn that reminds me, I have a case of beer since Christmas and I have had about 3 beers from it. My drinking form is bad.

Finished a presentation

There will be some serious ranting going on here, and anyone a doing a Masters should read this.

I just did my presentation for Communication Revolution course. This group project was rather strange, because I was the only one in the group that did anything. I e-mailed my group on a monday, 8 days before the presentation was supposed to be. I asked them to submit some material I could use for OUR presentation. I have been a part of 3 other presentations by this group.

The first one was almost average, but it was only supposed to be 10 minutes, and it was closer to 20. I did my work on time, came prepared for the group meeting and everything. I was sadly the only one who did. And their idea of a group project was to sit for 3 hours and stare, and give me the blank gaze of non understanding. I was even trying to talk to those people and they drifted away, without replying or contibuting anything. I felt like I was back in pre school, where I used to teach. Kindergarden. If you are telling an autistic 4 year old who has no sense of cause and effect, not to do something, because he might get hurt. Well it was the same look og not understanding and "not giving a rats arse" about what they where doing. The group meeting was spent trying to do a powerpoint slideshow for a presentation nobody had researched, except me. It simply doesn't work. In the end, about half of the material in the presentation was my contribution to the group.

The second presentation was worse. I was an hour late because my electircity went nuts, and I had to call an electrician and could not make it to the meeting on time. Well after an hour, when I got there, they had not done anything. Not a single word had been spoken. Then they decided that this was enough and went their seprate ways. I emailed the group leader for that presentation my work, and after it had been in her mailbox for 5 days, she didn't use it. The presentation was total bullshit, about journalistic ethics and something like that. It didnt answer the question, it didnt even get close to the topic. I just sat there baffled, and looked ebit pissed off and more surprised because my material was devistatingly good arguments for out topic. The discussion was like a bad horror movie, mildly amusing, and a total waiste of time. People go to a horror movie and suddently figure out that it is so bad, it is actually funny. Then I managed to look Allison our teacher in the eye and demand to speak. I said about 4 sentences and managed to destroy the other group arguments wiht that. Then I asked the group leader, an african girl who never has the same hairdo from week to week, why she didnt use my material. The answer was simple, I didnt get it soon enought, I only checked my email an hour ago. She was expecting me to send it the same day I did sent it. Moron.

The third presentation was ok, specially since it was 90% mine. After a meeting, where both the Chinise girls showed up, and the hairdo african girl also, just before she simply stood up and said, I gots to go. And off she went, and I just sat and stared. The Chinise girls didnt know anything about the subject, and I had not read anything for this, but I knew lots about it from my studies here and my old degree, history. They sat and tryed the powerpoint trick again. Until I started to write an outline, a list of arguments to answer our seminar question for that presentation. The stopped and asked what I was doing, and I handed them the papar that I had been about a minute to write. That was the basis for the presentation. Then I typed up some material home and sent the group leader, a Chinise girl who shows up to meetings, and seems to at least to try sometimes. And finally, the presentation was mostly mine. Just before the lecture started the week before the seminar, I asked the other two african girls, who are both older than me, why they didnt show up to the meeting, but where just hanging around the library, because I saw them there just after the meeting ended. They said....get this.. "There were other people there to do the work". shit fucking hell....to quote Penn Jillette. I was so surprised, because I thought that freeriders like this only existed among undergraduate students who think more about drinking than studying. Is it fair that I do all the work for them? And the funny thing is that back in Africa, they have jobs, both as PR managers for the government and the other one for an NGO that works wiht the government. A PR person who misses meetings and is unable to do anything. No wonder the state of some nations there is bad. Call me prejudice, but I am pissed off just thinking about this. I am an easy going guy, I tend to think that this kind of attitude is the handycap of the person who has it, but it is frustrating at this level to have people getting away with freeriding, and having no ambition to a good job, leave that, to do anything. Expecting others to work for them. Takes the piss. Quoting Penn Jillette again... shit fucking hell. Bullshit.

