ice rain

I bought a bottle of Tamdu single malt whisky from Speyside, Scotland ... came recommended from a local shop as a fine, spicy whisky. It's good stuff; had a glass of it last night and had the most pleasant buzz before heading to the pub. I managed to meet another friend of friend last night at the pub in Cowgate -- of course I suddenly forget her name, but she is a friend of Allison's and goes to Scripps. And once again, I must affirm how good fresh Guinness is...

Anyway, on the way back we had ice rain and probably 60-70 mph winds ... so hard that I was actually not able to walk at all, but had to stand my ground so I wouldn't fall. It was great.

I've been getting up very early each day -- it's nice. I wonder if I can keep it up? I spent the morning reading my course packet for Celtic Civ and nearly shat myself looking over the reading lists -- probably around a hundred books. I'm terrified. I love my technology and environment architecture class though.

So now I'm sitting in the library; still no internet in my room. I just met the other person who came here from Brown -- helped her set up internet. The Brown sticker on my computer apparently gave me away ;)

There was some call for a measure of the prevalence of smoking here; I'd say there is quite a bit of smoking in bars -- it's very casual, not like chimneys out of every person's mouth, but prevalent nonetheless. People try to make it to an open window or outside anywhere else -- and the university specifically forbids it on campus, except outside of course.

Right then -- off to eat.