When I lived in the UK (though I’m told it has changed now), we didn’t use to get these weekly brochures. They are a feature of Denmark though, coming through the door twice-weekly. That wasn’t the point of this post however.
This week’s catalogue contains a front page advertisement for what I assume to be a clothing brand / line, I suspect it would need translation if they wanted to sell it elsewhere…
Now back to my regularly scheduled exam preparation.
From today’s Copenhagen Post:
Almost half the Danish population tuned in to watch the inauguration of US President Obama on Tuesday
More than 2.3 million Danes watched the US presidential inauguration on national television stations DR and TV2, according to the latest audience figures published today.
Both channels showed the American ceremony live between 4pm and 7pm on Tuesday and viewing figures are likely to be even higher as the 2.3 million does not include viewers of the news broadcasts.
This is a sharp contrast to a regular early evening, where audience figures are usually at the half million mark between 6pm and 8pm.
I wonder, is that more than in the US?
Well, everyone else has had their say on the inauguration, and I don’t have much more to add. So, from the funnies department, I’ll just leave you with this (via Seb):
So today I had a successful interview for one job, doing web work and newsletters for one of the research schools at the University. The pay is listed as 150kr including holiday allowance, I guess I’ll figure out what that means given time!
Prior to the meeting I met with M to sort out some outstanding issues from Christmas, and found out I also got the TA job for a course this semester. This, as far as I can tell, pays 185kr/hr, and is for either 70 or 90 hours over the course of the semester.
Now, I’m told the Tax free allowance is ~4000kr, over which I’ll pay about 50%. I make that approximately 4000 + (6904/2) = 7452kr/month, or about 888 kr / week over rent, a liveable wage which will take the pressure off my other income source. Additionally on May 1 I should receive about 4089 kr in holiday allowance, if my Math is correct, which should about cover my trip to Cyprus.
Fingers crossed my math is correct!
Now, just to deal with the immense amount of bureaurocracy involved in getting a bank account to pay my salaries (that sounds good!) into! But that’s for tomorrow. I spent most of today building Ikea furniture, lugging it from floor to floor (along with a ton of pre-existing furniture) and other odd jobs in the department, unpaid I might add, so all I want to do now is sleep!
