The thing Chris likes most about himself is his ears.

[entelein]

Andy and KJ had a meeting with their theatre group yesterday afternoon, so I got to hang out a bit before they headed back over from campus with Chris, Ariana, and Jenny in tow. We hoofed it all the way down King St. to a shiny sort of minimalist Indian buffet place called Kury, where I pondered chicken tikka masala along with the contents of my head, and found both slightly lacking. ;)

The food was good, though, and the company was really nice. We were joined by Becca, Frodo, and Lisa, and it was just really nice to be able to sit and be quiet for a while and listen to the conversation around me and not feel any pressure, for once, to be entertaining or interesting. I bet it was also nice for them to have an American in their midst who was not loud and boisterous and obnoxious in any way. Heh.

I think that's probably my favorite aspect of this trip, btw. Being able to hang out with Andy's friends and just relax a lot. They've been nice and relaxed and charming and funny, and oddly, even though I didn't get to know them very well at all, I will sorta ... miss them? I dunno. It's felt really good to immerse myself in another place for a week. Yep. With all the thinkiness that it entailed.

We all walked back to the flat, and we played some game called "knowing me knowing you," where there was some sort of complicated yellow plastic token scoring system, and cards with questions on them designed to reveal things about a player. Frodo and I were on a team, and he kept trying to cheat much in the same way he cheated the other night with the Rizzla game, peeking over at other people's answers and scratching out and scribbling in the right answers at the last second. After everyone left, Andy, KJ, and I watched Bugsy Malone. I stayed up ... late.

So, we didn't make it to Edinburgh. Oh well! Next time.

Castles ahoy.

Today, after getting just a couple hours' sleep, we headed over to campus and I took lots more pictures, and then I picked up a boatload of postcards, and had lunch on the campus. It was a nummy salmon salad, and some chicken noodle soup (hi, Phaedra!), and then Andy and I walked around a bit. Went into town, got postage, bought some tea, went to Costa, and gave myself a writer's cramp filling out about 20 cards for various people. I feel terrible that I didn't have my brother's new Texan address on me, but oh well. I'll make it up to him somehow.

We're back at the flat now, and will head out in a minute for Andy's roleplaying group.

Tonight is my last night in Aberdeen. Seems a little hard to believe. I just got here. I've been here for ages.

You know how it goes.

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[phaedra-amunet.livejournal.com]

and some chicken noodle soup (hi, Phaedra!)

[nods approvingly] Not feeling well?

feel terrible that I didn't have my brother's new Texan address on me, but oh well. I'll make it up to him somehow.

Can you get him some sort of little gift and mail it to him when you're back here?

Tonight is my last night in Aberdeen. Seems a little hard to believe. I just got here. I've been here for ages.

Oh, do I ever know that feeling.

After two weeks in London my vowels had changed radically but I hadn't noticed. I came back here and was shocked by the way my family talked. And by people driving on the right side of the road (I took a few days to stop flinching every time a car going the opposite direction went past). And the worst part was, I'D JUST GOTTEN THERE!

[entelein.livejournal.com]

I feel fine! :) Just, you know, chicken soup.

[hmrpita.livejournal.com]

The thing Chris likes most about himself is his ears.
Best. Title. EVAR.

[entelein.livejournal.com]

pita, you rock so damned much.

[mononad.livejournal.com]

hi, just catching up...i didn't realise you were over this side of the pond. not that aberdeen is anywhere near london. about as far as you can get a still be on the same island... anyway sounds like you enjoyed it!

p.

[entelein.livejournal.com]

I did! Trust me, if I had been able to make it down into England, or if my layover at Heathrow, specifically, had been much longer, I would've let you know. Poor heyoka was just up in Edinburgh the week before I arrived in Aberdeen, dang it.

It's all in the timing. I will come back. :)