thanks to heather, i've been making the most of fat tuesday. mmmm yes. although i left the computer lab in low spirits, my nordic mythology class was as always a riot with the prof in the exact same sweater he's worn every classday so far. one has to imagine he knows. i spend half the period laughing and writing down quotes; once i've compiled a sufficient number i'll post them here.
that was followed by a better-than-average danish politics class. the DIS instructor gave a guest lecture on an article we read, whose author apparently went to swarthmore. cathy ta turned around and we smiled at each other. the article touched on many of the issues and contradictions of this place. you could tell, despite the attempt at evenhandedness, that the author was smitten. that's okay, i kinda am too. at the end of class, this chick shannon with whom i've been hoping to become better friends invited me to a movie tomorrow evening.

but none of that has to do with food so i'll skip to when i skipped back to DIS, met up with drea and heather and went skipping to her host family's house where in true host family style they stuffed us full of salmon quiche, green beans, rolls, and, for desert, banana cake. we lingered around the table in traditional fashion. i charted the course of the conversation from inital very awkward small talk to, eventually, royal family gossip (the queen's french husband, count henrik, had a nervous collapse after some three-decades and is headed back to frogland. the danes seem glad to be rid of him: pompous jerk never even bothered to learn the language) and sex jokes. when drea heather and i finally retired to heather's room to watch the usual suspects, the hostmom made us a tray of tea and american popcorn. topped off with carepackage candy. oh loveliness.

my wonderful mother just sent me an email. she's been babblebooking to keep up with me. 'for all that bar sitting,' she says, 'surely you've drunk something more interesting than hot chocolate!' and here i thought i was being moderately self-censoring for her benefit. she also said that following the links on my sidebar brought her to tinman's site. the whole bit made me laugh. hi mom. :-)
danish resistance museum tomorrow -- assumedly we'll learn more than just that the whole thing about the danish king wearing a yellow star is a myth -- then christiania with heather and a new possiblefriend katie, then the movie with shannon. after that, the field study trip to jutland. we'll see how often i'll have access to the net.