brief update:
- last night was the oscars, and i'm so so so so happy that kate winslet and sean penn won! everyone was saying that kate would be upset by meryl, and that mickey was on his way to winning, but i think sean deserved it (and kate more for RR, but whatever. we'll take what we get). keep in mind that it ran until 5AM my time... and i had 10AM class. needless to say, i'm running off minimal sleep.
- i have two papers due in two/three days. and then the other two due in a week. fail.
- i'm making ACE face-in-hole pictures. i've made us into the jackson 5 (otherwise known as the bennett 5) and the spice girls.
- i'm trying to be a better catholic this lenten season. we'll see if i actually make it to a church for ash wednesday, given my need to be in class, but i'll give something up for lent and go to church.
23 February 2009
20 February 2009
mixtapes & midterms.
needed a catchy title. made my _FFA friend georgie a mixtape, and am listening to it now.
nothing new on the life front, really. bought the necessities for woo-woos last weekend and had a couple in the dorm to celebrate the failure that is valentine's day. consumed a hellacious amount of lindt chocolate truffles & oreos. v. excellent day.
since then, it's just been very exhausting. saw shun-kin at the barbican for modern drama in performance & it was totally brilliant, for being entirely in japanese, necessitating annoying subtitles, and for running straight through without an interval. two midterm papers due this week (for my english classes), two more due at the beginning of next week (for my politics classes).
saw an improv show in this tiny room on the second floor of some pub. BEST SHOW EVER. rivals UCB in hilarity. highlights included: stevemantha the whorish hermaphrodite, "this is a tale and a half, so long that when i reach the end, there'll still be 50% left to tell," and the musical version of the lives of others.
heard about the shenanigans going on in kimmel back @ NYU. my reaction: are you kidding me? i go to europe and people start rioting in the streets and barricading themselves in a part of the student centre? ugh.
no immediate plans for the weekend besides paper-writing. this blog is a pain in the ass to update, PS.
nothing new on the life front, really. bought the necessities for woo-woos last weekend and had a couple in the dorm to celebrate the failure that is valentine's day. consumed a hellacious amount of lindt chocolate truffles & oreos. v. excellent day.
since then, it's just been very exhausting. saw shun-kin at the barbican for modern drama in performance & it was totally brilliant, for being entirely in japanese, necessitating annoying subtitles, and for running straight through without an interval. two midterm papers due this week (for my english classes), two more due at the beginning of next week (for my politics classes).
saw an improv show in this tiny room on the second floor of some pub. BEST SHOW EVER. rivals UCB in hilarity. highlights included: stevemantha the whorish hermaphrodite, "this is a tale and a half, so long that when i reach the end, there'll still be 50% left to tell," and the musical version of the lives of others.
heard about the shenanigans going on in kimmel back @ NYU. my reaction: are you kidding me? i go to europe and people start rioting in the streets and barricading themselves in a part of the student centre? ugh.
no immediate plans for the weekend besides paper-writing. this blog is a pain in the ass to update, PS.
14 February 2009
i'm neglectful & for that, i apologize.
so apparently, members of the family are crushed that i've not posted in a while. here you go.
over the past... what, two weeks, now? i've been to bath/stonehenge & gotten a lot of work done. i'm convinced that stonehenge is just a landing port for the aliens who REALLY colonized england and then the entire world. bath is the most adorable little area ever, and i should've gone to the spa except hi i don't have that kind of cash money to just be spending on massages and whatnot. i would post pictures but i'm trying to just make this a fast post.
i'm supposed to be in madrid this weekend, and i tried leaving thursday but stansted airport was snowed in, and so i couldn't leave to visit kelsey. i'm so crushed, because it would've been a really great weekend and now i'm not sure if i'll get a chance to make it to madrid before the end of the semester. on the plus side, we've already started planning our trip to spring break, with a few credit card mishaps! london --> amsterdam --> paris --> marseille. i'm gonna try and go to florence for the second week and spend some time with my ACE loves, or i might just, i don't know, stay home in london. we'll see.
today is valentine's day, as i am sure you are aware. i will be spending the day running errands and eating tons of chocolatey things in an effort to cancel out the intense amounts of confusion and anger i currently feel, as i am thinking about all of the places i could be right now instead of london. happy valentine's day to everyone back home/wherever you are.
i'll post a little more often, but to be fair, life is really not that exciting here, haha.
over the past... what, two weeks, now? i've been to bath/stonehenge & gotten a lot of work done. i'm convinced that stonehenge is just a landing port for the aliens who REALLY colonized england and then the entire world. bath is the most adorable little area ever, and i should've gone to the spa except hi i don't have that kind of cash money to just be spending on massages and whatnot. i would post pictures but i'm trying to just make this a fast post.
i'm supposed to be in madrid this weekend, and i tried leaving thursday but stansted airport was snowed in, and so i couldn't leave to visit kelsey. i'm so crushed, because it would've been a really great weekend and now i'm not sure if i'll get a chance to make it to madrid before the end of the semester. on the plus side, we've already started planning our trip to spring break, with a few credit card mishaps! london --> amsterdam --> paris --> marseille. i'm gonna try and go to florence for the second week and spend some time with my ACE loves, or i might just, i don't know, stay home in london. we'll see.
today is valentine's day, as i am sure you are aware. i will be spending the day running errands and eating tons of chocolatey things in an effort to cancel out the intense amounts of confusion and anger i currently feel, as i am thinking about all of the places i could be right now instead of london. happy valentine's day to everyone back home/wherever you are.
i'll post a little more often, but to be fair, life is really not that exciting here, haha.
