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.
Thursday, 22 February 2007
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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.
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