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Master presentation on Monday

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Monday morning is my final presentation. Reading through my thesis and found a couple of typos and better words that I should have used in some cases. Good thing that I noticed now so that I can be prepared if the reviewer notices them too. It's so easy to get so into a project to not notice the simple mistakes. I'm looking forward to being finished on Monday!

Summer solstice

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[Just after sunset, ca. 11:15PM]  Since living in Norway the one thing that always amazes me is the day length from May through July. Yesterday (the summer solstice) the sunset was 11:11 PM, but there was still light in the sky all night. Around 11:15 I went for a jog and everything was still really bright. There were very few cars and the mallards at the little lake near us were all asleep. Had I had Marius' fancy camera I would have gone up to the lookout for a good picture, but those get repetitive. If I'm in Norway this time next year, I will run the midnight sun marathon up in Tromsø, where the race starts at midnight since up there the sun never goes down! [Sleeping ducks] [11:30 PM, June 21]  Our garden is doing great. We have some radishes that I harvested today because I had to clear some space for the other budding radishes, and the slugs were getting to them. I need to do the beer trick! I pre-planted some oregano, parsley, grass onion, and string be