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BYE BLOG!

Hayyooooo

So, I'm still in Bath, still doing things, etc.
I've handed in two of my papers out of three, and the third is coming VERY slowly, on top of being Shakespeare.
Speaking of, though, for that class we had a study trip to the Globe theater, where there's no roof and some people stand and things. We saw Merry Wives of Windsor, and I actually laughed out loud. Shakespeare on paper versus Shakespeare on stage: no comparison. During this trip I also bought a T-shirt from the Tate Modern gift shop that says "I LIKE TO ARTY HARD" get it?!!!!!?!!

Marry me? He knew so many things!

No roof!

Little nuggggs.

I've been trying to plan my fall break, where I'm seeing Jeannie from (MIDDLE SCHOOL?) in Berlin and other places TBA. Super pumped. Supaaa.

Also I made this - new and improved beans and cheese: home made, not in dhall.

With avocado salad and greek yogurt.

Buggin.

I have actually a thousand things I have to do. A thousand.

McAvoy safari was unsuccessful, though I looked all day. Bummer.

This morning I organically gardened again - planted some seeds and picked some apples and talked to some jolly old British folk. It was nice, but then I had to come home and work forever, until essentially now (after I made a delicious raw food dinner - day 3 going strong

Made a kidney bean spread with spicy dried chiles, olive oil, salt and pepper with a salad. YUM.)

I'm glad to be back in Bath, though Oxford was fun, especially our last night there. Friends were made, good times were had, dancing was danced?

We visited a big ol' palace, Blenheim Palace - where Winston Churchill was born. It was really beautiful, and reminded me very much of the Vanderbilt Mansion in Poughkeepsie where I spent a big chunck of my childhood visiting Grandma. This isn't surprising since the Churchill family married into the Vanderbilts. I felt very at home there, just because it reminded me of the Hudson. 

Creepy, right?

So, I'll definitely be in the library forever tonight, reading Frankenstein and defining Gothic according to different perspectives. And figuring out two papers and reading for terrorism. COOL. 

ALSO: freshers are here. SEE YOU THURSDAY PO NA NA.

(one more:)

Morning.

I've got Shakespeare today, which I am underprepared for, which I also don't really care that I'm underprepared for. I promised myself I would not worry this semester. I am in England. My grades don't count toward my GPA.

Xmen 5 is filming at Christ Church today, which means that JAMES MCAVOY will be there / here, somewhere, doing something. We are going on a hunt, a McAvoy safari, if you will - going try to catch him drinking some tea or what have you.

Also, I am going to pierce my nose as soon as I find somewhere I trust. I'm feeling I have to add something or change something. I miss my long hair, and I don't recognize me when I see myself. It's unnerving. Katie and I are going to do a very modified raw food diet, more like an unprocessed food diet, just because I have set no rules for myself and I do not feel like Grace.

Eyes peeled. 

Oxford Comma

Hey there kids, didn't think anyone read this but apparently some uh ya'll do (actually follow me so I can see that you do read this!).

So I'm in Oxford, at University College. Contrary to popular belief Oxford is not a University in and of itself, but a place where a bunch of colleges are. Its beautiful (duh), but I do miss Bath.

I've gone on some tours, went to an Anglican sung mass at Christ's Church Cathedral, which was very nice. I felt very at home after my previous experience, where I quasy-accidentally went to a born again evangelical mass. Scary, to say the least. Never again. I'm writing a fiction piece on it for my tutorial and it's coming a long nicely, so I guess I'm glad I went. But really, guys. Not for me. To each his own as long as I never have to go again in my life.

But I am a great punter. I am tops, when it comes to punting. Pictures to follow when people get internet again.

Went on a tour of Christ's Church College, where the Hogwarts dining hall is / was filmed, and the entrance way, I guess. But I don't do Harry Potter so honestly I wasn't really as impressed as some others were

My single room is really cute during the day, but at nighttime after reading about incestual rapist monks who sell their soul to the devil for my Gothic Lit class, it's not too fun. I get scared pretty easily. Also I miss my flatmates and eating meals with them and seeing people and things. But take a gander:

Window seat!

The quad. DO NOT STEP ON THE GRASS. really. 

So there's that. Missing Skid and Accents, but I am at Oxford. What the fuck?

Dear Blog,

You were kind of a good idea, but in the end, not really. 

-Grace

Classes, London, etc.

Let me say that I am SO VERY HAPPY that I'm in Bath instead of in London. London is scary! Bath is not. This is what I learned while staying with some SkidKids in "Little Lebanon." We did go to the Tate, though, and saw some modern art, which was nice, and also saw a play, which was alright. The Acting was great, and I thought it was funny, but it was just long and extremely predictable. The sets were also amazing. Design for Living, is the name.

Classes have gone well so far, except Ghosts and the Gothic tutor scared the shit out of all of us. Maybe he was just trying to be intimidating, but it will definitely still be a lot of work. A book a week plus extra stuff. I ignored everything I was supposed to do this weekend. Oops.

The Jack the Ripper tour and the cemetery were both really interesting to me. The cemetery was extremely overgrown, and the whole serial killer thing is just fascinating to me. I don't know, I guess I blame Dexter.

No pictures: no camera.