The sun is shining

The sun just hit my office window. This is pretty huge. First of all its been overcast for three or four weeks. But more importantly, its only 9 AM. Its also minus 9celcius outside, but that dosnt matter. The sun is in my eyes and I dont mind.

I’ve been quiet for a while. Several things have happened. First of all: the couple moved out.

This is huge, the couple moved out and we finally have an apartment again. Sigurd moved in, and so did an old friend of mine; Pål. Things are back in shape, and darn it, so am I.
Since Pål moved in I’ve been working out hard. I get up at 06.30 in the morning 2-3 days a week to work out before I go to work, and I do 2-3 other sessions after work. Pål just won the heavyweight title in the Norwegian Kickboxing cup, and is proving to be one heck of a personal trainer. yay me!

Else. Looking at graduate studies. I wont be heading back to the U.S. for it. If I where to go back it would be to try and get a job, and I wont. Not with teh current economy, it just wont be happening. Heck, its risky enough doing it here.

The financhial chrisis is still ravaging the lands. Governments all over the world are trying to help in any way they can, but I’m having a hard time seeing how ending up part-way government owned is going to benefitt anyone. Heck, most governments (Norway, the tiny speck excluded on thisone) dont have the liquidity to bail out all those companies business practices anyway.
Intersting times indeed.

And here I stand. A man now desilusioned with and by the system, thinking about graduate studies. I want to believe the current faceless stock is history. There’s no liability in it. By that I mean that all investors will go where the risk is smallest, and the payoff greatest. This will make CEO’s demand more of their middle managers, who again will demand more of their workers. Individuals in this system who try to act ethically and end up 20% under his or heir peers will be cut. It wont be the investors fault, they just wanted the best percentage. They didnt know. Its not the managers fault, they where following standard business procedures. And it wasnt the end employees fault.. they where just trying to stay alive.

In the end business become hulking machines of “want to grow” and “High profits” where nobody stands ethically liable for the monstrosities that the companies do. Western countries have the luxury of proclaiming laws, and in some cases even enforcing them, thereby forcing these countries abroad for the more shady parts of their business dealing. Underdeveloped corrupt economies are more than willing to sacrefice their workers for short term growth. Truly, we are only born as equal as the system that surounds us allows us to be.

Sorry about the rant. Putting it into words helps.

Ladies: No. I had to break up with a girl I wasnt dating over christmas and I decided thats a barrel of drama I can do without. It does help that I’ve been so preocupied with other things that I havent really missed any of it. Not the drama, nor anything else.

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When friends are hurting there’s few things I wouldnt give to help. When those friends are halfway across the world I feel helpless, and best wishes and cyberhugs just dont cut it.
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I checked a round trip ticket to Seatle. It was about 533$ Thats if I leave the same day I buy the ticket, and probably means I’d have to travel light.
That sounds good to me! I’d want to fill my bags up with shoes anyway :-p
(God! I sound like a girl! Its because I wear 14 W, and its IMPOSSIBLE to get that size in Norway. I swear. I’m not turning Poofy) Either that or I’ll have to bribe someone from the U.S. to buy me shoes and send them my way.