Today, Not Much News

Well, today I did not do much because I had to run errands most of the day in addition to class. I did spend another day wondering around my kommune, Frederiksberg. Its a pretty neat little town. I made it into what must be the commercial district and it was like Pacific Beach, minus the tacky architecture of PB. It was just lined with restaurants, cafes, stores, and bars (I think bars and cafes here are quite similar which is a little unsettling cause I count on cafes as peaceful spaces where I can be in company but not intruded on at all). I will certainly have to check out some of these cafes as I start to get a routine down here. I also checked out a bunch of different grocery stores and found a couple that I am a little more comfortable shopping in. I even found pretzels at a couple, but they were all the same, a very small box of pretzels. I wonder if anyone has tried to link Denmark's suicide rate, the highest in the world, to the lack of good snack foods. I also found one that resembled our Targets back home. Along this road there are various fruit stands...they are not really any good...certainly no Henry's, but one was called "California Fruit and Grain." I don't think they had an ounce of grain in the store and the fruit in there would have been laughed out of the room by California fruit! Tomorrow I may take the train about 50 miles (47 kilometers...they use the commie-tric measuring system here...no wonder "W" doesn't like 'em!) to see the Lousiana Museum of Modern Art. It was highly recommended to me by a friend of mine and some of the pictures I have seen are great. Its on a beautiful coast with Sweden off in the distance. There are also beautiful gardens full of neat sculptures where I plan to lay for hours polishing off the book I am currently reading...a good book should always be laid to rest in a beautiful and peaceful setting, its the respectful thing to do. I expect it will be wonderful unless the weather turns on me...which reminds me...I have heard some comments about my inadequate "California" temperature tolerance...I'll have none of it! Unless you want to meat me in the water next January when the water temp is hovering around 51 and the air is 47...at 5 am!