This One Is For You, Ellie!

Hi Ellie! I just got your comment, and I think I entirely agree with you, that I need a new blog. Again, (you must be tired of hearing me say this… oh well) I’m sorry its been so long, I again have no good excuse but I’ll just try to fill you in anyway. Once again I’d like to thank all of you who read my blog…. You make me happy!

Ok, so I think we left last time with Pancake Day and all of us sat around the kitchen table playing Squeak. I can’t say much has changed, except that my losses in Squeak are becoming more frequent. Emma, Irene, and I all played a few nights ago for about 3 ½ hours straight (5 games in a row), and out of the five I won three, and Emma won the other two. Yesterday, I lost for the first time since we started playing to Lucy, and that was a blow, haha. Anyway, Squeak still continues to be one of the things that the entire flat can get into… although I think it may be getting progressively more competitive… even violent!

Besides Squeak, we haven’t been doing much. Squid and I got bored and played Frisbee in the corridor yesterday though. We were having a good time banging the thing against everyone’s doors, because the corridor is far too thin to actually throw a Frisbee, and we were having a great time until I accidentally hit the ceiling light! It actually fell down and broke! Lucy gave me the disapproving mother look, but I couldn’t stop laughing! I couldn’t believe that I was the one who’d knocked it off… if it was going to be anyone, I would have thought it’d be Squid! Anyway… now I’ve broken the hall light and my wardrobe… I should start making a tally of all the things I break. Not really.

So Jimmy came from Germany last weekend. That was fun to see him and hang out with him. He came for four days, I think, and we had a good time just kinda bumming around in England. We weren’t able to go to London because it was sort of a last minute trip, and it would have cost too much to get a train ticket that late in the game, but we just hung out in Norwich instead. It’s hard to entertain guests for a few consecutive days, especially when you’re both staying in a single dorm room and you don’t have a car. But, nevertheless we had a good time. We tried out this pub called The Fat Cat, which is supposedly one of the top 5 pubs in Britain (I think…. I could be lying…), and it was actually really good. I tried this horribly overpriced Belgian Peach Beer, which was to die for, and I also got some of this chocolate beer that they had which was pretty good too. It was nice to get out of the flat that night.

While Jimmy was here, we also had some absolutely gorgeous weather! It got to the point where I almost didn’t even have to wear a jacket. It was sunny for about 4 days straight, and then Valentine’s Day hit, and it was cloudy, cold, and gross all over again. (My guess is God doesn’t like Valentine’s Day either…. Just a guess though.) But the temperature has since dropped. We’ve had some really foggy nights (which looks really cool, btw) and then we wake up to frosted mornings (if you’re awake that early, that is). But I don’t think we’ll see snow again. We might though. Lucy told me it won’t be warming up until the end of March/beginning of April. That’s a long time. Although, maybe it’ll be warm for my birthday. I’m all excited because I’m turning 21 in five weeks!

Spring break is coming up soon too. We have a month off, and I think Lucy and I are going to try to travel, but we’ll see. Emma and I were thinking of going to Liverpool too, to see the Beatles’ Museum and all that stuff. It should be cool. I’m excited to meet Emma’s family also, they seem like they’re lots of fun. Plus, it’ll be nice to go visit northern England, as I haven’t been up there yet.

School, on the other hand, is a bit of a bore so far. I like my creative writing class though, and my drama projects class is starting to pick up. I get to meet with my project supervisor every Friday to give him a sort of progress report, and I only had my first one last week. The 15 minute show I’m supposed to be working on isn’t written yet… unfortunately, so I don’t have a lot to tell him at this point. I’m still trying to keep up on my reading though, and stay busy, although I’m having issues doing that. I’ve been watching a handful of movies though, trying to catch up on what I’ve missed out on not being in the States, especially with the Academy Awards coming up! (I know… I’m the only one who cares, but still.)

And finally, I don’t think this would be a proper blog if I didn’t talk about my cooking situation. Mema told me in one of her letters that I should start calling my blog the cooking show because I seem to measure my weeks by what I’ve cooked! And she’s probably right… although, I must confess that cooking is becoming more and more of a chore. I think it’s because both my resources and my cooking knowledge are limited, and therefore my cooking is limited. I’m getting a bit tired of cooking the same things every night, so if any of you have any good and SIMPLE ideas for cooking, email them my way (iamthejoey @ hotmail.com). Although (this is entertaining), we made smores last night in the grill. Yes, that’s right, in our grill thing. And they were actually really really good! We didn’t have ghram (sp?) crackers so we had to use tea biscuits (still good), and not having an open flame we cooked the marshmallows on chopsticks in the grill! All my English friends seemed impressed, only Lucy’s sister had ever had one before. We got marshmallow stuff all over though! That was fun to clean up this morning.

Well, I think that’s about it. I’ll try to get some pictures up here in the next day or so, and I’ll put a link to them up here on the blog. Anyway, I miss you all terribly and can’t wait to see you!