i have just discovered that i have a little less than $400 to my name. huzzah. and i am going to london this weekend- a continuing adventure in the Land Of Expensiveness that is Great Britain. oh how i love the exchange rate. i haven't even been spending with wild abandon! actually, this means i've spend about £500 since i've been here. actually, ( Read more... )

when i write essays and papers, i sometimes leave little notes to myself in capital letters or bold font, like the subject line of this entry. in fact, i think my entire essay is too insinuating and smug. it is a lot of big words strung together with some freudian analysis and name dropping of literary theorists. but it's better than my last essay ( Read more... )

yesterday i left my sandwhich on my desk. it was terrible and traumatic. all that peanut butter and nutella, just sitting there so far away! i was not happy, and was forced to eat the other things i found in my bag, which were: a granola bar and a rather bruised apple that had probably been in there all weekend. i am trying this new thing where i ( Read more... )

yesterday, while attempting to brush my teeth, i but facewash on my toothbrush instead of toothpaste.

i swear to god.

luckily, i noticed before i put it in my mouth. i rinsed it off and spent a few minutes laughing myself silly until i felt able to start all over again with real toothpaste.

i'm a winner.

today i went to tesco and bought a loaf of bread and a chocolate bar. the bread was only 10p more than than the chocolate. something is wrong with this system. then i went to look in charity shops to see if they had any shoes, as i have pretty much destroyed mine. but i bought a sweater instead. cause god know, i need more sweaters ( Read more... )

today i got hit on by another old scottish man, in roughly the same ( Read more... )

this morning i had a 50 minute lecture almost entirely on the use and meaning of the term "song" in Paradise Lost. this turned into a question of whether Satan was male or female, based on the social construction and gendering of language. then i went to the library and read an article about the female gaze and homo/hetero- eroticism in a midevil ( Read more... )

i have spent the last hour reading kristin coyle's livejournal, starting at the beginning of the summer and going backwards til the beginning of sophomore year. i spent the time alternately laughing hysterically and crying. well, not really. but i miss the wheat! and the suite! scotland is lurvely but i don't have my pirates ( Read more... )

Tuesday night i went to see a play called You Never Can Tell. The girl sitting next to me said it was by the same guy who wrote My Fair Lady. I don't know if this is true, but i have no reason to disbelieve it other than the fact that i am obstinate ( Read more... )

my brain is on strike. i have no idea how long i've been trying to write this essay for, but it is much too much for 1000 words. most painful 1000 words ever written. it's due tomorrow morning, so of course the vast majority of it will be done today, cause that's how i role. I had to allot a certain amount of time for being pissed off about the ( Read more... )