What do you want to take out? The Librarian. SHH!

Hi Everyone! So our first rowing race was this afternoon, and it was pretty insane. Due to a combination of nerves, rain and freezing weather, I was shaking so badly that I'm surprised anyone in our boat was able to understand any of the commands I was giving. We got off to a pretty rocky start, but we finished 14 out of 17 novice boats. This sounds really bad, but we made our time goal (to be no more than 6 minutes) and many of the novice boats we were up against were from large colleges. The rowers kept their rate above 30 strokes the entire time through and out of the Gut (the narrowest and probably most terrifying, well for me anyway, part of the river), which I think is incredibly impressive. AND WE DID NOT CRASH. =) Anyway, yay St. Benet's novices, and thank you to the people who came out to support us! Seems like we're going to have an awesome year if we keep this up. I think we have at the very least two more races for the next two weekends of this term. Again, I think I'm going to be running on very little sleep this week. x_x

In other news, I finally used the Blackfriars library tonight (Ordinarily I use the Radcliffe Camera's library), and since there wasn't anyone there, I sneakily took a few pictures for all of you:


A very poor view of the second/third floor.


A very poor view of the first/second floor.


My "reading cubby" or study area if you want to be boring. =P The windows are actually beautiful stained glass, which you can't see because it's night time. I promise to try and take pictures during the day when it's brighter.

As you can see (or can't see because my photography skills are horrendous), this library is AMAZING. It's pretty much what I used to think a library looked like when I was a kid. And the reading cubbies are really, really cute. I swear being surrounded by several bookcases while you study makes you at least 5 times more productive/smarter. At least, that's what would happen in the Sims...

I've added these and a couple more poor photos of the inside of a pub to my flickr account, which you can reach via that link or the link on the sidebar.

Anyway, time for me to get back to work. Cheers, everyone!
-Nutmeg

P.S. If you would like a post card from me, please send me your address via email or facebook or whatever. I'm going to try and send them out so you can get them by Thanksgiving. ^_^ Oh and in case you were wondering, this post's title is a quote from one of my favourite scenes from The Music Man. Most of my blog post titles are quotes from songs and such, in case you were wondering about that too.