day of coldness!

I woke up not knowing where I was this morning. Man I hate that. So I went back to sleep for another two hours. I woke up really cold for some reason and actually turned the heat on today. I can't figure out why, because it was sunny and in the upper 40s today.

I finished reading Witch of Edmonton this morning before class. Very boring play. Then I went to class. It was fun. Oulipo is all about challenging yourself in weird ways while you're writing. This one guy wrote a novel without using the letter E. Then he wrote a sequel wherein every word had an E in it. Things like that. This calss is going to have the easiest essay of all my classes. Unfortunately, we're getting a different teacher at the beginning of Summer term, so I have no idea what the next essay will be like.

There is another international student from America in that class. His name is Sebastian and he is from Mississippi. He was fun to talk to before class, and it seems like we might have some things in common. He lives on the 7th floor of Tawney, which is one below me. He looks like your typical hard core emo kid, but he's pretty intelligent and said he likes to write, so at least I know someone in one of my classes now.

After class I went to the post office to see if they could help me out in figuring out the trains to Heathrow, but they were closed. So I went and bought a sandwich and went back to the dorms. I read a little before going to make dinner. I had my sandwich and some rice I had bought at Tesco...

The rice smelled like plants. It tasted like plants as well. Next time, I will buy a different brand of rice. The dinner, it was unsatisfactory. But at least I got some meat. (And yes, I KNOW rice is technically a plant. It smelled like ferns.)

Just as I sat down to eat my unsatisfactory meal, the fire alarm went off and we all had to go down 8 flights of stairs to get outside. Once outside, everyone stood IMMEDIATELY outside the doors, less than a yard away from the building, and started smoking. So I asked if this was a routine firedrill, since I know they test the alarms every Tuesday. No, it was not, some idiot pulled a fire alarm. They don't HAVE routine fire drills here. So I'm kind of glad some idiot pulled the alarm. Now I know where the stairs are.

After we got back inside and climbed eight flights of stairs, I finished dinner, chatted for a bit, and went to take a shower. Someone else had just gotten out and the shower was FREEZING. Fastest shower ever. I got dressed in a hurry and sat down to blog... theee end.

Not the end. It's 10:00 now, and I thought I smelled smoke in my room. Well, this happened last night and I walked out into the hallway and didn't smell anything so I figured I was just imagining things. But tonight I walked out into the hallway and immediately could tell that someone was smoking. I asked a passing person and they said that sometimes people smoke in their rooms. I checked the university policies, and this is definitely NOT ALLOWED. I don't know what I'm going to do....