The Foot (Pt. 1) and More

Look at me! Blogging for the first time in ages...because I should be writing a paper! It's a wonder I get anything done and get good grades, I swear.

I suppose several things have happened in the past week or so, such as me turning 20, but the most notable came to light today: I think I broke my toe. It's been an issue since Scotland, and it would occasionally bother me in London on days where we had long walking tours or the like, but I decided to get it looked at today by good old NHS (look, America, socialized healthcare WORKS! What a wonder!). Basically, the joint of my big toe of my left foot has been bothering me for a while, mostly just when walking or doing things like putting my foot into my shoe or whatever. It's been pretty swollen, too: not to the point where it's purple and huge, but it looks more like a bunion sticking off of the side...and that's enough descriptions of my feet. I never said too much about it, since I didn't want to be a whiner about all the walking we do (I still hate all the walking, and I don't think I'll ever get used to it, but there's nothing we can do about it, so there's no use in complaining). However, my toe got a bit worse a few days ago, with shooting pains even when I wasn't walking, so I went to the health centre today. They seem to think it's most likely a stress/hairline fracture from repeated walking on it, and they told me to take aspirin and NOT WALK ON IT, and come back in five days. So far, aspirin has done squat, and there's no way I can just stop walking, so I fully anticipate to go back on Wednesday and come back with an air cast (hopefully not a REAL cast). As annoying as that will be, at least it'll stop it from getting worse, and I can stop walking on the outside of my foot, which I don't think is a good thing to be doing.

In other news, I still haven't heard back from UEA, despite the fact that they've had my application for almost two weeks. Today I got an email saying that they're working on it, but I would like to have an answer soon, mostly because I need to know whether or not I'll be continuing to take my Dickinson class next semester so I can properly budget my time. However, I decided to finally tell my professor that I'm planning on transferring, so I walked into his office and told him I needed to have a bit of an awkward conversation with him. He looked up at me and said "Oh, so you're going to tell me now that you're transferring to UEA?" He already knew somehow, and has known since I started all this. It doesn't really matter that he knows, of course, but I'd like to know who told him, but he refuses to reveal his sources. I suspect someone else on the trip that I had mentioned it to...or perhaps even this blog. It is completely public, so it's definitely possible, though it's not that easy to find if you aren't friends with me on Facebook. Either way, I was floored that he already knew, and he's been incredibly nice about the whole thing. Now I just need to hear back from UEA so I can talk to Dickinson about whether or not I'm continuing with Humanities 310 in the spring, since that heavily affects my work schedule for the next four weeks, and I'd love to just be able to put all my attention on my American Studies work and not the Humanities paper proposal.

Anyway, I have to get ready to go see Men Who Stare at Goats, and then I'll work on my paper more. On a completely unrelated note, I was wholly unaware that there's a British indie movie about the young John Lennon coming out here in December, and the trailer totally made me squee: