saturday, 31 january 2004

overheard: "i want to do coke in a bad way" -hall

yesterevening wasn't everything it could have been. but oh well. sex and the city might have been a nice end, but i was tired. i forgot to mention in yesterday's update that i got to watch life as a house thursday night. everyone else's tears got on my face. like normal. this weekend has been designated for work. and lillian's ball tonight. but mostly work. and food. but i finished my hat. so i'm feeling good about myself. went to brunch at rhodes house this morning. it was good. i chatted for a long time to a canadian rhodent from vancouver. so that was exciting. and, ummm, it's back to being warm. 54 right now. hurrah. and drizzly. a great oxford day. jacks phone broke last night: boo. ok. back to work.

friday, 30 january 2004

overheard: "i look far too normal" -st aldates

well, as far as i've heard, bobbo's birthday was a smashing success. when i spoke to him he was working on the bibliography for his junior research project. my dad had a basketball game last night. i hope that went well. and the zags won. sorry waacho. there are a bunch of new photos i posted yesterday: one from the summer, two [1] [2] from the party monday night, and snow pictures of hall, tom tower, and the divinity school.

thursday, 29 january 2004

happy seventeenth birthday, bobsforth!
overheard: "perhaps. does he have a good room?" -mike

yesterday was the 407th anniversary of our founder. the bastard. well, not literally. but he wasn't very nice. spoke to my mom for a good half hour. spoke to aaron for a bit. nothing ever gets resolved. it seems. i still have that bruise on my shoulder from 11 days ago. whoops. i was inspired to rework my first chapter yesterday, but then we got kicked out of rho.ho on account of something or other. i need a summer job. in DC. any brilliant ideas?

wednesday, 28 january 2004

overheard: "it's too late for england" -OFS

i had best intentions of getting up at 7 to go to the gym today, but sleep is contagious. so i'll content myself with free breakfast, some hot cocoa with devi, japanese food for lunch, and hopefully plenty of studying. and maybe the gym after lunch, as is so often the case on my sleep in days. no house inspecting yesterday, to my chagrin. and i messed up getting a railcard. but i did book rooms for my family's visit in april.

tuesday, 27 january 2004

overheard: "i have that virus that's going around: bullemia" -greg

i know i don't normally update on hangover days, but it is tuesday, and it seems a bit pathetic not to update, whatever the reason. great drinks party in dave's room last night, with matt, jack, tristan, mike, james, pete, louis, and various and sundry other individuals whose names i don't know or can't recall. flirt was great, too, reenacting monday of 1st week, mt03. all in all it was a lovely evening. and then i came home and had a shot of espresso. i think, perhaps, that wasn't the best idea. i was simultaneously drunk and buzzed. mixing uppers and downers, such a bad idea. i realized while drunk that i know innately which direction to turn the bottom thing on chapstick tubes. weird. got my rhodes ball invite in my pidge today. OH. and i need to go check out the room i got assigned for next year. it's far from college, which sucks, but it's close to the train station, which may be very good. have to decide.

monday, 26 january 2004

overheard: "so the warden was actually nice?" -lindsey

hmmmm. so much to do this week. meeting with the supervisor today. that's kinda scary. but first rho.ho, the lunch, and the bod. it's gross (aka scottish) night in hall, so i think i'll be dining elsewhere. otherwise, little preparations for the parents' visit. i hear bobsforth is my little brother again. my mom is starving him. hikama? yuck.

sunday, 25 january 2004

overheard: "there are tastebuds on my penis" -jack

has it been a month since christmas already? oh, how i wish i had wifi here at oxford. last night: 9th college. hurrah. how many left. wandering tipsy around queen's last night, i found myself beneath an open window through which i could hear to people in flagrante delicto, if you know what i mean. is it time for brunch yet? why oh why haven't i done any work for forty-eight hours. nevermind. my parents are visiting in, ummm, less than ten weeks. yay.

saturday, 24 january 2004

overheard: "would you like some whiskey?" -some rho.ho worker bee yesterday at 11 am.

no, i wasn't hungover yesterday. i just didn't have a decent quote, and so i lost my inspiration. really weird nyquil-induced dreams the past two night. but i'm fighting off this cold as best i can. i screwed up on my super cool hat, though, so i have to pull out a whol row of stitches. bugger. ummm. what else? there's not a cloud in the scy today. vitamin D, here i come. dinner last night: fillet of fish. what does that mean? and i had this dream that my mom sent their flight schedule for the easter visit, and it was ridiculous. spokane to denver to sydney to london. and then london to cape town to chicago to spokane. seemed quite silly, but my mom was convinced it was the cheapest ticket available. crazy dream mom. i didn't go out last night. tonight, chch.gcr/queens.mcr drinks. and that will bring me to eight colleges. hurrah. just thirty-one to go.

thursday, 22 january 2004

overheard: "it's easy to be a born again christian once you're so old your libido is gone" -brian.

