Been awhile...

It's been awhile since I've last posted. Probably because there has been lots of reading and writing for final papers, memorizing French vocab for French tests, and editing of writing samples for Ph.D. applications (and might I add that James turned in his first application today, which called for Trader Joe's peppermint bark to celebrate!).

Despite the fact that I get to study in a library that looks like this, and that I sometimes pretend I live at Hogwarts and that my best friends are Ron and Hermione,

I'm still basically covered in books like this, writing papers on the moral significance of innovation. Thus my world is not quite as glamourous as that of Harry Potter, especially when I don't have a broomstick to grab and a quidditch match to go play.

So I still find myself day-dreaming in the midst of my studies, especially when I find posts like this one on the topic of English country houses:

(http://www.designspongeonline.com/2009/12/past-present-english-country-house-diy-project.html)

And then I start looking on Travelocity for cheap tickets to go visit here:

And guess what - I found a killer deal with roundtrip tickets from NYC to London, including 6 nights hotel and 6 days of breakfast, all for the ripe price of $599.00 - are you kidding me!?! Anybody up for a jaunt to the continent?

Well, let me know, in the meanwhile - I'm back to the library...