The weather is great for running and running is great! Unfortunately, there are a few sketchy types in London who make it less cool, but it’s still absolutely excellent.
Archive for November, 2008
Running
Posted in Uncategorized on November 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Theft
Posted in Uncategorized on November 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Mr Farhad Hakimzadeh, a former British Library Reader, is due to appear at Wood Green Court today (Friday 21 November). Hakimzadeh has pleaded guilty to ten counts of theft from the Library, and asked for further charges to be taken into account. He has also admitted theft from the Bodleian Library in Oxford. Sentencing in [...]
Dorms
Posted in Uncategorized on November 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The good thing about dorms is also the bad thing. The thing is, as soon as you walk out of your door, you see two or three friendly, smiling faces who’d like to chat and make small talk. This is very nice and is always pleasant to see, but it is bizzarly different than a [...]
John Donne Jr.
Posted in Uncategorized on November 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The weirdest thing John Donne’s son has said, so far, is “And, although in some parts of the World the Sun may see the Men eating their god, and in six hours journy farther, he may see the gods eating the Men, although he may have behld as many Religions, as he produced Insects, yet [...]
Conclusions
Posted in Uncategorized on November 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
CONCLUSION: Donne wants personal salvation and immortality, but he sees death as necessary to achieve ultimate internal life. Associated with this, he has no desire to gain immortality through living memory by publishing his work, in fact, he has encountered so many problems with the uncontrolled attention achieved by publishing, that he would rather limit [...]
Hamley’s
Posted in Uncategorized on November 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
My Father: What’s this store you’re working in?
Me: Hamley’s. On Regent Street. It’s famous. It’s the biggest toy store in Europe.
My Father: Yah? Well, there’s a famous saddle-maker out in Stanton, on the boarder with Idaho, who is the biggest saddlemaker in Oregon, which is also called Hamley’s.
News
Posted in Uncategorized on November 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Me: What’s up?
My Father: On the way to Coos Bay I saw a bob cat. The cayotes sounded closer than usual yesterday. It sounds like they’re in LaVerne’s yard. Lee has an infection. Obama won the election.
Lines
Posted in Uncategorized on November 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
You haven’t lived until you’ve seen the line that coils around the courtyard in front of the British Library right before it opens at 9:30 in the morning. Who ever saw such lines for a library?
Strike
Posted in Uncategorized on November 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In Britain they warn you when they’re going to strike. You’d think that this would make the strikes kind of ineffective, but instead what happens is everyone goes about life as usual, as though they don’t expect a strike, and then are really inconveineced when the strike occurs. It’s bizzar. For example:
British Library: Industrial Action [...]
Free Tea
Posted in Uncategorized on November 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Today is a day of free tea. I came into town at a normal working time, which meant I got to King’s Cross about an hour and a half before the British Library opened at 9:30. Getting off the OVERGROUND TRAIN (yay for overground trains!) I was handed two free tea bags and free water [...]
JLE
Posted in Uncategorized on November 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
On the Jewish Learning Exchange’s calender events men can go to are blue and events women can go to are red, and events everyone can go to (there’s only three of these) are green. Interestingly enough, that’s probably how you’d seperate them for Kosher, too, and foods with milk would be blue, foods with meat [...]
