I love Sarah and Jennifer
I should be preparing for my politics tutorial, but I’ve been reading econ all morning, and I need a little break. And I just got an e-mail from Sarah, saying that it will be no problem for me to stay with them during the break. I don’t remember if I’ve written about my problems with this. I applied for a vacation grant to stay at Regent’s for the two weeks before term starts after my mom, aunt, and uncle have left. First, I got a reply that the school is completely closed for the first week, so there’s no way I can stay, and then for the three days that I could stay, they didn’t give me a vacation grant, so it would cost about the same as staying in a hotel to stay here, and I would have to be buying food too. So I asked Jennifer if I could maybe sleep on her floor for part of the time, which she said is fine, but once other people start moving back in, I was afraid David would find out and I would get in trouble or have to pay or something. So Sarah had said I might be able to stay there part of the time too since some of her housemates might not be there the whole time. I e-mailed her with the new developments and asked if she knew when people wouldn’t be there. And she just wrote back and said it would be no problem for me to stay. The last couple nights, I might be sleeping on a couch instead of a bed, but that’s find by me. I still might stay with Jennifer some too, but it would be nice to have a bed. So I’m still not completely sure what I’ll be doing, but I do know I will have some place to stay in Oxford during that time, so I can still work on my thesis proposal and have access to the libraries. Jennifer also said it would be no problem for me to leave some stuff in her room over the break, so I can get to them when I get back and not have to find a way to store them at Regent’s and get to them before I’ve moved back in. I’m so glad I have good friends. Really. I don’t know what I would do without them. And that includes all the people back home that I’ve bummed beds from over summers while I’m working at internships in cities where I don’t live. I really do rely on the generosity of others, and some day I hope I’ll be able to pay people back in some form or other.