Things are hazy…I don’t know why…that is to say, I do know why, but in a blog which is perused daily by several of my closest relatives, I’m hesitant to state explicitly that I had a bit too much to drink tonight. Whoops! No, it’s not that bad, I only had a few pints.
I saw rain today for the first time since I’ve been in London. It was just a light drizzle on a warm winter day. The weather for the past two days has been as abnormally warm as the previous two were cold. It is now one in the morning here and the London temperature reading on my desktop tells me it’s 48 degrees outside, a hardly believable temperature compared to the daytime highs of 25 degrees three days ago.
I still have a lot of downtime. Maybe not a good sign, but I’ve only been assigned one piece of homework in the classes I’ve been to so far. The course load will definitely be lighter here than it was at USC, but I’m afraid it will take me at least until next week to develop a schedule for homework and classes and all that. I was sent away from an academic office today because they didn’t have any more copies of the form I needed, and I am supposed to return tomorrow to see if they have taken the necessary thirty seconds out of their busy schedules to make a few more copies of the quite essential course amendment form, used to make changes to your scheduled classes. I’m planning on dropping my Electricity and Magnetism course in favor of either “Arcitecture in London,” or “Screenwriting,” I haven’t decided which. The Electricity and Magnetism course is being taught a bit sloppily this year by a first-year professor, and, as painful as it will be at USC, I think it would be a good idea to have a solid foundation in this particular area, so I will wait until I return to California to take the course.
My other professors seem very competent and wise, though. The teacher of my Thermodynamics course clearly loves the subject and is confident and enthusiastic about teaching it, two traits which are very desirable in a good teacher. My Engineering Design teacher also seems very friendly and capable, so I am excited about taking these two courses. If only I could find two more classes to be excited about, I would be a happy camper. Not to say that I’m camping over here. I live in a dormitory. I put pictures of it up a few days ago. It’s just a figure of speech.
The eight-hour time difference between London and the west coast makes real-time communication very difficult. For example, while you citizens of the west coast are asleep, roughly from midnight to eight in the morning, I have woken up at eight in the morning London-time and gone to courses until four o’clock. Now, you go to work for eight hours or so, until roughly four o’clock PST. During this interval, I have eaten dinner and gone on some highfalutin adventure which I want to call and talk about, but by the time anyone is available to talk, it’s midnight or one o’clock in the morning here and I go to sleep while all you Oregonians, Californians (and one Washingtonian) are having fun after work. It’s not a good system. I am thankful for this blog, which transcends these problems, and for communication like email and Facebook so I can keep in touch without staying awake all night or waking someone up at five in the morning.
Anyways, I had better go now, I want to finish watching Star Wars: Episode V before I go to bed. Brutal life I’m living over here.
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