1.3.06

side note: was there a suez canal crisis?

There's nothing like a bit of nerdishness to get you back into the flow of things. Take a few hours of focused reading last night, plus 2.5 hours in the library today and 2 more to go, plus an interesting seminar including a video by an infuriating right-wing historian about the Suez Canal crisis, and you've got this kid here rip-roaring to straighten out and organize her 'was there a sixties social revolution?' paper in order to place her "A Hard Day's Night" quotations in exactly the right places. Sometimes we forget that we go to college to learn. But I haven't - not quite yet. Sometimes the desire to talk in class, a feeling incredibly rare to me, takes ahold of me and gives me an incredible rush. Which is why people who talk in class are usually jerks - because they love themselves. Like I love myself. A lot. . .

(P.S. In order to cure my eating habits (which were constantly made fun of this past weekend in Ireland, see here for example), I've decided to wear nothing but tights and skirts; tights, which noticeably constrict any sort of expansion of natural form, also noticeably tighten the appetite. I think I had come across this astonishing theory before, but since I really like eating and find no reason to stop, I peel off the tights as soon as I walk in the door. But wearing tights may in fact be economically efficient here in London - which is why so many girls are so stylish. Food is not inexpensive here, and I believe by shrinking my appetite by wearing tights, I will have more leftovers and not be consistantly whining about having my dinner never fill me up. This may mean less trips to the delicious chip shop at 1am, but so it goes. So it goes.)

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