blog on demand

So Susan told me it was my responsibility to do a travel blog today. Who knows, maybe she'll do one as well, but it's apparently my job today.

Susan's feeling a bit under the weather so we've taken it easy today. I have to say that I don't actually mind. I thought I might this morning, but I didn't. You see, what with all the travelling about, I really haven't had a take-it-easy day in quite a while. I slept in. I read my book a bit. Surfed the internet. Made my breakfast, had a shower. It was all quite nice. I was still at that point the only person in my building. Later Susan and I went over to Morrisons, the grocery store about a five minute walk from our residence. We got some stuff. My kitchen is currently lacking pots... so the pasta I'd gotten earlier can't really be cooked yet. I want to wait until more people get here to determine if we're going to get a couple communal pots or something. I can't imagine nine people are going to need nine pots. I doubt we're all going to try to cook at the same time. So I got stir fry stuff. We interestingly do have a wok. I'll be making that in a few moments.

I met the first of my housemates today. I was in the kitchen making a sandwich and he walked in. I couldn't see him yet, but I heard him open the door. "Hello!" I say, all cheery like. It scared the crap out of him. It was kind of amusing, and I know he felt kind of silly, but that's okay. His name is John and he's from Manchester. Quite nice.

So today's been really laid back. I'm starting to enjoy my dorm room, which is good as I'll be spending a lot of time here. I was really skepical about it after my first night when I basically froze. But since I have acquired a (pink!) blankie and kind of settled in, I like it rather a lot more.

I'm bound and determined to get into town tomorrow. John assures me most things will be open on a Sunday, though some things will close earlier than normal. He also informed me that tomorrow is move-in day, so the rest of our housemates should arrive. Darn. I was kind of liking not having to share the bathroom et cetera.

Time to go make dinner -- it'll be my second dinner done on my own. Last night was a very nice frozen pizza. Tonight's is a bit harder, lol.