A Non-Stressful Day
I woke up around 7:30 this morning without my alarm so I just decided to stay up, though I didn’ turn on my lights until after 9 or so, after my shower. Kyle happened to still be up so we talked for a bit. Then, after my morning routine, I started on finishing my paper. I got it done by around 10:40 so I read the globalization book. My tutor had said I didn’t need to read the whole thing because I would probably get the idea after the first few chapters, but I was going to try to read it anyway. I got through chapter 6. This was not as exciting as the poverty book. He seemed to just keep saying the same things over and over again. I read through my paper once and talked to my mom briefly before I started out to Regent’s for lunch.
I sat with Marshelle and Johnnie. The guy in charge of the meals came and asked me if I had signed up for my jacket potato. I said yes. Later, another guy, Alex, came and sat down and he said he didn’t get his potato so I guess they were short one and were making sure everyone who had one had signed up. Ruth came in to tell me she hadn’t signed up for lunch but we agreed to meet at 1:30 to go to the box office. We went and she got a seat not next to mine but in the same row for Sleeping Beauty. The lady said we could probably get people to move down so we could still sit next to each other. So that will be fun since someone is going with me. Ruth and I are both very excited about the ballet.
After this I read Hitch Hiker for a bit until I decided to go to the Museum of the History of Science. On the way I stopped at Sainsbury’s and got some snickers bars because I wanted one. After 2 bites, I decided I didn’t really want one, but I ate the rest of it anyway, slowly but surely. The museum mainly had a bunch of historical measuring things, like clocks, compasses, beakers, astrolabes, and lots of stuff like that. There was one case with lots of old photography cameras and then another with moving film things, which were neat. There was also a chalkboard that had been saved with writings of Albert Einstein that he had used when he came to Oxford to give a lecture. So it was a pretty cool museum, though not my favorite kind of stuff. It was fairly small, though, so it didn’t take long to go through.
I still had a little while before the economist talk so I went to the social sciences library and read over my paper again. This time I noticed that I had spelled “hire” (as in workers) as “higher” (wrong word), which somehow I had already passed it once and the only reason I noticed it this time was because it told me there was a grammatical mistake for something else in the same sentence. Really glad I noticed though, or else I would have felt quite stupid when my tutor would have pointed it out to me. Then I read Hitch Hiker again. I found the place where the talk was to be given and went up there a little before. It was quite crowded. It was actually very interesting. I had been afraid that it wasn’t going to be considering I hadn’t really gotten into his book. It was about “Debt, Deficit, and the Dollar” and talked all about the current savings and investment of almost all the countries in the world being in surplus while the U.S. is carrying pretty much all of the deficit with huge debt. I was glad I went.
I walked back to Regent’s and read Hitch Hiker until dinner. I didn’t eat much of my dinner. The starter was a spring roll and small salad which was very good but the main course was some kind of noodles with vegetables which turned out to taste somewhat like Ramen seasoning except very spicy. I like spicy but the table ran out of water and it was just a bit too spicy for me. Dessert was ice cream with a wafer cookie, though, which was very good.
Marshelle and I walked back together. When I got in, I talked to my mom for a few minutes before she had to go to a dentist appointment. Then I talked to Kyle while I ate some cheese and crackers and some peanut butter and crackers. Then I drank some tea while I read Hitch Hiker again. I read a lot today but many times it was for short periods of time so, though I am a slow reader, I’m not extremely slow, like this may make me sound, considering it is taking quite a while to read Hitch Hiker. Of course, it’s also 4 books in 1, so that makes it really long too. After reading some, I remembered that I hadn’t written my blog yet, so I’m doing that and then going to bed to get up early tomorrow for my tutorial. it was nice to have things finished today so I could be relaxed the day before my tutorial rather than trying to finish everything up hurriedly. Not having stress is a very good thing.