In Ballade.no, by J¯rgen Larsson: Criticism of TONO’s giving away Norweigan music without asking the bands, to celebrate their own birthday, when they sue bands for giving away their own music.

I don’t think I’ve ever been so tired in my life. I’m still tired, two days later, though I slept and slept last night. I’m exhausted. But hey! I did it! The defence was excellent. I was calm, and it wasn’t terrible […]

Wonderfully, I’m the proud auntie of a newborn niece, Nara, who was born at 3:42 this morning! She’s in Harstad, way up north, so sadly I won’t be able to see her until I get back from the States. My sister had […]

YAY!

I can’t decide whether to spend the next two hours frantically revising or deliberately relaxing. Whatever I do the whole PhD defence will be over soon. By my next blog post, actually.

If I hadn’t been preparing my defence I would currently be legally downloading Norwegian, copyrighted music for free from musikkonline.no. Dagbladet reminds me which bands and songs I might want, and kindly provides direct links. It is, truly, a strange way of […]

Survived part one: I officially passed my trial lecture. There were no questions, just a strange sort of end, but Marie-Laure said afterwards that she liked the golems 🙂 I even had a nice dinner with Lisbeth, Torill, Jesper and Marie-Laure, before […]

Therapy for the anxious young woman about to defend her PhD: Put on all the music that’s ever made you crazy happy, the older the better, the more memories of dancing with girlfriends the better, the more buoyant the words the better. […]

Today’s my trial lecture. At 4.30 pm. Tomorrow’s the actual defence. From 10.15 am till about 2 or 3 pm. Anyone who’s interested is welcome to come and listen; it’s in Auditorium B at Sydneshaugen. In Bergen. In Norway. But you’re not […]

My daughter’s got the flu and can’t go to school. It’s supposed to be my week (I’d worked out the sitter, me picking her up later, her hanging around before the party tomorrow night) and I felt so guilty asking her dad […]