Settling In

So we've been here for a while now and I'm happy to say that we're starting to settle in quite nicely. Our rooms are livable, with all the amenities we'll need for the next couple of months. We've located the grocery store and visited it a few times. We're beginning to think of things like meal planning. As you read, we've accomplished laundry.

The registration thing is still rediculous and we're still working out little kinks in our time tables. Susan just found out she has a conflict with two lectures, and I had a seminar conflict and need to track down my other seminar. We have some books to get us started. We've both picked up Middlemarch.

We're even starting to meet people. The people in my building are oddly ghost-like. I almost never run into them. There were a couple that I saw for the first time today. Very strange. I know all of Susan's flatmates though! They're very nice.

Last night I learned how to play Texas Hold'em. Woot poker. Now I really am a university student. We were playing for fake money and it was quite fun. It was Susan and I plus a couple of guys from her flat. It was nice. Today Susan and I went for a walk. We went through Victoria Park and made our way into the fringes of town and then came back. It was a nice brisk day and the walk was nice.

Overall we've kept things fairly low key, but that's okay because it's like we're establishing a liveable pace. Had Susan been less sick this past week we could have gone to all kinds of parties and pub nights and bar crawls and all kinds of things, but then we'd be broke and exhausted and we wouldn't be able to keep it up. So it's been nice.

Alex gets here soon and we're excited to meet up with him. I just wanted to do a little post to let y'all know that we're alive and well, and that we're pretty well... settled.