2 posts tagged “copenhagen”
woohoo, internet was restored!
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.....and chaos was restored!
Much happened in the meantime, some of it was reported over here on Panemma's blog.. (photos are here).
The short version is:
- packed my home into boxes,
- new job, too many things happening at the same time, meetings and meetings and clunky old computer programs that can't be changed because they're on a national level decided by some politician so they can measure the productivity of universities..
- Panemma came to visit on her birthday... and then left on my birthday... during the week she was here, we visited:
- Denmarks highest point (all of 170.98 m above sea level - that's 560.96 feet to you foot fetishists)
- Den gamle by = the old town (open air museum of old houses)
- J & H, some of my bestest friends,
- a newborn foal who was put out on grass for the first time (the grass wasn't for him, but he had to go outside with
his mom)
- the iron age market with falconers... and three sp. of birds! (cool), some armoured fighters, lots of craftmanship,
iron age food and schtuff!
- one of the worlds longest bridges across the baltic sea from Funen to Zealand.
- Viking ship museum
- Copenhagen in general,
- Tivoli in particular
- oh, and we saw the new Indiana Jones movie on opening night
- Waved goodbye to Panemma, packed the cats and went back to my old apartment
- took down the lamps and curtains and packed the last bits.
- MOVED
- screwed the bed together and a closet before I conked out.
..... and got back to work for the next row of meetings in the homepage committee.
The cats are staying with my mum this week, so tomorrow I go back, clean the flat hand in keys on monday and drive the cats back here....
I will get around to getting up to date with everybody's blogs eventually.... but there are a few things that need screws screwed in and boxes that need emptying etc... so have patience for a bit longer.
That's the view from my new office. My department is in an old hospital. The old brick buildings are used for the university now, but it's protected as heritage, so they can't change even the colors on the walls - the class rooms still go by "the 16-bed room". Our department actually lies in the Dr's residences... so there are old bathtubs in the bathrooms!! and a kitchen on each floor - and a little garden out back with magnolia trees.
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Me and the cats are busy packing AGAIN... I get a bit depressed thinking about how much time I spent painting, hanging up curtains and lamps, figuring out the best way to fit my life into this space... and now I have to do it all over again... and just for a year. My job is a one year contract (somebody else's maternity leave). If all works out and they get more money, they might want to keep me... but so far I only know that I'll stay for one year... The new place is painted and comes with curtains, so it isn't really that bad...
Just packing and moving is a drag.
The cat's help me though:
