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Last week, when I was out with girls, Anita told me you have to wear something Norwegian for your thesis defence...what about byTiMo, it's just perfect for you! I hadn't really heard about it before, but she showed me their Instagram account, and I could see why she thought I needed something (or more) from them 😉
On Saturday, when Anders and I were out, being a couple, drinking wine, and shopping for the 17th of May, we stumbled across by TiMO on Byporten (I had no idea they had a shop there), and of course I had to go in. Anita was so right, and I ended up with two dresses (Anders got me one of them, since I had trouble deciding, and he thought I looked good in both <3). The one on the pictures here was perfect for 17th of May, and luckily we had the most fantastic weather yesterday, and the other one is a dress that may actually be suitable for my thesis defence (the day will come...). I won't show you the other one yet, since if I'll use for my thesis defence, then I sort of want it to be a little bit of a surprise.

Here are some snapshots from yesterday - needless to say, I think; I love my new, beautiful, pink, flowery dress <3 

me an my dad
Today I've had a good chat with Sunniva (supervisor), about the layout I've made so far for my PhD thesis, and about some plans I have about writing another article - which will be more of a "popular" type of article. She was all for it, and she was also very enthusiastic about the work I've done with my thesis (which is not at all much, but at least I've started)!

Today hasn't been the best day, and it's totally my fault:
Or, the headache (which is finally gone) was just my own fault, but Anders left for a conference at half past four this morning, and therefore I didn't get any coffee to wake me up (he makes me coffee in bed every day <3), and it was really hard to get out of bed, and also I miss him (no, it's not the end of the world - he's coming back tomorrow night again), so those reasons are not something I'm in charge of.
But yesterday was a fun day; so fun, that I woke up with a headache this morning...:P
First part of the day was of course at the office, and I had a nice chat with Jon about the gamma radiation from fission of uranium-233, and we are quite certain that our results will turn into a nice article. He's coming here in the end of May, so I'm super motivated to do as much as I can on that analysis before he gets here! When he's here, we can also hopefully finally finish the article I've been working on for too long now - and after that I will award myself with a new bag 🙂

I left the office one hour earlier than normal, to go and get Alexandra in kindergarden; 'cause I had promised her to go and get her nails done: meaning we went to a salon (Star Nails at Grønland Bazar :)), and she got to choose nail polish. She LOVED it, and was so proud - I think she felt like she was a really big girl <3
Alex getting her nails done (pink nail polish and a gold diamond - her choice) at Star Nails, Grønland Basar. Just 50,- for kids, which I think is a nice prize 🙂
After the nail session, we met Anders who went home with Alexandra, and I went to meet some friends (Toril, Beathe, Anita, and Camilla, who I hadn't met before).
We went to place I sort of shouldn't tell you about, since it was so awesome in the sun, but I'll do it anyway; It was the Q Lounge Rooftop Bar at Grims Grenka, in Kongens gate. Fantastic location!
I had a Caesar salad that I enjoyed, and both the Prosecco and the Champagne tasted great 😉 It was such a fun night, and so tasty bubbles, that I woke up with the stupid headache this morning - like I said, totally my own fault, and also totally worth it.
Btw: I just found out it's Richard Feynman's birthday today, so happy birthday to him! He would have become 98 years if he'd been alive today. A suitable way to celebrate is to read the fantastic book Surely you're joking mister Feynman - which I got as a going away from Paris present from Jon, when I left Paris and the Insititut Physique Nucléaire eight years ago.

meetings, yes - plural

started reading about, and writing about the so called generation 4 reactors (the next generation of nuclear reactors, that will use their fuel more efficiently, reduce waste production, be more economically, and have even higher standards of safety and proliferation resistance)
then realised that everything that should be written about these reactors in my thesis could (and should!) probably be summarized in one or two sentences... So even though I haven't actually deleted any of it yet, that'll be the first thing I'll do tomorrow. Well, maybe I can view it as one or two HIGH QUALITY sentences 😛
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something that looks very much like SUMMER has finally come to Oslo, and here are some snaps from a beautiful weekend, with friends and my little family <3

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When you're working on a PhD you never really have the day off - there's always something than needs to be done: an article you should read, an article you should comment, an abstract you should finish, an analysis you should work on, and of course, if you've done all the reading and the commenting and the analysis and everything, there's your scary thesis that you need to work on.
Today I've had a Skype meeting with Supervisor Jon, and then I went with Trine to Espresso House at Majorstuen to write.
The nice thing about a job like ours is that we can work in cozy places - like cafés.
The downside is that we don't have the day off, ever, since every day is just one day closer to the day you have to finish.


Here are two pictures of me thinking and drinking coffee and taking selfies instead of actually writing anything...:P (Love this maritime looking sweater from Pimkie, by the way <3)


Jon told me my article is starting to look quite ok now, so that's good! It means that I can continue working on these fission gamma rays. We're missing some of the gamma rays that we expect to see in our detectors, though, so we have to figure out if there's something wrong with the design of the experiment (very bad - can't be fixed), or the way we analyze the data from the experiment (more work, but can be fixed). I'm still positive that we have some very interesting results (which I of course can't tell you about yet) and that it will definitely be something we can publish in a nice journal... 

