Phoey.

I have almost given up on trying to catch up with this. Life moves too fast. It's like in the movies, when someone's sort of running, sort of being dragged behind a car/train/plane/carriage/horse and they can't get off. =P

And I've got a cold. That definitely doesn't help.

So here are these last two photos of Berlin, and then I'm moving on. Last weekend I went to the Isle of Arran with my flatmate Melbourne and two of her friends from her home uni. Tomorrow I'm going to Glasgow--I'll meet my other flatmate Red, who's been kind of egging me to let her take me around there, and then I'll go to dinner and the theater with a bunch of people from my study abroad program. Pictures of both Arran and Glasgow will be going up this week.

(^This was to convey my excitement at having found a tourist attraction in Berlin. I think it does pretty well. =P)

Unfortunately I forgot to take pictures of my Thanksgiving dinner, because that was pretty freaking sweet. South Dakota and Germany, who're flatmates, invited me over and spent what sounds like was the whole day cooking. They made duck! And I ate it! It was pretty tasty, as long as I didn't think about what it used to be.

Oh, yes: and London came over, too. He complained that I'd only mentioned him on here once, and then tried to deny that he'd made fart jokes when we went to see Holyrood Palace.

And now he's on here twice. Hah.

Except for these weekend jaunts, life has been pretty tame. Most of it is just schoolwork--catching up and trying to get just a bit ahead, because let's be honest here, I'm not going to go to Paris or Berlin or Arran and then try to write an essay. Nothing gets done when I run off like that. ;) So the day after I got back from Berlin I had a 2,500 word essay due the next day, and I got it in on time! (No sleep, but it was complete. More or less.) And next Friday I have another essay due, this time on the Persian Wars. It's going to be way, way easier to write because I actually think the Persian Wars are kind of exciting. They're interesting, anyway.

Oh! And that one essay I sprinted across campus in my pajamas to turn in--I got it back today. Awesome, awesome marks, and nothing taken off for tardiness. Ohhhh, yeeaaahhh. :)