I LOST MY IPHONE. I put it in my sweatshirt pocket to go down to lunch on Saturday, and that was it. Gone. I don't know when it leapt out of my pocket and ran away, but it did and now I am sad and down £429. I asked the wardens if a phone had been turned in, and I asked the porters the same thing three different times. My phone just up and left.
So that has been the major crisis in my life since the last Report of the Week. The reason that I haven't done a Report of the Week since the loss of my phone is that because without my phone, the only way to contact people is through email, and most people tend to email me via my St Andrews email. The St Andrews email account is connected to Gmail, and my personal email account is a Gmail account as well. This means I can't be logged in to my St Andrews email account and my personal account at the same time. And to post on Blogger, I have to be logged in to my personal account. Therefore, I had to stay logged in to my St Andrews account the entire time my phone has been gone, and logged out of my personal account. Because I haven't gotten any important emails in my St Andrews email account today, I thought that I would log out and finally do a blog post.
Unfortunately, because it has been so long since I've posted, I can't really remember exactly what I've been up to.
Monday 10/24: Turned in my Social Anthropology essay! Yay! First college essay complete!
Tuesday 10/25: Tuesday, which = nothing exciting.
Wednesday 10/26: Spent all day in the library writing Modern History essay. Specialness of college essays fading quickly. Luckily, I spent that evening with my academic family at the cheesy Scottish pub called Drouthy Neebors (you can tell how cheesily Scottish this place is by its name). I met my new academic brother, Marcus. He too is from Belfast, but his accent is somehow thicker than Graham's. Even for me, his accent is hard to understand.
Thursday 10/27: Nothing exciting.
Friday 10/28: Essay turned in. Yay!
Saturday: Stir fry dinner made by John (new member of our group.), followed by movie watching night where John, Heather, Sarah and I watched The Dark Knight, Despicable Me and drank sangria. Good night in.
Sunday: Nothing exciting.
Monday: Halloween! There was a Harry Potter party going on in the Union that we (me + group) had bought tickets for, so we went to that, and dressed up as various Harry Potter characters:
--Amanda: Dobby the House Elf
--Christina: Bellatrix Lestrange (interesting relationship between Bellatrix and Dobby there...)
--Miriam: Professor Trelawney
--Charlotte: Professor McGonagall
--Harry: "Mad-Eye" Moody
--John: Gilderoy Lockhart
--Sarah: Moaning Myrtle
--Heather: Luna Lovegood
--Me: Umbridge (It was the only Harry Potter costume I could make with the clothes I already had.)
We thought that this party was going to be a huge, big fun Halloween thing but it wasn't. There was hardly anyone there, and most of them weren't in costume so we looked like a bunch of dorks. We soon went back to Sallie's and called it a night.
Tuesday 11/1: I was surprised that it was sunny and not raining (I'm used to it raining everyday, day and night from October until January) so I took my camera with me as a I walked to my social anthropology lecture. I was even fortunate enough to encounter a rabbit! :D (photos here)
Wednesday 11/2: Another day spent in the library, working on my English essay.
Thursday 11/3: After finishing my essay, there was a movie watching party in Miriam/Christina's room where we watched Juno. It was a good way to wind down after stressing about my essay.
Friday 11/4: Turned my essay in, and then spent the afternoon shopping--getting a replacement phone :(, getting groceries (ramen, macaroni and cheese, biscuits and crisps...you know...the college staples) at Tesco, and popping into Ness (a really cute clothes shop on Market Street http://www.nessbypost.com/) to see how much this coat that I wanted to get Mom for Christmas was. Turns out it was £140, so I got her something else from Ness that was a more reasonable price. I love you Mom, but £140 is not happening. After my shopping and hall dinner, I went for a second, better dinner at my academic dad Graham's house. At the previous academic family get-together, Graham and Charlie had talked about making their academic marriage official by having an academic wedding, but tonight, Graham actually proposed to Charlie, and got their Jewish friend Alex to agree to marry them. It was all pretty hilarious. I don't know when the "wedding" will be, but I am excited. Us academic children get to be the flower girls...even Marcus.
Saturday 11/5: Next week is Reading Week, which is St Andrews speak for "A free week off from school". Because of this, nearly all of Sallie's is empty. In any event, today is Guy Fawkes day in the UK, so Sallie's celebrated by going out to East Sands beach and having a bonfire and setting off fire works. Thank goodness it wasn't raining today :)
Next weekend, I am going down to Canterbury to visit Gina, which will be totally exhausting but lots of fun. I should have the replacement SIM card for my phone by then, so I can use my phone to call people incase I get lost or everything goes wrong. In the meantime, I actually have reading and work to do over Reading Week, which is really sad. Stupid Social Anthropology...why did you make the second essay due the monday after Reading Week? I also have to do an article summary for Social Anthropology, read 3 articles for Modern History and read the "Protestantism for Dummies" books that Mom got for me off Amazon (thank you!) for Modern History. Fun times ahead.
--Rachael
