11 Feb

I had lunch with most of the gang around 12:30. Brian Emery (he goes to Sarah-Lawrence back home and is a Film History major) came just as everyone else was ready to leave so I decided to stay back and keep him company. We talked about our plans after college (he wants to become a screenwriter/director) and our internship(s) over the past years. After lunch I read for class until I got bored. I decided to skip dinner because I wanted to finish off the bread and fruit in my room before it went bad. Gregg told me later that I was wise to skip dinner since the vegetarian option didn’t look too appetizing (though the curry this afternoon was pretty good). After dinner Liane and Gregg stopped by and asked if I wanted to play pool. The night was still young and since I have all of next week to work (reading week = no class except one War Studies seminar) I decided to join them.

I’ve decided that the English have very strange taste in billiards games. Snooker=bizarre and overly complicated, and their regulation size pool table is much smaller than ours; it feels like one of those toys you play on as a kid that can convert from a hockey-table to a pool table and such. You know the kind I mean? Also, instead of having different colors of balls either solid or striped and all numbered, they have seven red and seven yellow balls and the usual eight ball. The balls are also much smaller than the kind we use and the cue ball is tiny! Funny thing though, is that the cue sticks are the same size that we use. Weird. Gregg won the first couple of rounds while I soundly defeated them both in the last round. Mwahaha. Three rounds was enough in that cold room so we turned the set back in and headed back to our rooms.

After pool I decided to be really productive and read a good bit more on Queen Elizabeth. We received our essay options for the class on Thursday, and I’ve decided to discuss “How far do the politics of the Elizabethan court either illuminate or compromise your reading of any works on this course?” Should be a fun essay to research, if not actually to write (yes, they do exist). After that I just updated my blog before going to sleep. Cheers!