Working for the Weekend

Okay, that's a total lie.  This is mostly going to be a working weekend for me, as all of a sudden the work has piled up.  (I have a presentation on Thursday on the monarchy in medieval England, reading for my Cloisters to Classroom class, background research on both my dissertation and my Identity and Power paper, and Latin exercises.  Whew!)  The week definitely was worth having to be a studybunny this weekend - and, as you'll see, I do have a few fun plans anyway.

The exploratory meeting of the American Girls' Dinner Club met this week; Katie, Claire Menagus (a friend from high school), Claire's flatmate, and Jess (the lone Brit) and I all had a lovely dinner at my house.  We're going to do it again next week, and make it an official sort-of-weekly thing for the American girls in town to catch up and gab.  (Anna and Christine, my other two Americans, weren't there, but they will be!)

The lecture I went to on Wednesday was pretty interesting, although by the end I was looking at my watch more than listening to the esteemed guy.  It was basically about how archeologists and historians look at sources in completely different ways and therefore often extract completely different conclusions from the same sources.  I thought of it sort of as a Venn diagram, where you have two circles that overlap slightly; one circle for the historians, one for the archeologists, and a bit in the middle where they discover the same things.  After the lecture, the usual crowd of class kids went out for drinks.  It's so great to have class friends - and we're more than class friends now, I think; we're actually friends friends.  A few of us girls went shopping on Friday - that makes us real friends, right?

The date, by the way, went very well.  His name is Jon, and I'm seeing him again tonight.  And tomorrow.  (Tomorrow is the annual Apple Fair at Borough Market - we're double dating with Amy and her boyfriend Harry, who is Jon's flatmate.  Pretty cute, huh?)

On the agenda for today is cleaning - it's my week to do the flat - grocery shopping, coffee with Christine, and reading till my eyes fall out.