-I think I'm losing my knack for buying concert tickets. White Lies, who opened for Coldplay at Wembley, are coming to UEA on November 23, so I thought a month and a half was enough time in advance to try to buy a ticket online. Wrongy wrong wrong. Apparently, it's already sold out. The odds are good that I can scalp one closer to the date of the show (there are Facebook groups solely for selling UEA event tickets), but really. Additionally, I learned a few months ago that Snow Patrol would be playing three dates at the Royal Albert Hall, on November 23, 24, and 25 for as cheap as £22.50. It took several weeks to get myself sorted: figuring out who was coming with me (they bailed), figuring out which date of the three would work best in my schedule, making a reservation at the Arran House. So last night I go on both the RAH's site and Ticketmaster...and all the tickets for the date I want to go to, save for the really good £75 tickets, are all sold out. I did, however, find that www.viagogo.co.uk is the UK equivalent of www.stubhub.com, but the cheapest tickets there cost about £50, and that's way above face value. I think I'm going to ask my parents if the ticket can be my birthday present (though I'll probably have enough money saved from my weekly stipend to cover the ticket come November--I put away about £20 per week for things like this).
-I've known this for years now, but it's worthy of repetition: Cadbury chocolate is far superior to Hershey's. I love chocolate, don't get me wrong, but I've always been the sort of person that would choose Pringles or nachos over a candy bar or cake. Here, I eat more chocolate than I ever have in my life simply because it's that amazing. I ate half a HUGE bar of dairy milk chocolate last night, which I'm pretty sure is about three or four times the serving size (but I wouldn't know, since UK labels don't HAVE serving sizes listed, which I'm always going to be bitter about).
-Because I have all the time in the world these days and all, on a whim I bought a packet of airmail envelopes and a pad of airmail paper from the post office on campus. Perhaps after this week, I can actually write the occasional letter: the stationery is cute, and who doesn't like to get mail? As we all know, I also like to write my butt off, so we'll see if I can actually afford the time to be cute and send letters.
-Seven of my friends and I are going to Edinburgh, Scotland, over the weekend of Halloween! We booked the hostel last night and our train tickets this morning, and I'm quite excited for our little mini-vacation. It's nice to actually be going somewhere a bit far (technically another country!) and leaving the massive mounds of work behind. Besides Scotland, however, I'm going to Cambridge for the day next Friday to visit Emma, and then I have two trips to London coming up as well (to see Phoenix on the 28th and to go in for Guy Fawkes on the 5th of November). If I can snag Snow Patrol tickets, I'm going again on November 24th as well.
-I'm well aware that I should be working on my paper, but I only got out of class an hour ago, and in ten minutes I've got to go food shopping, so this is a good time-kill. It's interesting, though: the problem with my paper is actually getting over the mental hurdle of DOING it. I've rarely ever had this problem before. I only really learned how to procrastinate last year, but now I'm a professional, it seems. I think it's going to turn out alright in the end (well, at least it'll be interesting to me and be up to my standards...we'll see how well it fares for a grade), and besides occasionally freaking out about it being too short (ME? Worrying about something being TOO SHORT? Has this ever happened before?), I just have to force myself to DO it. I also need it to be finished by Friday so I can have the weekend to work on my other two (lame) projects.
-In direct contrast to my moronic American History class, my Politics in the USA class is quite good. However, because I'm actually American, I often find it hard to separate my personal opinions and spins on issues from what is neutral and appropriate for a classroom setting. Because everyone else in the class is British, though they may be interested in the issues surrounding healthcare and the Nobel Peace Prize, for example, I'm the only one talking about things with any sort of emotion in my voice or with any sort of personal stake. I've also been inundated with stories presented with one side's spin or the other on it for my entire life--I don't think we have really any truly neutral major news source in America. That's not really the case in the UK: the BBC is government owned, so it can present stories without bias (or at least, with much less bias than the major news networks in the US). Everyone else is more used to hearing the neutral, middle ground, whereas I barely even know what a neutral news story looks like. At any rate, I need to keep my personal opinions out of conversation more often, but I realize that I'm bringing my bias into what I'm about to say approximately every thirty seconds. Perhaps this class will be a lesson in being objective as well.
Right. On to my paper.
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