Monday, Monday

I saw the most incredible thing this morning on my run. A Starbucks employee was on the sidewalk handing out free samples of coffee in order to entice people to go to Starbucks! It was a decent-sized cup, too. Can you imagine, Starbucks having to lure in customers?

I've been asked this a few times, and I finally have the answer- the foods I miss most from back home are cantaloupe and churros. Not that I ever ate that many churros when I was in California, but there's just that comfort in knowing you can get one at any time! I also miss being able to watch Glee, but I have time to catch up on that later. I'd rather spend my time here embarrassing myself as an American, learning about Linguistics, and taking too many pictures.

Speaking of pictures, these are two places where the movie Trainspotting was filmed. I can't remember exactly which scenes, so I may have to rewatch the movie now. But it's still pretty cool to be in a place where history has been happening since 1200, and where notable stuff is still happening.

Go-gurt (portable yogurt tubes) here is called Frubes. Fruit tubes, I'm guessing. Sounds more like an STD to me...

And speaking of diseases! (What a great transition...) I have pink eye. And a cold. I don't know where the heck the pink eye came from. Maybe the gym. But I'm hoping it clears up soon, because now I look like I've been crying all the time, and my eyes are nice and itchy.

It's pouring and windy, so I'm sitting on my couch with my cozy new cashmere sweater (thrift store score!) and blanket (free store score!) studying. I wouldn't mind the weather so much if I didn't think it was making me sick all the time. My eyes look worse in person than they do in this photo...

But on a happier note, I'm happy.