Saint Catherine's Day/Turkey Leftovers Day/Shopping Reminder Day/Buy Nothing Day/You're Welcome Day/Winter Wonderland And Parade Of Lights (California)/Black Friday
2005-11-25 @ 11:09 p.m.

I'm quite certain that what Mr Sowden told us to fill in for our residential category is wrong. There's no way that most of us can be EEA nationals really. I've checked, because Nottingham wants me to fill in some questionnaire to assess my fee status, and I have to tell them my immigration status. I suppose I'm a Commonwealth national without right of abode, aka foreigner for all intents and purposes. Have finally fixed the texts I'm bringing into the examination next Tuesday: Love, Etc. by Julian Barnes, The Hours by Michael Cunningham, Selected Poems by Thomas Hardy, Collected Poems by Philip Larkin, Selected Stories by Katherine Mansfield. Added the last because I figured Love, Etc. isn't exactly the most flexible text in the world. That and Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio felt a bit too American for me, not to mention that I've forgotten most of the stories in it anyway. I suppose I'm in a better state than Eugene, who's doing seven texts, most of them being healthy-size novels. Nothing intellectually anaemic and fluffy like my Barnes text! Frivolity is a remarkably delightful way to pass the time. The imminent lack thereof only makes it that much more enjoyable. Does that make sense?