Further jaunts

Not very much has happened in the last few days, but thought I would share a few random moments. I popped into the University Old Library on Thursday after my seminar, just to look, because the store section is brilliant. It looks exactly like an archive should, underground with metal shelves and low lighting, but also you can pull any random book of the shelf and discover something amazing. I found an edition of Shelley poetry as edited by his wife, Mary Shelley which was well over a hundred years old. In fact I came across one book which was 200 years old, but I forget what it was now. This I found quite exciting, but whenever some official looking library staff woman passed by I felt obliged to look like I was studying intensely and wasn't just a curious 2nd year with nothing better to do.
Anyway that was Thursday pretty much. My only memory of Friday is walking down the High Street and discovering that they have begun to put the Christmas lights up (I sort of wish this wasn't my only memory of Friday, because its not a great one).
Then, today, after doing the breakfast shift at Crossline (an excellent Christian homeless project in town run, mostly, by volunteers from the Uni Christian Union), I got back and Tim and Lucy had made one of those excellent spontaneous decisions which make uni so great...and there we were, before we knew it, walking along the beach in Dawlish (for me, the second time in seven days). And, most importantly of all, we had scampi and chips for lunch at a pub. Amazing!

Sorry this post has been not especially deep or thought-provoking. This is partly because it is getting quite late and I am quite tired considering the fact that I got up at 7 this morning. And partly because thought provoking things happen only when you least expect it, not when you are looking out for them.