in britannia

Gosh... As I said in my last post, I'm really busy this term. Made busier by the fact that I have no computer at the moment. I've, in fact, been without a computer for the better part of two weeks. It's killing me. I mean, certainly, there's plenty of stuff I can do without it. But it's really starting to hurt that I'm without...

Derek, one of my best friends at Oxford left today. He's gone to play professional baseball in Louisiana, and he'll be finishing his Master's in Classical Archaeology on the road. He'll go to law school next year, and then onward to a life of protecting art. He doesn't want to be Indiana Jones: he wants to be Indiana Jones' lawyer. I wish him the best of luck.

Still, part of me can't help but feel really sad that he's leaving. Many of my very good friends have moved on. Jess and Ted left at the end of last year. Dan is still in London, but I never see him. And really, Jess and Derek were my pool playing buddies. We were obnoxious and American and jingoistic. We were all from the northeast, and were unabashedly argumentative and intellectually curious and we got along great. I miss Jess a lot. I know I'm going to miss Derek too.

On the upside, it's, like, 90 degrees out and sunny. Gorgeous weather for working outside.