I want a kitten and I want to move to the east coast maybe or possibly washington and I want to know what to do with my life after Oxford and I want it all to happen soon. 

I’m going to be so bored when I get home in 26 days. I don’t want it to come yet.

I adore reading them.

I love discussing them.

But writing about them? That has become a HUGE pain in my ass over the past four months. And I still have 7.5 weeks of that to go. I really wish Oxford would just cut the essay load in half and pump up the discussion a little bit more. I’d so much rather spend my tutorial time debating than reading out a paper I wrote.

I am so oddly unproductive. I’m mysteriously energetic, riled up about a million different things (only a small fraction of that for this paper), and I really wish that during my joint tutorial tomorrow (that’s new) we could just spend an hour discussing our likes/dislikes about Malory’s Morte Darthur rather than actually writing and presenting papers.

That sounds reasonable. Right?

Hilary, you’ve been wonderful and also kind of painful, but mostly wonderful. But I am so ready to get out for five weeks of wonderful vacation.

Here’s to freeeeeedooooooommmmmm!

I’ve been hearing a lot about henna dyes lately. I love the idea of not slopping chemicals on myself, so henna is appealing. I went into a Lush store here in Oxford and spoke to a kind fellow about a color they have called Caca Rouge (haha, caca). Looked up some photos, and holy flaming redheads. It’s gorgeous. But as I’m entirely too paranoid about such things for my own good, I’m hesitant and I needs me some opinions!
For reference, I currently have very light brown hair, and I’m looking for a very natural redhead color: that orangey-red that is neither too orange nor too red. And none of that fake dark purpley color so many dyes have. Something like this!: 

Has anyone out there tried it before? Or just henna dye in general?

It’s the end of 5th week. I’ve heard rumors about this. 

They’re all true.

This week can only be described as utterly absurd. Personal shit just running rampant in the back of my mind constantly, not enough hours in the day, more reading than I am physically capable of doing in a week, and it’s all just caught up with me. All I’m capable of doing is basically huddling in a ball, crying, because I feel like I’m failing the entire system here. I have at least 200 more pages of reading and at least a 5-page paper to complete in less than 23 hours.

I have excruciating knee pain, a raging headache, and no idea what to do.

When most students in my city in America get drunk, they start fights and take off their clothes.

When students at Oxford get drunk, they viciously debate politics, in an entirely coherent manner, for multiple hours.

They can be stumblingly drunk, but by god if they can’t maintain an interesting, cohesive argument.