Step 1: Turn kittylitter around so that the door faces the wall, thus making it impossible for the cat to get in there.
Step 2: Whenever cat approaches kittylitter and meows, open window and throw cat outside.
Step 3: Wait.

We’re still on step 3, mind you, so how this will work, no one knows for sure. What I do know for sure is that I’m sick and tired of our hallway smelling like a kitty loo, no matter how often we clean it. The smell is IN the plastic now, and it stinks out the entire hallway (plus other rooms if we keep the doors open). Grr. So Link is now (un)happily outside.
It might sound harsh and all, but you know what? If it works, it’ll be worth it. Moppe learned outdoors pooping the hard way, Link can do it as well.

So, the exam… Since you asked, Lotta, I’ll just explain what it’s all about: British and American culture. Here’s what the department website says about its academic content:
The course will provide an up-to-date overview of the geography, population, minorities, politics and government, foreign policy and international connections, legislation, economy, social services, educational system and mass media in Great Britain and the United States, presented in a historical and critical context.
Sounds intriguing, no? It’s actually quite interesting, some of it. Also, reading the news from the US and the UK now makes me feel all clever because I understand what the issues are all about. Eeeexcellent. *rubs hands together*

Today: Sleep-in, followed by dinner and cake at Tor’s mom’s place, because it’s his brother’s 22nd birthday.

Hedda (in case I don’t catch you on MSN): Tomorrow or tuesday would be great, as we’re having a farewell-dinner for a co-worker on wednesday. I’ll doublecheck with Tor and get back to you in due time. :)

New obsession: Veronica Mars. I actually bought the first season DVDs, so I’ve got it that bad. If you know me, you’ll also know that I don’t often spend money on stuff like that, cause I’m a regular Scrooge. I’m sort of getting over my Scrooge-y tendencies now though.
So… I got the DVDs on tuesday and finished watching all the episodes tonight. I’m now desperate for TVN to start showing season 2. DESPERATE!! I’d pre-order the DVDs if I could, but I’d have to pre-order from abroad, which would cause them to get a bit too expensive for my liking, what with the customs and all.
Anyway… I guess part of why I like it is because I can relate to it. Even though I went to a small elementary/junior high school, I had my share of cool, dorky, weirdo and just-plain-not-cool crowds. I like to think that I was somewhat cool when I first started elementary school. At least everyone were nice to me. But that quickly changed… When I started fourth grade, a new girl moved to town, and I was quickly moved from cool to social pariah. Ah yes, so many memories that I won’t share, because I’m sort of trying to forget a lot of what happened. I never quite regained my cool either. I’ve got these bitter memories from confirmation camp and high school as well. Bygones, bygones. Sort of, but not really. Had I not been in a steady relationship, I probably would end up a bitter old cat-lady. Of course, there’s still plenty of time for that to happen, but I’ll try my best not to let it.

Bottom line is that I really enjoy watching Veronica Mars.

Håkon, about the house-building… We sort of HAVE to take one of the Systemhus houses, or we’ll have to pay a lot more… So, sorry. :(

So, next week will be hectic for me. First off, it’s my turn to do the coffee making at work, so I obviously need to figure out how that works. You might think that making coffee is something everyone would know how to do, but I haven’t done it since I was little and used to serve my parents coffee in bed. As I don’t drink coffee myself, I have no idea how to make it so that people will actually want to drink it.
Then wednesday, there’s a seminar and a farewell-dinner, followed by helping Hedda move her stuff to her new apartment. Thursday and Friday I have study-leave from work, the weekend will probably also be spent reading, as well as Monday… Then the exam is Tuesday, EEEK. I think my best bet is to know a little about everything, but also a lot about one or two things. I’m guessing the legal system(s) might come up, and perhaps federalism and womens’ rights. *hyperventilate* Must…know…everything.

Lately, Link’s been making a lot of noise. It’s like he just learned how to meow, and now he’s got his heart set on using his ability to the fullest in case he loses it again. He’ll sit on the window sill behind me as I watch TV, and just…meow. For no good reason at all. If I shush him or make any sign at all that I heard him, he’ll go on meowing even more. If I don’t answer him, he’ll just meow some more or perhaps attack my head.

Now, a quick shower before I’m off to bed.

But I’m a busy bee! I was recently, as in tuesday, approved to run my most coveted fanlisting ever (second perhaps to the general LotR and/or HP fanlistings, but at least it ranks high up there with them): the fanlisting for Dreamfall! Oh bliss. The small things in life give me such joy sometimes. Small things such as an electronic approval of my electronic shrine to the wonder of wonders that is Dreamfall.
Anyway! Working hard on that. I tried Jem’s tutorial for centering a div layout with CSS, and lo and behold, it WORKED. In both Firefox and Internet Explorer. I’ve never had it work in both before. That being said, I did leave out the float: right sidebar, so I’ll have to try it again sometime later with a two column layout to see if I really get it right.

A day or two after initially applying for the Dreamfall fanlisting, I realized I would probably not get it, so I went and applied for the Zoë Castillo fanlisting as well. And what do you know, I got that one too. Which of course is fab, just fab. I finished that one yesterday (that’s gotta be some sort of FL completion record), and you can view it here: Destined. Please note the highly innovative name. Perhaps not, but at least it fits.

