Big News!

Hello all! How are you guys? Today is St. Andrews day in Scotland, the day of the patron Saint and so, I thought I would bring you all a little bright Christmas news. Tonight I am in London instead of out celebrating with my friends. And in a little less than 12 hours, I will be on a plane jetting back to Oregon for two weeks! Surprise! And see you all very soon!

So Tired

Well as you probably can guess from the title and my all-nighter the other night I am so sleepy today. I am sitting in on a class that is covering economic theory of the Euro, which is a bit much to take at 9am. My lecturer is fantastic though, so he keeps it interesting.

I tried to get to bed early last night, but was woken up three or four times by my American flatmate last night. She doesn't realize how loud she is, and the last time she woke me up, I was awake for 3.5hrs afterwords. I started reading my homework for Friday- which is also some research for one of my 4000 word essays. I am going to be writing about a rise of Euroskeptism in the British government and how that strengthens the demands for independence in Scotland. It should be interesting. By my schedule I have 10-11 days to complete the research and write the paper, so well, I don't have much time to get it done or enjoy reading about it.

I have to say I am absolutely freezing today. It was 28 degrees here when I left the house this morning, but now it has warmed up to a balmy 32 degrees. The expected high for the day is 48. Its very clear here right now. Since I have been here it has hardly rained at all. Instead we get very clear and cold weather most of the time. I don't know if I have enough clothes to keep myself warm!

Well, class is almost over. I will post more soon.

Miss you all! xx

The anatomy of an all-nighter, or why I need to be banned from Facebook

Ok so it is 5:30am on Sunday morning here, and I am in the Post-Grad reading room listing to "Jesse's Girl" and trying to get the last 325-825 words out of my brain and into the computer. Unfortunately, I have nothing left to say and I am not even sure what I wrote makes any sense. I have however been keeping myself awake by facebook, harrassing people all over the world. Seriously if I had a ban on the site on my computer I would have been done with this essay three days ago, but then I wouldn't know what everyone is up to, so I guess I wouldn't trade it for my time back.

I miss everyone and wish I could see all of you!

Look I am a studious student... really.

So its Saturday afternoon. Outside the sky is blue and there is a crisp feeling in the air. Sadly though, instead of enjoying it like everyone else, I am in the reading room working on rational choice theory. Such a waste. :)

So what have you been up to?

I am in the middle of writing three essays for the end of the month. Two are 100% of my final grade, the other is 75%. As you can probably guess, I am going a little nuts researching these papers. I am officially on a first name basis with most of the librarians here and I have closed the library for the last few nights. Today I did a grand tour of the fabulous libraries we have here, the National Library of Scotland that only lets in "Academics" and undergrads who can prove that the University library doesn't have the book they are looking for. The second library was the Uni Library, where I picked up a couple more books for the sport of it. Finally I wandered over to the law library, where I spent a good afternoon wandering through the stacks. I went home to say hello to the flatmates (because otherwise they would never see me at all) had some yummy chili and wandered back to the Uni library, where I am writing this post. I have a 169 word start for one of the papers, but I will need far far more than that when it comes down to it.

So what have you all been doing????