Well, since I stayed up all night doing random stuff last night, I was a little tired. Oh well.
I woke up early again and headed out to the park. It was freezing!! So cold. I froze. But it was nice. Made it to breakfast - hashbrowns and bacon and stuff every day - delicious. Good thing I go out for my run, ha.
Class this morning was tough, I really just wanted to go to sleep the entire time. One of the history classes took a trip to Blenheim Palace after class, and I was going to go, but I decided I needed to rest more. I mean, I love palaces and stuff, and I know this sounds pretentious, but once you've seen as many as I have, you really have to know the history behind something to enjoy it - and I knew nothing. But I heard it was beautiful and will probably go sometime next week.
Anyway, instead of the excursion, I re-read part of The Golden Compass for later activities, then took a nice long nap. When I started having crazy golden compass-like dreams I finally woke up and decided to carry on with my afternoon.
My original goal for the afternoon was to go see Exeter College, which is Jordan College in the Golden Compass. Oh my gosh I'm obsessed with these books. Obviously not as much as Harry Potter or anything, but they are really awesome. So I headed out...and of course I got sidetracked and a little lost. Well, it's not really lost when you know the general direction you want to go in. It's more like finding the roundabout way. When it started raining pretty hard, I dashed into the History of Science museum since it was dry and admission was free and ended up spending like an hour and a half in there. Even though I know nothing about science, it was really cool. The old artifacts and instruments were amazing...it's hard to believe how far we have come technologically, and all of the things people could do with so little back then. Also, when Einstein lectured at Oxford they saved one of the chalkboards, so I was able to see a chalkboard Einstein had actually written on. Of course I didn't understand the formulas, but it was still cool.
I finally made it to Exeter and walked around the grounds for a little while, just imagining little Lyra running about. Beautiful. I can't imagine going to school here. Really, all of the colleges are so unbelievable.
I wandered back to campus in time to finish up my homework for the day and eat dinner in the hall.
Afterwards, the group was going on a pub crawl, Candice, Sarah, and I were not really in the mood to walk around in the cold, and the GA tech people invited us to hang out anyway, so we decided to hang out with them. We ended up staying in the college pub for a while, just hanging out and talking to people. We eventually headed over to this club - Club Lava - apparently the GA tech people know a lot of club promoters (they have been here like a month longer than we have and will stay a week after as well, so people want them coming out to their places) so we got in free. It was really fun, just hanging out and dancing and meeting people from all over.
The title is the name of a shot one of the guys bought for one of the other guys since it was his 21st birthday. A shot of Jack, a shot of SoCo, a shot of Jose, and a shot of Captain Morgan (I think) all poured into one glass and taken. I would rather die, thank you.
Overall, really awesome day.
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