yes. yesterday was a productive day. i got through two books, which is more than i've done any day since i returned. and i got re-excited about my course. they announced the new warden of rhodes house: sir colin lucas, who is currently the vice-chancellor of oxford. so that's cool. the current warden is, well, you know...i had japanese food for lunch yesterday. so so amazing. really. i'm knitting myself a chch hat, speaking of exciting. and, ummmmm...two disturbing dreams last night. one in which i felt compelled to report a jerk to the proctors. in the other i had to escape, along with two girls, from sketchy used car dealer/all purpose criminal man. i think i ground my teeth.

wednesday, 21 january 2004

overheard: "you could catch a crab. or a boy" -someone at dinner. to brian.

anyone else counting down to the spring equinox. oh. me neither. please keep becky's friend alisa lewis and her family in your prayers. alisa died on monday from complications related to bacterial meningitis. very sad. oxford is tropical of late. so warm here. but not trusting it, i've started knitting a cap for myself. i need to start doing a LOT more work. ARGH. so did anyone else notice during the state of the onion last night that whenever W grins, it looks like he's a frat boy who just got laid. other than that, he has two faces: looking serious (but like he's about to start grinning) and looking completely vacant. that he is the most powerful man in the world could well be the most frightening thing i've ever contemplated. patriot act. straight marriage. ugh. makes tony blair almost palatable. oh, and ps to amanda: good work on spreading santorum to georgetown.

tuesday, 20 january 2004

overheard: i got nothin today

it's 8.15, and i've already been to the gym. gonna head to breakfast presently. and then a full day of bodding it up. tonight is tuesday at the turf. i missed lunch yesterday. but then had a croissant with melty cheese. love that. and tea at rhoho. sent in out a couple applications for summer jobs. and some postcards. and, ummmm, bought envelopes. if you haven't noticed, it was a profoundly boring day. but now i know that my supervisor is alive. and we're meeting monday of second week. so he can rip apart my first chapter (which is, admittedly, complete crap) then.

monday, 19 january 2004

overheard: "she's very easy" -jack

yesterday was a hangover day. whcih was fine by me, though i'm still a bit sleepy today. dr archer finally emailed me back. we're meeting next week to discuss chapter one and ideas for things i can present to my seminar group at the end of term. i really need to dig into some archives. and take a nap. maybe go work out. it's cold. not really cold. i just feel cold. in ten days, bobsforth turns 17. and in a month, manda turns 21. whoop whoop.

saturday, 17 january 2004

overheard:"i have nothing against northern people" -sammy

it's damn cold in oxford today. almost went for cocktails after dinner last night, but decided that the queue was too long and the temperature was too low. it was, all in all, a pleasant evening. i had a good workout yesterday. i got up at a reasonable hour this morning, and now i'll be going to brunch. i'd say that after brunch i'd do laundry, but that seems like an awful idea, really.

friday, 16 january 2004

overheard:"if you are struggling for some SAME ideas take a look at gap's shop window for some inspiration" -matt

a few observations: 1)if i want to ever become a productive student again, i'll have to stop sleeping for eleven hours each day...which is not to say that i want to be a productive student. 2)men in england really ought to stop wearing those stupid pirate pants. 3)there is nothing more annoying than watching people lift weights dangerously. 4)free breakfast is still the best thing that's ever happened to me. 5)i'm the only person in the world that the chch computing officer is nice to. 6)i have really vivid dreams. last night i dreamt about a game of capture the flag i played with all my spokane friends that spanned north america. very fun.

thursday, 15 january 2004

overheard: "you should never smoke out of something that requires two people to operate" -anonymous

i recommend the dowd op-ed in the new york times today. made me like dr dean even more. and krugman's from tuesday. yes. and, well, how is my work going? i haven't been to the gym yet. i hate jet lag. and i think maybe i need to find a library. and sleep 8 reasonably. but free breakfast is the best thing that's ever happened to me.

wednesday, 14 january 2004

overheard: "i know he's strong, but..." -jack

yeah, so i'm really sore after one night of 11 hours of sleep. and i missed free breakfast in hall, which sucks. but it's lovely to be back at oxford. i got to see pretty mountains at the beginning of the flight. and, ummmm, what else? all you can eat lunch at pizza hut was a bad idea yesterday.

tuesday, 13 january 2004

overheard: "watch your lethal gum" -NTSA guy, amidst my security screening.

well well well, i spent most of yesterday on a plane. wrote a little bit. read a little bit. slept a lot bit. you know how pleasant being on a plane for 12 hours can be. oh yeah. but now i'm back in oxford. woohoo. and scared of my first meeting with my supervisor. think it can be put off until first week? i doubt it. i wonder when his stint as proctor ends. and i wonder when i have to do a presentations for my seminar group. i'm getting a bit nervous about the latter. i did write about 8500 words over break. so almost a tenth of my disserations, i guess. but it definitely needs heavy revision. and i need to do a heck of a lot more reading before my master stud viva. AHHHH. oh, the stress of being a student. ALH: ihbio. ha. ha. maybe you'll get it back. i couldn't resist. people need to see it.

monday, 12 january 2004