Doing Sunday afternoon laundry and the dryer was broken (quarter-sized hole in the face plate) so I ran a load longer than hoped or planned for which led to conversations with a girl from the class who I have never spoken with and after our long session of complaining about finances and financing wound down she started talking about that art student who is in our class, how she doesn’t understand how someone can just decide to jump fields like that and how do you even get accepted since she’d been turned down from schools the first (three?) times she applied and I said, “yeah. I’m the art major.”

How do you just switch gears? Can I say you just DO because the world is an enclosed system which means all things are related no matter how obliquely? Or that it’s not just a switch of gears but an attempt to cover all ground of interest simultaneously and while you can do everything you want, you can’t do it all at the same time and need to parcel out a schedule that allows for some coverage of some area at some time (and boy oh boy do I need a schedule set up NOW)? I don’t know. I’m blind to it so I didn’t know exactly how to answer. You just do. I tried to express the frustrations of attempting to register for both science classes and art classes, the way they refused to mesh up and how I sacrificed some ideal choices for necessary ones. I certainly don’t usually consider myself an overachiever but our conversation left me thinking, ‘well, maybe I am?’ Funny because I have barely been an achiever. I guess it’s all where you set the bar?

Went out last night (after agreeing to a flat! near Summerhall, very small 3-bedroom but will be saving us money on housing if we can just find the third roommate.) with some of the new friends to celebrate a few birthdays (there were 5 altogether I think but we were in several different groups - ours celebrating 3) which is my first time out and I made it a late one. Spiegel Tent (ooooh, Scottish Rugby player, sigh) then they went home I ventured to TigerLily with a new group of the ladies (the POSH neighborhood of Edinburgh - rather ick and L7 for drinks!) but quickly migrated to Hard Candy for dancing. Yay! Dancing! Made me very happy but I had to keep it very sedated because it felt like showing off to let the hair down and really get loose. Had another episode of the locals being very aware of my American heritage. Not clear on what it is about me that grates their nerves and steps on their toes. Gonna have to work on that. Gave the bartender a pound for the water and he seemed particularly pleased. Sometimes you just gotta look out for your own.

The three birthday girls, Laura (7 Aug), Amanda (19 Aug) and Megan (20 Aug)

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