Settling

From the notebook, written October 4th 2022

A year and seventeen days ago, I was interviewed for a postdoc in Bergen. With six days left to final thesis submission, I had very little time to prepare for the interview and I remember feeling a bit unhinged. I made some jokes. Said something about research. And afterwards, thought that at least I managed to speak in complete sentences.

The shock, when I was offered the job, three days before my defense.

Now I’ve lived in Bergen for half a year and hike up to the top of Sandviksfjellet behind my house to have my dinner on sunny evenings. Life has slowly started to be about other things than thesis and it’s aftermath.