A Note on the Post–and Various Other Sundries…

You will all be happy to know, I’m sure, that I finished the laundry.  And I have been far more careful with my clothes consumption this week.
On a sadder note, however, I have learned that both nearby post offices are clean out of James Bond stamps.  And, as they are collectable, commemorative stamps, they won’t [...]

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Chapter the Twenty-Fourth, in which Sierra Goes to Class for the First Time and Attempts to do Her Laundry

Today was the first day of the rest of my semester.
Because today was the first day of class.
It went swimmingly, though, and I feel very confident that I can do well in “19th Century English Novel” class (or module, as they like to call them here).  If any of you have taken English 2100 (or [...]

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Sunday in Surbiton

I’ve had a delightful day, really. 
Certainly, I missed going to my home church–either of the two.  But, today I experienced something completely different than either has to offer.  Not in a bad way, and not necessarily in a better way.  I felt rather at home, actually.  The people were very welcoming, and everyone I met said [...]

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Just to Brighton Up Your Day…

I can’t take credit for that phrase; I saw it today on the side of a doughnut vendor’s kiosk in Brighton.  On the pier, actually, which was quite long, quite windy, and quite overtaken with amusement park rides.  Oh, yes, I forgot to mention that it’s quite old.  I don’t know how old; certainly not [...]

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London Has Met Its Waterloo

I say that because I rode into Waterloo Station today.  UNC Charlotte is fortunate enough to have its very own staff-members here, for research, I think, and he led us Charlotte students on a little walk around the city.  Of course, we didn’t see nearly all of it.  But I almost became familiar with some [...]

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Allow Me to Introduce You…

Boy, do I have a lot of catching-up to do! 
 But I have good reasons for not writing, really.  Two days ago was an orientation day–and it was pretty dry.  We walked around campus–and, in doing so, we walked around town, because it’s kind of slapped in amongst the town of Kingston-Upon-Thames.  And they gave us [...]

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(22 January 2008) Airport and Airplane

I bet you all want to know how the plane ride went, huh?  You know, the sad thing is that I could be telling you directly, right now, while I type, instead of cutting-and-pasting it later on.  But, then again, I can’t, because I didn’t pack my Internet cable in my carry-on.  So, as a [...]

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(21 January 2008) Start Spreadin’ the News…

I’m leaving today.
But, before I go, I have a few words to say.
To my friends:  Thank you so much for your support and for being such great friends.  I am convinced that I have the best network of friends in the whole world.  If you want to argue my point, I’ll be back in June; we’ll talk [...]

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Technical Difficulties

Dear Readers,
 I apologize profusely for the lack of blogging activity over the past few days.  Until today, my computer was behaving oddly and it made me fear to use any Internet at all.  This has been especially inconvenient for me, because so much has happened in my “absence” that I would love to tell you all [...]

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Houston, We Have a Problem.

I hope you’ve seen the movie Apollo 13.  It’s a good one, and part of it applies to my packing ordeal as if it were written for it.  
But, here’s the context for the situation:  You have three astronauts whose initial mission is to land on the moon.  However, on the way they have a freak accident that damages the craft and causing, among [...]

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