My birthday is next Thursday and the preparations are already underway. Most likely my birthday will be a bit of pub golfing (drinking games at 18 different pubs along the subway), which will inevitably bring hysterical drunkenness and dancing in the street. I’ve started mapping out the 18 pubs we’re going to be stopping at on my birthday, thanks to the angels who created this website completely dedicated to pub crawling the underground here in Glasgow. Nifty.
We went to Curlers the other night, which is the bar down the hill from my apartment building, and ran into a guy in a full on pig costume going around taking pictures with people. 
And I got a picture, of course. Wouldn’t you? How often do you go into perfectly good bars seeing grown men dressed up as farm animals?
My 2 essays are due next week and I have done absolutely nothing to prepare to write, research or anything for them. I’ve got a few days to get those going and polished but I have to be pretty focused until next Wednesday in order to get them done and up to the standard that they need to be. I think I’m especially nervous because I’ll be writing for British professors and I’m unsure as to whether or not my writing will be ‘up to snuff’ since I’ve never been judged on a level other than American writing, so it should be interesting. Hopefully they don’t pick up my paper and laugh, calling me a stupid American and saying that I have no idea what I’m doing. Let’s hope I’m not that terrible!
After I finish my next can of Coke, the last from a box that I purchased on Saturday, I’m going on a soft drink fast. No soft drinks for as long as I can make it. I’m going to try as hard as humanly possible, but I have a feeling it’s going to be terrible. I don’t think I can emphasize to people enough how MUCH soda I drink. It’s some ridiculous amount- at least 4 cans a day. Pretty terrible when you think about it. I mean, at least I’m addicted to something like soft drinks and not something worse (like cocaine or something), but that doesn’t mean it’s not bad for me. Save my teeth while they’re still there, right? And at least I don’t like alcoholic mixed drinks with any kind of soda in them. Other than my Long Island Iced Teas, of course. But even then, it’s 90% alcohol and a splash of Coke for coloring. The good ones are made that way, at least.
I’ve been on a movie spree the last few days. I’ve become a pro at finding any movie imaginable online to watch with everyone in the flat. Illegal, it may be, but free… and for a poor college student that’s all I really care about. I watched “Wanted” with Angelina Jolie yesterday and it blew me away, I thought it was absolutely fantastic. That’s a buyer, right there. Plus it doesn’t hurt that the wonderful James McAvoy is in the film, and he’s Scottish and beautiful so there’s TWO pretty people to look at the WHOLE time! Haha. Watched “The Notebook” today against my wishes. I’m not good with sappy crying movies so the end was a little awkward, everyone else crying but me. I guess I just have a heart of stone.
Tomorrow I have to go to the library, force myself to read, and seriously research for my 2 papers due next week… or else I’m going to be in the weeds! Procrastination will be the death of me one of these days, I’m sure of it.
-Catherine
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