Did I die? Did I drop off the face of the earth? No. My life suddenly decided to go haywire, and I've just recovered from my too-little-time-induced brain melt-down. So I've hardly been online for what feels like weeks, only written a few little scraps of fic and other things in the margins of my lecture notes, and now I'm trying to get back on top ( Read more... )

The situation in my native Norwegian schools frightens me. It did when I was young and attending said schools, too, but now it frightens me to a much greater extent, since I understand the system behind what happens there. Behind the unintended suppression of talent.

Worried Norwegian papers ran a story this spring about gifted children being ( Read more... )

I came to the conclusion today that to me, happiness is a most counterproductive state of mind. Interesting.

You see, when I'm ever sad or depressed (a rare occurrence these days), or just plain emo, then my creative skills merely kick back to welcome sweet oblivion, and my need for social interaction shrivels up to nothing. I start going for long ( Read more... )