It's been an eventful and busy week, to say the least. Starting off with a trip to the emergency room Wednesday night and capped by yesterday's exhausting day-long moving company gig, there's been little time or opportunity (or indeed energy) to Blog.

The E.R. story isn't particularly interesting, aside from the fact that I was quite convinced I was going to die. After watching Hitchcock's Psycho on TV Wednesday night (probably not a causative factor in subsequent events, but it is a scary film), I experienced some pretty serious extended heart palpitations and rapid fluttering that culminated in me calling the Norwegian equivalent of 911. They didn't send an ambulance, but told me to see a doctor right away - and I wasn't about to argue. Thus I found myself in the E.R. at midnight, hooked up to the EKG machine, and feeling slightly nauseous. To my great relief, it appears that there's nothing wrong, and there's likely no cause for worry. Apparently, these things can just happen, for no good reason whatsoever.

In my head, though, things were touch and go for a while.

The rest of the week was a blur of Important Meetings and other manifestations of the Busy, including an intriguing trip to the biggest film studios and post-production facilities in Norway on Friday. Yesterday, as mentioned earlier, I spent the day helping my oldest brother and his family to move - and that took a solid ten hours from when I left my apartment until I returned, exhausted, at 8 PM. Needless to say, the remainder of the evening was spent in a near-catatonic state on the couch. I managed to see a somewhat interesting Iranian movie that ended right in the middle of the story, and the first half of The Matrix Reloaded on DVD, which ended with me falling asleep (both an indicant of my state and the movie itself, which I hated when I saw it in theatres, but I'm willing to give everything and everyone a second chance).

I also booked my tickets to New York this week; it'll be a five day trip, two of which will be spent at a seminar/conference, the rest of which will be spent enjoying the city and shopping for Christmas presents. Looking forward to that.

So there it is: My very good reasons for this past week's silent running. There's a lot more exciting stuff to write about, but I'll leave that for later. Right now, I have some much-needed 'being lazy' to get back to.  ¶ 13:11