A Nice and Sunny Day Outside

So of course the day that I choose to go to class and get my work done like a good student instead of going with everyone on the day trip to Arran it's brilliant and beautiful outside!! Oh Scotland and your unpredictable weather. Today I walked to the library that feels like a bazillion miles away and it took me about 30 minutes . On the way I saw the owner-guy from the youth hostel we stayed at and I nodded a hello to him. I was at the library to return a book and I looked at the online catalogue before hand just in case there was anything new I should check out. Well I wanted to check out some of the Harry Potter series for my children's literature essay, but online it said that I couldnt because they dont lend some books and the Harry Potter series was one of them. Well I brought them to the front desk and tried checking them out any way and they let me, so I dont know what that was all about. Right now Im drinking hot tea in my left hand and then cold peach tea in the other. I went to our school library today as well. And they have the most freaking ridiculous rules there and I really dont understand their logic. Okay. So for a lecture of about, oh i dont know, say 150 students the library has ONE book that you can only "check out" for 3 hours! And I have four essays to write for my four different classes not to mention reading for them too, so you'd imagine that Id have a lot of books from the library to make up for all that work. Well not exactly. Because today I went to check out a handful of books and the lady was like "sorry you already have 15 books checked out". I was like what the crap. So they really are afraid of people hoarding books. Dammit! I have to go back pretty soon and return a few books I dont need any more, I guess I dont need them any way. Fine. Then I'll be able to check out some others. Im trying to get out of class on Monday because the university has offered a weekend trip for the study abroad students from sat-mon. I emailed my prof for children's literature and said that I would write a "short paper" about what I wouldve talked about in discussion. Well see what he thinks about that. Water in Glasgow is very very good. Maybe Im just too used to icky Iowa City water, so Im grateful for a good tasting spring. Oh ya, I was sitting in class last week (british politics--on a scale of boringness it's about a 5.8 or so) and I was somehow able to take amazing notes, but I sat for 60 minutes and tallied every time our professor said the phrase "sorra kenna"). It's suppose to be the phrase "sorta kinda" but that's not how it sounds when he says it. Any way, ended up being exactly 135 times. Maybe it's similar to when people say "um or like" a lot. And that is how I entertain myself in British Politics. One of my friends told me the stop lights are really different here because yellow doesnt mean caution, it means get ready to go. It apparently turns yellow right before it turns green. Im not sure how true that is, but that's extra scary for us pedestrians is all I can say. I saw yougurt mold yesterday for the first time. I didnt really know it would do that, especially because it was only 4 days after the sell by date. Maybe it's extra fresh, no American preservatives. Dont worry though it wasnt my yougurt. I dont let food go bad because I eat it before it even has the chance. Pub night tonight? We'll see. Okay well off to the library again today! Cheers