A Christmas Carol Service on the last day of November
I was sort of lazy again this morning. It’s very bad when I don’t have pressing deadlines because then I end up doing nothing in order to procrastinate on my a little ways off deadlines. I didn’t go to lunch today because it was like a charity lunch or something where they just had soup so it wouldn’t have been a lot of food and I have food in my room that I needed to get rid of. I finished off my big thing of crunchy peanut butter that Kim and Lee gave me before I left. But don’t worry, I have creamy from my mom so I’m not out yet. I worked some on my paper, almost ordered a pair of cheap but good tennis shoes but then they went out of stock (really good sale, but I just missed it, oh well), crocheted, called my mom to verify some dates, called Kyle to tell him about the dates, and then headed out around 1:30.
I went to volunteer my last day at Keston, addressing envelopes for the last time. I didn’t get much out of this experience but hopefully I at least helped them. And it took my mind off things sometimes so that’s good. Then I walked over to the library and found that I didn’t have my card, which you can’t get into any of the libraries without your card here. So I walked back to Stanley Road and found it in the back pocket of the jeans I wore yesterday. I wrote some e-mails and pretty much finished my paper. I still have to read over it a couple times. I’m not sure how good it is, but right now I sort of don’t care. It’s already above and beyond what I was supposed to do for this tutorial and I’ve got some other things on my mind at the moment, so I’ll turn it in after a couple revisions and that’ll just have to be good enough. I’ll probably write him an e-mail to let him know what I wrote on because the question was just sort of loosely created by us, so I did it a little differently but I think that will be okay.
Ruth called me while I was doing this to see if I wanted to go to this Carols service after dinner tonight, so I said sure. I talked to Amanda on instant messenger for a bit too. Then Dr. Hadaway e-mailed me a crash course in philosophy with powerpoints of his notes from his classes to help me prepare a bit for my interview and the test. Haven’t look through those yet, haven’t decided if I’m going to, probably will.
Then I walked in the rain back to Regent’s. But I had my big waterproof white coat so I didn’t get wet and was warm. I didn’t feel like bringing an umbrella and it wasn’t raining that hard, almost more like a mist, a strong mist. But I bought this coat (for $20 and it’s Lands End, not bad) for the English weather that I expected. I haven’t had much of that weather, which is great, but today it sort of was and my coat was great for it, so yay!
Dinner was actually pretty good. It was called a vegetable parcel or something and tasted like a big egg roll and I love egg rolls. I didn’t have dessert. I think I’ve finally gotten rid of my sweet tooth, not craving sweets anymore. Then a bunch of us from Regents walked over to the Carols service. It was really nice. Almost all the songs had different words from our Christmas Carols and some even had different tunes. So I had to look at all the words to sing and not sing too loudly in case I sang the wrong stuff. The guy who talked gave a really good talk, so I enjoyed the service and it took my mind off things a bit. It was also cool because there were a bunch of Regent’s kids there, not just Ruth and me, so it was neat to spend time with them too.
After that I walked back to Stanley Road so I got my exercise again. I might take a shower tonight and then go to Mass early tomorrow morning before my interviews so I can get my mind off things a bit. But then I would have to get up really early. I’ll try though. I have those two interviews, then a meeting with the tutor who is sort of the correspondent with G-town, then lunch, then meeting with Regent’s principal, then my tutorial, and finally a meeting with the guy who arranged the Christianity and Culture lectures. Then I will come back here and collapse, but I will have gotten through the worst of the application process and finished up with all the things I have to take care of for my term here. Then I can relax for the rest of my time here, except for taking that test, but I’m not thinking about that right now. So now I’m going to try to get some sleep before my big day.