new and exiting things.

exiting, yes very exiting. this thing about me getting a portfolio request from Glascow seems to me quite a big deal and i want to share this with the world as the last thing i do before i go to sleep. exiting, because i finally see the end of one era and the beginning of another one. entering.
i want to sleep and in my sleepiness i can think of a few things to say about what i like in life.

1) when the light cuts in india and everything shuts down for a few seconds. why? because it shuts down my brain activity too. i think it's a bit like fainting, but i've never fainted so i don't know.
2) shane. because she knows that friends are not friends because you hang out with them but because when you don't hang out with them you know they're there.
3) music. i admit it. i like cheesy music. you see when i was younger i would listen to alternative music because i thought it would make me unique. i realized i would still be the same even though i revealed to the public that i know the lyrics to some celine dion songs. i do.
4) mail. good old letters. this might sound self(-)contradictory coming from a blogger, but nothing can beat the joy of meeting an excited krishna in the caf.
5) freely translated from 'for så høgt har eg elska': "it is exhausting to always live in a kind of restless exile. at some point we need to pretend to be at home in some geographical place. the problem of growing up in two different places is that wherever you are the people there will think that you are at home somewhere else. nobody thinks you'll stay for long, they think you want to go home to the others. i was always at home somewhere else." i feel at home in this and it's nicely written. that's why it's on this list.

i don't want to write a list of things i don't like. i'll save that for a day when i'm in a bad mood.
i can however tell you, maybe you have already gathered, i don't like capital letters. oh and to respond to shane's love for hyphens: how can you love such a fragmenting thing. it's beyond me. but maybe i'm just tired. good night.