So what else is new? Nothing much. I recently applied for a job at the central archives of NTNU, and I got called into an interview, quite unexpectedly. Another girl at work also got an interview, and apparently we’re finding out tomorrow who’ll get the job offer. I’m having mixed feelings towards it at the moment. On the one hand it’s a senior executive officer position, permanent, as opposed to the temporary (possibilities for prolonging though) junior executive officer position I’m currently in. On the other hand, there’s the fab work environment I’m in now, which is also totally supportive of important things like my education and my intense need to go home for Christmas no matter what.

I finalized our summer holiday yesterday, by ordering bus tickets (eww) for me and Tor to get to Oslo, and plane tickets for the four of us to get from Oslo back to Trondheim upon our return from Lithuania. Wow. I’ve never organized something like this before, but my mom sort of piled it all on me. Mostly because I’m the one with a credit card, thus being able to order online and save a lot of money.
Still haven’t gotten a passport though… I’m sort of dreading the passport pictures. I know they’ll turn out crappy no matter what, but I still have this urge to go get my hair cut before I get the pictures taken. However, I need the pictures SOON, and I’ve told myself that I’m not getting a haircut until after my exam. I rule myself with a firm, but gentle hand. Now it’s time for bed, and I mean RIGHT NOW, young lady, no stalling.

…and a gallery. First off, the gallery: I installed a WP plugin that gets my albums and pictures from my Flickr account, and puts them all on a gallery page on my site. Yay. :) I’ve been wanting a decent gallery for a long time, and this one suits my needs just fine.
I also uploaded some new icons, for those of you who are interested.

The plans, yes… Well, we’ve been wanting to build a house for quite some time, but decided to wait it out until we found something within the city borders. We’ve now decided that this will never happen, unless we plan on spending almost a million just on the lot.
However, we might be able to get one for 1/3 of the price, if we go outside the city borders…so we just might do that. It’ll suck a bit to move outside the city, but renting also sucks, as it’s money out the window. We’ve tried just finding something allready built in the city, but it’s either too expensive, too small or too shitty looking. Honestly, we don’t want to spend several hundred thousands on restoring a house, and we don’t want something old with bad plumbing and wiring. So this might be the solution… The area is nice enough, nothing’s built there yet, but apparently a lot of houses are going up in the years to come, so the neighbourhood won’t be too small. It’s about 10-15 minutes outside the city, so it’s not too bad - the “only” downside is that the city buses don’t run there, so I’d have to take the other kind, or get a car for myself.

I thought about how this would totally ruin my social life, but then I realized that I don’t HAVE a social life, so that’s one thing less to worry about. If I’m lucky I might establish one there. I’m a bit picky when it comes to who I want to hang around, so I generally don’t see a lot of people outside of work. Yes, this makes me sound even weirder than most of you knew me to be, but that’s ok, I’m not ashamed of my hermit-like tendencies.

Allthough you might think I’m talking about the ice-cream van (I WISH), I’m actually just talking about the new layout. I feel a bit like a cheat for using a theme someone else made, but hey, at least I edited the header, you know? Yes indeed, it was me who put on those leaves and that chicken. I didn’t really mean to put the chicken on there, I had it on a different layer before adding the foliage, but then I realized that it was just too cute to leave out.
I also redid some pages. Added some, deleted some, changed some. I also added categories, and the archives should actually be working now. It all just came together last night. Like magic, yo.

I tried taking Link outside for a bit to enjoy the nice weather. It wasn’t very enjoyable. I, for one, did not enjoy the sound of his claws scraping against the tarmac as I tried to get him to walk with me.
We’re not really sure what to do… We might try putting him on a leash in the backyard, to let him be outside for a bit without risking him running away to hide in someone’s basement again. It might sound cruel, but I think it’s rather cruel to keep him indoors in an apartment as well. Honestly, if I’d known it would be this much trouble to get him to go outside, I don’t think I would’ve agreed to getting another cat. I’ve never had this much trouble getting a cat to go outside, at least not in summer.

Ok, I’m all shaky from lack of food now, so I should go take care of that.

I finally got the permalink structure to work, somewhat. :D No idea why it never did before, but eh. I’ve decided to somewhat renovate merilin.net - I’m currently sort of tweaking a pre-made theme, but unfortunately unable to upload and try it out because the webserver of evil decided to hate me again, and so it won’t let me connect. Grrr. I thought that whole problem had to do with me using Dreamweaver to upload files sometimes, but apparently not. Might have something to do with overwriting all my old WP-files yesterday.

So. Renovation. I’m restructuring the pages, and adding categories to the blog. Because of this, don’t be alarmed if weird things happen around here, that’s probably just me removing code I shouldn’t remove.

Well, I’m not really getting much done without FTP access, and I’m itching to go play some more of Dreamfall, so off I go. :hero:

I lost my clickable smilies, dammit.

I finally did it. I’d been putting it off for so long, but now I finally did it - I upgraded to Wordpress 2.0. :D I’ve heard people having trouble with it before, but it went very smoothly here. Had to do a bit of searching in the WP forums to find which file to edit to get my smilies back, but that was about it.
Next step: Find out why the theme switcher won’t work.
Also: Find out what the crap is up with the admin panel.