Perfectly Lonely

Well, it's 2:29 am and people are, I suppose because I cannot see them, standing on the street just screaming for no apparent reason other than to be annoying.  Yes, I understand, term hasn't started yet, but please, please, PLEASE stop being an obvious fresher.  I don't like being lumped into that group, but for at least this week and next, I am.  Bleck.  Why am I up at this hour, you might be saying to yourself?  Well, my body clock is still off, and it amazes me that I've been able to get up around 8am every day this week and stay up until 3 or 4 am and not feel anything.  Actually, that's a lie, I did fall asleep on Monday during the introductions.  I felt absolutely horrible for doing so, but if it counts for anything, I stayed awake for everything that was relevant to me.  Yeah, I didn't think I would get any points for that either.  Worth a try.

Side note, I think, unless I come up with something rather cleaver, that I will title my posts with song titles or lyrics.  "It's getting better all the time," bit by bit.

Today we had a meeting with the program coordinator, who is the equivalent of an academic advisor and got a basic overview of my particular program, along with a syllabus for the 3 mandatory courses, which is actually very helpful.  You can only glean so much from a paragraph or two on a website.  Also received a handful of readings that I'll probably have done by the weekend, just because I'm lame and a) still don't know a lot of people and b) need to be ever so careful with money until my loan check gets here and I get a part-time job.  Our program is pretty small as far as the number of people doing it is concerned, which I'm not that surprised about.  I would have to say there are probably 25 people total, with myself being the only American, one girl from Mexico, and everyone else, save one who is from Lebanon, is from Europe.  Tons of Dutch, which is interesting.  And they are the cute ones, too, who speak English so well that you can barely detect an accent.  Please take courses with me :-)  We went around the room today and said a bit about ourselves.  As soon as I mentioned I was from the States, it seemed that my coordinator could be less than interested.  I hope it's not the case, because I'm one of those nerds that meets with advisors a million times with a billion questions through the course on any number of things, ranging from how my papers and course work is going, to advice about what to take or which direction I should go in.  So here's to hoping he's not an anti-American.

If any of you have been to Europe, or even just outside the US, you'll know what I'm talking about when I say the food is completely different.  I understand that I grew accustom to American food during my 24 years around it, either in the States or on base overseas, but sometimes you just want something and you can't get it, like comfort food.  But, this shouldn't necessarily be a bad thing.  I've always been pretty skeptical of meat here in the UK, because of Mad Cow and Bird Flu, so I've decided to go vegetarian again.  It's actually cheaper that way too, so my pocket book will be thanking me later.  It's actually funny though, because they have KFC and Pizza Hut galore here, along with Burger King and McDonald's.

Alright, well, I've got nothing else to really report right now.  I'm applying to a position with the student union that's sort of like an sga position, which is paid, so I hope I get that.  It would definitely help out with the money situation.  Off to finish up the application and submit it, then off to bed.  Love you all and know that I'm jealous of all the wonderful programming that I'm currently missing.