Surprises and fun when I should be working.
Yesterday, I got up early to do work, but I wasn’t too successful in my endeavor. I did get some work done, but with a lot of procrastinating. Every time my e-mail thing made a noise, I went to look and see what e-mail I had gotten. And one time, it wasn’t something I expected. I got an e-mail from Nancy Ruppel, whom I haven’t seen in forever. She was in Oxford and remembered that I was here too. So I e-mailed her back and said name a time and place and we’ll meet up. I didn’t hear from her for a while, so I sent another e-mail and said we could just have tea or coffee the next morning before she left, but then I got a phone call. It was Nancy and she said she thought she was standing in Regent’s entry. So I went, and there she was. Crazy stuff. For those of you who don’t know, Nancy was a year older than me and went to high school with me. We were on the soccer team together, she was also friends with Brendan, and she lived in the neighborhood next to ours. I was friends with her sister too, who was a year younger than me, who is apparently coming to England over the summer, but I’ll be gone already. Nancy has been in France teaching English, but flew in and out of London, so she’s spending a little time here before she flies home.
It was quite exciting to have someone come visit me, since that doesn’t happen too often over here, though I guess I better get used to it this term. We called Brendan, and they’re going to try to meet up today. She didn’t know he was in London. Then we talked for a while in my room, and ventured to the Eagle and Child for dinner. She’s a big fan of Narnia, and she hadn’t known about the pub, so I’m glad I got to introduce it to her. Then we came back, and I met up with Jennifer to go watch a movie in the JCR for Cinema Night. Nancy had already seen the movie so she headed back to her hostel, but it was really good to see her. Jennifer and I watched The Prestige as everyone passed around little tubs of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream, each of us with our own spoon, taking a spoonful at a time and eating out of the the same container. The movie was good, had some unexpected twists, and I’m not sure how I feel about the ending, but I’m glad I watched it. Now I have to get down to work and finish this essay that’s due today. I feel like I’m not putting in as much work this term, but still getting everything done. Maybe it’s because both my tutorials are econ and that just takes less time for me. But it’s nice to not stress out as much and still have fun and get work done. Hopefully I won’t start stressing now that I’ve written that.