Another Week Gone By

The sun didn't rise until 8:30am today. It set at 3:40pm.

The seven hours of daylight are full of clouds and wind; as often as not it will be bright and sunny when I leave the flat, and turn dreary and rainy within half an hour.

I love it here.

The weather fits me perfectly, and now I have a good excuse to wear a scarf, which is quite fashionable.

I have no new pictures this week, sorry. I've taken a bunch, I just haven't uploaded or edited them to a decent size, and I'm not sure that any of them are really cool, anyway. I will post this, however, as I think it's a great picture.

I don't remember where this was taken, but whomever took it is a great photographer; once in a lifetime shot, I bet. Also, here's this one:

How cute is that? Giraffes, if you didn't know, are kosher. Also, they're intruiging animals. My friend James dressed up as one for Halloween this year...he's very tall...long neck.

And this is just so ridiculous that it's awesome.

For those of you who don't know, I have written a letter to the editor for my local newspaper, the Daily Triplicate, back home in Crescent City, and it was printed! If you missed it, or don't live there, I have posted the letter to which I was responding and my original, unedited text here: http://on-my-mind-grapes.blogspot.com/ - be sure to check it out.

Here (http://www.dailyexpress.co.uk/posts/view/74932) is an example of irony: the eco-freaks report 'illegal logging', only to discover that the 'loggers' were beavers. Nature: 1 Eco-freaks: 0.

I'm surprised at how easily I've taken to UK English spellings: favourite instead of favorite, organisation instead of organization, etc. Though the UK keyboard layout still messes with me a bit, it's surprisingly easy for me to throw in extra U's and S's in place of Z's.

Today's vocab is a phrase: You're going to get a slap. This seems pretty self-explanatory...if someone is mouthing off or goofing around, you say 'Keep it up, and you're going to get a slap.' Why I find this interesting is the very passive nature of it. In the States, we say 'Keep it up, and I'm going to slap you', or something to that affect; we are the acting agent, we are going to inflict the slap. Here, it's backwards; you are going to get a slap, you are acting in such a way that you will bring a slap on yourself, maybe by me, maybe someone else, maybe by the hand of God Itself.

Well, I think it's interesting.