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Friday afternoon I spent a couple of hours feeling like the proverbial deer.

I then spent the weekend curled up in a safe place (licking my wounds?)

Now emerging, still chafed, always stronger, making the world mine again.

Supernordmenn!

Finn-Erik Vinje, mighty language fighter, always on the barricades for correct use of language has criticized the Norwegian Princess Märtha Louise and her husband for the names they have chosen to give their children. Be that as it may.

What interested me in the article was the new definition this paramount of correct language has introduced into the debate. He defines the semi-royal family as "supernordmenn"! As if we didnt have enough with "norsk" "første generasjons nordmann", "andre generasjons innvandrer", "etnisk norsk" and when to become so.

Can we start making a list?

1. First generation immigrant
2. Second generation immigrant
3. First generation nordmann
4. Second generation nordmann
5. Nordmann
6. Supernordmann?

Oh wait! This reminds me of a list I saw in a museum in Mexico last year. It's a list of the casts in Mexican society after the Spanish. Sorry for the poor quality of the picture.

Another day another Cortado...

With the laptop surviving the last caffein shock I take my chances, order another and finish a short presentation for Hordaland Fylkeskommune. May they believe in the project and give us Nkr 100 000,-.

Pouring coffee in the laptop

...yet another reason to drink cortado instead of latte... -_-

The white sheet

I am preparing a presentation for both my supervisors. Not only a presentation but also an overview of what we have, both consept and visuals. The coming week I will be discussing the project with several colleagues of different professions. First out is Linda Kragseth, marked communicator who was intensly part of the project last year, and who still is lurking at the edges. Tomorrow I am meeting with Anne Mette Prestegård, who is also an exhibition designer and who I have worked with on Havlandet. Then later in the week I hope to have some time with Hilde Hauan Johnsen who is a professor of textiles at KhiB, she has worked on several exhibitions at Tromsø Museum.

So I am working on the presentation... and have so much of the project inside. It feels like I am on the verge of bursting, but I am struggeling with finding the right format for the output.

Hence the white sheet. The fear. And now I will get to work filling it.