December 2010
7 posts
“Cheese crumbs spread before a pair of copulating rats will distract the female,...”
– Your sex fact of the day, from the Kinsey report. Unfortunately, n = unspecified. For similar fasciating tidbits, check out Mary Roach’s TED talk (do I need to say that it’s probably nsfw?)
AIRLINE SEX SCANDALS (zomg!)
Exciting news: after three weeks of non-stop paper writing, I’ve finally finished all my work! I get one last day in London to see all the touristy stuff I’ve missed; then it’s back to the States. While it’s been a fantastic semester, I am really ready to get back home — first to Vermont, and then in two weeks to Oberlin.
Complication: the weather in the UK kind of...
in which I prattle on about the weather
There are many things Londoners are good at that I am not. Crossing the street, for example, or eating properly spicy curry, or figuring out how to get home from Hackney at 10 PM on a Sunday when the 30 isn’t running.
Londoners, however, are not very good at snow.
It started out gently: tremulous little flakes that melted as soon as they hit the pavement. I looked out the window, made...