Last night’s late night laundry-doing brought me into the first substantial contact this year with members of both my program and St. Antony’s College. Having carefully set aside my laundry card and other ‘Oxford only’ cards before leaving for Canada, I have now torn my room apart several times in search of them. When yesterday’s searching proved as hopeless as previous attempts, I managed to trade cash for the use of someone’s card, at a St. Antony’s social event. Having succeeded in activating the machine, it seemed natural to wait out its cycles in the company available.
There, I was lucky enough to see Roham and Iason, Diarmuid – who I showed around Oxford sometime shortly after May Day – and Jessica Ashooh – who is joining the M.Phil this year. The new M.Phils are off being oriented today, as well as learning which supervisors will guide them through this whole complex process. I look forward to meeting them all.
Another upshot of the party was learning about some of the many Antonians who will also be living on Church Walk and adjoining streets during the coming year. Good news on that front arrived yesterday, as well. It now seems likely that I will be able to remain in present lodgings for the duration of the M.Phil program. The prospect of moving during Easter Vacation (when I am hoping to hitchhike to Morocco and at the end of which my thesis is due) was not at all an appealing one.
PS. Mica has a new video online. It is an experimental combination of high action and a stationary camera. Rumour has it that his Arctic Monkeys video has been accepted for the next Google Idol competition. His Hives video won a previous round.
Ah well, I hope your laundry was more successful than mine. Somehow I left a pen in with my shirts.
Still, freshers week is going well. We seem to have a nice bunch in Jesus.
Ben,
In my case, the detergent pellet never really broke up properly. As such, even after rinsing, all my clothes remain saturated with itchy Ariel deposits.
Another Google Idol competition. Do we have what it takes to repeat that?
You only vote once in this once. Don’t worry. No daily voting. The system has changed. This will be easy to promote.
Mica,
That is arguably much more exploitable. All a person needs is an IP spoofer to vote again and again.