Fish Pedicure

Back by popular demand, Mint Beauty Therapy in Edinburgh is proud to offer its world-famous...fish pedicure!  (I don't know about you, but for me at least, this conjures up two distinct but equally fabulous mental images.)

Well, spring has not so much sprung as pounced--in the past week or so, things have started blooming, the weather is less frigid, and days are almost like real days again!  It was about a month ago that I came out of lab for a break at about 4:30 and realized the sun was still shining.  Now it stays up until 6-6:30, which is about normal for this time of year, yeah?  I'm getting more excited all the time for this summer and the extra-long days we'll have.

On the other hand, the arrival of spring means I now have no excuse not to wander around taking pictures of Heriot-Watt's campus and Edinburgh.  I was telling myself that I wasn't being lazy, I was just waiting until spring, so you could see the campus green instead of the dreary brown/grey it has been.  I was waiting for your own good.  Yeah.  That.  I tried to take some pictures in Holyrood Park yesterday during my two hours' walk, but pictures simply cannot do justice to hills like that.  (I discovered this same, tragic truth while trying to take pictures on my trip to the Highlands last November.)  But all this to say, pictures will be forthcoming.

Not a whole lot is happening over here in the ghetto (as I recently learned my side of campus is called...snicker).  I have two weeks of class left, and I only have one more big assignment plus studying for the GRE to do in that time.  Next weekend I'll be in St. Andrews for a conference, and I'll get to stay with my old flatmates, which will be great--I miss them a lot, and it'll be good to "live" with them for a few days again.  And then, the weekend after that, my dad will be here!  So excited to see him and go on vacation in England!  We come back for exams right after Easter, and then I'll be moving back to St. Andrews in mid-May.  But for the time being, it's just class-lab-study-try to finish the leftover gumbo from Wednesday.  Seriously, there was SO MUCH left, eating it really is its own item on my to-do list.  ...Oh!  I have accomplished one thing, I think a first since I started college.  I started--and finished--a whole novel--in just one semestre!  I finished The Idiot this afternoon, and was so proud of myself.  I actually read something non-academic during term!

Word from da ghetto, peeps.  Peace out.