Well..there he is people! Another one of my many flatmates! This one is the Scotsman. As u can see, he's into sports. Tonight, he came home drunk. Apparently, he was weaving a bit on his bike coming home. Glad he made it home ok. Wouldn't want to lose him-especially for rent purposes.
As for me, had the usual day: had a glorious class this morning involving a speedy review of an article with on-the-spot presentations followed by a filming shoot that became a little more complicated than usual because the method of creating a focal shift kept evading us. After being outdoors for an hour and a half in the freezing cold, 2 individuals started to become quite irritated so we gave up, did the best that we could and headed as quickly as we could for the warmest open cafe on campus. The thing that I will always remember was the fact that my feet were truly frozen. I thought I'd had frostbite! Afterwards, we went to the computing centre to obtain our usernames to register on UNIX. In addition, came home, watched 1 and a half movies-both were boring and not worth mentioning-except that Steve Martin should not write screenplays-ever! My flatmates and I, then discussed tomorrow's upcoming events along with the very exciting phone bills; which included the fantastic guessing game of who dialed which phone number.
Oh...yeah..and I learned a new british word today: FRANKPOST which is accompanied by the verb: to frank (stg). I had to stop someone in the streets of England to discover the meaning of this word. Try to guess what it is. I can tell you that it has nothing to do with a man named Frank...or if HE Franked your post or not-which sounds rather lecherous!-I wonder what the origin of this word is, because I'd never heard of this term until I arrived here.
I, truly, believe that the British have a name for everything, even for the most mundane things that most people wouldn't care about knowing. For example, the barrister. I prefer to call it a railing-same principle. I don't even think that Americans even know that word: barrister-it probably doesn't exist in American English. Also, in American English: I do like the terms 'watchamacallit', thingamabob', and 'thingamajig'-these terms are truly effective to know when you are stuck for a word and can't find the right word to communicate what you want to say. The British don't have these words or if they do, I've yet to hear it from my flatmates. They must speak the 'Queen's English'.
Anyway, all of the above were 'deep thoughts' for you today..so I'll bid u all a good night until tomorrow. adieu
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