Hello!! Mostly this last week I've been doing schoolwork - I had a project due for computing in statistics, and a big paper due for women & scottish society. But that's all done now! Couple terms I want to discuss:
1. "missed call" - Ana and Clara recently have been asking us to give them "missed calls." For a week or so, I kept laughing to myself whenever they said this because I just thought their english wasn't great and somehow they mixed up someone calling you with when your phone says: "missed call from.." However, Eric finally decided to confront them on the issue. Turns out we were totally wrong! They ask for missed calls on purpose, meaning - "can you call me? as a warning, I am purposefully not going to pick up." This is because it is cheaper than a text or call to just have a missed call. (only applicable for me here since I don't have unlimited texts) Anyway, it is smart! You guys should all start using the phrase.
2. "Can't be bothered." - Everyone here seems to use this phrase a lot. It is great. Examples: "I just couldn't be bothered to get out of bed today." "I couldn't be bothered to grade your tests." "I couldn't be bothered to go to lecture." "Couldn't be bothered to shower."
(Clearly some are better than others)
Anyway, it is the best because people seem to take it as a valid excuse. "Ah, that's alright - they couldn't be bothered." Here's what I couldn't be bothered to do this week:
- any of my CS project due next week. (we have to make a blog site! how ironic)
- start my absurdly large pile of laundry
- clean up the hizzouse for ryan's visit!
- start my absurdly large pile of laundry
- clean up the hizzouse for ryan's visit!
Alright, now looking at it all of those are pretty lame. I'll try to have better ones next week. I did bother to do some stuff today, though. I went with the breakaway club to Braemar, a small town in the Highlands. We hiked up a mountain, got a little lost in a whiteout/hail storm, were blasted by 40 mph winds, and then came down on a beautiful hill of heather, with the sun shining and bunnies and little mini deer-animals, and headed to the pub to play scrabble + drink hot cocoa. Can't be bothered to put up the pics tonight, but I'll do it this week.
Here's a few pics, though, for my mom! Today is mother's day in the UK so I'm sending her a shout-out. You can have two of them this year mom!! :) I was going to do the traditional hold-piece-of-paper pose, but I thought you deserved better than that, which is why I made this extremely classy composition:
Good lord that is one classy shot, pinkies out. Here's a traditional one though, just in case:
Have a great day!!
God you're classy. I don't know what it is about that place, maybe the air, but you do seem to be of a higher societal order. I wasn't bothered to respond, until I realized that I could be your sole stalker and you might not be aware because there are no ways to figure something like that out on blogspot like there are on facebook. skoodlebug.
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