::The Yellow Book::

An illustrated regular

About Me
name: Katrin
age: 21
location: Reykjavík, Iceland
nationality: Icelandic
msn: trinagunnars (at) hotmail (dot) com
reading: Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen. Old Arcadia, by Sir Philip Sidney.
listening to: My iPod
watching: Buffy DVDs, How I Met Your Mother and Gossssssip Girl
likes: sleep, Pepsi Max, YAs by Meg CabotTV and my late cat, Joakim
dislikes: Techno, mathfish  

   Blogs

             + Aldís María        
 
+ Edda
  
+ Meg Cabot
  
+ Sigrun Ugla
  
+ Mummy dearest
  
+ Júlía Ara
  
+ Dísa
  
+ Hrafnkell
  
+ Þorsteinn
  
+ Hafdís
  
+ Frog Prince
  
+ Birna Kristín
  
+ Kolbrun
  
+ Erla
  
+ Gulla
             
+ Anna Margrét     +Eduardo

 

      Other links

   + My blogger.com profile
  
+ Pictures/myndir 2005
  
+ Pictures/myndir 2005-2007 (Scotland)
  
+ KatSpace
  
+ Poet Katrin
  
+ Gavin DeGraw
  
+ My Bible
  
+ Meg Cabot official website
  
+ See This Movie
  
+ He with whom I compare all persons of the opposite sex
  
+ Officially a fan
  
+ Ugla
  
  + My old high school
  
+ My old college
  
+ The Uni Choir
  
+ Uni Choir chat
  
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+ The BOG
  
+ Reykjavík weather

 

   Credits

   Host- Blogger
  
Skin-Blogskins
   
Designer-Dawnwake

 

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Wednesday, December 24, 2008

Merry Christmas!

This tree is not Icelandic - it is the Christmas tree in Jenners department store, Edinburgh, a photo from 2003 I think. I couldn't find any good Christmassy photos of Reykjavík on google. This one, at least, is sort of from home!
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-: Trina illustrated her blog at 15:43:-

Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Christmas holidays!

Finally! I'm on holiday! But not for long - I have tomorrow off and then I'm working every day till Christmas. That's fine, though: money money money ;)

I read an article on timesonline.co.uk about Iceland and the whole disaster. Here's a particularly interesting excerpt from it, which shows that not ALL Brits think WE were in the wrong:

The act that tipped the last Icelandic bank off the edge of the cliff was delivered by Gordon Brown, who froze Icelandic assets in the UK using our new, gleaming anti-terrorist legislation. The Icelanders mind that — they’re hurt by that. You see, they always imagined they were one of us, not one of them. But Gordon needed to do something cheap to look competent, so he beat up a smaller kid. Not just a bit of a slap, but a vicious kicking. Showing off to impress the girls. He would never have started it if the banks had been German or French, or even from Liechtenstein.

The Icelanders mind about the terrorist thing. They don’t even have an army. They barely have a jail: it’s more of a drop-in centre. The police drive you home if you’re too drunk. This is the most liberal, reasonable, hard-working, decent, moral, amusing and well-educated people on the Continent; a nation who are temperamentally the furthest away from terrorism. Remember that about Brown — the man who said he wanted to prevent the export of terrorism. Remember it when he puts on his Save the World, Mr International Harmony hat. He put an ally into intensive care for the sake of a headline and three points in a weekend poll. Perhaps he didn’t notice. Perhaps he was looking through his glass eye.

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Icelanders react to bad news the way they always have. It’s the same way they react to good news: they get hammered.

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Who the Icelandics are is one of the great enigmas of northern Europe. They speak an ancient, pure Scandinavian. They are horrifically hard-drinking, maudlin and prone to flights of dark nihilism and lengthy bitterness. They are taciturn fishermen and farmers; stoical, practical and moral. They have published more books and produced more chess grandmasters per head than anywhere else. They read more and write more, they sing and play instruments. Everyone here can change a tyre, strip an engine, ride a horse, sail a boat, dress a sheep and cure a salmon. They have grown through a hard Calvinism to a moral atheism while maintaining an open mind about elves.

The article is called Iceland: frozen assets, and you can find the whole of it here.
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-: Trina illustrated her blog at 21:37:-

Monday, December 08, 2008

Tom Waits press conference



Hilarious!
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-: Trina illustrated her blog at 22:09:-

Wednesday, December 03, 2008

The books that are just WAITING for me to read them

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