ATHENS TOMORROW ( Read more... )

Despite a really rocky first week and a half, I am finally all settled in and thriving. As wonderful as Oxford is, and there are many wonderful things about it, the best part about being here is planning, well, leaving here. Barring some major unforeseen obstacle, I'm going to go down to the bank tomorrow, finish harassing them and hopefully leave ( Read more... )

Oxford is freakin' awesome ( Read more... )

So. I'm having a *great* time right now. FML. Here is the tale of my woes: last month I sent in my UK Tier 4 General Student Visa. I sent this in as early as I could, meaning the day I got confirmation of my loan. I could not apply for the loan sooner than I did because the guidelines were changing and Oxford told me not to. Unfortunately, because ( Read more... )

I have never had such a weird success/catastrophe dichotomy going on in my life as I have now, and it's driving me crazy. On the one hand- I have graduated with a 3.97, highest honors and distinction in the major, been accepted to Phi Beta Kappa (whose induction fees are being paid by my department), and just won two departmental awards, including ( Read more... )

I had a really good day yesterday. One of my classes is US foreign policy from 1898-1945, and for some reason the professor has taken a real shine to me. All right, so maybe I like to show off in the class, since this area is my specialty. So maybe on the second day of class I accidentally stole the prof's thunder. I hadn't done the reading in ( Read more... )

Um, so who knew there was a Sherman's Lagoon the musical? Hell yes, the comic strip. Tolerable, too, although I would have bought it even if it sounded like nails on a chalkboard. Well, maybe not nails on a chalkboard; you know what I mean. Other recent i-tunes adventures include finding it will take 21 hours to download an episode of Psych (only ( Read more... )

I'm probably going to suffer terrible bodily harm in the next week or two. By my reckoning, I'm pretty overdue for some catastrophe, and I've been having an absolutely splendid week to make the situation even more dire. Let's review: Monday I succeed in tracking down my scholarship money and the sun shines once more on my bank account [this coming ( Read more... )

While cleaning out my waterlogged satchel today, I came across an old piece of paper I had used to jot down random notes for the winery murder mystery (still not quite completed, I'm afraid) while I was bored at work. One of the lines reads: "new biological weapon [prunes?]". I have since concluded that perhaps my life would be more fulfilling if I ( Read more... )

I am still somewhat distraught over a dream I had early this morning, which is very unusual for me. I almost never dream, and when I do, I usually have only the sketchiest memories of what occurred. But for the last two nights I've had extremely vivd nightmares, both featuring my car, that I remembered almost perfectly when I woke ( Read more... )