Recent adventures

There has been a suspicious lack of posts for approximately a week. I've become entirely absorbed in going on adventures, wandering around campus contemplating life and falling in love with England, wasting time watching South Park, and making plans to do homework (without actually ever doing the homework). Recent discoveries about self & other include:

- I can, in fact, go out clubbing, and survive, and even perhaps enjoy myself, although it is not a good idea to stand right next to a speaker when you are not used to listening to loud music, because your ears will ring for the following 48 hours.
- During Elizabethan times, scientists believed that female genitalia was simply male genitalia turned inside out. They also believed that the womb wandered throughout the body and thus caused sudden changes in women's behavior. Perhaps my uterus is in my left ankle today. Who's to say? (Also...how did they believe children were conceived? Wouldn't this have been some indication that the womb does, in fact, stay in one place, anchored by various internal tissues and muscles and adjacent organs? Silly Renaissance folk.)
- York has some of the best food I've had in recent memory. If you go to York, give us a call, we'll tell you where to go.
- I love the Lake District. I don't think I'd mind living there...forever...perhaps becoming an ambitious traveling hobbit like Bilbo Baggins....
- I also love fish & chips with salt & vinegar. They just never have quite enough salt and vinegar. They could also really do with ketchup, which is why I bought some ketchup to take on hiking trips.
- Grammar is arbitrary and ridiculous. As is spelling. This will not, however, stop me from being an elitist grammar & spelling snob.
- I love Vindication of the Rights of Woman. At least the first few pages, which are a general introduction to the rest. I think I will have to buy my own copy.

I discovered that I can upload photos to Facebook after all, and that other people can look at them. Enjoy!
Clubbing at Cuba: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2360037&l=14712&id=10236722
The girls go play in York: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2361549&l=0eadf&id=10236722
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2361551&l=4074c&id=10236722
A few extra pictures from Scotland, including Fort William: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2361619&l=0d7ba&id=10236722

I don't have pictures of Keswick, because my batteries were still charging when I left, and normal batteries don't seem to actually work with my camera.

Coming soon:
Thursday - Hiking club dinner, with "black & white" fancy dress (I think the best possible idea for this costume theme is Michael Jackson...but alas...I wouldn't have any idea how to go as that.)
Friday - Wednesday - DUBLIN!!!!!!!!!!!! & Kilkenny & possibly Wicklow Mountains
Following weekend - Cross Fell
Probably every weekend thereafter - Hiking club trips in Lakes & Scotland
Spring break - Travels through Malaga, Granada, Cordoba, Toledo, Madrid, and Barcelona, and then a week in Malta. Followed by frolics through France & Italy, currently not planned out.

All right...I think I'll go actually do work.