Wow, that weekend went fast.

Sarah and I went down (Evelyn maintains you always say up, even if London is south of Bishop's Stortford) to London today.  It took us two freaking hours to get there because there was a problem with the tracks between Broxbourne and Cheshunt, so no trains could go between those stations.  So, every train from Cambridge/ ( Read more... )

So, it's been a bit since I've updated.  Suffice it to say, Sarah got here in one piece.

Nothing happened Friday.

Sarah came in on Saturday night, we went straight off to the pub where there a few of "the boys."  Golds ended up getting into a fight, as per usual.  I drank a little too much and then we talked about QI and Stephen Fry for a few hours ( Read more... )

I registered to take the GRE today.  I will be taking it on Saturday December 22nd at 12:00 PM.  I'm absolutely terrified.  I always knew it was coming, I always knew I had to take it, but registering today made it, well, real.  I was actually shaking as I typed in my information.  I've already given myself the verbal portion and I scored a 660 out ( Read more... )

I went to Harlow with Colin today.  I had to buy a birthday card for Carol.  I just can't get over how much damn candy is in this country.  It doesn't matter what shop you're in, there's at least one or two aisles stuffed with candy and it's all stuff I can't get at home.  It's like living in Willy Wonka's factory or something.  Terribly bad for ( Read more... )

The best site on the internet is, contrary to popular opinion, not The Best Page in the Universe.  It is, however, ChurchSignGenerator.com.  It's right up there with Engrish.com and MTTS.com as far I'm concerned.  And why is this the case?  See below.


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I had this whole fucking entry typed up and hit backspace and for some reason my computer went back to the previous page and I lost the whole damn thing.

At any rate, Doc Martin was simply amazing tonight.  Martin and Louisa went out on their first official date.  Martin of course fucked it up royally, and through an almost Artistotelian sequence of ( Read more... )

I e-mailed a professor at GSU last night to see if he'd be my faculty advisor. Well, this morning I had an e-mail in my inbox in which he wrote that he thinks my ideas are "fascinating" and that he'd love to be my advisor, or at least co-advisor/thesis reader/committee member (his expertise is European history, so I'd need him for religion and ( Read more... )

I was supposed to go down to town tonight with Ryland and the boys to watch England in the Rugby World Cup final.  I tried calling Ryland twice to no avail.  I'm not too bothered by it though as England ended up losing (due to a combination of blind refs and stupid mistakes) as well as the fact that I have to get up tomorrow to go to mass.  And I ( Read more... )

I walked down to town today to buy my friend's daughter a Christmas present.  Her husband is English (even if he has been living in the States long enough to no longer have an accent), so I thought it'd be good to get her a couple of typically English children's books.  So, obviously, I got a Paddington Bear book and another one called That Rabbit ( Read more... )

My internet connection is going in and out (BT is having issues) so let's hope I can actually type up and post this entire entry without anything going awry.

I found out some interesting things about my family yesterday.  Upon examining the family tree that Evelyn drew up, I found out that I have a relation who was Bishop of Ontario (Protestant) ( Read more... )