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Published: July 28th 2009
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I actually have to go through my facebook photos to remember what the heck I've been doing for the past two months.
Okay albums are: Cocktail party, June Random, Midsummer, and July So Far... so there we have it. We came back from Vegas and Tenerife, moved in, had a fantastic cocktail party with all our friends and a lot of homemade high style sushi, an then got settled into summer. I mean, I do recall laying on the boat two days and getting a suntan. I do recall going swimming in the harbor twice and watching people swim about ten times (I find it a bit too cold for my liking but then again, my liking was in Hawaii and Jamaican waters) and then we had the fabulous Midsummer night festival (also the date of my birthday) where for my birthday Dzl took me on a wonderful bike / boat trip, boating to go biking and we had a bbq with my 'family' on the boat. Then we have July so far, where its been a bit more 'fun' if you will, a Britney Spears concert with my best friend and some costuming - burlesque featuring a new corset
and skirt from Femme-Fatale care of Dzl for me, clockwork orange inspired for Mads; cocktails afterwards with the boys. A few cafes, an incredible and romantic bbq on the beach, a trip to Louisiana museum which was beautiful as its on a beach and also that it actually had really interesting contents about the future of homes and ecology. A spectacular and much needed visit from my 'other' parents, Ben's parents, where we had just a few hours to show them around Copenhagen and give them a boat trip and a lovely herring lunch. A ball of jeans (http://www.geekphysical.com/2009/07/ball-of-jeans-jeans-bomb-copenhagen.html) and acceptance to Festival della Creativita which means a trip to Florence in October! Finally a hectic week followed by booking a trip to Canada for 10 days in August.
So the idea is, like I have done in the past with Vancouver I have now started a list of things to do in Copenhagen. Some touristy, some favorites, some for exploring. Either way, they are things to do when we are lacking ideas and inspiration or when I am sick of sitting in front of the computer, which surprisingly to all who know me, is happening more and more.
I find that despite the summer time, I do not have a tan, I have been to the beach once, I am horribly depressed and feel like it could be the dead of winter for all the difference it makes. Tonight I had a great night out with my friend Mads, we sat outside a cafe, had a nice dinner and talked, and talked. What was great was when it was 11pm it cooled off and we both got up to leave. Significance? It was warm enough to eat outside and appreciate the cafe-street-style thing and then it cooled off and we left, indicating that it is in fact summer, nights cool off but I can still wear a light jacket and get away with it. So it must be summer, it was a nice indicator, but I don't feel like it. I'm missing rollerblading the seawall or laying on the beach or having the trunk of my car full of beach emergency gear (suntan oil, blankets, towels, snacks, flip flops, frisbees, etc, which I used to keep in the trunk from May until September).
My dear friend Nina has recently written to me after I complained about missing
her while she's off in New York for the summer, that Britney concerts, summer parties and gay sailor parties (oh that was last night, forgot to mention it) sound like Copenhagen must be pretty fun in the summer. Which of course, they must be, and I've been busy. Work, then 7 hours of lessons in Danish a week, and about the same in homework, and then spending time with Dzl. This (given that spending time with Dzl is either having dinner, working, or sleeping) doesn't seem to leave time for summer. At VPD (old job in Vancouver) I used to go running on the seaside on my lunch break. Granted, I was a spoiled brat for that reason, but working in the city there was always time to go out, see nature, visit a coffee shop, meet up with my mom for sushi, whatever. Here, despite the fact that my job pays well, is flexible, and has nice bosses, its on a highway. Lunch is provided which at first one thinks is super luxurious, and it is, its beautiful food, but its because there's no where else to go, and we all go for lunch at one time, meaning that
even though I have managed to find a nearby trail through the woods along the highway, there's no time to walk or run there. Thus I am considering buying a good bike. Mine is lovely its like the first car you get that you love endlessly, but its a 'shopping bike' heavy, girly, and made for riding in skirts. I need something that I can go 11 kilometers each way in a reasonable time to and from work, then maybe I can see the sunlight and feel like its summer.
All in all, I'm very eager to go to Vancouver, go rollerblade the seawall, take out sushi and go to the beach then go dancing at a gay club. (They are really just more fun, no expectations, no jerks, no attitude, just fun, go try it!) Dzl's super excited also to go so that's really nice.
I wonder what other people are doing with their summers, am I the only one sulking? Do I even have a right to? When I'm not at work I am in my beautiful amazing apartment, and I love it, so what am I complaining about? I think I just miss the days of ending school and having the summer wide open, although honestly, I have been working since I was fifteen so I have worked all summer... I don't know.
In the meantime, I am enjoying the World Outgames being held in Copenhagen, eagerly awaiting August 1, which marks the beginning of me doing something interesting; I will be working with the Submarine ballet to prepare for the big show August 7 and 8 where we sail down the harbor with dancers, acrobats, submarines, fire canons, etc, etc. I will be working Saturday, Sunday and then each day after work so that will be fantastic! It will actually probably be hard work and a lot of coordinating but hey, it'll be in the sun, on the water.
I think there must be a post-masters-thesis depression that people enter into, what do we do next, what, as Mads said quite rightly, is the next big question? Do we just start working and then eventually die? How does one go about creating a life for themselves? Its a tough question and I have the pieces: boyfriend, apartment, european city, job, art group, budding business, but how does it all balance out properly to give me the excitement and challenge that I need? Suggestions welcome.
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