I post this message on the return from my large Thanksgiving meal where I'm still stuck in a food coma.
Thursday, November 24, 2011
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Finished Paper
I have finally finished my essay that counts for 10% of my AB2 exams that officially start in 2 weeks time. Even after the massive amounts of typing, I'm back, sitting in front of a screen, typing endless paragraphs.
This is mostly because no one is on Facebook to talk to me (in all fairness it's not quite 9am yet for the East Coast).
I'm going to be missing Thanksgiving and I'm terribly sad :( but there has been an offer from a group of people here to have a Thanksgiving like dinner. This roughly translated is will be a dinner of turkey, mashed potatoes, and gravy where I spend the entire duration of it explaining the origins of Thanksgiving and current traditions. I may just read over the wiki article on it and then just recite it.
Fun is going to be explaining the all important day of Black Friday. There was a brief mention the other day about how some Americans will go and collect vouchers (coupons) and keep every one they find and then take piles of them to the store to buy products at reduced prices. After this, me and another American with the same name, sat and giggled about how just by seeing the words "Clearance" or "Sale" we have to immediately go and look through to see if there is something that we absolutely must have but really don't need.
Should be interesting how they view Americans after I mention that people have died in the frenzies to get through the doors at 3 in the morning. As I stay home that day of the year, I play absolutely no part in changing their view of us (unlike certian others things I could do but don't to freak them out).
With my exam coming quickely I'm working my way through my notes, trying to figure out how I will remember all of this. The good news is that once I'm finished, I will have a few days off and most of my class are taking trips to other places (so I should hopefully have the flat to myself!!!). There is a winter carnivel in the center of Edinburgh that lasts from the end of November until the beginning of January and I think that I will uses those few days of absolute freedom to go ice skating, visit vendors, and take a spin on the ferris wheel to enjoy the tons of lights that are currently being put up in the Princes street gardens. I will take tons of pictures, because I'm sure that it should be quite a sight :)
This is mostly because no one is on Facebook to talk to me (in all fairness it's not quite 9am yet for the East Coast).
I'm going to be missing Thanksgiving and I'm terribly sad :( but there has been an offer from a group of people here to have a Thanksgiving like dinner. This roughly translated is will be a dinner of turkey, mashed potatoes, and gravy where I spend the entire duration of it explaining the origins of Thanksgiving and current traditions. I may just read over the wiki article on it and then just recite it.
Fun is going to be explaining the all important day of Black Friday. There was a brief mention the other day about how some Americans will go and collect vouchers (coupons) and keep every one they find and then take piles of them to the store to buy products at reduced prices. After this, me and another American with the same name, sat and giggled about how just by seeing the words "Clearance" or "Sale" we have to immediately go and look through to see if there is something that we absolutely must have but really don't need.
Should be interesting how they view Americans after I mention that people have died in the frenzies to get through the doors at 3 in the morning. As I stay home that day of the year, I play absolutely no part in changing their view of us (unlike certian others things I could do but don't to freak them out).
With my exam coming quickely I'm working my way through my notes, trying to figure out how I will remember all of this. The good news is that once I'm finished, I will have a few days off and most of my class are taking trips to other places (so I should hopefully have the flat to myself!!!). There is a winter carnivel in the center of Edinburgh that lasts from the end of November until the beginning of January and I think that I will uses those few days of absolute freedom to go ice skating, visit vendors, and take a spin on the ferris wheel to enjoy the tons of lights that are currently being put up in the Princes street gardens. I will take tons of pictures, because I'm sure that it should be quite a sight :)
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Should be writting my paper...
I haven't given an update in a while (thanks to being really really busy) and I am currently looking for any excuses not to work on my paper but I think it's boring.
Saturday, November 5, 2011
Guy Fawkes Day
Remember Remember the 5th of November.
The gunpowder, treason, and plot.
I know of no reason why the gunpowder treason should ever be forgot.
Tons of Fireworks are going off around Edinburgh Tonight (and consider the sun is going down at 4:30 they've been going off for quite some time).
As it would turn out, they do celebrate the 5th of November here (more so than my way of celebrating by watching V for Vendetta) and it is know as Guy Fawkes Day as well (according to the Internet).
Happy Guy Fawkes Day (if that's an ok thing to say?) and just because I can:
"Voilà! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of Fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a by-gone vexation, stands vivified and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin vanguarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition. The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta, held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous. Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose, so let me simply add that it's my very good honor to meet you and you may call me V."
The gunpowder, treason, and plot.
I know of no reason why the gunpowder treason should ever be forgot.
Tons of Fireworks are going off around Edinburgh Tonight (and consider the sun is going down at 4:30 they've been going off for quite some time).
As it would turn out, they do celebrate the 5th of November here (more so than my way of celebrating by watching V for Vendetta) and it is know as Guy Fawkes Day as well (according to the Internet).
Happy Guy Fawkes Day (if that's an ok thing to say?) and just because I can:
"Voilà! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of Fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a by-gone vexation, stands vivified and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin vanguarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition. The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta, held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous. Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose, so let me simply add that it's my very good honor to meet you and you may call me V."
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