Miscellany

1. Apparently, on Hallowe'en you are supposed to find out who you are to marry. This is being discussed on Radio 4 right now :)
2. It will be nice for the mid-term holiday for non-university persons to be over (yeah, we don't get a break at all). One by-product of this is that there is one of those little bitty motorcycles mosquito-ing around outside my window.
3. There are fireworks going off randomly at all hours of the day and night. Presumably this is in eager anticipation of Bonfire Night next Saturday.
4. My skill at making fried rice is improving!
5. The microphone on my new telephone operator headset has been discovered to be Suddenly and Unexpectedly Brokeded. Good news about this is that I can stop fiddling around with Every Single One of the audio settings and periodically yelling into said microphone trying to get some sort of line on the sound recorder!
6. A result of fiddling is that I now know how to record my voice into little segments. What to do with segments has not been determined.
7. True Romance is really such a great movie. "You're so cool!"
8. Tylenol as a brand is not available here. Instead, I now have Paracetamol with Codeine. :)
9. Eggplant is one of the best foods ever.
10. I think my email is not working. Even junk mail isn't coming in!
11. Someone just tried to steal Fabiana's bike from the Student Union and when they couldn't get the lock off, they instead DESTROYED her bike. Wheels won't even roll, so she had to carry the bike to her friends' house close to the campus. Isn't that the most annoying and barbaric thing?!??!?!?!?!?
12. Today was Daylight Savings Time here.