02 February 2009
snow, the super bowl and ridiculousness: all the makings of the beginning of february.
i can't believe it's already february. time is flying by here!
last night was the super bowl. you would think that as a yankees fan, i can appreciate a solid team with a winning history behind them. false. i think the steelers & their fans are so ridiculously intense and trashy (and what's up with those terrible towels? a towel is not bad-ass/"terrible." it's just cotton. end of story). so i went to a super bowl party filled with american expatriates at some local bar, and was crushed to watch the cardinals lose to the steelers by SUCH FEW POINTS. i left at halftime because i was annoyed with the old women in yellow feather boas cheering all the time, then came back because 1) it was snowing mad lots outside, 2) i was walking home alone, and 3) I WAS MISSING BRUCE. but we left somewhere around the beginning of the 4th quarter.
we walked home in crazy amounts of snow and took ridiculous pictures (because that's what you do when it's snowing, obviously)
snowball fight on liverpool road.
jessica & i kept track of the last few seconds of the game via NFL's live game center updates, and were so completely annoyed with that final touchdown. it's like... ugh, so close? and yet so far.
thumbs down for the steelers kthx.
on friday, we went to cambridge. i met srivani, who was in the same boat as me (roommate on the 8AM trip, didn't really know anyone else). i was split up from the writing london crew, so we walked in the same tour group. it was good times. at some point, we met up with riley & jessica and grabbed lunch, then went to the fitzwilliam museum, which had some really cool picasso prints from the time of the spanish civil war. i almost bought a book of shakepearian cats in the bookstore, but didn't (for the record, "shakespearian cats" means that it was drawings of cats depicting famous scenes in shakespeare's works. it was adorable, but definitely not worth £7). i have pictures but they're boring, except for:
thanks to the incredible amounts of snow, class was cancelled for today. except that the e-mail cancelling class was sent out at 940AM, after people were supposed to have left for 10AM class - it's a 25 minute walk, and longer if you're trying to avoid busting your ass on the slushy sidewalk by walking slower than normal. we just decided to have class anyway, since we were all already there. this way, we don't have to do a make-up session. but they might close school tomorrow too (for which i'd be totally grateful because british politics is excessively boring).
too many pictures in the post. i must go read for the potential class i might maybe possibly have to go to, and then finish evelina, except that i've barely started. failure.
last night was the super bowl. you would think that as a yankees fan, i can appreciate a solid team with a winning history behind them. false. i think the steelers & their fans are so ridiculously intense and trashy (and what's up with those terrible towels? a towel is not bad-ass/"terrible." it's just cotton. end of story). so i went to a super bowl party filled with american expatriates at some local bar, and was crushed to watch the cardinals lose to the steelers by SUCH FEW POINTS. i left at halftime because i was annoyed with the old women in yellow feather boas cheering all the time, then came back because 1) it was snowing mad lots outside, 2) i was walking home alone, and 3) I WAS MISSING BRUCE. but we left somewhere around the beginning of the 4th quarter.
we walked home in crazy amounts of snow and took ridiculous pictures (because that's what you do when it's snowing, obviously)
i really think i captured brad pitt's & cate blanchett's creepy stare. and i still will NEVER see this movie.
if i were america's next top model, this would be my greatest shot. i'm channeling a little bit of "i'm freezing because i'm lying down on an excessive amount of accumulated snow" and also "is it possible to look relaxed when you are lying on a picnic table in really cold weather? answer: no."
snowball fight on liverpool road.jessica & i kept track of the last few seconds of the game via NFL's live game center updates, and were so completely annoyed with that final touchdown. it's like... ugh, so close? and yet so far.
thumbs down for the steelers kthx.
on friday, we went to cambridge. i met srivani, who was in the same boat as me (roommate on the 8AM trip, didn't really know anyone else). i was split up from the writing london crew, so we walked in the same tour group. it was good times. at some point, we met up with riley & jessica and grabbed lunch, then went to the fitzwilliam museum, which had some really cool picasso prints from the time of the spanish civil war. i almost bought a book of shakepearian cats in the bookstore, but didn't (for the record, "shakespearian cats" means that it was drawings of cats depicting famous scenes in shakespeare's works. it was adorable, but definitely not worth £7). i have pictures but they're boring, except for:
PUNTING on the CAM.
kings' college chapel is positively gorgeous...
... and they have heated floors! (which i felt bad about, testing out. it's a church & i shouldn't have had my shoes off but OH MY GOD IT WAS SO WARM I COULDN'T HANDLE IT)
that greyhound is kind of looking at you in a "whatchu talkin' 'bout, willis?" kind of way. and the dragon's just like RAWR, as dragons tend to do.
thanks to the incredible amounts of snow, class was cancelled for today. except that the e-mail cancelling class was sent out at 940AM, after people were supposed to have left for 10AM class - it's a 25 minute walk, and longer if you're trying to avoid busting your ass on the slushy sidewalk by walking slower than normal. we just decided to have class anyway, since we were all already there. this way, we don't have to do a make-up session. but they might close school tomorrow too (for which i'd be totally grateful because british politics is excessively boring).
too many pictures in the post. i must go read for the potential class i might maybe possibly have to go to, and then finish evelina, except that i've barely started. failure.
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