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End of Term
This afternoon I had an hour-long conversation with my Anthropology professor. We discussed the monastic ambitions he had in his youth and his subsequent deflection to the world of gender and health politics in Zambia where he had spent most of his adult life. We talked also about me and my interests. He asked me what I was doing this winter break ( Read more... ) -
Ads! Ads! ADS!!!!
I just discovered that if I view my LJ as a guest user, there are ads on the side of my page! I can't see them when I'm logged in, but they're there! Call me finicky, but this actually annoys me to the point where I'm contemplating switching over to blogspot. -
London
Last week I met up with Arthur and his friends in London. We went to the theatre, smoked, hung around the Tate and the bridges, took photos, ate, drank. I loved the city. Christmas lights were going up and Trafalgar Square was alive with music and chatter. Invitations to Obama parties spewed here and there on the night of Nov 4th even though the ( Read more... ) -
Adrift
I have to be at school in an hour and all I want to do is to be on a train going somewhere far away from here, with warm sunlight shining on my face through the window as I doze off with a good book on my lap. -
C'est Moi Qui Flotte L'autre Part
I am becoming more social at the university; I now talk to at least one person in each of my three lectures ( Read more... ) -
Apartment
This is the two-bedroom place I share with flatmates Carol and Yuting, who may or may not be lesbians. With Asian girls it's sometimes hard to tell, and I don't want to offend anyone by asking for a clarification I don't particularly care about. All I know is they sleep in the same bed in the bigger room and are almost never home, so this living ( Read more... ) -
A View from Saturday
A man in a car making a left turn into the street I was crossing yelled at me out of his window because I made him press the brakes. In Canada I would have shoved up a middle finger and yelled back but I remembered in time that this was Manchester, so I just sulked all the way to the library. I was having a bad day and thought I might feel better ( Read more... )
