M. Willis Monroe

I’ve been incredibly busy these past two weeks writing essay after essay and dealing with the everyday work of preparing for classes as well. I’m nearly done with my final essay. Hopefully I’ll be able to hand it in tomorrow or at the latest on Thursday. After that I should be done for a while.

Anna’s sister and her boyfriend got back on Monday. They left a year ago to live in Australia for a little more than half the year and then they went traveling to New Zealand and then through Africa for the rest. I had never met them so it was really nice to finally get a chance. Anna and I are going up to Birmingham this weekend as well. Oh and we’re going to Wales in reading week.

Other than that not much is going on still working round the clock. I’ve got my dissertation topic confirmed with Andrew George for the most part, “Literary History of Šumma ālu“. Should be very interesting and I’m excited to be working on it. Oh and the photo is of a cup of coffee from these vending machines scattered around UCL and SOAS. It costs 40p and tastes like sweet milky coffee water but it’s surprisingly good and helps me get through long lectures.

Oh just as an aside I’ve been browsing the Klix website with the goal of trying to find nutritional information on its drinks and I came across this great quote:

KLIX machines boast 18 months between breakdowns… and that’s just the average!

You can find it here. I’m not sure if they’re marketing to people who don’t understand averages or they don’t understand averages themselves. But I guess the phrase does sort of make sense, yes 18 months is “just” the average (your mileage may vary).