28 weeks later

Yep, 28 weeks in Arizona and another 12 or so to go. 28 fast weeks!

This week has been insanely busy with uni work. So much so that on wednesday night i went into uni to do work and didnt get back to the apartment til around 5:30am. A hours sleep later, i got up, showered and headed back in. Hopefully wont be quite as extreme this week but still much to do. Aside from that, it was a relatively interesting week in the news. Indeed Liverpool won in the Champions league, the US shot down a satellite and some stupid Aussie raced a race horse half naked!

I had someone knock on my door yesterday again trying to sell me something. There quite inventive around here, always a cover story first but this one really was an interesting story. Standing before me was an 18yr old highschool senior wanting to raise some money to go to college since he was from a poorish background (you have to ignore his Levi jeans!). As part of his deal in getting into college was overcoming his fear of public speaking. I think he was doing one of these crappy degree courses but anyway. If he overcame his fear, he got to go to europe and visit London, Paris and Rome. He managed to deliver that to me without letting me get a word in - so much for public speaking phobia! He then asked were i was from and if i was "the man of the house" (you might get a feel for where this is going). England and yes were my somewhat puzzled answers. We got round to discussing which city i like the best (London, obviously!) and then how "cool" my accent was. He then showed me the leaftlet for extortionately prices porn magazines he was holding and asked "do i read magazines?". Well in all fairness mate, you don't really 'read' those sort of magazines and no, im not interested. He was persistent and i was patient (i never buy anything from the door so i just waste people's time since they bothered to disturb me). When he started commenting that my accent was "hot", i gave him a funny look and started closing the door. He managed to squeeze in "do you know your neighbours?" No, but hey, you might be lucky!

So the moral of the story is, dont buy anything from people at the door especially if they try to come on to you!

In other news, a competition in London has been set up for the "oddest book title". Its an official prize awarded annually etc. He's some of the titles on the shortlist:

• "How to Write an How to Write Book"
• "Cheese Problems Solved"
• "Are Woman Human?"

an my personal favourite:

• "If You Want Closure in Your Relationship, Start With Your Legs!"

S'all for now folks. laters!