Archive for October, 2007
Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
Here’s some fun from the Evening Post for Halloween. And you can be a part of it. Know any weird websites? If so, drop them a note and they may add it to their own list. And they’ve found some really fun stuff.
Like animations? Remember the 60’s? Check out […]
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Friday, October 26th, 2007
One of the perils of growing up on the West Coast of America is you tend to go stir crazy if you don’t go outside at least 27 times a day. So in spite of the gloom and cold today I found myself in a state of pacing and decided to go for a […]
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Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007
I’ve bought my first car in Wales and I am absolutely chuffed to bits! It was a semi-new experience because let’s face it, buying a car pretty much entails the same things regardless of where you do it. But it was quite fun to be given the opportunity to pick my license plate […]
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Friday, October 19th, 2007
This morning was the second magnificent autumn morning in a row. Cold and crystal clear, I left early for school to make my 9:00 a.m. history class.
Once parked, my walking route takes me past a large field populated with ancient oaks and beautiful rolling, deep green lawns. The field slopes gently up to […]
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Tuesday, October 16th, 2007
Don’t you love rainy nights? I do. There’s something inherently romantic about them. I always want to dash home and cuddle up to someone I adore in the sanctuary of dryness, warmth and the cozy lights of our world. To snuggle with him in front of the TV, my head on his […]
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Tuesday, October 9th, 2007
I think my nose has become a faucet. I appear to have acquired a cold. Not too surprising considering that, of the 270 some odd people in my Medieval History lecture hall, probably 75% of them have been coughing their heads off through the hour-long class (an interesting topic by the way). […]
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Saturday, October 6th, 2007
Now that I’ve been here a couple of weeks and gotten where I can find my way around, life couldn’t be better – well, with the exception of downtown Abertawe which I think will be torn up for road work for at least the next millennia…
You ask people: “How do I get there from […]
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