I ended up writing about one page on my thesis today. It may not sound like much, but it is much more than nothing 😛 
After I came back from Espresso House I had promised Alexandra to go swimming, but the swimming pool turned out to be closed today. Luckily we found out just before we left home, so we went just outside to pick flowers instead. Alexandra picked out her own outfit; tiara, wings, silver shoes, and a pink ballerina skirt - love the style <3

Good morning, and happy Monday everyone <3

I'm just here to say a quick hello, before going to the University; unfortunately it will be a short week this week, because of Thursday, so I have to be very effective today and tomorrow (on Wednesday I'm getting Alexandra in kindergarden and everything, so then it's just time for a normal, short day). 
The clock is ticking too fast :/ 
Maybe it's a good idea to have one, main goal this week, instead of trying to do a little bit of this and a little bit of that? If so, my main goal this week is called "prompt fission gamma rays" - in there is gathering figures for supervisor Jon, trying to get a Skype meeting with Jon (we've been trying this for weeks now :P), reading stuff, working on poster for PhD day and more... Yeah, I think one goal is good 🙂
I also want to share some everyday snaps from Instagram and Snapchat - I've been a little bit "better" at this lately. Especially I've been inspired by Jill Walker Retteberg (professor in digital culture at the University of Bergen), and also by Anders, on how to use Snapchat to tell little science stories - my plan is to explore these possibilities in the future (when I remeber it, and have the time, obviously), starting last week, really. So follow me on @sunnivarose on Instagram and sunnivarose on Snapchat 😉

morning bliss in Rose Castle, featuring Andrea, Anders, and Alexandra
the most beautiful pink roses ever, from Anders 
after working out - for a body that's gonna be healthy for ever 😀
playing Cars Against Humanity this Saturday - hilarious!
left: physicist outfit 1 - jeans, sneakers, white shirt, and a big scarf
middle: saturdate outfit - ready for Mathallen and Champagneria with the best guy <3 (btw: I love this skirt from HM!)
right: physicist outfit 2 - beige chinos, pink top, and pink cardigan
the dress - from Ellos of all things...I should've got several 

evening shift at the cyclotron, before I got the migraine...

the experiment is behind this thick, blue door (just before the migraine)
I had such plans for last night! I had the evening shift at the cyclotron, and in addition to baby sit the experiment, I was planning to answer a lot of e-mails, prepare for my teaching today, work on my  gammas from fission results, and I had planned to make a long blogpost about Chernobyl.
Then I got a migraine, and could just barely be at the lab, and didn't get to do anything at all! Luckily the cyclotron was behaving, so it was an easy shift, and I could even get an hour sleep - the only thing that helps.
The annoying thing is that now, even though the pain is gone, I'm really exhausted - wish I could just stay here in bed and sleep for a couple of hours, but I'm teaching the nuclear physics students about thorium and nuclear energy in a couple of hours, and I din't at all get to prepare my teaching yesterday. Meaning I have to do it now. 
Well well, hoping I'll feel better very soon (*poof* away with exhaustion...!), and hope you all will have a productive and good day!
If all goes as planned, I guess my todo list look something like this:
  1. prepare teaching
  2. answer e-mails
  3. teach
  4. work with TALYS - where to go next...?
  5. make figures of gammas, gather them and send them to supervisor Jon
  6. (start preparing for PhD day???)
  7. work out (which I'm not particularly fond of, but I want my body to last for 70 more years, and then there's no getting around going to the gym)

On Tuesday it's 30 years since the tragic accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, and I see all kinds of articles and films and talks about the accident popping up on Facebook (and basically all over the internet) these days. Not so strange, really.
A friend of mine posted this video of "The Moonshine Grandmothers of Chernobyl", about old women living inside the exclusion zone in Chernobyl, that I really think you should watch 🙂 (Click on the link just below the picture.)

It's soon time for bed here in Rose-castle - we have a busy week in front of us, where I'm giving a talk about the Chernobyl accident at the library in Kongsberg, being a guest on "Tidenes Morgen" (P13), going to a funeral (unfortunately), and of course trying to work hard on my research - time flies, and by the end of this year there is no more money coming my way from the University anymore... 
Plan for tomorrow: get up super early, get Alexandra to kindergarden, work on Tuesday's talk, go to funeral, more preparation of talk, get home, work out, sleep...
Hope you all have had a great weekend!
See you tomorrow 🙂

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Yesterday it was two years since I was sitting alone in my office at Science Library; it was the middle of Easter, and was making my last preparations for the talk I was going to give later that day, in Hamar, at "The Gathering (TG) 2014".
As aI often do, I shared a couple of pictures on Instagram and Facebook...
...and suddenly I got a message from a guy…

