Good day
Friday was a good day. Thursday, I didn’t get much done, but had a lot of lectures. Nothing too exciting to write about. Friday I woke up and didn’t get much done either, but then had a lecture, and came back to college to meet up with Sarah, my South African friend. We went and had tea and just talked. It was really nice. I think we’re going to try to do that more often this term. Then we ran into Brad, an American grad student who is also vice-president of the MCR and he asked us if we had ever sat at the High Table during formal hall, which is where the principal and all the SCR, professor people sit. The MCR is supposed to have two people sit up there each formal hall and they’re trying to get new people to do it. So he said we could do it together and he’d give us advice on who to sit by, so we agreed. So one week this term Sarah and I will be at high table. Celia said she would take pictures of us.
Then I went back to college and met up with Dr. Taul. We went to the King’s Arms, a pub, and he bought me lunch. I had fish and chips, which the fish was more greasy than seasoned in any way but it was still a good meal. I think Dr. Taul was surprised at how much I ate. I was hungry. We had a nice conversation, and then I went to the social sciences library to work some. I had made a stack request to get an article from the Bod, but it never came in, so I sort of stressed about that, but I thought maybe it would come in by that evening or by today. It still hasn’t, but it turns out they have a copy of it at the SSL issue desk, so I have it now, and I don’t have to stress. I was worried I wouldn’t get it in time before my essay is due Monday. I ran into Taylor and Jennifer, both G-town people, and Taylor and I shared books. He’s in my tut with me. Then he left and later Jennifer and I walked back together. She’s really nice.
Then we had formal hall, and the meal was actually decent. I had the vegetarian which was sort of like a croissant with sun-dried tomatoes and cheese in the middle. It almost tasted like pizza. Then we had a quiz night thing in the JCR. Our team had one English person on it, Celia, and we came in last. We had three Americans, Jennifer, Kristie (the other G-town girl), and me, and an Italian/Polish, Ula. It was fun even though we didn’t know anything. We also discussed the room ballot, which we’re all stressing about. There have been new developments which are too complicated to explain. In the end, I have like three choices, all of which will mean me living on college, and everything will be fine for me, but I just don’t know what I want to do. So now I have to make a decision. They decide on this stuff way too early.
Well that was the end of my night. And now I’m at the library where I brought the wrong adaptor to plug in my laptop, so I might not be here all day like I had planned if my battery gets too low, but I should probably get to work and not be writing in here.