10.03.2004
freshers
It's been an eventful week here at Oxford. We're all moving in and having a wonderful time meeting people. I've written something like ten postcards already, and trust me, there are many more people on my list. I've been scouting around for a British football team to root for: one with just about the same type of history as my beloved Red Sox: so far, nominations have been given for Aston Villa and Everton. Manchester United is, by far, the overwhelming analogue to the New York Yankees.
Bought myself my cap and gown. This stuff looks ridiculous: it's like a psycho-long vest with no sleeves and useless remnants of wings hanging down from my armpits. Remarkable, really, that these are still necessary. Even funnier are the caps which, I'm told, we're not even supposed to wear: we're supposed to carry them. £20 for a cap that I don't use, and £25 for a 'gown' that I could have made with a bedsheet and a pair of scissors. Ridiculous.
Also bought myself a duvet and cover, so now I can sleep like a normal human being. The room is starting to look more like a room now: it's got light and sunshine (ok, not so much on the sunshine) and pretty soon, my ethernet connection will work.
Congrats to the P. school quiz team, which took second and third in their first competition yesterday. Well done! And of course, we're watching for the Red Sox to sweep their first opponents in the ALDS, then the ALCS, and then the World Series. Go BoSox! And then the Patriots, going for #18 in what has been very vocally NOT called an S-word. Or at the very least, they've had 17 little one-game S-words, that's all. Go Boston Sports!
Bought myself my cap and gown. This stuff looks ridiculous: it's like a psycho-long vest with no sleeves and useless remnants of wings hanging down from my armpits. Remarkable, really, that these are still necessary. Even funnier are the caps which, I'm told, we're not even supposed to wear: we're supposed to carry them. £20 for a cap that I don't use, and £25 for a 'gown' that I could have made with a bedsheet and a pair of scissors. Ridiculous.
Also bought myself a duvet and cover, so now I can sleep like a normal human being. The room is starting to look more like a room now: it's got light and sunshine (ok, not so much on the sunshine) and pretty soon, my ethernet connection will work.
Congrats to the P. school quiz team, which took second and third in their first competition yesterday. Well done! And of course, we're watching for the Red Sox to sweep their first opponents in the ALDS, then the ALCS, and then the World Series. Go BoSox! And then the Patriots, going for #18 in what has been very vocally NOT called an S-word. Or at the very least, they've had 17 little one-game S-words, that's all. Go Boston Sports!
