All reading, part II

So this has been the worst week yet. My cold from last week got better, and then it got way, way worse. I went to the college nurse, but they seem to have a Darwinian theory of medicine here, in which they figure if you can survive the infection without antibiotics, you're worthy of living in England. I think the problem has been the rampant humidity, which is unlike the dry winters at home. Luckily, the English have seen this problem coming and have met it with an actually useful product - Kleenex FOR MEN. These things are huge. I don't know if I'll be able to go back to normal Kleenex again.

Also, I found really weird bruises on my arm. I'm going to hope it's from rowing again, and not some strange side-effect of this monkey virus I have, that's now moved from my chest to my nose. People have told me though that I should become immune to England in about 8 weeks, so just in time to leave.

The only good news this week was that "Pavel" the Russian tutor was actually nice today. Maybe because I was sitting across from him with the glazed look of someone with a high temperature. Or maybe he just got his revenge for losing the cold war out on me during our last session. In any case, I now have to do a ridiculous amount of reading and write another essay for my jurisprudence tutorial tomorrow. I'm meeting with the jurisprudence guy at Oxford, so I think I might be a little outmatched, considering I'm still not sure what jurisprudence actually is.