Hello!
I spent the rest of the afternoon reading in my window, and then outside in Tom Quad on the stone, watching hundreds of visitors, and scores of graduates looking even more official in comparison with their robes and fancily dressed girlfriends. I even saw some wedding pictures, and then the couple proceeded to drive out in a rolls royce out in the middle of the quad.
Agh. Crazy Oxford graduates with their rolls royces. The mom was hilarious, following them at every angle, trying to get as many pictures as possible. I had the perfect vantage point. I lied stomach down on a stone with my sweater underneath my elbows and my picnic dress with cabbages on. LoTR was perfect, since I was just getting to all the sunny happy parts, and the sun was warming my back. I had forgotten how incredibly sweet was the budding of Faramir's and Eowyn's romance. I felt so girly, savoring every detail, and smiling when their hands clasped without either of them knowing.
I mean, the war parts are great, but I'm a girl, and I had always been very sympathetic to Eowyn's plight of being the little sister who is told to stay at home.
mmmmm.
Anyways, I did laundry. Then, I went to town in order to find a place to read, but I found a Levi's. I walked up to the workers and told them that I had never found a pair of jeans that fit right and I was absolutely clueless to how sizes and styles worked. Some guy put me in the dressing room and handed me jeans one at a time, and I think I tried on ten pairs of jeans that all sort of fit, but only one pair hit the spot right on. He looked at every pair and helped me figure it all out. I didn't have to do a thing! That's the way to shop. Even one pair I wasn't sure about, he quickly told me that it would never work and I had to try something else. Most o the time they lie. I asked them afterwards, but apparently, he used to work there and was just visiting, but since it was a busy season and he liked helping people, he just hopped in and started handing people jeans. He really works at a restaurant down the street.
No matter who he was, he found me some jeans that work and I thank him for finding me the one pair of jeans that fit, and they were half off, too.
And I bought a little sweater so I could wear my cabbage dress to Harry Potter hall.
Dinner was delicious.
Chocolate tart with a anglaise cream sauce thingy.
Then, practicing violin for the first time in a long while. It felt good. I just stuck my music inside the window, and looked out over the square, and then stuck the music in the side of the mirror for gritty technical work.
A nice long bath in a raised bathtub with both hot and cold taps and LoTR in my hands once again.
This is the life.
I think someone up there thought of all the material things in life that I loved and put them all in one day and place for me. Someone has got to be looking out for me. The people are great, but I miss y'all, too. We should all come together sometime and have dinner in the Great Hall together. I'm not sure if you can do that, but if you can, family reunion 2040 is planned.
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