mukluks

hello friends it is finals week which is awesome for my life in every way but all. oh yes, i mean none.

ok so to start off, last time i forgot to mention that the guy who lives next door to me who in my head is my mortal enemy because he keeps me up every night with his really bad techno music and bullshit like that, well he is probably my mortal enemy in real life too. how good! ok well maybe not. but the point is when corrie was here we kinda stole his mattress (YO why would you leave your mattress in the hall?? thats just ASKING for trouble). and uh then he started banging on everyone's door at 2am and we were like oh shit oh shit so then when we thought the coast was clear we were dragging it out to the hall and then corrie disappeared oh guess why? OH HEY yah he appeared and then it was just me in the hallway clutching his mattress. so after i kinda was like oh ya.. is this yours? OKAY. and i just dropped it and ran back into my room. oh shit. so that's not awkward or anything. OH MAN wait so further story on this awkwardness, this past weekend iris was here and we were you know like sleeping and shit, and freaking boy next door just walks in my room, stands in the doorway for like 10 seconds and sneezes. then he turns on the light and i'm like uh... you're in my room. and he was just like, oh. and he left. wtf. i'm never forgetting to lock my door again.

okay also last time i forgot to mention we went to the scottish parliament and MAN IT WAS SO COOL!! like it was exactly like south park. not kidding. someone would say something and then the whole chamber would start banging on their desk and shouting and it was just like RABBLE RABBLE RABBLE. it was so great! at one point someone said something extra sassy and not kidding, everyone was just like, OHHHHHHH!!!!!! and these people run scotland. awesome.

uh okay so, this past month:

susan came!! with her lovely friend carrie! delightful times! we went to a ceilidh and that was so so so much fun man i love those things, freaking scottish folk dancing. umm yes that was very good. and we did other things like, walk around edi, i dont know, all the touristy shit. we ate at this italian buffet place that wasnt very good but we got there like 20 minutes before lunch closed so they were like you should just wait for dinner but yo dinner was much more expensive so we were like no we'll take the 20 minutes and oh man i think we each ate 3 plates of food and thomas ate like, 5. he is a machine. ok so overall the weekend gets two thumbs up.

um blah blah usual stuff. okay then there was the football world cup and scotland was in the semi finals against italy and of course they lost in a 'glorious failure' and it was just so freaking scottish. and the one time they scored everyone in the pub shit a brick and started flinging beer around like confetti and so that day i learned that beer works just as well as mousse in hair. good to know!

ok and katy loebe came and i enjoy her greatly so that was wonderful. she was also here for dave's flatmate's bday party in which all us americans came super trashed and were in general just a big shit show. and all the brits were sober so it was really hilarious, i mean, for me. but appparently after we left THEY all got wrecked and were even worse but goddamnit, terrible timing i say. oh yes and i discovered the most wonderful earring place in the world. surprise!

um okay and iris was here this past weekend and that was lovely and OH MAN so we went to the rosslyn chapel-not kidding, best building in the whole world. place is SO BOMB. it has the most amazing, intricate masonry i've ever behld. every inch is just so detailed, and they do something different in each spot. even the ceiling and outside is amazing and beautifully carved. plus, the holy grail is probably underneath it. OOH and i stood on the spot where two rose lines - like these holy lines that run across the world - intersect and man how awesome am i. oh and it was my bday! i'm twenty now. which means that i can't do anything more than i already could. oh and some guy informed me i'm actually twenty-teen. which i like better, so i might use that instead. kiki almost got in a fight at a club, but ugh someone stopped them. personally i think we could've easily won. not that i'm advocating fighting. but i'm just saying.


okay so i have a swedish final on monday and two papers i need to finish by tuesday. carrie goose is coming here on tuesday and then on thursday morning we leave for our EUROPTRIP AHHHH. let me explain this.

dec 6-10 --> dublin
dec 10-14 --> amsterdam
dec 14-18 --> barcelona
dec 18--> edinburgh
dec 19--> los angeles

CORRECT. i will be at lax on dec 19. now listen pomona people-- i will be at pomona dec 20. dont you dare leave without seeing me. ESPECIALLY IF YOU ARE GOING ABROAD NEXT TERM!!!

oh and on tuesday night i am singing/doing a ceremony for sankta lucia, aka sweden's most baller holiday. YES. and on wednesday we are going ice skating at the german market. wheeeee i love xmas and the fact that i am like a polar bear now in regards to coldness.

ok that is all i seriously need to go back to writing. but you guys are cool and this is my last blog because next time i sit down to write this i'll be like oh wait i'm in california and then i will go play with someone. thank you for reading me.


oh and also if you go to
http://www.flickr.com/photos/26679882@N00/
you can see pictures i put up for my mama, but i guess you can look at them too.

and i bought mukluks. i like them and i am wearing them AS WE SPEAK.