Today was a great day, and as I write I am in a fantastic mood. Oskar, my mythology tutor just told me my paper for this week is the best one I've written, and ironically it was the most fun to write (looking at wolves and werewolves in myth from Aesop and Romulus to Harry Potter and Twilight). Yesterday I registered for classes at Catholic, and it is my final registration
ever, since I don't think I'll go past the Master's level academically. As part of registering I submitted my first proposal for my MA Thesis, and applied for Graduation this May. The end of a long academic career is in site!
After dinner last night, I went to the Wheatsheaf pub. A queue (line) forms very fast every Monday for the Oxford Imps, who perform above the pub in a small theatre/bar every Monday. I went to the show, sitting right up front and laughed very hard. I had tried out for the Imps
earlier but didn't get in. They're fun, filled with energy, and were really funny. Had a good evening.
Today I woke early and took the train to Canterbury. I spent six hours total traveling (3 hours either direction, changing and using the Tube in London) and only 4 hours in Canterbury, but it was good, because I got a lot of reading done on the train, and also worked on my lines. The weather was also not the best, very overcast, cold, and it was raining by the end of my time there. A lot of the attractions closed much earlier than I had expected, since it is off-season, some closing at 3 and 4, which also was a problem.
Despite all of those things, I had a wonderful trip.

I hadn't known it was so associated with Kit Marlowe, but it is the town where he was born and baptized, and it had a parallel feel to Marlowe the way Stratford-upon-Avon feels about Shakespeare. One of my first sights entering the city walls was the massive Marlowe Theatre, and the statue of his characters, again similar to the statues of characters in front of the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford.
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