A Scholar's Life

The only downside to completing the first week at a UK university is realizing that, just like they call the bottom level of a building the "ground floor" and say the "first floor" is up one flight of stairs, we have just finished "Week 0" and "Week 1" is barely on the horizon.  Sigh.

And what a week it's been, numbered or otherwise.  Between technology workshops, inductions, meetings with my professors, enrollments, banking appointments, and numerous trips to the grocery store, I've barely had time to sit and process my surroundings.  General consensus is that we haven't been given much new information, but having so much fed to us at once does create no small amount of stress.  Thank goodness our first out-of-class assignment has been probably the most pleasant part of the whole publishing experience: walking through a bookstore and looking at books.

Oxford University Press's dedicated store, right off of High Street.  Proof that textbooks can be pretty, too.

There is only one drawback: dirty, vile temptation.

If you can pay in coins, it feels like it's free!

By the time we'd finished browsing, I was glad not to be carrying any cash.  It's altogether too tiring to keep repeating to yourself, "Student budget, student budget, student budget, student budget . . ."