World's Worst Blogger

Hi Teamsters. Sorry for the lack of updates, but I've been a kind of losing battle with mediocrity lately. You see, lots of things happen to me during a day, but they're usually the same things that happen every day, like Was late for work, or Sweated while biking, or Didn't post to the blog. So, here are 10 highlights from the past two weeks listed in no particular order:

1. I have my final presentation to the head of the Royal Library (yikes) on July 14th. I have a draft of the report almost done (which is good), but I'm not sure how legit the math is (which is very, very bad) and will likely be skewered by my boss this week when he proofs it. I really have no idea what I'll be doing after that as my boss is going on vacation. Apparently they'll be moving me to the Social Sciences library to be the minion of someone called Tina Pippa.

2. I was pulled over by a cop for the first time in my life. For riding my bike in a crosswalk. Even though it was empty. I tried to explain to him that I was new here and that all of the Danes bike in the crosswalk (and thus I had no idea it was illegal), but he didn't seem to believe me. He made me show him my ID, and then told me I needed to get lights to bike at night. Which I still don't have. Woops.

3. All of our study abroad roommates moved out last week so now its just the five of us in this giant apartment for the next month. Please come visit us, please?

4. I discovered after buying my lunch that there were nuts in the pasta salad. I ate it anyway. I got sick. (Wish you were there Trinh!)

5. I went to Rome with Jess for the weekend and got totally freaked out by people not obeying traffic lights. (In Copenhagen its a major faux pas to walk/bike against the light. To do so here is to place yourself above the law which is a big no-no in their super egalitarian society).

6. Latest restuarant discovery (and there aren't many given that you drop at minimum $20 eating a not fast food meal): Moe's. The best immitation Mexican food made by Iranian's in Denmark. (Interestingly, not part of the "Moe's" chain, merely a nominal coincidence).

7. The movie theater's here have bars in them.

8. Totes adorable: Men with Babies. Because both parents get 6 months off when they have a child, there are men with babies everywhere. (And on a side note, Danish children are obscenely well behaved. They don't cry, scream, throw tantrums, run where not instructed, or take off their clothes in public--I honestly have not seen a child get reprimanded the entire time I've been here).

9. Totes sad: Danish children also don't speak English--English schooling doesn't start until age 10--so their funny child-chatter is lost on us.

10. Totes alarming: Most of these men with babies are in their early 20s. Apparently, the people of Denmark aren't having enough children to sustain their population so the government is encouraging people to hop on the baby making bandwagon.