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back to squirrels & bones

Back in DC. Back to the bones, the squirrels and the schnapps.

April 26, 2011
bachelor thesis: a walk in the rift valley, four million years ago

Bachelor Thesis: The Smithsonian’s Human Origins Program Database: Relating scientific data through time and space. Museum of Natural History in Washington DC. Lars Bjørkevoll, Audun Hodnefjell, Bente Halvorsen

June 15, 2010
wildlife, geeklife

Work work – no time to sightseeing or go arty photographing. Little snippets, though.

April 24, 2010
days

Warmer days in D.C.

April 19, 2010
relatives and ancestors

australopithecus africanus, approx. 2.5 million years old

April 18, 2010
computers & bones

Back at the smithsonian institution, national museum of natural history in Washington D.C. In the anthro department we are again getting back to work among skeletons, sculls, dust and wonderful people.

April 16, 2010
lost in transition

Attempting to get from Oslo to Washington DC turned out to be troublesome this time: stuck in Oslo for nine hours, hotel in Newark for a few hours sleep. A cranky, knackered team got there in the end though. I hate transportation.

April 13, 2010
– au revoir, D.C.

D.C. is a strange city; it feels like a bubble. It is a smallish, administrative city in a very very large and powerful country. It is rather anonymous. It seems, in this city of administration, power and museums, people live here for a few years, and it gives the city a neutral feel. I am…

March 12, 2010
last days

the last days. heading home soon, from our little jaunt that got an unexpected two weeks extension. Good work done, fine people all around.

March 10, 2010
catch of the day

took a couple of hours off work, and went to the eastern marked. Colour, air. air & space.

March 7, 2010
the dead, the food & the living

Fine days, hard work. I am getting a blister on my neck from the chain for the ID card. I guess that means we’ve been here a while.

March 6, 2010
shelter from the storm

One of the boys ended up in hospital for a few days, and everything stopped for 48 hours or so. We had a glimpse into the health care system here, and it was – retrospectively – interesting. .

March 2, 2010
squirrels & nuts

Squirrels are the best pea-brains I know of. Oportunistic, curious, adaptable; and wonderfully forgetful. It always makes me smile when passing a tree, rock or building, with a little tree growing out of it. Forgotten nuts moves nature around. .

February 24, 2010
the show must go on

The museum of natural history is an endless inspiration: I wish so hard I would have had the time to sit down and draw all those wonderful things..

February 22, 2010
day at the museum

Plans changing, exciting days..

February 20, 2010
Washington D.C. revisited

Again; arrived safe and sound. D.C. is still buried under big piles of snow, and it was a close call wether the plane would land at Dulles or not, but a bit of luck there.

February 17, 2010
Snippets from the US of A

“America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair.” – A. Toynbee –

February 5, 2010
home: -15°C / 5°F

Cold here. And a hellish journey from Göteborg airport.

January 9, 2010
in the city of Chicago …

Cold, mad & fab Chicago!

January 5, 2010
Californaey – south, out, about, around and back up

Renting a car for a few days! Good to have own wheels –

January 2, 2010
Californaey, San Francisco

Stuck in Santa Rosa – luggage not welcome on the bus, find mysterious, non-existent Greyhound bus stop miles down the road… Not a promising start for out trip south to San Francisco.

December 29, 2009
Californaey, part I

Leaving DC – heading to Californaey

December 24, 2009
DC – the end

The worst snowstorm in over 70 years, the Washington Post says

December 20, 2009
Washington DC

Safe and sound in DC. They let us into the country without a hitch, and first day a resounding success. Utter civility…

December 18, 2009