These days haven't been packed with as much stuff as usually, so I will sum them up!
Thursday started off with me meeting up with Kat and Kim, two girls I am working with on the project mentioned below... parietal lobe dealio... we talked about it, the findings and there implications. We are giving a seminar on it tomorrow (Wednesday). I am pretty excited!
Afterwards, I booked a flight to go to Belgium this week Feb 12-16th, with Shannon and Rebecca. Should be great! We are going to Brussels for the first two days then Bruges the next two days.
I took it easy that night and just hungout with some friends...
Friday night was an eventful one, our neighbors were throwing a little get together at their flat. We started the night by having a poker game, it was Dave, Malcom, Jordan, Jacob, Paige and myself. The game ended up going so long that everyone who was suppose to go to the neighbors ended up coming into our flat! But we kept playing, and I won't tell you who won ;). Now that there is 20 people in my flat, I guess the party has come to us? I went over next door and played some beer pong. More people showed up and it was just an all around great/fun night.
I started Saturday off with a good adventure. I went with Amy and Jaime to the computer store to get Amy's computer fixed, pretty funny/sad story there. She had a random spew of Irn-Bru (the most popular soda in the UK) onto her poor Mac. Needless to say, the Irn-Bru came out the winner of this one. After we left the computer store we met up with Taryn and Hilary to go check out this gypsy store that was closing. On the way there we popped into this little store that had a bunch of custom books and poems and that kind of stuff. I found a little book of the poem "Desiderata" by Max Ehrmann, which is probably the most ironic thing in the world. Crystal - back home Crystal, showed me this poem on that Thursday before. I loved it and wrote the full poem out as well as posted it on my Facebook. Then randomly I find it in this little shop we weren't even intending to go into?! I bought it. (Recently just gave it away, it is a pretty powerful piece of work, you should check it out). So now we are on our way to the gypsy store, it was pretty much dirt cheap for so many random trinkets and tapestries and who knows what else. Everything screamed buy me I'm so cheap, but the more I thought about it, the more stuff I pictured just lying on my desk doing nothing. Everyone came out with a few to a bunch of stuff, I came out with a 79p tigereye rock - which apparently gives me "serenity, happiness, and good luck." I thought it couldn't hurt.
Saturday night I had a potluck with Amy and Jaime, I brought some soup! Amy brought some vegetarian chili with her favorite TVP (textured vegetable protein)... I am embarrassed to say it wasn't half bad, ok ok, it was good! Jaime made some delicious pasta. It was a good meal filled with some good convo! oommmnommnommm :)
After dinner Paige and Jordan came over, we debated what to do for the night and ended up playing articulate at my flat with Taryn and Dave added to the above people. We played until the wee hours of the morning, ending with both teams at the finish line, with Dave and I winning by one point :D.
Sunday, superbowl sunday! Although this wasn't my normal superbowl sunday. I am use to banners, betting, tons of food and pregame/half time golf... and sun. This superbowl was spent with all my buddies at the golf tavern, we had a table of about 15 of us, the superbowl started at 11:30PM! It was a pretty good game, but definitely different with the BBC announcers and terrible commercials. It was all good fun though, and ended up going to bed a bit late that night.
Monday started off very productive, I woke up, hopped on a bus to Craiglockart campus. I then got in line for 1/50 spots to go on a weekend trip to Inverness! Loch ness, you know, Nessy, the Loch ness monster. I am going to go hangout with her for a weekend. Should be beautiful up there the time this trip takes place as well, end of march, and will be a perfect prelude to my spring break travels! I also signed up for a trip on the 20th of February to go up to the Highlands and explore for a day. This club called SENIC puts it all on, and it is a pretty damn good way to adventure around Scotland. After I signed up for the trips I was back on the bus to my class over at morningside church. Class seemed unusually long today, probably because I was still tired from the superbowl festivities, but learned a little more about our language processing system then headed back to my flat. Called it an early night, and am well rested for Tuesday!
I can't believe I have been here for a month already... time sure does fly!
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