16 Feb

Since this week is reading week, I’ve been staying in instead of hitting the town like I would if I had class. It’s kind of nice to be around the dorm in the sense that my clothes stay cleaner longer and I’m saving a good bit of money. Today, however, I broke my routine by heading into town for a short while. I needed to find a couple of books for my 1^st WW Lit class and headed to the Borders on Charing Cross Road in search of those articles. I found one but it proved too pricey to warrant the expense, and since it was getting cold and rainy, I decided to just head back to the dorm.

Apparently, I missed a mini hail storm that some of the other JYAs had to endure for a while. Funny, for it to hail in February. Well, London is a strange place. After dinner with the gang, I headed back to my room to do some more work and catch some Olympics. Speed skating! Certainly one of the more dramatic events full of changing lanes, crashes, and close finishes. Gregg heard the Olympics on in my room and stopped by. We watched for a bit, then Liane came by because she was bored.

Somehow, my room has turned into the hangout place for talking about random stuff. It is somewhat centrally located (at least for our little end of the corridor) and certainly the warmest of all our rooms since I keep my window closed and the radiator on all the time. We talked about Olympics and then Lainey stopped by. We ended talking about books we’ve read as children and I was happy to hear that the others are also fans of Susan Cooper’s “The Dark is Rising” series. I’ve been meaning to buy the paperback collection from Amazon for, I can’t exactly remember, about twenty dollars. I love that series.

Gregg and Lainey were leaving for Portsmouth and Amsterdam, respectively, the next day so they all left around 12:30. I stayed up for a bit reading some Shakespeare for a class before going to bed. Cheers!