Then the fourth presentation where I was the group leader. I did my presentation, and I even had a bet with Freyja, my girlfriend...she said that I would get one reply, and I said no reply, and I won. The class was funny, only the Chinise girl who sometimes does try showed up, and said she was sorry, she thought it was the next Tuesday after. But she still showed up for the seminar :) And Allison teacher said that she really appreciated me doing this by myself. I even got a nice ovation from the class after the presentation. And I defended my case against the opposing group alone also. Just like I did last time, where I defended our groups position alone, and even Allison joined the other group to be against me. After that class my ego was high, I did well then.

Finished an essay

I just handed in my essay today. I was ill and couldn't work much then. So I had to do double time, and when there is no time because of a deadline one has to listen to the Emperor in Star Wars....when he sent Darth Vader to kill everyone... he said... and I took that to heart... Do what must be done, and I did. And then I ran 20 red lights in his honor. I stayed up all night, and wrote and rewrote.

So the last time I slept was on the night between saturday and sunday, now it is monday, technically tuesday coz its after midnight. I am tired now. Freyja did an all nighter also.

Then me and Freyja went to Borders, our favourite book store here in Leeds, and I bumped into Gudni Elisson there, with his wife and baby. This is the second time I bump into him. First it was on a traffic island in front of the Parkinson steps at Uni. It was a little funny, because I just read an email from him today, and about 1,5 hours later I meet him. Very Icelandic to meet other Icelanders somewhere where they shouldn't be. We will meet up wiht Gudni soon and go to the pub or coffee house or something. I will write to him tomorrow.

I miss golf....I am getting the shakes...and have the feeling that heroin addicts feel the same way, but I have golf withdrawal syndrome.

I was listening to the Best of the Bee Gees, and wow what a band. The songs are awsome. I sat and listened for almost two hours doing nothing but focusing on listening. Great stuff.

Hunter S. Thompson

...just saved my life. I found a great interview with him where he describes the US media in the 9-11 aftermath... great stuff for my essay. The link is here. Journalist describing other journalists and porteying most of them as cowards.

Bistro place

Yesterday we went to this cool bistro place up in Chapel Allerton and we had pasta and burger. Carling beer of course. Today we watched Desperate housewifes, 24 and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. Between this we did some studying. My essay is forming in my head. I will read tomorrow also and then write on thursday and friday.

I sent an email to my study group, and I hope I get any response from them. Deadline for them to hand in material is friday. If nothing gets to me by then, I have no choice but to do the presentation on my own. If I dont get very good response from them I will ask the persons who did not contribute to leave the class room when I have my presentation. I hate freeriders. So far they have proved themselves as first class freeriders. Think about this....three of the girls did not show up for a Group meeting, and when asked why thy did not show up and who would do the work, they said....there where other people there, and calmly walked away. Is it just me or is something wrong with their work ethincs.

Ahhh to hell with it..

I am going to the pub. I need to get out of the house. One pint of Carling extra cold....

Pressure rising.

I am beginning to feel the pressure of deadlines closing in around me. I did not study for 3 weeks, and I know a doctors note can help, but not sure how. Maybe a deadline can be moved, but I am not sure how that will help me. I only have about a month to do my MA dissertation, until I hand in a final draft. That sucks, but I will pull it off. I will tell you about the betrayal later... I was betrayed by someone at the Office. The innocent writings about my boss last year.....I am to pissed off to write about it now, so the story will have to wait. Haukur knows it....

Yoda has spoken

After reading the words of wisdom from Yoda I decided to shape up and do something. Yoda by the way wrote in last posts, comments. My life has been colored brown by my illness :) I have not been able to study or go out or anything. Boring stuff. I got some antibiotics from the medicine man. Now all i can do is trust the force to work.

