To the Most Gorgeous Women on Tellus,
Hi all, and thanks for all the updates! Fun to hear from you and your “normal” lives. I am now back at Ås, south- east of Oslo, where I have embarked on my master’s degree in Economics and Resource Management at the University of Life Sciences ( aka UMB). Yes, two more years of school awaits me, but it dawned on me the other day that if everything goes accoring to plan, this was indeed my last long summer holiday… No more two months off ever again!!! And no sight of a wealthy man who can whisk me off to a paradise island and wipe all my worries away either…
This is not supposed to be a depressing letter, more a mere hello from me as it was about time I posted a note too. I hope y’ll are well and have recovered from the post- Aberdeen- blues. I take it that more than Marianne and me have read the Italian Alessandro’s email…? Let me know otherwise – it’s truly a lection in expressing emotions after some time abroad and declearing an ever-lasting love to those you met… …. ;)
I’d like to finish off with with the Modern Woman’s Guide for Living ( yes, they are copied and maybe some one recognizes them too?) and a little poem by a late Norwegian poet(ress).
Rule no 1: Never panic. Stop, breathe, think
Rule no 2: No one is thinking about you. They’re thinking about themselves, just like you. ( like when you are at a party standing all alone and wishing you had a spade so that you could start digging that infamous hole…)
Rule no 3: Never change haircut or colour before an important event
Rule no 4: Nothing is either as bad or as good as it seems
Rule no 5: Do as you would be done, e.g., thou shalt not kill
Rule no 6: It is better to buy one expensive thing that you really like than several cheap ones that you only quite like. ( Monsoon, here I come!)
Rule no 7: Hardly anything matters: If you get upset, ask yourself, “ Does it really matter?”
Rule no 8: The key to success lies in how you pick yourself from failure
Rule no 9: Be honest and kind
Rule no 10: Only buy clothes that make you feel like doing a small dance ( some ceilidh-steps!?)
Rule no 11: Trust your instincts, not your overactive imagination
Rule no 12: When overwhelmed by disaster, check if it’s really a disaster by doing the following. A) “Oh, fuck it” B) Look on the bright side and, it that doesn’t work, look on the funny side. If neither of the above works then maybe it is a disaster so turn to items 1 and 5.
Rule no 13: Don’t expect the world to be safe or life to be fair.
Rule no 14: Sometimes you just have to go with the flow
Rule no 15: Don’t regret anything. Remember there wasn’t anything else that could have happened, given who you were and the state of the world at that moment. The only thing you can change is the present, so learn from the past.
Rule no 16: If you start regretting something and thinking, “ I should have done…”, always add, “ but then I might have been run over by a lorry or blown up by a Aberdeenian seagull-manned torpedo”.
The Ant by Inger Hagerup
“Little? Me?
Far from it!
I am just large enough.
Fill my self completely; lenghtwise and across;
From top to bottom
Are you larger than yourself maybe?”
Ta-ta for now!
Ann-Kristin
This is not supposed to be a depressing letter, more a mere hello from me as it was about time I posted a note too. I hope y’ll are well and have recovered from the post- Aberdeen- blues. I take it that more than Marianne and me have read the Italian Alessandro’s email…? Let me know otherwise – it’s truly a lection in expressing emotions after some time abroad and declearing an ever-lasting love to those you met… …. ;)
I’d like to finish off with with the Modern Woman’s Guide for Living ( yes, they are copied and maybe some one recognizes them too?) and a little poem by a late Norwegian poet(ress).
Rule no 1: Never panic. Stop, breathe, think
Rule no 2: No one is thinking about you. They’re thinking about themselves, just like you. ( like when you are at a party standing all alone and wishing you had a spade so that you could start digging that infamous hole…)
Rule no 3: Never change haircut or colour before an important event
Rule no 4: Nothing is either as bad or as good as it seems
Rule no 5: Do as you would be done, e.g., thou shalt not kill
Rule no 6: It is better to buy one expensive thing that you really like than several cheap ones that you only quite like. ( Monsoon, here I come!)
Rule no 7: Hardly anything matters: If you get upset, ask yourself, “ Does it really matter?”
Rule no 8: The key to success lies in how you pick yourself from failure
Rule no 9: Be honest and kind
Rule no 10: Only buy clothes that make you feel like doing a small dance ( some ceilidh-steps!?)
Rule no 11: Trust your instincts, not your overactive imagination
Rule no 12: When overwhelmed by disaster, check if it’s really a disaster by doing the following. A) “Oh, fuck it” B) Look on the bright side and, it that doesn’t work, look on the funny side. If neither of the above works then maybe it is a disaster so turn to items 1 and 5.
Rule no 13: Don’t expect the world to be safe or life to be fair.
Rule no 14: Sometimes you just have to go with the flow
Rule no 15: Don’t regret anything. Remember there wasn’t anything else that could have happened, given who you were and the state of the world at that moment. The only thing you can change is the present, so learn from the past.
Rule no 16: If you start regretting something and thinking, “ I should have done…”, always add, “ but then I might have been run over by a lorry or blown up by a Aberdeenian seagull-manned torpedo”.
The Ant by Inger Hagerup
“Little? Me?
Far from it!
I am just large enough.
Fill my self completely; lenghtwise and across;
From top to bottom
Are you larger than yourself maybe?”
Ta-ta for now!
Ann-Kristin
posted by Marianne at 9:15 PM
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