Bad Blogger! Bad Blogger!

I fail at blogging.

And apologize for my absence-- I have absolutely no legitimate excuse as all I've been doing as of late is reading, eating, watching movies and shopping. I suppose the crux of the matter is that when i get lazy, i get really lazy. It's that whole "i don't want to do things half-assed" deal. (might I add that that's CLEARLY b.s.)

But in all seriousness, England was amazing. I saw tons of BEAUTIFUL buildings in Oxford and felt like I was perpetually on a movie set, ate some great food, drank some great drinks (Mr.Pimm's lemonade, anyone?) and had a blast.

I crashed on Lyds' dorm floor on a hiking pad with a sleeping bag and thoroughly enjoyed my poor man's trip to England. We crammed a lot in a few days, so here's a bulleted list of half of what I did.

* Shopped
* Explored pretty much all of Oxford University
*Sat next to a professor wearing a pink button-up and a checkered bow-tie in a coffee shop where he actually said, "oh, poppycock!" in normal conversation!
* Read
* Went pubbing
* Saw Hairspray and Transformers (both were good but WOW-- I'm so in love with Hairspray it's not even funny)
* Ate from the wonderfully amazing Kebab stands (and the Crepe stand, too!)
* Took the bus to London and explored in record time
* Silently giggled everytime I heard a British accent
* Saw a bunch of flooding
* Met some really interesting people (yes lyds, I am including Mr. New Zealand)
* finally ran into my great friend Cates, with whom I had a week's worth of communication errors
* spent far too many hours wandering around bookstores
* and... much more, none of which I can remember right now.

Suffice to say, I had a blast and England's amazing and someday I will live in a cute little village with a stone house surrounded by a wonderfully colorful English garden. And cats. I'll have cats too. And two Alaskan Malamutes named Apollo and Helo. And life will be swell. And I'll be able to incorporate the word "swell" into everyday conversation because I'll be in England and it's okay to say swell in England.

And... it's actually nice in Stavanger today (a rarity) so I don't know what lies ahead for the day.

Perhaps we'll go wandering amongst the scenery.

But that's all for now!

Until later, my loves.
A.