Well, today was another brand of interesting...I woke up to find a letter tucked under my door, from my landlord. Apparently I forgot to pay the rent for September!!! *Wince* Yeah, I know, it's not exactly what I thought it would be...I was having those weird fantasies people always have in the movies...like, "Could this really be a letter from the other side, from my great-aunt Flo?" or, "So that Internet e-mail thing where you passed on an e-mail and got a check for 3 million dollars really WASN'T a scam." Yeah, well, I had just woken up, so give me a little credit/leeway.
This, of course, made me hurry over to the bank to do some crazy money transferring. After which, my machine told me that it wouldn't transfer until Sept 26. Sept 26????? Yeah, I know. Anyways, I guess it takes a while for these things to take effect. As soon as I know that the transfer went through properly, I am going to send them a letter and officially apologize...how embarrassing. Totally not like me at all. I am still figuring everything out here...although I feel superior in many ways to people who have been here only a short while, on the other hand, I kinda feel like they might know just as much as me...not to mention that a lot of these people here are at least bilingual, if not trilingual as international students. *Sigh* SO much to learn. So much time. *Grin*
I met a couple new people today when I went to the sports centre. A girl named Mana...she's really nice. I keep wanting to making the joke, "So did you fall from heaven, too?" but I'm not sure she'd get it...not sure if she's religious...I'm thinking no. Anyways, I thought it was funny...even if it's not a joke I would tell. I think that one is about as tasteful as when I was getting to this guy in my English class named Denver, and I said, "Oh yeah! Like the sandwich!" He gave me one of those looks, laughed and said, "Yeah...I've never heard that before."
I also met a couple other people who were standing around with Mana, but I don't know them very well. Mana and I walked downtown and then went our separate ways. I was supposed to meet up with a bunch of people at an international party and see those people there, but I didn't find it...I had a good walk, which was nice. And, you know, you never realize how tired you are until you go for walk later in the evening, and you are falling asleep even when walking. That's only happened to me a couple times, but I guess I am just so sleepy today...mostly because I am very relaxed. It's nice. I've been reading a lot and really enjoying it. I've moved on from my survey book on ethics that Emer gave me a LONG time ago, and I am now reading a intro book on Continental phil. Although, it's more of an exposition on the historical rift between analytical and continental philosophy, which is still really good. I'm really enjoying, and in a lot of ways, agreeing with the author, even. After that book, I get to read Susan Neiman's book on evil! That'll be mega cool! GO EVIL! Um...the study of it...I mean. Yeah. That's it.
The one thing about the walk that I signed up to go on around the Heverlee campus, is that Mana and I were the only ones left there, and our guide had ditched, so this guy who wasn't very familiar with the sports centre gave the walk, and all Mana and I really wanted to see was the sports centre area and where the pool and gym was. LOL. So, it was a very short walk...which was ok, becuase I walked for a while after that, and that was good...but it was just to go home.
Overall, today was a very good day. The only thing today that was rotten was a loaf of bread that I bought from the market last week. (Which is really weird...I have a bunch of bread, and the raisin bread that I bought at the start of the month is still going strong, but the bread I bought LAST WEEK just keeled over. How sucky. *Grin*) I also have a bunch of soft tortillas....maybe I should make some tacos? That'd be pretty cool. Maybe I'll do that.
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