Copenhagen update
Nov. 24th, 2010 10:48 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
aryanhwyOr, 5 things post makes.
- Yesterday evening when I headed to the metro, it was raining. When I left the metro, it was snowing. I woke up to ~2 inches this morning, and there's little flurries dancing outside my window right now.
- Yesterday I also transcribed three columns of my text: Meaning I have about 1 3/4 columns left. Meaning that once I get off LJ and start working, there is a very real chance I could finish the transcription today, a week and a half before I leave.
- Denmark has the best butter ever. I will be bringing some home with me.
- Like Russia, Denmark seems a lot like the rest of Europe when you first get there, but once you're there for awhile longer it starts seeming a bit...strange. I have now twice seen commercials for something called "Mister Fartman".
- I had another run in with the authorities on Sunday coming back from the airport. Turns out that when, the day I arrived, I asked for a monthly pass between Kastrup and the city center (Kastrup being the suburb where I was going to be living, and where the airport is located), I was not in fact given such a pass. So when the metro ticket checkers came along and checked my ticket, they informed it wasn't valid and wrote me up a fine worth more than the monthly pass itself. Grrr. I am in process of trying to appeal it, though the person I'm working with here (who very kindly wrote me an appeals letter in Danish) says I shouldn't hold out much hope.
I miss my cats. I miss Joel. I haven't had internet at home the last two evenings, and by the time I get home at night anyway I'm exhausted. I nearly flooded the bathroom last night. I'll be glad to go home.
But the actual palaeographical work is still really cool and awesome and makes up for everything else.
- Yesterday evening when I headed to the metro, it was raining. When I left the metro, it was snowing. I woke up to ~2 inches this morning, and there's little flurries dancing outside my window right now.
- Yesterday I also transcribed three columns of my text: Meaning I have about 1 3/4 columns left. Meaning that once I get off LJ and start working, there is a very real chance I could finish the transcription today, a week and a half before I leave.
- Denmark has the best butter ever. I will be bringing some home with me.
- Like Russia, Denmark seems a lot like the rest of Europe when you first get there, but once you're there for awhile longer it starts seeming a bit...strange. I have now twice seen commercials for something called "Mister Fartman".
- I had another run in with the authorities on Sunday coming back from the airport. Turns out that when, the day I arrived, I asked for a monthly pass between Kastrup and the city center (Kastrup being the suburb where I was going to be living, and where the airport is located), I was not in fact given such a pass. So when the metro ticket checkers came along and checked my ticket, they informed it wasn't valid and wrote me up a fine worth more than the monthly pass itself. Grrr. I am in process of trying to appeal it, though the person I'm working with here (who very kindly wrote me an appeals letter in Danish) says I shouldn't hold out much hope.
I miss my cats. I miss Joel. I haven't had internet at home the last two evenings, and by the time I get home at night anyway I'm exhausted. I nearly flooded the bathroom last night. I'll be glad to go home.
But the actual palaeographical work is still really cool and awesome and makes up for everything else.
