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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!

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This week is the Warwick Arts Festival

We got serenaded by a choir during lunch and a orchestra concert before heading home to dinner

I could get used to this! 

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I was very serious about my chicken fajitas (apparently)

What can I say, they were good...

Halloween?

Queen.

"There is a willow grows aslant a brook,
That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream;
Therewith fantastic garlands did she come
Of crow-flowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples
That liberal shepherds give a grosser name,
But our cold maids do dead men's fingers call them:
There, on the pendent boughs her coronet weeds
Clambering to hang, an envious sliver broke;
When down the weedy trophies and herself
Fell in the weeping brook. Her clothes spread wide;
And, mermaid-like, awhile they bore her up:
Which time she chanted snatches of old tunes;
As one incapable of her own distress,
Or like a creature native and indued
Unto that element: but long it could not be
Till that her garments, heavy with her drink,
Pull'd the poor wretch from her melodious buy
To muddy death."

From Hamlet by William Shakespeare

Before I go into detail regarding my Halloween at Warwick let me just say that normally I don't do the whole Halloween thing. Like many kids I enjoyed trick-o-treating and going to "Harvest Parties" and the like, but for a variety of reasons I've never really done much with the holiday. In part it's relates to the fact that I usually work as well as the fact that I lived in a neighborhood that wasn't conducive for treat-o-treaters. That being said, being back in Uni made me want to have fun with a holiday that is pathetically American and has been transplanted into England only as an excuse for people to drink and party while wearing as little clothing as possible (and that is not a cynical view, just a honest one). That being said, I had a very strange combination of experiences for my Halloween this year.
My fore-planning skills for a costume were extremely limited. Thursday I realized that I had no idea what I was going to dress-up as on Saturday; all I knew was that I didn't want to be a witch, a vampire, or a zombie. This limited my options to an extreme degree.
I lassos-ed Allison to come with me into Coventry after classes to find a costume. I was thinking "butterfly" or "bat". You know, buy some wings and be done with it!
A few issues showed themselves when we arrive into Coventry City Centre:

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Halloween Ball: Ophelia and the witches
(Opheila post-drowning)

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Finally there: University of Warwick Student Union