wow, for the second day in a row, i'm blogging during daylight hours.

so i'm thinking of england today. (when do i not?) most particularly today becoz at this very momment, as i type this, Man U is playing the Celtics in Seattle's [american] Football Stadium. Noticably, i'm not there. the footie event of the decade in seattle, and i miss it. oh well... i don't support them anyway. if it woz Everton, that'd be a different story. i did, however, enjoy seeing people walking around the streets of seattle wearing england and man u jerseys this morning...

and just now i discovered there is a town of Manchester, Washington. and a Manchester state park nearby. it appears to be about 2 hours away, so i'm thinking of visiting it on my birthday, just becoz...

the other day, a freind asked me why i'm so fanatically in love with england and all things english. hard to answer. just about as hard to answer as when i first came home and people asked "how woz it? wot did u like about it?" ... there's just too much for words. but i try anyway... i suppose it could be simply becoz i spent so much time there, it became home... i mean, for sure it woz a process of adjusting to another culture and way of doing things... and i didn't love it the minute i got there... well, no, i take that back. i did... for the first few weeks i walked around feeling like pinching myself all the time, i just couldn't believe i woz really there. but then, well, culture shock set in. as it does... and i woz definately frustrated with things for a while. but i got thru it, that stage always passes. and then, it woz home.

and then, it wozn't. but i find that re-adjusting to something i left behind is not so easy. who woz it that said "a mind stretched to new limits never returns to it's previous shape"? or something like that, that's my rough paraphrase... anyway, england has definately changed/warped/touched me forever... i mean, look at my spelling, it will never recover. that's okay tho... and my driving too... oh that's amusing. to this day, i still get confused (in my head, not physically) about which side of the road to drive on. and just a week ago, i walked up to my car on the wrong side... again. something that never fails to amuse me.

so why? don't know. i guess the above quote is as good an answer as any... it's something i grew to love and accept, and something in me won't so easily let go.


huh. but moving swiftly on to something else... i'm registering for classes at Seattle Central Community College. yesterday woz an orientation, i went and learned about ... something... oh, how to register i guess. informative, to be sure. anyway, then i had to sit down with the list of classes and requirements, etc.. and figure out wot classes i wanted to register for. this brought on the largest knot of nervious tension my stomach has seen in years. sheesh. so i went to work to relax. odd, i know. but there's something relaxing about brainless, repetative work. anyway.. finally figured out which classes would be good and i registered online today... and got the classes i asked for! wow! wozn't that easy. well, not all of them... i want to take a 2nd year spanish class, and i'm in process of begging and pleading my cause to the spanish department... ordinarily u either have to take spanish 101, 102, and 103, or test out of them and pay for the credits. well i'm not about to do that, it would be about $900 to pay for all of 1st year spanish. (that's 600 quid to the brits.) seriously, wot do they think i am, a money tree? anyway.. we'll see wot happens there.


so... i leave u all, my devoted fans... (all 3 of u) ...with this quote from one of my heroes... (semi-related tangent: i find that all the people on my short list of heroes are brits. G.B.Shaw, Winston Churchill, C.S.Lewis... david beckham... heh heh. that last one woz a joke.)

"Ideas not coupled with actions never become bigger than the brain cells they occupy."
~G.B. Shaw

okay then.
Laurel<><