Vonfuse(d) Me

My day today can really be split up into three events - one involving thinking, one involving hiking, and then one involving poking.

My day started with hearing this before I even left my room: "I was for capital punishment, until I heard how much it costs". I decided to disappear to breakfast and contemplate on which jam to put on my bread rather than to contemplate on ethics.

After my first (and only) lecture of the day, I got ready to go on a hike. One of my neighbours wanted to try out my bagpack and filled it with books, and soon afterwards we set off with another neighbour for a 20km walk. It rained quite a bit on the way and so we didn't manage in time, and I had to turn back early to get to a meeting on time. But it was still incredible. We took Mate along; it can be gorgeous to have some warm drink that strong when you're crossing the shores of eastern Scotland in the rain. The picture shows small St Andrews from a little distance away... Looks so harmless... but then as Bette Milder remarked some time ago, from a distance, the world then also just looks "blue and green"...

And when I got back to my room after the hike and the meeting, I found most of my half of the room covered in post-its (about 50 of them, and an A2 sign), saying mostly just "poke". The A2 sign being on the ceiling, directly above where my head will be once I go to bed... This is an episode of a facebook-poking-war a friend and I had been having, just that it seems to be escalating between her and me slowly (and has already spilled into the non-virtual world in some kind of way...) ;) .

After that there was little excitement, a fairtrade cafe I went to, and drinking lots more Mate. But these three were the events that defined most of my day today in contrast to other days. And maybe that drinking of lots of Mate, which may be a reason for me still having so much energy at this time of night...

Current Music: The Fiery Furnaces - Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)