Mai Elise

Dear Maielise...Until this moment I thought I was alone on Wattpad; now I see you and your hopes and work. I have read that you are a bouncer. Is that a person who tosses people out of drinking establishments? 
          Have you read my stuff: one on Virginia Woolf, a BBC broadcast hosted by Miss Q.R. Ramsbottom, and another on Y2K and our scorched earth found Centuries after the robots went wild on a New Years Eve and blasted all of us to bits?
          It's June 29, 2019 and I'm thinking about adding a story. Would you read it?
          Sincerely, Gary McDonald

I don`t update this site much do I?
          So a few updates:
          I got engaged in January! 
          In march I turned 28 and got my first poem in an anthology called Unik (Unique) Alea Forlag <3 (I love the coincidence that I wrote the poem on my birthday in  2016, and got it published just a few days later in 2017).
          In May/April I got a couple of new poems out in literary journals (Do you read Norwegian? Go check out STEMMER 01/17 and VOKS 01/17)
          I got married in June <3 <3 (In an outdoors play, in front of 800 people).
          I`m got my diploma from Fagskolen for Bokbransjen, I`m a literary scholar (literaturformidler) yey! (In May/June, so I had my exams and stuff before the wedding, so you can imagine how stressed I was. But everything turned out great).
          I got a new job, as for now I`m a bouncer in addition to teaching first aid. I know I look like this cute little Mugwai-thing, but I`m a gremlin in disguise (only when hangry). Or maybe an ewok is more correct ;)  (still waiting to get into publishing or any literary related job though!!)
          In between all this I´ve had some low points and shitty days, but let`s not dwell on the negative right? 2017 is way better than 2016 already! <3 
          
          I`ll post the obligatory assignments we had at Fagskolen (in Norwegian). I hope someone might find them useful. 
          
          You`ll find me on Instagram, that`s where I`m at;) @ mai.elise

"I'm sitting right here, but hey you can't see me"-Lene Malin (I hated her songs when they were popular)
          Two more weeks and I have earned my freedom!
           #Masterlife 

Today I spent my first day as 27 as I hope I’ll do every day: writing^^ 
          Three poems are finished and ready to be sent out into the world.

A post about one of my favorite The Ocean at the end of the lane quotes; the language of shaping: 
          https://maielise.wordpress.com/2015/12/02/the-language-of-shaping/

I just want to share something I’ve written on my blog. 
          It’s about my response to The Ocean at the end of the lane by Neil Gaiman. I’m sure I will post many more as I work with his text. I have plenty to say:) 
          "When I read about the little boy who has to stand up to adults, about a childhood where you have to use your imagination to get by… I can relate to it all, all too well."
          https://maielise.wordpress.com/2015/11/26/so-so-strange/

Still kicking. ;) This has been a super busy semester. Besides work, Medic stuff(yes, I´m back in green too), and first aid, I got into riss(a journal for language and literature) and it is super fun, but time consuming. My MA thesis is coming along slowly, which means I´ll have to prioritize my thesis above all the other stuff I do for the rest of the year, which is okay because I love it.  Now I just have to survive the weekend writing on the first draft of my thesis. First deadline is on Tuesday. O_O

Rollercoaster by Robin Thicke describes my relationship with Academia. Yesterday I was sure I had to just give it up, today I got a B for doing my own thing on the exam. :D 

Though she be but little, she is fierce! - William Shakespeare
          I love it when you find a quote that describes you so well. I got it from a friend, so it´s extra special.<3 
          I´m still figuring out how wordpress works, but I got a blog about writing: https://maielise.wordpress.com. Hope you will check it out;)

I'm 26 today! :D