I managed to find a few doodles to put up here. That's all for the opening paragraph.
I'm enjoying my time there in the States. It's really nice, but I feel as though I'm falling out of touch with the UK. I was asked yesterday about what the spending was like there - about whether or not Britons buy to excess. I know people over here do. My goodness. You should see the size of some of the portions and containers. I'm thinking of keeping a cereal box from here and using it as a wardrobe when I have kids. It's not that people buy to excess here, rather the food companies make product sizes that fit with what they see as a normal lifestyle. If I were to buy the smallest container of milk I could find, I'd be using it for a week. Really. I've just done it. (It's probably something to do with the fact they use gallons and yards and inches and other silly things).
But my point is - I didn't know what the consumer market was like in the UK. Maybe it's the same? Maybe it's drastically different. I've been here for about 7 months now and I've got used to this way of life. For the most part. People still think I'm a retard for asking for chips with my burger. eh. But when it comes to the little things, they're the things that get forgotten first. How much stamps are. What minimum wage is. What the weather's like. (I realise that the first two are probably things that everyone else in the UK would struggle to answer, but it's surprising how popular the weather small talk is here. It's normally just confined to "Heh. Ah bet y'r us'd t' theyis baak in Ingurlend?! Heh."
Moving on from what I will assume is a well rounded paragraph; it's nice to finally be at a place where only a few people a week recognise the fact that I am not really from around here. Now that I know most of my classmates and now that most of the people at church know me, it's slid nicely back into the novel when someone asks where I'm from. Even better when they ask questions and say things that I can answer and agree with, respectively. Even better when it's not related to the Beetles or Princess Diana or the Queen or London or bands that I haven't heard of or relatives of people here who I have never met or asking me what I think about Obama or something else that can be cut-and-pasted into a different conversation with someone else and not just me please go away.
I shaved my head the other day. Not all of it. Just the top. I got my hair down to a number one. It's shorter than it's ever been. My beard is at a number three which is good for the Heavy Metal Drummer look. I play the drums, so it gives me the feeling that I can pull this off. Just maybe not in church. I don't know. You know what Baptists are like! (I don't).
And finally - the Olympics are here! I have watched the short track skating. It was good because I'm in America and two of my roommates are from South Korea. Imagine the excitement when the two South Koreans won and the American came third. ... yup. That's about all the Olympics I've seen this year. Sorry. Not much more to say on that.
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Bye.
Oh. Two things.
I'm trying to keep most of my art and doodles and things in another blog of mine - danfairweather.blogspot.com
It's going about as well as this one. I can't remember when I last updated it.
And also.
My fiancée and I got some engagement photos done on Valentine's Day. My good friend John Carrington did them free of charge. It was an amazing afternoon. The pictures are fantastic.
I love her so much.
