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Out my window

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Just over two weeks until dissertation submission

The wear is starting to show

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With the WMG crew in front of The Kazakh House 

(Really The House Formerly Know as the Kazakh House)

Don't worry, I'll tell you why it's named The Kazakh House

I'm pretty sure it's not going to be as funny to you as it is to us, but oh well, so is the effect of any inside joke.

"Not that long ago, in a place within walking distance there was a house..."

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We went to Birmingham to celebrate Kena's birthday (the cute young lady with short dark hair on the right)

Sahil surprised her with everyone coming to dinner and she almost ruined it by keeping wanting to try different restaurants instead of the one we were all waiting at! Ah, the stress of being in charge of a surprise!

The food was amazing and the company was awesome

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Do you see it!

The light at the end of the tunnel!

(so close!)

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I have no idea what they are talking about, but since our lives revolve around dissertations and Sandra and Anni have sour faces, I can only guess it is related to that

Please note the time on the clock - I left "early" today (at 8pm so I could buy groceries)

That would make our days on average 12 hours long, so much fun

Four Weeks &Counting! - 

We Can Do This!

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Waiting for the bus

Sometimes we check the bus times, but others we are so eager to get out of wherever we are studying that we just go, and end of waiting 15 plus minutes

At least we've had decent weather to wait in recently!

The Moth

I thought I'd give you a little bonus today: A Video!

Here's the set up - 

We have poor air circulation in our house so in the evening we often open the door and the window to get better air flow while we're cooking dinner. This, however, leads to the inevitable moth attack. Zain and Ting have this thing about moths. I'm not going to say "fear" but you get the idea. Usually I'm the one who kills the buggers. On this occasion I left them to their own devices.

I know you want to know - were they successful in getting their enemy?

I wouldn't leave you hanging!

They are so ridiculous!

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Sandra had some of us to her place in Stratford for dinner

She mad a 4-course meal (well, the dessert was store bought) but didn't use a single recipe

If I did that everyone would starve because the food was inedible - that was not the case here, it all tasted amazing! 

Plus we had a relaxing time. Probably because we were able to spend four hours without talking about our dissertations a single time.

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There are benefits to the sun not setting until after nine...

Once in a while we escape our dissertations and see the sky

after slaving over books and computers for upwards of ten hours

The English Language

“We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.”
From The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde

For good, bad or otherwise,  my language and vocabulary has slowly been altered since arriving in England. There are three categories where I've discovered the greatest change. Below are a few that I've noticed recently. I shudder to think of the ones I'm doing of which I am completely unaware.

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How Amazingly funny is this!

We might be getting a little punchy from the heat on the fifth floor of the library...

It all started when we were arguing about what my eye color is (I said hazel, Anni said green) so she took a picture of my eyes. 

It went down hill from there, ending with Yerkish opening a "mouth" app (already downloaded on his phone for some unknown reason)

I conceded that my eyes are green (though I swear they used to be hazel!)

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Felipe did not dress for the hot weather (it almost hit ninety, which is beyond ridiculous for England)

He wore jeans and a long-sleeved light jean button up - really man? 

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I broke my usual knitting cycle and made this baby blanket for a friend back home who's having her first baby in August.

Potentially I was using it as an excuse to avoid real work...

and cleaning my room

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It's not Caribou but with a free extra shot of espresso it does the trick

though I think I've built up a higher level of resistance to caffeine then ever before! 

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Best magazine cover about the birth of the Prince of Cambridge

The small print on the bottom says "INSIDE: Some other stuff"

At this point it's the little things that make our day

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New View

We've been forced out of the PG Hub for a few days for 'maintenance'

Due to this we've moved to the fifth floor of the Library

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The Market

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Royal Mail

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Dinner at Anni's

It's been too long!