I had never really talked to him before, but since I didn’t know anyone in Hamar, I was just happy to have someone to meet for a coffee, maybe eat something, maybe have a beer with.
In the middle of my talk I saw a new person in the audience, and I guessed it was Anders, and after I had finished on stage we started talking. And we talked. Ate pizza, drank beer. Shared a bottle of wine. And we talked, and we talked. And shared another bottle of wine.
There were never any coffee, but we talked for 12 hours straight  (a lot about physics, obviously, and especially about torque…:P), and somewhere between the beginning of the first bottle of wine and the end of the second, he kissed me.
I didn’t at all think that Anders was going to be the man of my dreams (it took me several months to realise); I thought he was too young, too much of a student, and too geeky. There were ups and downs from that first meeting in April until the end of December that year. First Anders was more into me than I was into him, and then it was the other way around, and then it was all a big mess!
For a long time I thought we would never happen…
it was the best of times, it was the worst of times
For some reason, something happened in January 2015, and finally we were at the same place at the same time. The emotional roller coaster ended, and we became a couple. We went on our first vacation...
...and just after we came back home from Barcelona, Anders moved in with me in Rosecastle <3

It’s so weird to think about how I’ve only known him for 2 years, because it really feels so much longer.
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So yesterday we were out celebrating the two years we've known each other, and today it's your 29th birthday, Anders. I am so grateful you sent those messages, and I am so happy we both figured out we were great for each other! Happy Birthday, I love you <3
after drinking a bottle of bubbles at Champagneria, we decided we were just tipsy enough to go bowling before we went home - perfect evening!

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Hei alle fine, håper dere har hatt en fin torsdag 🙂 Snart er det plutselig helg igjen - det går sykt fort (hjelp hjelp, hver dag som går er det samme som én dag kortere igjen av doktorgradsarbeidet mitt)!
Nok om det, og over til noe helt annet (og viktigere enn at det snart er helg igjen?):
Har du hørt om iPhones "Share my location"? Det hadde ikke jeg, før Anders for noen uker siden fortalte meg om det, og vips skrudde det på på telefonen min slik at vi kunne teste det ut. 
"Share my location" går rett og slett ut på at du kan dele hvor du er til enhver tid med en eller flere. Feks kan jeg dele min posisjon med Anders, slik at han kan ha full oversikt over hvor jeg befinner meg. 
Da jeg kom fra Cannes for et par uker siden, og Anders skulle hente meg på Gardermoen, kunne han fint se at jeg var i Taxfree-området og ved bagasjen, før jeg beveget meg ut til ankomstområdet der han ventet på meg. Det ser altså ut til å vise posisjonen med en nøyaktighet på kanskje ca 20 meter. 
Så langt, så godt - intet problem at man kan velge å dele posisjonen sin med noen dersom man ønsker det, og i tilfellet med at han sto og ventet på at jeg skulle komme gjennom tollen var det jo også riktig nyttig 🙂
sånn så det ut på Anders sin mobil mens han tracket meg på vei fra stranden og hjem til hotellet på Tenerife; han kunne til og med be om en "notification" når jeg kom til hotellet der han var - jeg visste ingenting om det som skjedde (det er altså ikke jeg som får tilbud om "notify me", men Anders...)
Problemet kommer hvis kjæresten din skrur dette på uten at at du vet det, for man får nemlig INGEN BESKJED om at noen til enhver tid kan spore deg (eller, det vil jo si telefonen din, da). Den du deler posisjon med, kan også be om å få notification når du forlater et sted, eller ankommer et sted. Anders kan feks be om å få beksjed om at jeg forlater hjemmet.
Hva om du har en sjalu og kontrollerende kjæreste som skrur på dette uten at du en gang vet om det - er ikke det ganske ugreit?
Jeg syns ikke dette er bra nok! 
Det er helt ok å kunne dele denne informasjonen, men telefonen burde være veldig tydelig på at man faktisk driver på og deler posisjonen sin (slik som når man deler internett fra telefonen står det øverst hvor mange datamaskiner som er koblet til, slik at man har oversikt over hvem som bruker datatrafikk fra telefonen din, feks). Om ikke med jevne mellomrom, så burde det i alle fall komme en beksjed feks et døgn etter at du har satt på share my location: “hei, du deler location med Anders, er du sikker på at du vil fortsette med dette?”, og kanskje til og med samme beskjed etter en uke. Nå er det sånn at har man først skrudd det på, så er det på, og sånn er det. Har du en som kan koden til mobilen din, som kjærester ofte kan, så har han eller hun muligheten til å bare skru dette på uten at du vet om det en gang.
For å sjekke om du deler posisjonen din kan du gå inn på: 
Innstillinger (Settings) -> 1. Personvern (Privacy) -> 2. Stedstjenester (Location services) -> 3. Del plasseringen min (Share my location). Der står det hvem du deler med (4.), og der kan du skru av (5.)
Mitt "problem" med dette er altså ikke det at jeg kan velge å dele posisjonen min med noen, feks Anders; men det at jeg ikke får noen beskjed om det.
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