So I have a few minutes here to tell you more about Oxford. I’m staying in an area called Jericho, north of the city center. I’m on Walton Well Road, a little tiny street lined with Indian restaurants and the like. I plan to try one of them eventually; I’m told they have excellent curry. [...]
Archive for December, 2003
Ten hours of sleep is wonderful for rejuvinating you after ten hours in an airplane. After finding a Starbucks with Tommy, we went to get our photos taken at Snappy Snaps. I now have an Oxford student ID. Yay, go me.
After that, we took a walking tour of Oxford, seeing many of the colleges and [...]
Hello. I made it to London finally. And after an interesting little mixup with the buses at Heathrow, I made it to Oxford. The keyboard on the computer here is somewhat tough to type on, and I’m getting pretty tired, so more detailed updates will have to wait. Also, it’s dark and I can’t take [...]
Thursday was invented by mean people. It’s almost the end, but not really. It’s not even a very special day… Monday’s the first day, Tuesday’s almost to the middle, and Friday’s the end… leaving Thursday kind of just hanging there. This particular Thursday is especially nasty as I have four finals (Anthropology, Geography, Political Science, [...]
I realized last evening, while munching on my delicious barbecue chicken from L&L Hawaiian Barbecue, that everything I dislike about the American ethos was summed up in two groups that were operating near me. To my right, at a set of Starbucks tables loosely cobbled together to accommodate a group of about ten people, were [...]
So it’s Friday, and my classes are all officially over. I now look forward to five finals .. one on Tuesday and four on Thursday. Yay.
I fly home on Friday the 19th. I leave for England on the 26th. I return on the 11th. I fly back to San Diego on the 12th. That’s pretty [...]
Almost done with school… more updates later.
So, today has been an interesting and good one. Throughout the day, a few things stood out that I’d like to share.
Chia Pets are a wonderful way to say “I’d buy you a real present, but I thought you’d like this clay thing with weeds on it instead”
Someone in my end of the hall enjoys [...]
