The Sun Does Exist in Norway!

This morning, as the skies grew lighter, I saw a distinct lack of clouds. Contrary to what I thought was possible, there was an actual sunrise, with blue skies, birds chirping, and only clouds in the distance. It was beautiful. Lest you think the day is too perfect, it's still 33 degrees F. I count my blessings.

This was not actually the first time that I have seen the sun in Norway, I saw it for a brief window of 10 minutes yesterday. Then too, I thought I was imagining things. I thought the the shining object in the sky was perhaps a hallucination brought on by the stress of relocating to a far distant country. It turns out that Norway punished me for this line of thought, for thinking that I might actually deserve sun, by promptly starting to hail after the 10 minute window of sun had passed. Perhaps the mostly clear skies of today will be a prelude to an almighty blizzard. This is only what I've now been conditioned to believe.

While I talk about the sun and the lack of anything resembling good weather, it is because this is unusual for Trondheim. At least, according to someone in the building I am working in, this is the 2nd wettest September-October period Trondheim has ever recorded. That being the case, I am also realizing other things: Several times now I have been on the way to a meeting, or to school, and passed by something that I think, "I should really take a photo of that, I'll do it on th way back," only to find that on the way back it is pouring down rain and the last thing I want to do is stop for another minute outside to take a picture of something. The lesson here: if something would make an appealing picture at the time, take it then.

Sorry there are no pictures with this post, I will try and take some nice ones to share while I am out today, and post them in the next entry. I also must apologize for misleading you to think that you could all follow my other blog. It turns out that only those with a University of Washington net ID can access that page. I'll just have to share all that I am doing in the technical sense with this blog as well, and those that are uninterested will just have to bear with it. Don't worry about the other blog though, this is the good one.