An Historic Day

Well, for someone other than me, I suppose. Today was the first day of classes, which meant running lots of errands and standing in lots of lines. I still don't understand why the Brits are stereotyped as loving to queue, when clearly no one does it better than New Yorkers. Ugh.

Anyway, classes look good so far except that they will entail a LOT of reading. But I'm pretty good at that so yeah, it's just a matter of getting my hands on the books. I have a very full day tomorrow of class, checking out the job fair, meeting with the EAS dean, then class, then going to see my Chinese professor (and perhaps auditing his class, har).

What else? Oh yes, some random lady came up to me at Whole Foods and started going off on how she felt offended by Obama's speech as a white woman because she helped with the Civil Rights movement in the 60's etc etc and I felt very awkward. But then I saw her go up to two other people after me and repeat the same schpeel, so I guess it's whatever. Reverse culture shock, episode 153.65!

So yeah, I miss China and my friends from there lots. Prices here are already making me sad. I can't hardly eat! Well that's not true, because of this wonderful thing called the "Recession special" that some restaurants have now. For example, Amy and I ate at Calcutta the other night for 9.95 and we each got: a samosa, soup, a chicken entree (mine was korma), rice, and naan bread. Nice! Portions were slightly smaller, but still. And the tax and tip basically killed, but still. 9.95 for delicious Indian food.

And the last note: I bought a bunch of yogurt on sale and it's possibly the weirdest texture ever. Not feeling it.