Thursday, 22 February 2007

These are some lists

Things I've seen a lot of in Oxford:
-Buildings over two two hundred years old (duh)
-Black pea-coats and tightly knotted scarves.
-Bicycles (fuck, there are a lot of bicycles)
-Skirts that reveal 80 percent of thigh (conditional: after 10 pm Thursday through Saturday)
-Men who wear Dolce and Gabbana (sp?) and then talk about how they're wearing Dolce and Gabbana
-Little children in prep-school blazers who call people "slag" really loudly.
-Girls who look like a lot like Emily Spalding (four in one day)
-Crazy people. I don't mean, like "Oh, man, you crazy!" I mean like "That person is shouting something unintelligble at me and he looks like homeless Santa Claus"
-Food from sidewalk vendors that I feel comfortable eating for some reason.
-Hard-working, intelligent people with just a leeeeeeetle bit of a stick up their ass.

Things that I like about Oxford:
-New friends
-Nice town
-Decent theater (Faust, huh? Yeah! Yeah, sure!)
-Books read (i.e Lady Chatterly's Lover, oldest book I've read (1928) that says fuck, shit, cunt, piss and penis written not just once, but several times)
-A surprising percentage of English food.
-Streets at night after it's rained (It's like I'm about to get stabbed in a Fritz Lang movie! Cool!)
-Mayonnaise on French Fries (who knew?)
-Buying alcohol, but not to get to get totally hammered, just to relax a little after a long day, or after a meal.
-Everything cool in Western Civilization is just £30 and an easyjet flight away.

Things I don't like about Oxford:
-The occasional snobby, preening twat (you know who you are)
-English baked beans (I used to like baked beans. What the fuck do you do to them, England?)
-Club scene (I can't...I'm sorry, I can't...I SAID I CAN'T HEAR YOU!!!)
-Visiting student status (I can only use the library from 4-10 pm, and I can't go into other colleges aside from my own. Thanks, Oxford Elitism!)
-The pound (Spending ten dollars at Burger King used to mean you had a big family or a terrible problem)
-Lack of girlfriend. (Yes, you can hit me now. Thank you.)

Maybe other lists to come. That is, if something interesting doesn't happen. Which it may not.

1 comment:

Jaya said...

i'm so sad i never introduced you to the wonder that is mayo and fries in the states. i've never taken you to pomme frittes? sad.