This is where I work.

This is the Radcliffe Camera, where I spend the majority of my waking hours. My back was against the main building of the Bodleian Library when I took this picture, and the underground storage area feeds into both. This coming week I've got Paradise Lost and The Screwtape Letters reserved and sent up to this building for my reading pleasure.

Well, it's been a little while since my last post! Let me just say it's NOT been because I've been lazy. Since I've received my golden ticket to learning, I've read through the Chronicles of Narnia again, Henry James's travels to Rome and Venice, George MacDonald's Lilith and have started Phantastes. That 6 pager isn't due until Wednesday, but I've written and turned in my James paper and will discuss it at length with my tutor on Monday.

Before all that started however, I took day trips to both London and St. Aldates (a small town with some Roman ruins, taking it's name from Britain's proto-martyr.) Both trips were great, but London was especially cool. Of course we saw Buckingham palace and everything, but the coolest part was taking a walk through "Old London," and seeing where the Great Fire of London did all it's damage. There's a lot of really neat history here.

The weather here for that last week has been excellent (knock on wood). The sun has been out relatively regulary, with showers only at night. It makes great walking weather and walking is what I'm doing ALOT of. I'm thinking about investing in a cheap bike, but I don't have much time to look.

Today was a great day. I got up and finished writing my paper on Henry James, went to turn it in, and then ended up just walking around Oxford for a while. I stopped by the Camera to try and read some of Phantastes, but I couldn't make myself concentrate, so I just walked. When I got home, I went to the grocery store and got some good looking chicken, then came home and cooked it with some rice and green beans. It was the biggest meal I've had since I've been here, and I was perfectly full when it was all said and done.

Tomorrow is church at St. Andrew's Anglican. I'm really enjoying my experience with high church so far, though it is very different. More than anything, I think, I am just continually reminded how diverse God is--that He draws pleasure from all the different aromas that our worship(s) create. Though our expersions of love for Him look different, He accepts them and charishes them. I hope everyone has a wonderfully relaxing and worship-filled Sabboth tomorrow.