Reading

I fell down in a black hole for four days. But it's not that bad. It is just a black hole for the studying part of me.. I sent my thesis to my supervisor this friday. just to get feedback on the report. On friday night I went to visit a friend in Lund.. of course I didn't sutdy. Came home on sunday evning. On monday I couldn't motivate myself to start study.. I really didn't want to.. I got feedback from Robert on the report. Not so bad, just a few changes so far. It feels like I have a good chance to finish before christmas. Well, today, Tuesday, I actually started reading some articles about nutrient- and carbon pools in soil and the effect of herbivores on these pools.

One big conclusion: the more articles you read, the easier it gets!
another: I can't (instinctively) see the difference between the words big and large, and how to use them (Relized that when i got my report back from Robert.. oups!!)
on more conclusion: Clara Luzia is really good. check out her music!


I think i'm back on track tomorrow!
peace

a weekend of horse back- and bike riding

Friday: I was riding horse back with Hilma. Fantastic.. My horse did not allways do as I wanted (but most of the time everything went good). Unfortunately I didn't take any photos when sitting on the horse (cause I was trying not to fall of).

Saturday: Starting with a long bicycle tour. Really nice. About 2 h biking in the forest together with Lars. =)

On the afternoon we desided to reshuffling the appartment. The bike room changed with the living room. The result is good, i'm happy we came to that conclusion!

Crap!

My bike frame has a big crack! what if it breaks when I ride it, huu that would hurt alot!
Well, looking for a new frame, celeste blue maybe ;) 
If someone have one, let me know!  (about 200-300 US dollar is what I have in mind.. or less if that is possible)

Shopoholic!

didn't buy anything new, but I really want to... found a pair of ankle boots that i'm really inlove with! And they are on discount! but i've never bought shoes on internet... scary when you can't try them on... it's really hard to now what size to order when one always vary between two sizes.. well.. I guess Lars would be really mad at me if I boght them, so maybe i shouldn't... =/  

But they are really nice, aren't they?

Finaly i'm doing my thesis

This week I started my bachelor thesis. To summarize it's about the effect of grazing on plants. Do the biomass allocation differ if plants are protected from grazing or not. I started this summer in Ritsem (norhten part of the swedish mountain chain) by collecting plants and now am i analyzing them to see if there is a diference between them or not. Simple research, but fun! The laboratory work went out fine and Robert (my supervisor) came up with the idea to see if the Nitrogen and carbon isotope kit is the same in the protected and unprotected plants. This resulted in more lab-work, which i'm more then happy to do! The roots and leaves are grinded and then sent to a guy (Alf) in Örebro for further analysis. Good for me to have more data and more topics to link together.

 Vaccinium viti-idaea (Lingon)

 above/below ground parts- to get the biomass

Bistorta vivpara (ormrot) 

The leaves and fine roots that was grinded for the isotope analysis 

the powder of leaves or roots...

nothing more about this at the moment! have a nice weekend! cheers

my babies

 Since I don't have any kids I exaggerate my feelings for my plants. =)

Cotton plant and...

...pepper getting bigger and bigger! 

Bachelor thesis

Started my bachelor thesis yesterday. Will tell you more about it later on. have some pictures etc.
But not now.. =)

Aarhus, denmark

We went to denmark this weekend. To visit Anna and Per-Inge. Really nice time, a very cozy town!

Lots of nice food (thanks both of you, Anna and Perra!)

 A few hours spent on climbing. Really nice gym, mostly rope climbing. fantastic!

Good times! =)