22.1.06

coordination difficulties

yesterday morning seemed like a nice day (definition: it wasnt raining) so i decided to spend part of the morning in the library, and then walk about a bit with friends. actually i made the tour of libraries. i spent most of the time in SOAS and senate house. i like the SOAS library since it has a nice bar....and it also has a great selection of middle eastern and asian stuff, which is exactly what i needed. so i got a bunch of books on syria and lebanon, and i will probably get into them today. then i went over to senate house, which is enormous...the place is yet another maze of badly organised books. you have to keep running up and down stairs and climbing ladders. but the selection is pretty good...although it didnt have exactly what i was looking for (all for you, jeronimo!) so i will have to make the pillgrimmage to the british library for that.
after my library adventure, i went to meet igor, outside what we call MGY.
we alked a bit around the area, but ended up as usual in the pub that seems to be becoming our regular. it is just next to his law faculty, and it has these great massive leather chairs. you can sit for hours and no one notices...and generally we are not the only people getting drunk and speaking loudly in russian, the last time we were there (last weekend) we ended uo next to serbs...so we were drinking. igor had whisky (as usual) and i had wine (as usual) and i got a bit drunk since i hadnt eaten all day....so afterwards, when i was at the train station, i decided it might be a very good idea to get something to eat. so i stumbled over to upper crust and asked for a sandwich...but then i had great difficulty counting the change...the woman behind the counter was looking at me like i was insane, and i was embarassed, but dammit i just couldnt count those coins! so finnally she did it for me. it is bad when you cant count to £3.29! so then i flopped myself onto the train and chugged a liter of water and ate my sandwich and in such a fashion returned more or less to a functioning state.
so now it is sunday and i am trying to get myself prepared for the coming three weeks, which promise to be hectic, since the place where i work is going to be flooded with italian teenagers.
dio mio fatemi morire!
and i have so much reading and writing to get done also;;dont know how i will manage it!

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