and now... back to Oxford

Everyone is back in town from Amsterdam or, in my case, Melksham, and it's back to work. On Monday night, Sally, Karen and I watched "The Shadowlands." I had forgotten how sad that movie was. But I will still add it to my faithful journal readers "You've Got to See" list, especially since we think one of the first scenes is in the New College dining hall. CS Lewis's office is Magdalen, the one scene is in Blackwell's Bookstore, and another one is in a local pub we've been to. If you want to get an idea of Oxford, watch the movie. Or maybe we could have a showing when I get back, with popcorn of course, then I could interrupt every few minutes and tell everyone that "I've been there!" and no one would be able to really watch anyway. Had a tutorial yesterday. She really liked my last paper, and said she can see the progress I'm making, which only made me feel bad because I don't think the paper I handed in yesterday was as good as the one before it. That tutorial is tough because she usually goes off on these tangents and I'm not quick enough to see how it relates to the topic. Like yesterday, I think we started out with feminism in Jane Austen, then I noticed she was discussing French Feminism in the 20th century. This was made most obvious by her talking in French. She asked me if I knew French. "No ... but I know Latin and that's a gendered language ??" Somehow she brought it all back around with 1 minute to spare, during which she assigned my next paper on parenting in Austen's novels. Sometimes I walk out of the room wondering what just happened? Last night we went to see Rachel perform in Godspell. I was surprised at how tiny the theater was, for being an Oxford production. There wasn't even a stage or curtains. But it was very well done, as far as singing and dancing. The musical itself is "eh" but the students did a good job. We discovered a gold mine last night!! Apparently, right before midnight, the Co-op (our grocery store) puts all its expired goods on sale. We got beef patties, pork chops, and scones for only 10 pence a pack!! It was too good to be true. Expect many more accounts of late night Co-op runs. Well now I'm off to the open market to do a little Christmas shopping, woo woo!!