This week I mostly had to deal with my essay, as you may have noticed. ;)

But! There were some other things going on as well. Namley on Wednesday, after I finished writing, I enjoyed some well-earned activities together with Mari, a Finn I met at the Orientation Programme for International Students. Yes, we hang out fairly often. ^^

First we went to Rector's Seminar, this time featuring Fiammetta Rocco, a books and arts reviewer for The Economist. She also was a judge for the Booke Prize, and she told us mainly about her experiences while judging massive amounts of books, but also about what makes a good reviewer. It was nice to hear her opinion and approach to literature in contrast to what I have to do most of the time with it.

Afer that, Mari and I went for dinner to the noodlebar. Oh wowies, so much good food! :)
That was a very happy wug. And a happy Finn as well.

We managed to be in time for the talk organised by the Scientific Society, which was able to invite *drumroll*

Sir Roger Penrose!

Now if you don't know him (meaning his name in reference to his work), get out from under the stone you have lived the past 15 years. xD

His talk was about "Before the Big Bang", and he roughly explained modern theories concerning the beginning of the universe. I have to admit that I was lost sometimes, but in the end I think I have understood most of it. I know why I don't study quantum physics. ^^'

He also introduced his theories about black holes swallowing physical information (very controverse), ending with the "Pop" (in contrast to the initial "Bang") and the universe losing track of its own expansion (that was a true Pratchett moment for me ^^).
All the time he was ambling around between two OHPs as he refused to use powerpoint, shifting and exchanging slides which he had drawn himself by hand - multicoloured.
I think that was one of the most impressive and worthy to remember talks so far.

After that Mari and I had some drinks in the "King's Arms", a pub directly situated in the city and more or less the house bar of Wadham College (Mari's college). We left rather late, and I was glad that I wasn't the only one arriving late at my college because I would have needed ages to get my university card out of my bag and swipe it correctly to get entrance... Very swaying wug, one might say.

On Thursday I was rather nervous during the day because of my tutorial in the afternoon.
But, as usual, I worried more than neccessary. Although it was still very weird to read out my essay to my supervisor, she was very cute about it and told me that once I get used to it, nothing can seriously make me lose my cool when I have to speak in public. Guess she is right. ^^'
She also complimented me on my writing style and way of expressing my ideas! Whoohoo! I'm a writer! Erm, yes well.
The discussion of the essay went well too and we both had quite some fun in code-switching like mad (she is fluent in German), making up some very weird but grammatically correct embedded sentences.

After that I was totally energetic and made my way up to Wolfson College (it's quite far in the north of the city) where we had the third and final rules evening for our floorball team.
That was really funny as well, we were 4 people this time and as there are two of them who want to take the referee test next week, we decided to re-enact some situations for them to decide as referees.
Didier had brought sticks and a ball, and so Fredrick and me did freeze images of different situations during a game, and the two referees-in-training had to judge what was going on and what penalty was in order.
Afterwards Didier gave all of us a "Certificate of Attendance" for the rules evenings, all pretty much overstated and boasting with the team crest and signed by the President of Oxford University Floorball Club himself (who is Didier...) and all that impressive stuff.
We had a good laugh about it. xD

Now I'm going to read my new essay-relevant novel.