Too Cold to Beg on the Streets!

The weather over the past few days has turned absolutely frigid, promting me to ask myself, where is England in relation to the Arctc Circle again? Is it possible that plate techtonics have shifted the landmass north and it is only a matter of time before we collide with Greenland? This is the kind of cold where people (and by this I mean me) hunker down inside and refuse to go outdoors. This is a good strategy for me at this point because I have an insane amount of reading to do. However, weather this cold also makes me want to burrow under the covers and take a nap. Guess which activity has largely won out over the past few days. Yup. Thats right. If I wasn't positively certain that no tsetse fly could possibly survive this climate I would begin to wonder if I had developed African Sleeping Sickness.

I am flying home to NJ on December 7th - yay! I talked to my sister for the first time last night since her surgery. She is out of the hospital now and slowly getting better. It looks like she will definitely be home until after the Christmas Break.

I still have no credit cards or ATM cards, meaning that I am living a truly penniless existence at this point. I have ordered new cards and all, but mail takes a while to get here from the states. Last night I got down to my last pound, literally. Today, thankfully, a card arrived from my dad with money in it. I went to exchange the money and was reminded how truly pathetic the exchange rate is right now. $40 became 20 pounds, which nontheless spends like $20 here. Everything costs in pounds what it should cost in dollars. Needless to say, I am waiting until I get home to do my Christmas shopping.

I really hope the guy who stole my wallet gets run down by a pyscho-bicyclist, which is not an altogether improbable fantasy in this town.