Last year the boys of ManHouse decided to buy a hamster. They named her Ron, in honour of our friend Ron. Reportedly, Ron spent most of her days attempting to escape and she was often found behind the toilet or in a garbage bin. Over the summer when everyone in ManHouse moved home, Ron lived in GirlHouse (and for several weeks the real Ron also … Continue reading Where in the World is Ron II?
So, after being in university for the past 5 years, I have grown accustomed to Hallowe’en being more like Hallowe’ek. You can imagine my surprise to find out that it’s not such a big deal in England. In fact, only two out of the seven people who live in my house even had Hallowe’en related plans for that evening. And one of those two people … Continue reading Hallowe’en
Today is several things. Today is daylight savings time and I forgot to change my clock. And it’s not the good kind of forgetting like in the spring when you have an iron clad excuse for being an hour late for work or school. It’s the kind of forgetting that makes you an hour early for work! (Or in my case, 2 hours early. I … Continue reading Daylight Waste of Time [October 25, 2009]
* I am eating the bacon, leek, and cheese pasty today. It’s good but I am realising they all taste the same. That could be due to the pastry part, though. Thanksgiving dinner went amazingly! Dan and I cooked all day (starting around 1 PM after a trip to the grocery store – dinner wasn’t scheduled to be until 10 PM because Richard had to … Continue reading A Look Back [October 16, 2009]
Aldi (turkey) 9£ Country Fresh 7£ Morrison’s 31£ = 47£ / 13 guests = 3.60£ per person The day in pictures: Continue reading Turkey Math [October 12, 2009]
One of the first nights in the new house I decided to make ruz and lubee, a meal usually fit to serve about 8. I decided that I would invite those of the boys who were in the house to eat with me, since it makes a lot. Little did I know, I’m living with people who, apparently, hadn’t eaten in days and didn’t think … Continue reading First Supper
The house is slowly becoming more and more complete (emphasis on slowly). Each time I come home from work there is one more thing complete (you’d think after a whole day there’d be more than just one thing, but we take what we can get). The exciting thing that happened recently was the installation of our kitchen faucet (finally, after doing the dishes in my … Continue reading The hare might be fast but the tortoise gets free rent [October 11, 2009]
Let me explain the housing situation. When I first arrived in England I had no house. Well, it was here, it was just in pieces. Construction on my house has been ongoing since…let’s just say the watch that was keeping track of time ran out of battery. I believe the original plan was the have the house finished and ready to move into by June. … Continue reading The Money Pit
Tonight is my last night at Jennie’s; I’m moving into Manhouse in the morning. I’m very excited to get settled. This is ManHouse 2. The house had been so named because at the end of my housemates’ first year at University of York, they all decided to live together the next year, at the time they were 5 guys and thus dubbed the house ManHouse. … Continue reading Last Night at Jennie’s [September 30, 2009]
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