Cambridge, violence, and London!

Went to Cambridge last weekend to celebrate Luke's birthday. A few slight hiccups, none of which were exactly expected, but overall pretty awesome. London this weekend, and the Cambridge are coming to visit, should probably tell them about Mexican Night 2.0 sometime soon.

In other news, violence in Oxford has risen steadily over the past week. One student was assaulted, one man was stabbed outside a restaurant near city centre, and another man's body was found in the Thames about a block down from our house. Makes me feel all warm and safe inside...

Tutorials are going alright. I started out with papers that definitely weren't my best, but it's totally okay because this means I can slowly "improve" over the course of the class, landing a good grade at the end. Uhmmm....that's about all I have right now. I think I've given up on visiting Morocco, but we're definitely taking some other weekend trip, and maybe two. Poland and Italy are high on the list.

This week's post: A Rant on English weather.

I have yet to experience a thunderstorm in England. There is no thunder, and there is no lightning. It's horribly boring and all I've gotten is a sad mix of dreary clouds, cold sun and windy snow. All the fun weather was left behind, though the awesome snowstorms that shut down the entire country did provide me some entertainment.

Get to see MacBeth tonight. It would definitely be cooler if I didn't have a paper due at noon tomorrow, which I naturally haven't started, and we won't be back until midnightish at best. Plus I'm tired so there'll probably be some dozing during the play. Maybe I'll get it on the bus ride into London instead. Should have a chance for some good London Eye and Parliament pictures.

It starts getting light at about 4 am now, and won't be dark until 9 pm. This cuts deeply into my sleeping time. I need more darkness. thankfully even when it is light the sun is almost never out, so I can just pretend and sleep on anyway.

Also, May Day was a couple of days ago. Some people jumped off bridges, some of us just stayed up all night to watch the singing and then go pass out for a few hours. I'll just blame my fatigue on that...