bewitched, bothered and bewildered

Tomorrow I officially start my classes. Just now I was looking through my module booklet, which outlines the first semester for me. This week I already have one presentation and a seminar, on Wednesday. Not quite sure on what, but I hope they tell us tomorrow. I’m a slow reader, I need time to digest.
It [...]

On a plane, somewhere over the sea, above the rain

Today we found something at a reasonable price in this country.
Alcohol.
Not at the bar, or pub…that’s pricey. At the grocery store. Oh yes, we were like kids in a candystore. Coincidentally, yesterday I was in Beamish (the world’s largest open air museum) they had a sweet shop. There was also a school tour going on. [...]

big brother

I just got an email from the university IT team, or something similar. It reads…
Dear User,
The ISS servers have recorded that there has been access to
inappropriate sites from a machine that you were logged onto.
This contravenes the University`s codes for internet use:-
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/iss/rules/internet_use.html
and the warning
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/iss/info/usagewarning.html
Please do not repeat this activity.
If you feel that a mistake has [...]

i’m from earth, and you?

My liver is taking a serious hit this week.
Last night we went on a pub crawl to I think 5 places, and my German friends introduced me to beer + lemonade and beer + pop. I thought they were joking, but they kept knocking back pints of this concoction and well I had to try [...]

the viritual you

Over the past couple of days our professors have repeatedly told us that recruiters will look at your Facebook profile, or do a Google search when considering to hire you.
I have my profile setting on private now, so pictures of me wearing various objects on my head or playing the turtle flute (which is not [...]

monday, monday

Grad school is going to kick my ass.
Today was only orientation for my classes, which means I finally got my degree handbook with dates and due dates for assignments etc. The length of my first assignment is the length of the longest paper I ever wrote at Queen’s (excluding my thesis). I may have had [...]

will you catch me

New posters have been put up. Rothko and Dali. Clothes put away. Necklaces now dangling from the side of my book shelves. Highlighters stacked based on colour, yes I’m a little ocd.
Yet I can’t shake 2am as my new bedtime. Perhaps by the end of the week. My shuffle just popped on with Falling Asleep [...]

and sunday always comes too late

There is a serious lack of food labeling here. Also, I have yet to find pickles in any grocery store. Even Marks and Spencer disappointed me. But back to the labels…the other day I was out shopping looking for juice. They had a sale of 3 cartons for 2£ so I was checking the kinds, [...]

As we open up to the world in front of us, A thousand voices silenced but all heard

There is a monument in the city centre of Charles, Earl Grey, whom the tea is named after. Couldn’t have picked a better city methinks.
I practically bounded down the steps off my flat this morning walking to campus to get breakfast and stop in at the poster sale. I’m attributing it partially to Cuff the [...]

mind the gap

i think i shall fit into this climate swimmingly.
i woke up today to light rain, by noon it had stopped and by 2 the sun was shinning in the sky. i’m told the sun part isn’t the most common but its been a good for the adjustment period. things here are sorted, mainly. i [...]