Happy birthday to one of my two readers, I think you know who you are. Hope you aren't any worse for the wear. This week, while starting off miserably attempting to turn a paper in last minute took a turn for the better. For details, see the last post. St. Patrick's day was fun, just a quiet evening at the weekly pub quiz. Less fun when I found out the next morning that one of the hall bathrooms had been absolutely trashed, removing the possibility of our Hall Ball, which I was looking forward to. On the bright side, the Celtic society's castle ceilidh should be exactly as much fun as it sounds. For pictures of the castle ruins, see facebook photos, then picture a ceilidh happening there. One week until my Easter break, so this may be my last post for a while, I haven't decided whether or not I'm bringing my laptop on my travels. I'll do my best to keep you all updated, though, and I'll take plenty of pictures!

I'm glad to hear everyone at W&M had a good spring break, it looks like Tom, Spencer, and Christian had a good time in DC. Life here has been fairly dull this past week, it's been a lot of paper writing, which is the reason I did not update on Sunday. It kind of works out poorly that I can only play video games on Sunday, but that's the day I leave all my work until. This last paper was literally the closest I've ever cut it. Due at 5:00, I finished at 4:45, discovered the hall printer was out of paper, sprinted to the library (which I still accidentally call Swem sometimes), printed it out, then literally sprinted to the other side of the town to the biology building to turn it in. I look as my watch as I'm dropping it in the box, it reads 4:59:00. Despite being very sleep deprived and having run very far, I did get myself to the dance classes last night, had a great time, came back to my room, and collapsed.
On the times when I wasn't working, I did go out to see The Hurt Locker, which absolutely deserved to win best picture, it was one of the best films I've ever seen. I was also introduced to a game called Jungle Speed, which besides sounding like a very intense drug, is a very fun game, although can turn to violence. Imagine combining Egyptian Ratscrew with Spit involving a wooden totem, that's pretty much it.
I had been wondering what I was going to do with my second week of spring break, and I've settled on just getting a Britrail pass and travelling around hostels in the south of England, seeing Gloucester, Cornwall, and Dover. And yes, I do intend to listen to "Cliffs of Dover" while at the Cliffs of Dover.

March 7

Really? It's March? Goodness. The workload for this semester has picked up, but it's papers as opposed to the usual midterms I'm used to. To be honest, I prefer the midterms, but I don't suppose that that will come across as a shock to anyone reading this. I've gotten one paper done on the relationship between Jacobites and Highlanders in early 18th century Scotland, and am now working on one for my biology class about different osmoregulation techniques in crabs and starfish. So, if anyone has any questions on either of those two subjects, I'm the man to go to. It's a good thing no one from William & Mary can come to visit me on your all's spring break, I'm going to be very boring this week, but will finally have some breathing room. I've actually learned about those two in my history class, and I've had to resist the urge to jump up and point to my William & Mary t-shirt.
I'm continuing to sniff out and go to any Ceilidh I can find. My legs are finally getting less totally exhausted, so the classes must be doing something good for me. I think I'm gonna attempt bumping it up to Intermediate classes (I know, I'm really good). The band last night was called Supercaleidhfragelistic, which amused me. Our team for the pub quiz sadly did not preform well this week, and another team got the 200 quid, so it's back down to 20 for next week. We did get the bonus round prize of a bottle of port, though, which was quite good.
I know my updates have been kind of mundane so far, but after I finish this paper, I'll have more adventures, I promise!