After a long break I'm back to writing here again. Months in Chicago that have now come to an end, and then almost two months in Norway with work, travel, applying for jobs and hiking, and soon I'll be leaving again for a longer trip. It doesn't feel like time's run away from me, but rather that I've needed to get my school and its approach to art at a distance, and it really helped. I have a lot of ideas that I hope to realize in the coming years, and projects I'm about to initiate.

And that's why I'm back to writing here! I need an outlet, I think, and a way to track what'll be happening in the next amount of time. Ups and downs and excitements and strategies. I need to learn a lot of stuff in a short amount of time, like how to make a budget (thought it's only embarrassing that I don't already know how to do this... or rather, my heart palpitations increase in frequency every time I even look at the excel-icon...), how to plan and successfully pull through an event, and apply for official artists funds in Norway. Because, oh yes oh yes, there IS money for art in Norway! At least a little.

This post, then, is mostly just to kickstart this off, force myself to write something (anything!) and be a bit open about what I'm doing. Though most days I cringe when people check in from their phones ("I don't want them to know where I am! I don't want THEM to!").

More to come!