The Black Diamond (With a little on beds)

My bed has been broken for the past few days now. I wish I could blame it on many bouts of rough and satisfying sex, but that privilege goes to the previous owner. I merely sat on it the other day and heard a crack. After that the bed had a distinct dip on the right side that left me waking up feeling like an old man with osteoporosis. I got around to seeing my landlord about the issue after a couple of days of sleeping on the crack testament to IKEA's craftsmanship. I was proud that I actually woke up in time to get to him during his 8-10am office hours while giving myself enough time to make class at 9. It was too bad that he told me the international office handled all issues students had with furnishings. Later that day I managed to get to the international office and wait in line before it closed at 3 in the afternoon. The woman there defiantly informed me she had 80 homeless students and that my bed was not one of her priorities. After some coaxing, I managed to get her to tell me I'd see a new bed before the first of next month and I should, in the mean time, take the legs off the frame and put in on the floor. Fuck, I wish I had thought of that myself.

The woman's callous advice worked wonders, and it felt like I was in a real bed for the first time in days last night. It felt unbelievably comfortable from the moment my back sunk into the luxuriously level surface of the mattress. I found myself admiring my unusual comfort even in the morning, when I surprisingly woke up to my alarm at 7:30. I decided I was better off giving my spine more time to recover and skipped class. Oh man, what a great decision.

What I did end up doing with my day was getting a free tour of this!:

It's "The Black Diamond," the latest add-on to Denmark's Royal Library. I have been excited to go there ever since I first saw it from the outside. I'd never seen a library that's so big! I mean, I've been to the National Archives and the Library of Congress in the US, but the public can't see much of either. But this library actually circulates books, books that even I can check out! Wow is right people!

I was especially excited for today's tour because I skillfully avoided paying the 6 dollar fee that all participants were supposed to pay a week ago. Take that, socialist library! The tour wasn't nearly as fascinating as the building it was held within. We found out that the library was originally called "The Black Square" and that it has 500 kilometers of bookshelves (or something like that). It was built in three years and blah blah blah look at this place!

There are even study rooms that I can use! Pretty cool right? One thing that did jog my attention during the easily ignored tour was the little factoid that there is, somewhere in the archives, half a copy of on of the original 500 Gutenburg bibles. Of course, the public has no access to it and it's not even on public display. Lame, right? But I will gain a certain degree of satisfaction when I study in a building I know houses a piece of history the Danes stole from the Germans during WWI.