My English Life

What can I say? My English life is stellar. I've been reading a lot, researching a lot, seeing the sights, drinking loads of tea and just enjoying myself.

Many a pet has made an appearance in my life including two dogs belonging to Tiff and Rob (Stella and Bailey), four cats, two chinchillas, and two guinea pigs (all belonging to my supervisor Jenny and her husband Trevor). The cats are Lily, Amy, Beau, and Poppy. Amy and Beau have taken a particular liking to me in their own ways. When I return to Jenny and Trevor's house, I often find one or the other on my bed, purring away. I sit down next to them to read and they stretch out for a tummy rub or do that stretch their legs by clawing my pants thing. Anyway, all these little people (pets are people too) have really made my English Life much richer. And made reading Foucault or Freud instead of sleeping less painful.

I spend a lot of time on trains, which you've probably gathered. I am constantly traveling between High Wycombe, London, and Cambridge (as well as a few other sites). I feel like I have train travel on lock down and have been enjoying that time to read and write. In fact, the reason I have been so long silent is that I have been busy writing other things, which I promise to tell you about soon, but not until I am 100% ready. Ok, or like 80% and then get too excited to wait the last twenty. Yeah. That's probably what will happen.

Anyway, things are grand here. I've made it a point to spend a few days doing touristy things in both London and Cambridge. The biggest surprise was how much I loved the Tate Modern (I'll write more on that soon) and the biggest let down has been realizing that Winchester Cathedral is not located in London. No, in fact, it's in Winchester. This would explain why I could not figure out which tube station to get off the Victoria Line at. Seriously, wow. It's been a long time since I've felt that foolish.

Well, I better be off to actually living that life I keep referring to.

Missing you all!