Oxonia, 'tis for thee

Dude, a blog from Oxford! What an exciting thing!

Ssooo I need to avoid the pitfall I normally fall into when I don't write anything for a while, which is "oh boy I need to write about all the things I've been doing for the past 2 months how will I ever catch up". This would be foolish, because there is simultaneously a lot that I *could* say about the past two months, and very little that I *should* say about them. I spent a month at home getting my head straight and avoiding work, and then the past three weeks have been getting back into the swing of life back in the bubble. They have been, by my standards, pretty stable, which is sooo very definitely a good thing.

(I also got a haircut and regained my peripheral vision on my right hand side for a couple of weeks, but it's gone again now. Side fringe I freaking love you so much more than my old fringe but you don't half make it tough to cycle sometimes.)

Anyways. A lot of silly and odd things happen to me in Oxford, so it seems stupid to not talk about them even if I can't remember half of them for more than an hour after they happen. But here goes some Stuff that may or may not be interesting:

• I have three more tutorial essays in total left in my Oxford career. Oh god, where has it all gone.
• I live on a big awesome staircase with fun people. It is so incredibly relaxing to not have inner tension every time people walk past my door. I also live in an incredible barn room that I need to continue to appreciate otherwise I will become boring and rubbish. I do miss Ben though (ARE YOU READING THIS, BEN? GET OFF SKYPE AND COME VISIT ME SOMEDAY). I would also miss Amyus but I see him ridiculously often. Ubiquitous smellyface.
• I'm a vegetarian now. Although I have averaged one "oh fuck it" meat meal a week.
• I have given up every single thing I did last year apart from sorting out the Moser Store. Amusing discovery of the week was finding out that the Wadham Conference Assistant, who was previously paid to manage bookings to all the rooms except the Moser Theatre, now ONLY does the Moser- that's a job that I used to do alongside rowing, writing and putting on my own plays, managing academic affairs and the occasional bit of degree work. And now they're paying someone to do it solely. As far as I know they have made no effort to sort out sound and lighting systems, so GOOD LUCK all those people I booked in last term. Lolz.
• Also I'm stage managering something cool later this term. And I have now officially done every job available to students in the Burton Taylor- acting, "stage managing" (i.e. standing behind the scenes and panicking), lighting, sound, watching and now Box Office. The last one got me an hour of enforced work time (necessary) and a free ticket (awesome) so good times all 'round.
• To fill the void left by the above giving-up-everything, I have taken up taiqi. So don't act surprised when I kick your arse with it.
• I still want to gossip about rowing and the SU despite having NOTHING TO DO with either any more.
• I am amused by the Supermarket Wars. "Big" Tesco is starting to lose its shine a bit though- it's not *actually* that big compared to Tesco Metro back in Cowley. I don't miss most of living in Cowley (proximity to the Covered Market makes up for lack of proximity to Cowley shops) but I do miss Tesco and their 10 types of beans and being able to buy things and then cook them without ridiculous amounts of forethought. I also just generally miss having a proper sink for filling kettles and washing up in; the tiny basins we have here are impossible to get a kettle under and I now have coffee grounds on my toothbrush. Tch.
• I have made a poster of all the relevant library opening times in my life...

So that is all good. I have also tried to take up hourly comic making, but I forget to do it when I don't have paper to hand and when I do, there is paper everywhere and it looks messy. Frankly I think that I have taken up enough new regular things without trying to draw on a regular basis as well. Particularly as I really, seriously, can't draw. Proportions are something that happens to other people.

Soon I will have to fix my post-Oxford future. Right at this moment, I would like a scholarship to language school in Taiwan and a full set of scuba diving equipment so I can spend the non-language learning times in the subtropical sea. But it will change by next week. And then again the week after that. Also some day I will have to make money and pay back £20,000 to the government (PLUS INTEREST; THANKS A FUCKING MILLION, BROWNE). But not until the future, and by then I will have a jetpack sooooo. Yes.

This has been short and nonsensical but hopefully it'll get me back into writing down more Shit That Happens (and next time it will be anecdotal and fun, promise!) In the short term, though, it is just so fucking nice to be stable. And happy. Focus on that, and the rest will sort itself out... maybe.