Varsity Squash Match

Friday was the annual Varsity Squash Match. I had a lot of fun watching and was once again impressed by the Royal Automobile Club. This year I even got to go to the fancy dinner afterwards!

I spent Saturday morning in the British Museum. The head curator of anthropology gave my museums group a lecture on Thursday about her newest exhibit - "Living and Dying." It was fantastic to go explore the exhibit after hearing her insights. I also studied the Americas room and portions of the Captain Cook collection on display. Objects collected during his third voyage on the Northwest Coast of America may play a large role in my dissertation. Of course, I couldn't make a trip to the British Museum without visiting the mummies! They have now incorporated some interesting CAT scan images of mummies that have never been unwrapped.

On the train home, I mastered Marxist ideological theory and Gramscian hegemony. I am now officially way too absorbed in anthropological theory.

Saturday Movings

Today Rita and I exchanged rooms in our flat. It is amazing how fresh and new everything feels, with all the same things simply arranged differently. You should try it out. Go re-arrange a room in your house right now! It will make you feel great- I promise!

Easter Vacation

I am officially going to be in Las Vegas on Easter Vacation from April 5 until April 16.
Let me know if you will be around as well!

Karen Armstrong

This evening I got a chance to hear a lecture on Fundamentalism by the religious scholar Karen Armstrong.
Some highlights of the evening:
"You know... it was me and Desmond Tutu."
And more seriously:
"Culture is always contested."

Real Tennis

Today I watched my first ever Real Tennis match. Have you ever seen this game? It has been played since Elizabethan times. There is even a bell attached to one side of the court. If you hit the bell and get it to ring- you win the point!

Christmas Eve in Cambridge

Today I went to King's College to queue for the famous sung service done with King's College Choir. Unfortunatly, I locked myself out of my flat and had to wait for someone, on Christmas Eve Day, to come out with a spare key. Thus I was not in line early enough to get in to the service (boo).

I did get to see the choristers come across from their school. I thought to listen to the service from outside the chapel but it started pouring down rain.

The service is available online here, and it will be played on BBC worldservice.

Merry Christmas!

Choristers entering King's Chapel