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In Other News...

January 2011

Hipster Kitteh was on to something when he read...

… Except you take out Hemingway and the Punk Show and make that Erin reading Shakespeare’s ‘As You Like It’ at the Druid’s Head pub. Yes, there’s a pub out here called The Druid’s Head Pub, and I got a Greene King IPA and started reading ‘As You Like It’. Here’s the twist: suddenly a mass of study abroad kids came in and a few of...

I’ve been doing some thinking about it, and I think I’ve decided that while I’m out here, I’m going to make my way to Auschwitz and Birkenau. I don’t want to come off as someone who would take enjoyment from going to see this location. I am simply a person that wants to constantly remember that history happened. And I want to pay my respects. Nick said we can do...

kalitastic asked: I WILL WARN YOU, he is kind of terrifying and intimidating in person and he occasionally rocks a rather unfortunate mustache, but he's actually very sweet and incredibly witty. And very tall. Just put him a flat-rate shipping box, I'll pay you when you get back. No thang.

Gogol Bordello gives me the strength to carry on.

That, and Staci’s boyfriend just broke up with her via a facebook message. LAMEASS MOFO. That sucks a lot. I’m in a spritely and better mood. Thank god for sandwiches and their power of fullness.

kalitastic asked: YOU WERE IN BRIGHTON!? Dude. My other future husband who is not Christoph lives in Brighton. I hope you stumble across him at some point and are like, "Oh, are you Nick Cave? The kind of terrifying but ultimately uber-cool and hawt post-punk singer/songwriter? You should probs come with me, we have things to discuss..."

Good luck with your landlady! Eep! Although...

Here’s the real deal. The new girl I met, Stephanie L, is awesome possum and she is here for a year, so she was here last semester. She said my landlady is actually a terrible human being. After watching her be evil to a girl from the south and for kicking her guy friend out a week before he was supposed to leave because he borrowed a towel. … Her idea is that as long as I stay...

The internet at the flat was down for two days. But it appears to be back again… YAY!!!! London was epic, and there were two very memorable moments of Brighton: I FOUND PROOF OF A HOCKEY TEAM IN ENGLAND. This is mostly for Hoisington, but in the Brighton museum, there were a few little pictures and commodities commemorating their hockey. Word. I met Stephanie Lo, and she is beyond...

It would happen that I own the Norton Anthology of English Literature, 8th Edition, Vol. 2 and it is on my bookshelf waaaay back in Michigan. …oh, guess what book is required for my English course? I’ll give you a hint: I already own it and it is on my bookshelf waaaay back in Michigan. AWKWARD. Apparently the library does super loans and whatnot, but I wish I had known this...

The most awkward thing to do is to take pictures.

It’s all, “FRESHER TOURIST RIGHT HERE!!!!” …but I’m not a tourist, I’m a student! WHATEVER. I took a few pictures today with Staci. And ate Shepard’s Pie. DELICIOUS Shepard’s Pie. So much that I almost cried a little. …I didn’t really cry, but you get it. Slowly but surely, getting to know the lay of the land. Added bonus: I put...

I got to sleep in today. :D :D :D But it’s only 10:28 in the am (slept in until 9:00), and I am really considering just reading in bed until I meet Staci at 1:00. Time adjustment, you can occur anytime now. :D :D :D No more jet lag, pleasekaythanksbye. In other news, epic. In other other news, we have to make our own way to London tomorrow for the walking tour. Staci thinks she has it...

I think I officially may have made friends with the one girl from New Zealand today, as well as got to know a Kelly from GVSU and furthered my friendship with Staci. I mean, we all went to orientation together, ate lunch together, got coffee together, went to another seminar, then went to the pub together. …and we’re going to explore Kingston together tomorrow. …and it is...

Spaghetti for a little friend. (This is adorable!

xxpandaboy: ximex3: chatterboxrose: solongtodevotion: LOOK HOW HAPPY IT IS. I bet it never gets spaghetti Always reblog pasta hamster. laksdfj;laskfj;lsdf dead from cute siudfirgiurhughriu how effin cute It looks like it’s smiling oh my god djsvisvbuhriev O.O

Reblog if you want your followers to tell you why...

amandah: -katiekins: http://-katiekins.tumblr.com/ask let’s do this. Legit! Sometimes idk why some of you follow… and others I clearly know because you’re active in reblogging/replying. Let’s face it: I talk a lot and I have an oddly shaped face and nose. There has to be SOMETHING redeeming about this silly little blog…

There is a dark side to living in England, and that is that I am socially awkward. It is something I have struggled with my entire life, and something I have tried to fix, but it is very hard to just open up and hang out with new people. Particularly when I just don’t feel like I fit in at all. It’s not a high and mighty thing when I say I am different from a lot of girls (and...

