Seriously.
I have my timetable, I have my training, I have my societies, I should be able to draw a certain kind of routine out of it.

And as soon as I think that next week's activities are planned out, I get bombarded with emails announcing yet another talk, or a film night, or a dinner or whathaveyou. xD

On Saturday evening we had George Webb in college, according to the Rector "the man responsible for bringing traditional New-Orleans Jazz to England in the 1950s".
It sure was a great evening, we met in the Rector's Lodgings and he played various pieces on the piano and saxophone, and even later in the evening some students went to fetch their own instruments and played along with him. Wow, that was an event! Such Jazz! Too bad it lasted "only" about 4 hours, then the Rector threw us out to get some peace. xD

Sunday went quite uneventful. The Rector's seminar featured Mark Thompson, Director General of the BBC, but somehow this talk didn't convince me as much as the ones had before. Maybe because I was still on jazz (did I mention the jazz party on Saturday started at 8:30? And went on for a bit more than 4 hours?) but maybe also because he had to compete with the impressions on the previous talk with Stella Rimmington. But of course it was well enough listening to him.

Yesterday I actually managed to get some work done. After floorball training I went on a library tour, returned the books for my previous essay and collecting the new ones for my next essay. I realised with horror that three of the five novels I have to read for the essay are only avbailable as facsimiles... In Gothic print (Fraktur)! Argh! I mean I am able to read that print, but it sure gives me a headache after a while.
Luckily I have almost all texts on this nifty CD ROM I bought, Deutsche Literatur von Frauen. So I can read most of the novels quite comfortably on my screen rather than in miniscule Gothic printed pocket books... And I actually got to read 2 novels on yesterday! Yay! Only 3 more to go (not counting two books with novella-collections)! -.-

Today I had only one lecture on "Feminist critiques of Western Philosophy". It's in the lecture series "Theory on Women's Studies" which usually is a great and varied set of lectures. Last week it was a lecture solely on Simone de Beauvoir's "The Second Sex", and it was one of the best lectured I have ever heard so far. Today was quite ok but not as intoxicating as the one about Beauvoir. For anyone who has done some work about the natural vs cultural discourse in modern philosophy this lecture was pretty basic but nonetheless quite interesting. I'm using lectures like that as a repetition for my coming final exams in Germany... ^^'

After that lecture I met wih the other three Bonn students at the Taylorian, and together we walked out to St. Hugh's College to meet our ERASMUS departmental coordinator.
That meeting was rather funny and informal, and I realised how lucky I am that I have come to Exeter College. The other ones are in different colleges and apparently not as well cared for as I am... They have worse rooms, confused tutors who don't know what to do with them and on top of that worse meals in college. While I can eat everything that comes out of the college kitchen, they told me that sometimes they can't even identify what the thing on their plates was in a previous life. And their colleges aren't as active as Exeter, they don't have Rector's Seminars and their MCRs seem to be not as active either.
Of course we talked about all that with our ERASMUS coordinator today, Tom Kuhn, and he also told us a lot about Oxford University's bureaucracy... This reminded me strongly of Pratchett's UU, as it seems that in Oxford a lot of things are being made up and settled while moving along. xD
All in all we spent a good part of the afternoon in the SCR with Tom talking, so I realised too late that I was missing a talk organised by the German Society. Ok, the topic (Schiller's Aesthetics) is not really my cup of tea so I was not too shattered by missing it.

Tomorrow and Thursday will hopefully be more "regular" and without suddenly appearing dates and meetings, and on Friday we Bonner are invited to a Guest Dinner at New College where Anna (one of the Bonner) is studying.

For now I'll go back to reading my novels...