The Rest of Sunday

WOW I can't believe it's still the same day as it was this morning.

So Professor Connery does that thing where he goes into unnecessary detail about how to do normal things and here I am thinking it's so ridiculous and the two sisters, Amanda and Sophia, get here and get off of the bus and Sophia trips on the cobblestones and breaks her elbow, so now all three of them are at the ER getting x-rays done. She seriously stepped off the bus and immediately injured herself.

Anyway, that means that the rest of us were without any guidance whatsoever for dinner and the evening and the information we had was a) the place and time that Professor Connery had told us and b) the place and time that was listed on our schedules, neither of which were the same as each other and Prof. Connery had his phone turned off because they were at the ER. So the rest of us wandered around the extremely confusing campus looking into doorways and interrupting important-looking people until a guest at what looked like somebody's wedding spotted a sign on a table through a door that said "Oakland University."

Then we had the fanciest dinner I've ever eaten and I felt horribly under-dressed. The vegetarian dish that I was served was so delicious - I took pictures of it because it was so beautiful. Jenny says she'll send them to me on Facebook so I can post them with my blog. (Obviously she lied.)

After dinner, Jenny and Amanda wanted to go find the Brasenose College on-campus pub, so we did and I said that I'd only go with them if one of them bought me a drink because I didn't want to spend my money on booze (I didn't say that part though), so Jenny bought me a whiskey and coke, which was my first official drink at a bar. We hung out there for an hour or so and chatted with the bartenders, who are all graduate students here, and laughed really hard and it was fun. I got one of the grad students to tell us the legend behind a "friendly ghost" that haunts Brasenose, according to "The Cheeky Guide to Oxford" that I borrowed from Professor Connery's office. It turned out to be an actual story, and there was a unicorn-related story that also turned out to be true.*

Then at 9-ish, a bunch of people all showed up at once and it got really hot and crowded really fast, so I high-tailed it out of there and went back to my room. (Which is where I am now.)

Tomorrow morning we have our first drama class and I believe we're discussing Titus Andronicus, so it should be super laid-back because a) I already know that play, b) there are 3 students in the class total, and c) I'm not entirely sure if Professor Connery is even going to be there because we still haven't seen him again.

*There was an anatomically-correct unicorn statue in the hall at Brasenose, and at one point in time it was decided that the sculpture was rather graphic, so the unicorn lost his manhood. Then, several years later, it was decided that it definitely should be anatomically correct, and his genitalia was re-attached. This means that for several years, there was a unicorn penis being stored somewhere in Brasenose. Furthermore, I found this particular statue on campus and now I understand why somebody found it inappropriate... it's a very well-endowed unicorn. I'll snap a photo of it later this week because it's actually in the hall where we eat.