Happy Burns Night!

My old Brit Lit II professor of OCC would be simply disappointed and mortified to hear I was in England and did nothing for celebration. …(even though bobbie burns is of scottish lineage) STILL, THE SHAME.

Academy Award nominations!

I’d quickly like to note that aol automatically altered itself to UK news. WIN.

Now has: converter

HELLOOOOO, TUMBLR!!!! So, I’m on day two of England. And I am officially almost completely adjusted to Kingston. It is the sweetest little city. That, and our flat unit is right across the street from a TGIFridays. I kid you not. But! it is a great spot in case we get lost. JUST LOOK FOR THE TGIF!!!! Banter. I’m in the orientation and such process, but I was successfully enrolled...

etc-etc asked: HAY SO I HURD YOU'RE IN ENGLAND AND SHIT.
Dude, I'm so glad you made it safe and are still operating on that traveling high. Make it last and send me lots of postcards and neat things! I lauf you and can't wait to read about your endeavors and your marrying of old English men. :D

kalitastic asked: That post MADE. MY. MORNING! Seriously. I lol'd so awkwardly while my Dad was watching some weird outdoor channel he always watches and he was like, "...what?" I couldn't explain it to him. I'm sure he would have been weirded out, and I don't think he's ever seen "Inglorious Basterds."

WOOO ENGLAND! Safe flights and everything like...

ALL Y'ALL, I MADE IT TO ENGLAND.

Now, my converter for my laptop is being a poo-head and I need to purchase a new one, so no hard-core posts yet. Security was fine, the flight was fine, we all made it here, nobody left behind, and I’m typing from my flat room for the next five months, and it has a poster for the Royal Shakespeare Company performing ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’, so I think I’m in...

etc-etc asked: SHOULDN'T YOU BE DOING SOMETHING A LITTLE MORE IMPORTANT THAN DICKING AROUND ON TUMBLR?
LIKE UH I DON'T KNOW GOING TO ENGLAND?

Imagine if Bella had chosen Jacob and then they...

neuroticmarshmallow: yourwandselwyn: Oh… dear… lord…

Completely managed to re-read every single Kingston e-mail, become convinced that I missed somewhere that I was going to have to pay tuition to Kingston upon arrival to enroll in classes, panicked, panicked, super-panicked, message Eilers, took a deep breath, read the GVSU information and realized that we do not pay tuition to Kingston as exchange students, re-messaged Eilers, and probably made...

Packed my bag, said good-bye, shed some tears,...

…well, I still have to put my knitting and my final toiletries in my suitcase. Man, I cried quite a bit tonight. So, I don’t really want to know what’s going to happen tomorrow. Alex and Stef left just in time for the waterworks. Then Nick and I managed to go to Caribou (ONE. LAST. TIME) to play endless rounds of Crazy Eights while drinking coffee and peppermint tea. So...

Continued success!

Dad found the little gray bag of adaptors. YESSSS. He knows where everything is, subconsciously. He could probably tell me where I left my first pair of striped socks from middle school. He just… knows stuff. Stuff. In other news, it’s going to be a busy, busy day, but I think we only have to go to three locations to get the last of what I need: Ulta, drugstore, and Parisian to...

kalitastic asked: Ok, so I realize that I've messaged you like, three times after my discovery of GQ, but I would just like you to know that my friends (who are all nursing majors, btw) were like, "...He looks autistic sometimes." And I was like, "HHHHWHAT YOU ARE ALL BITCHES, GTFO! DON'T PULL THAT SHIT WHEN WE'RE MARRIED!" and they were like, "... :|"

'Drag Me To Hell'

Question: Does this film accompany ice cream? Honest Answer: No, Sami Raimi went batshit crazy with grossing up every element of the old woman. Tonight’s Answer: Yes, because I have both, and neither can wait on the other. Follow-Up Question: Did you steal the ice cream from an old gypsy woman? Answer: HELL NO, I paid for this, and I would gladly buy an old gypsy woman some ice cream...

GOT MY ICE CREAM.

We had to drive 20 minutes away to the Meijer to get it, but we got it. Chubby Hubby. Nick went online and looked at all of the stores in southeast Michigan to see where Chubby Hubby was still available. SAINT. That, and we got dinner at The Union because his mom wanted us to have a farewell dinner together. We split the artichoke dip and a full order of mac and cheese. Bell’s Winter Ale...

“In life you’ll meet a lot of jerks. If they hurt you, tell yourself that it’s...”

– Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)