Readers Digest Version

I think for your sake, and mine, I might blog a little less. I'll keep you posted with fun, new things. Try to upload pictures as often as I can and surely I'll fill you in about trips, but I think I'm going to move away from the daily blog. At least until things pick up. Although I might just be saying that because right now I don't really feel like staying up another 30-40 minutes to tell you I didn't do much today.

In short hand:

I went to another class - better than yesterday but I'm still skeptical. I think I've been spoiled by amazing subject matter and passionate profs who teach in areas that I love that to come into an intro level class about material I am indifferent to is a little saddening. That said, I'm in Europe so everything is good. This class has an 80% final - this place is crazy!

I purchased a discount card that allows me to get 40% off train tickets for travel in the Netherlands. This will be optimal in cutting costs when I fly out of Amsterdam and when I travel around the country.

Travel this weekend has been postponed. At least the girl I was going with can't go anymore. I'm thinking I might take a day trip on Saturday. We'll see.

The article about me in the student newspaper came out and can be found here. It is funny because she used direct quotes but none of it is word for word what I said, in fact she made it a narrative but I sound kind of silly. I still think it is fun, but kind of silly. There are also things I didn't specifically say that are in there. It is funny though because a bunch of the other people in the residence have been pointing it out to me. Fun.

I slept with ear plugs in and it was amazing. I thought I would hate it, but I loved it. So quiet!

They don't have a university bookstore which means that finding your textbooks is nearly impossible and most have to be ordered online. This is frustrating.

I was invited to watch a movie tonight. We didn't know what some of the titles were so the girl just picked one, Deception. I guess it came out in 2008, it has Ewan McGregor and Hugh Jackman in it. It was really slow and then really awful. The writing was just painful to watch be played out. I left half way through to go to bed. After the fact I looked it up and its only got 13% on rottentomatoes.

I've not much to do tomorrow but I have an assignment due in a couple of weeks I'll start working on and some readings to get to. Otherwise I might just resort to continuing on with Mad Men. Currently 6 episodes in. I have a lot of free time. A lot.