Time Flies When You're...what have I been doing...

Guess what guys! I think I have discovered the secret to time travel...'cause I am pretty sure it is still the third week of January but I have somehow ended up in the end of February...if only I knew how I did it, I think it has something to do with all the work I have had to do lately. 

This last couple months have been nuts, I have wrote a paper about a river in Edinburgh that used to power the city's paper industry, then rewrote half of it when I realized some of the stuff I had written was actually about a river by the same name in New Zealand.  Quick sidenote: I am typing in Firefox and it keeps trying to correct the Zealand part of New Zealand to Zululand or Zeal-and neither of which make any sense, first of all Zululand was a name for the kingdom of Zulu which hasn't been around since 1897 and is currently a city in South Africa now that is all well and good but New Zealand is a country, it seems like it should be recognized before cities and ancient kingdoms, but maybe that's just me.

Another adventure I had in the world of academia was an exciting and epic search for a book I needed to read before my midterm...I had to walk to three different libraries (all of which said that they had the book) and I still couldn't find the stupid book, eventually I had to camp in a bookstore and do my reading there, which was kind of a hasle.

I also have been readying myself for applications for summer internships and such which has not been very much fun...but on a lighter note, I have discovered what seems to me to be a strange and unholy combination of two slightly silly fads (one from the 80s and one from the 00s no less).  Behold the Sodukube the strange offspring of a rubix cube and soduku puzzles.  I am baffled by this product (which I spotted in my local Starbucks while on a tea run) can you only solve it once? what do you do with it after? has anyone ever solved it before they chuck it at the wall and decide to go solve a suduku and then a rubix cube for essentially the same experience?  also why did someone invent soduku toilet paper (one of the recommended products on the amazon page)? do you sit on the toilet and do the soduku every time you go? that seems like a colossal waste of time doesn't it?

Anyway I leave you to ponder those questions...I'll be back soon (and I mean it this time)
Love ya!

Whether the weather is cold...

...or whether it is unseasonably warm (like it is here).  It has been strange to hear about the crazy snow y'all have been getting lately seeing as it has been in the 40s and 50s here.  The springy weather has been quite nice but it is messing with my internal calendar, I can't figure out what time of year it is anymore!

Sorry I haven't been posting much.  I have been pretty busy lately with work and figuring out what I am going to do this summer and working out where I am going to live next year.

Anyway, here is an interesting video dissecting the British Empire and explaining all the distinctions between the different regions and the terms that describe it.  It is interesting and should be helpful for all you Yanks who would like to understand which bits are countries and so on.

Anyway,
Love ya!