It's Third Week!! - Celebrity CITING

Well, things have been going well thus far. I just returned from a tutorial will Barry Webb on "The Rise of the Novel." Luckily everything went well, and I nailed my paper. I really enjoy having the liberty to write crazy, theoretical pieces here, and thus far, they have all been responded splendidly. Barry is absolutely brilliant, and I ironically enough, he is slightly hammered every time we have tutorial. To be perfectly honest, I would have never known if not for the rolling profusion of whiskey that spill from between his teeth, when he speaks to me. I guess a little Irish coffee never hurt anyone, and for Barry that certainly isn't the case. He has written several pieces and is a reputable professor of Harris Manichester college (Oxford University is comprised of approximately 40 different, individual colleges and halls). Below is the piece he wrote on a reputable poet:


Furthermore I have one celebrity citing to report of my mine and another prosepective citing.

First, while on my way to Trampolining last week, I spotted, though very well dissemble amongst a group of gaggling teenage girls the infamous Siamese twins from TLC, Brittany and Abby Hensel. Though I have only seen then twice on television; I feel safe in avowing that I am their biggest fans, for I was the only one who recognized them in my group of friends.


Secondly, I have learned that Susan from the Chronicles of Narnia movies is currently a student of Magdalen College here at Oxford. Accordingly, two members of the OOSC have already spotted her on Cornmarket (a busy street full of shops, restaurants,etc.), so hopefully I will be able to spot her as well!!!


Other than these few bits of news, I can also report that I am now reading the longest Novel written in the English language: Clarissa by Samuel Richardson. It is the episotolic account of one woman's social oppression in 18th Century England. It promises to be very interesting, but I must get on with it considering i have to have it read by tuesday!!!! Ahhh... I guess that is enough for now. I am really starting to miss home, family, friends, and Mercer. It is an uphill battle as I am forced to confront the vicissitudes of my emotions. However, this is part of the experience, and I will take it in stride!


"the finest composition of human nature, as well as the finest china, may have a flaw in it" - Henry Fielding, Tom Jones.