Now remember why I haven´t applied for grad school yet: An impenetrable jungle of programs, research projects, instructions, begging... Simply producing an application is a major investment in time and money. Why don´t we get a degree for that??

Shit weather in Reykjavík today doesn´t help out. Yesterday was wonderful though, but that was yesterday.

Miss UNIS now. Nybyen that is, this remote part of remote Longyearbyen where all the UNIS students are packed into barracks formerly occupied by miners. Or, to be more precise, I miss the students. Here´s an example why:

Ove on the bathroom floor on a Saturday morning, head bent over open toilet bowl. Loud sounds. Ole, his best mate, stands in the door and grins: "On a scale from 1 to 10, how bad do you feel?" A muffled sound from the toilet: "Twenty-seven!"

Those were the days.