About Me

  • About Me: ...and then I thought: I don't feel like a woman I was never a girl I'm not a man I won't be a boy I encompass them all and at last I understood: all I am is human.

Television

  • Favorite Shows: QI
  • Favorite Channels: Danish public broadcast channel DR2
  • Most Addictive Show: QI
  • Favorite Late Night Talk Show: The Colbert Report
  • Characters you relate to: Bertie Wooster
  • Show I Secretly Watch: Bones

Travel

  • Places I love: Mountians & lowlands, coasts & forests, snowy plains & grassy meadows, ghost towns & boom towns...
  • Places I've been: East of the sun & west of the moon
  • Places to see before I die: Ahaggar, Beijing, Canberra, Damascus, Ethiopia, Florence, Guadeloupe, Havana, Iceland, Japan, Kilimanjaro, Latvia, Montana, New Zealand, Oahu, Portland, Qaanaaq, Rovaniemi, San Fransisco, Tasmania, Uruguay, Vietnam, Wellington, Xi'an, Yellowstone, Zanzibar... Ærø, Ølgod, Åland
  • Dream Vacation: Bicycling from the North Cape to Novgorod... just because it seems like an insane thing to do.

More About Me

  • Nicknames: Sissler
  • Nationality: Norwegian
  • Religion: none
  • Heroes: Stephen Fry
  • Interests: Words, languages, books, libraries, inane rants, jazz, photography, furniture, retro robots, the beauty of decay, cemetaries, bicycling, hiking, ecology, sustainability, new urbanism, street art, beer, food et cetera
  • Expertise: Procrastination, ignoring this blog for months at a time
  • Occupation: Student
  • Industry: Library & Information Science

Books

  • Favorite Books: Too many to list
  • Favorite Genres: non-fiction, essays,
  • Recent Reads: Urban ecology guide: Copenhagen

Style

  • Where I shop: H&M, Wolford, local independent designer stores, fleamarkets
  • Brands I love: Wolford, Pucci, Levis, Camper, various local designers
  • I like to wear: Whatever strikes my fancy on any given day
  • Can't live without: my red courdroy blazer goes with me everywhere these days
  • Prized Possessions: Pucci scarf, Camper boots, various buttons and broches
  • Guilty Pleasure: Glittering red shoelaces

Food

  • Favorite Dishes: Sushi, sashimi
  • Favorite Drinks: Beer, whisky, gin, water
  • Best meal ever: Sashimi at a small japanese restaurant in Trondheim, Norway
  • Foods I hate: Tomatoes

Movies

  • Favorite Soundtracks: Jungle Book (1967 version), 24 hour party people
  • Movie Quotes I say all the time: "I want to see mountains again, Gandalf. Mountains!"
  • Movies I can watch over and over: Bubba Ho-tep!