Stength flows from the force Yoda once said, and I am beginning to feel it. I started studying again today, although I didnt do much but it is a start. I am doing an essay on the media as nautral observers in global conflict as the media spokesmen say, or if they are in fact active participants and central to the war propoganda machine between the governments and the public. What do you think? Are the media nautral or are they taking part in conflict, for example the war on terror, or "the long war" as Dubbja Bush calls it.

I can feel the brain starting to work again, and then I have to think about Dubbja and his antics in Iran. Bush is not a Blues Brother. He is not on a mission from god, even though he likes to think so. It must be good to feel divine. I think that if I start to belive in Neo-Conservatism and do it devotedly I might get this feeling. Like a Morgan Spurlock experiment.

No spring

Sorry I was wrong. There is no spring, and never will be. Now I understand this English way of complaining about the weather. It sucks. Wintery showers. Hail and rain and snow and the temprature aroun 5 degrees... weird stuff. Annyhooo I just managed to get a food poisoning by eating a fucking chicking sandwich at fucking Burger Fuck-King in Manchester.

That ment I missed a Manchester United game I had tickets to. And my neigbours, a massive Man-Utd fans didnt understand me when I was offering them to buy the tickets. Fucking morons. I was doing them a favour. And they never take the trash bins out. It is beginning to look like Gufunes outside. But Freyja went down and told them in a bossy voice wiht her apron on and hands on her hips that this was not good enough.

They are from N-Vietnam have discustingly rich parents who are in the "party" and send them to a proper British "stiff upper lip" catholic school, and all I understand is this when they speak.....gweehaweshdt.. sesstskgi...wireless...and god bless you. This means that the wireless router is down. Fuck that.

I am getting better now I hope... Instead of frequent trips to the toilet in order not to soil myself I can now fart... And I love it. I am starting be like the Farting Preacher. Google him.

And piss off and fuck off.

....and ps. I am not in a bad mood. Just angry because. I think this anger lead to the dark side. And i am having withdrawl symptoms from not playing golf. I am thinking about my swing all the time now. If anger leads to the dark side, will I turn into a black (dark) golf player? And will that make me a better player because Tiger Woods is black, so he must be a dark side man.???

Spring is in the air

Spring is on its way. Suddenly the temprature went up to 15 degrees or something like that. After a loooong cold period. I am hoping this will stay like this. Need to do my essay...have nothing to say even though many things have happened, nothing memorable since I have forgotten everything. I dont know why I am writing this....I will hopefully have more to say next time....wow...this is one pathetic blog entry. Weather...essay....nothing. Ahh to hell with it.

Manchester United game

Me and Freyja just popped over to Manchester to see my heros in Man Utd beat Newcastle 2-0. Wayne Rooney with both goals. Man Utd should have slaughtered them, but missed so many open chances it was incredible. We had seets on the 4th row from the touchline, in line wiht the penalty box half ring. Great seats. All the subs did their warm ups just infront of us. And we saw the action live from close range. The funny part is to see a football game and know all the faces from tv. It is somewhat strange, because it almost feels like you know the players. And Ronaldo is alot taller than he looks. Rooney is actually slim :) The interaction between the players and the fans is fun to experience. Example of this is after Rooney scored two goals, and had a shot wide, all the Newcastle fans (who where great by the way, next to us in the stands) all started taunting him and he walked up to them and smiled at them, and they all let out a pooing sound, but not evil, but very freindly and slightly sarcastic. It was like Rooney was communicating wiht 2000 people at the same time. ET...Phone home.... and ps... Ruud Van Nistelrooey is incredibly cool, and he knows it.

The chosen one...part two

Well...This sounds all kinda cheesy... I get a letter from the secretary of the department, saying this...

