The past couple of days have been good.

I DID go to the University Library. I did. I took my ID card, just like I was supposed to. Guess what the lady told me I was supposed to have (that I did not have)? Passport? Letter from my college (despite my ID)? Drivers License (luckily I had this)? I pronounce that lady and that 5 minutes of my life lame. So she only gave me a temporary card and said I had to come back with a letter, even though no one else from Westfield needed a letter. So extremely lame.

So I spent a good five hours in that place. It’s a huge place. I wasn’t allowed to get my own books, they had to fetch them for me, and it took an hour. Once I got them I sat in the reading room and read until my eyes felt as if they were going to explode, but that would not have been very polite. But I never took in a letter, so I’ll probably have to reapply and then spend several afternoons there in the next month to take care of various projects.

Anyway, Ben and Bethany came! The past couple of days have been delightful with them here. Yesterday was such a pleasant day. We walked out to Granchester to have tea at the Orchard. It was such a great walk along the river out in the country. And the Orchard hosted several authors and poets several times back in the day, including Rupert Brooke, Virginia Woolf, Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath. That’s pretty remarkable, I’d say. The weather was so nice and we sat in the Orchard for a few hours and spoke of backpacking across the USA and several other things of great importance (which means they were quite trivial).

Then we came home, had a nice dinner, watched some hilarious you tube videos, went to a pub, came home and watched more hilarious youtube videos till 3:30 in the morning. I loved it so much.

Tonight Jenna and I are headed to the bus station, which takes us to Stansted Airport, and then we’re flying to Salzburg, Austria. Then we’re eurailng to Vienna, then to Hallstatt, then to Prague, and then back to Cambridge again. It should be a good little trip. Scotland the weekend after. I still need to call and get my confirmation number.

So…I’ll let you know how all that nonsense goes.

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