Friday, December 2

So concludeth the first term

Today brought an explosion of good things. My first term at Oxford is now nominally complete. We had our final STATA lab and the statistics assignment for the break, which we received today, is relatively kind. I went for lunch at The Turf with 15 members of the program, which had a good air of solidarity to it. Afterwards, Claire lent me a Tracy Chapman CD that I haven't heard and very generously gave me her old mobile. I am now rather closer to being a proper European, though cell phones are ubiquitous in Vancouver as well.

As I understand it, in England you only get charged for messages you send and calls you initiate. As such, feel free to give me a call whenever you like (not that I will always be in a position to answer). Email me if you want the number. With hundreds of people reading this blog from all over the world, I'd rather keep any conversations with strangers online. Also, I would appreciate if those who have mobiles would email me their numbers.

Term Break To-Do:

Important and urgent:

1. Thank-you letters for birthday gifts from relatives.
2. Christmas shopping, for those far away.

Important:

1. Study for quantitative methods test, in 0th week of next term.
2. Complete final stats assignment, assigned today.
3. Apply for at least two more big scholarships.
4. Uncover details of the ORS scholarship.
5. Read the books suggested by my supervisor.
6. Pre-reading for next term.

Personal projects:

1. Take some photos in Oxford, on film.
2. Get physical exercise.
3. Finish reading Paradise Lost, An Instance of the Fingerpost, Why the Allies Won the War.
4. Buy a skillet and a pot; start cooking better.

Potentially excellent uses of time:

1. Edit and resubmit fish paper.
2. Make long lists relevant to only me.

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• Here is disheartening article on foster care in America.
• Many of my brother's videos are now online. This is my favourite of the lot.
• I am getting seriously irked with how I can't properly control line breaks and spacing in this template. The huge gaps that appear sometimes bother me most, as well as the bizarre inability of the archive pages to render properly in some versions of IE. Arg!

Posted by Milan at 6:01 PM