see, i can read ingredients (mostly... [cringes remembering the cheese-including focaccia incident]..) but they do not have a little food guide pyramid or 2000 calorie diet explanations..
there is some sort of nutrition.. panel.. list. but i can't figure it out.
other, related things:
1.i need to figure out what the danish is for "refrigerate after opening." i feel this to be important.
2. also, a lot of things, especially at specialty stores, have lots of other languages on them, sometimes danish is not even included. there's a lot of german. occasionally english. so even if i were to learn the nutritional stuff in danish, it doesn't always help. also, i don't even know what is and is not danish sometimes. there's a D above German and a GB above english (that one makes sense, great britain). (but i guess german in german starts with a D?)
3. fuckin metric system. i don't know grams as serving sizes. i was never even clear in the US as to how many pints to a gallon or whatever. (this should probably be filed under "holy crap where have you been in the world," next to finding out that "p.o." stood for "post office" a few years back. and recently learning of what is known as "hard water.")
speaking of hard water.
HA. i am not insane.
i had been complaining about my hair feeling sticky and weird, and of course mason and my mom both blamed bronners soap for being inappropriate for hair. FALSE. i bought stupid expensive shampoo and conditioner (in plastic of course :( ) to make my hair unsticky, but it was still sticky and weird-feeling! and i hated it! and i asked around and at first got some weird looks but then on tuesday i had about three people finally agree with me--"oh my god yeah my host dad has been bringing me special shampoo but it's not working!"--and i found out that the water here is known as "hard."
apparently the rest of the world is familiar with the term. i was not. hard water apparently has more calcium? due to more limestone in the ground? and is lower pH because of this? in any event, it IS different and DOES do weird things to hair.
so, i chopped mine off. i figured, the less hair there is on me, the less stickiness i will feel. also, it's very annoying having hair when you bike everywhere, it's windy, rainy, gets messed up, bla bla.
so i went into the bathroom two nights ago and went to town. it's actually shorter than that time i chopped it all off, last .. februaryish.
but i've received compliments about my hair-cutting abilities! i don't really care, i didn't expect it to be even or anything. but apparently it mostly is. i chopped the hell out of it man. twas pretty fun.
i'll post a picture so you can judge for yourself. should i drop out of architecture school to become a stylist? keep in mind, this pic was taken about fourteen seconds before typing this sentence, and i've been out all day on a study tour in the intense intense wind. so i'm a bit.. wind-swept.
edit: while on the subject of water, i also have a problem with danish air. maybe it's biking in the wind so much, but i have lately been confusing my own skin with a hayley-shaped piece of sandpaper. i dislike unnecessary things like perfume and whatnot, but lotion may suddenly be removed from that list. i'm afraid i might crack open..
anywho that's all for now. gotsta pack for my study tour to western denmark! three days on buses and in hostels.. should be an experience. thank stars for cliff bars (yeah rhyme)! who knows how it's going to be to be vegan out there..
oh yeah i'm also uploading a video showing the result of my fight with the european can opener. the first fight, not narrated, was figuring out which utensil in the drawer was a can opener. i figured, it had to be there. i tried like eight different bottle openers. finally found it, and you can see the results...
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