------------ Dear Snorri, Dr. Sarikakis has chosen you as someone who might be kind enough to help the department with the marketing of its MA courses to potential future students. I am writing to you now to see if you would be willing to write a few sentences about: your impressions about one or more aspects of the MACS programme, your career or your learning, the academic community and teachers and a couple of lines about the university and the city. You may refer to something that particularly impressed you at the MACS and the things you most enjoyed doing/learning We are having a meeting on 2nd March to discuss aspects of marketing, so it would be good if you could respond by midday on Wednesday. ---------- That is ok, I can do that... but when people are looking for things like this, why dont the write their own e-mails? The first letter above is ok, but all my questions and correspondence go through the secretary, instead of Dr. S. Sounds rather like I am some test rat, to radioactive to touch. Or is it just the regular paranoia talking ... I need some Coreandir Anais tea...In fact I love the smell of herbal tea in the moring. It smells like,,...... like liquorice.

I am the chosen one...

I just started a newsletter for the ICS department MA students. But now the department head asked me to help market the ICS department and the Univ of Leeds. Waiting for more news... "It's good to be the king"... by the way.. who said that.

Sleeping in public places again...

Same thing happened to me again as my Starbucks adventure last week. I waited for Freyja again but now in a bar called D-Fusion. I got a cold pint of Fosters beer and sat down reading about the global conflicts over water in The Independent. But then I got sligtly sleepy, and was dozing off abit holding a phone in my hand and the beer on the table. I was not asleep, but dozing...I was mostly worrying that the staff at the bar would throw me out like a common drunk, even though I had only had 3 sips of the beer. But Freyja came and said that she had seen me sleeping against the window.

Jorvik Viking Festival

Just came back from the Jorvik Viking Festival. It was great to see York, beutiful city and the festival great. At the final show, the big Viking battle there were a few people talking, and they had T-shirts on, that said, "we are the best viking shows in England" being all negative and dissing the other Vikings for being unrealistic and stuff like that. This was depressing and I was very close to poiting out to them that they where simply pissed off for not being invited to this event.

Newsletter meeting tomorrow... lets see what happens.

My Starbucks adventure

Just came from school with a backpack and a bag full of books. Went to Starbucks on Briggate and ordered a medium black coffee...Medium coffee is biiiig. I was gonna wait for Freyja who just finished in about an hour. I came in opened a copy of The Times and started to read. Then I almost fell asleep, sat there almost slepping into a huge cup of coffee and an English newspaper. Felt good. Almost asleep, and trying to read and drink coffee and wait at the same time. I dont think anyone noticed...But after Freyja was longer at school than she expected, I had read The Times to bits. And the result is that i dont want more coffee today, and I am seriously thinking of downloading the new Neil Diamond album. That is weird.

The weekend of nothing

The weekend of nothing... I did nothing in my essay as I was supposed to do, but it is ok, I will start fresh on monday. Other than that Machester United lost against Liverpool in the FA cup. They never had a chance, no FA cup for them...nothing. Suffered over the game on TV, and saw Alan Smith break his foot. But not close up, just from a distance, so that was not as discusting as it could have been. He wont play for a year...nothing. Damn this is depressing. Lionel Ritchie speaking about his life on tv now, mentiones everything exept his drug abuse and violence against his wife. Beats her into nothing....sometimes into a pulp...when he is feeling generous. Freyja went this morning to the farmers market in Leeds city market, and I asked her to buy some honey sticks, but she came home with......you guess it.

ps.. I was thinking about going to see the Rolling Stones play, but the cheapest standing tickets are 40 pounds (stadium tour) and the better ones and the standing ones are 150 pounds. If that is not being robbed in broad daylight by old men who have not had a hit since before I was born, I dont know nothing.

The Wardrope

Just came home. Went with Freyja and Lana and Xun to The Wardrope. It was a jamsession, and we heard jazz, blues, funk and everything inbetween. Had a few beers and a great time. Yesterday me and Freyja went with Lana to the Roundhay Fox pub, for a traditional english Sunday roast. We will do both again as soon as possible. Other than that, not much to say... school busy and lots of work to be done. Snorri