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I've taken to sitting at a windowside table on the 2nd floor of the University's main library, studying, reading, doing whatever it is I'm supposed to be doing, and staring whimsically up at the oblique outcroppings below and around Arthur's Seat. This vantage point also affords me a nice view down a half st./half square called Buccleuch Place, which presents, on it's Eastern side, a fantastic example of late Victorian architecture and which, on it's Western side, presents a hideous example of functionalist 1960's block architecture. And behind it all the Seat rises like a pissed off mother monolith.
So, things are things. Inadvertent, intermittent, uneventful.
School has been cool, but I often find myself with too much free time and have consequently watched too much television, spent too much time monkeying with my fantasy football teams, and performed far too much useless research in the library simply because it's there to be done and I'm a professed geek.
Autumn here is perhaps even more gorgeous than in Seattle. I wonder what Prague looks like right now. Despite the fact that even thinking about it makes me distinctly uncomfortable, I still wonder about the world I left behind there, the small group of friends I had the pleasure of flitting in and out of, the cityscape which eventually self-integrated into my psyche, the linguistic difficulties and joys.
But this is where I wanted to be all along, so no one's complaining. I'm just...ruminating.
Again, no complaints. Well, it could a bit less expensive here, but there's nothing to be done about that now. Plus, the dollar is actually quite high against the pound at moment, so...yay for financial markets. No idea how they work, so I tend to treat them like the weather. I say 'the dollars strong against the pound' in the same way I say 'it's going to be sunny all weekend' or 'looks like we're in for a cold one!' Absolutely nothing to be done about it whatsoever, so why invest pure, personal rhetoric?
Coming soon to my flat: broadband internet, which means more of this from more of me, I hope.
So, things are things. Inadvertent, intermittent, uneventful.
School has been cool, but I often find myself with too much free time and have consequently watched too much television, spent too much time monkeying with my fantasy football teams, and performed far too much useless research in the library simply because it's there to be done and I'm a professed geek.
Autumn here is perhaps even more gorgeous than in Seattle. I wonder what Prague looks like right now. Despite the fact that even thinking about it makes me distinctly uncomfortable, I still wonder about the world I left behind there, the small group of friends I had the pleasure of flitting in and out of, the cityscape which eventually self-integrated into my psyche, the linguistic difficulties and joys.
But this is where I wanted to be all along, so no one's complaining. I'm just...ruminating.
Again, no complaints. Well, it could a bit less expensive here, but there's nothing to be done about that now. Plus, the dollar is actually quite high against the pound at moment, so...yay for financial markets. No idea how they work, so I tend to treat them like the weather. I say 'the dollars strong against the pound' in the same way I say 'it's going to be sunny all weekend' or 'looks like we're in for a cold one!' Absolutely nothing to be done about it whatsoever, so why invest pure, personal rhetoric?
Coming soon to my flat: broadband internet, which means more of this from more of me, I hope.