a romantic weekend

I have spent almost the entire weekend, aside from a few social gatherings, working on my Jane Austen paper: Was Jane Austen a romantic? No. But that's not romance as in roses and red hearts, it's the literary and art movement that took place during the early nineteenth century where writing was based on nature, emotion, passions, the sublime, etc. Just in case anyone is interested in the fun things I get to study. Finally wrapped up the paper at 2am last night after getting off the phone with my mom. I did have some fun this weekend, and I learned some new things, such as the British also have daylight savings time. Here I thought it was only an American thing, noooo. I couldn't figure out why the streets were so empty on Sunday morning, and the doors were locked when I tried to go to church. It's the one day a year where we get an extra hour of sleep and I missed out on it! I did make it to church that night, then my flatmates had a little Halloween type party here with pumpkin carving and bobbing for apples. Also went to our friend Kenny's house (which is definitely the nicest flat of them all, because he lives with one of the program heads.) That was cool because they have a microwave and we finally had microwave popcorn. I think Marie and I ate 3 bags between the two of us. Halloween is also a time of fireworks here, since they don't have a fourth of July, so we set off some fireworks in the back yard. Met a guy named Tom who lives in Philly and goes to Grove City. He knows Jeremy Dager (for all you non-Eastern kids, he goes to my school) and also Jeremy's friend Rob who is Jori's good friend from Susquehanna. He didn't know Lorraine Krall but he has heard of Amy Good (GC students). It's so nice to meet people from home! So this whole week has been composed of late nights and early mornings, this one being no exception since they were doing construction outside our window at 8am. I've been living off of soda just to stay functional. Maybe I'll go take a quick nap ...