Greetings from 3 storeys above Tescos!
I am now in my new flat, lying on my (sadly single) bed with some cold pasta, a can of Coke, my laptop (internet isn't wireless but it will be soon) and all my books and DVDs in alphabetical order on shelves. I wish I could show you pictures of my room but I am without a camera so you'll need to make do with my description:
I have basic furniture - a set of shelves, 2 desks, some drawers, both big and small, and a wardrobe, as well as 2 chairs, one swivelly. One desk has my English literature anthologies piled up on it as well as the many notebooks I have accumulated in recent times while the other is bare except for today's clothes, my bag, the phone, my iPod speakers and a jar of Nutella. There's a big mirror on the wall opposite me and on the same wall is a large cork board. You can't put pins or bluetack on the wall so everything is on the board - my Comedy Store ticket, a card and little letter K I got from Emma, a Chinese New Year decoration from Dara, a little welcome sign from my flatmates Duncan and Mara, the Marcus Brigstocke poster I stole from the Assembly on the Mound and an order receipt for Dispatches from the Edge by Anderson Cooper (what? I couldn't help it! Think of it as a welcome present to myself.) I also have a Moulin Rouge poster but nowhere to put it up. Am I up for breaking the rules so early into my 2nd year? Stay tuned! From one window I can see Arthur's Seat and from the other I look down onto Nicholson Street. I'm right above Tescos and opposite a 24 hour ScotMid, something that delights my flatmate. It gets pretty noisy but it's part of the joy of living in the city centre. I'm sure I'll lose my hearing at some point and it will ceas to be a problem.
Classes start on Tuesday, Celtic Literature at 10am, earlier than last year but I have the convenience of living 5 minutes from the university! Bye bye delayed bus rides passing by the tram lines. I've got my first social event organised - a cinema night out with an internet friend who moved to study here, Nathaneal. Although I sort of cheated and went to see Julie and Julia tonight.
I really enjoyed it, Meryl Streep was of course the highlight. Isn't she usually the highlight of everything? Even though I posses no cooking talents myself, I adore food, cooking shows and films where they show the preparation of food, so this film was ideal. I wish I could cook but student living isn't exactly the best place to start to learn. As one of those dull bloggers with nothing important to talk about whatsoever, I was of course excited at the Julie storyline, the idea that one thought could give you a spotlight and career path. As amazing as that would be to pursue, I don't have any great ideas of my own to try out. So if you, my friends of the internet, real life and both, could tell me what exactly makes me me and what you think would be the coolest, most interesting thing about me I could blog about to the unsuspecting public, that would be great. I think I need an outsider to tell me what I'm like, my own view is clouded by self-loathing, sarcasm and an imagination full of trivial bites.
And now for some food, non alcoholic drink and a DVD, possibly Have I Got News For You. Got to keep my comedy fangirling status somehow. Bon appetit!
I have basic furniture - a set of shelves, 2 desks, some drawers, both big and small, and a wardrobe, as well as 2 chairs, one swivelly. One desk has my English literature anthologies piled up on it as well as the many notebooks I have accumulated in recent times while the other is bare except for today's clothes, my bag, the phone, my iPod speakers and a jar of Nutella. There's a big mirror on the wall opposite me and on the same wall is a large cork board. You can't put pins or bluetack on the wall so everything is on the board - my Comedy Store ticket, a card and little letter K I got from Emma, a Chinese New Year decoration from Dara, a little welcome sign from my flatmates Duncan and Mara, the Marcus Brigstocke poster I stole from the Assembly on the Mound and an order receipt for Dispatches from the Edge by Anderson Cooper (what? I couldn't help it! Think of it as a welcome present to myself.) I also have a Moulin Rouge poster but nowhere to put it up. Am I up for breaking the rules so early into my 2nd year? Stay tuned! From one window I can see Arthur's Seat and from the other I look down onto Nicholson Street. I'm right above Tescos and opposite a 24 hour ScotMid, something that delights my flatmate. It gets pretty noisy but it's part of the joy of living in the city centre. I'm sure I'll lose my hearing at some point and it will ceas to be a problem.
Classes start on Tuesday, Celtic Literature at 10am, earlier than last year but I have the convenience of living 5 minutes from the university! Bye bye delayed bus rides passing by the tram lines. I've got my first social event organised - a cinema night out with an internet friend who moved to study here, Nathaneal. Although I sort of cheated and went to see Julie and Julia tonight.
I really enjoyed it, Meryl Streep was of course the highlight. Isn't she usually the highlight of everything? Even though I posses no cooking talents myself, I adore food, cooking shows and films where they show the preparation of food, so this film was ideal. I wish I could cook but student living isn't exactly the best place to start to learn. As one of those dull bloggers with nothing important to talk about whatsoever, I was of course excited at the Julie storyline, the idea that one thought could give you a spotlight and career path. As amazing as that would be to pursue, I don't have any great ideas of my own to try out. So if you, my friends of the internet, real life and both, could tell me what exactly makes me me and what you think would be the coolest, most interesting thing about me I could blog about to the unsuspecting public, that would be great. I think I need an outsider to tell me what I'm like, my own view is clouded by self-loathing, sarcasm and an imagination full of trivial bites.
And now for some food, non alcoholic drink and a DVD, possibly Have I Got News For You. Got to keep my comedy fangirling status somehow. Bon appetit!