Blogging in London

London, is a harder place to blog from than Singapore, partly because it is so more familiar/less alien. Also, the ill-fated trip back to the US didn't help: it made me extra busy the week prior, on the blog desert while in the U.S. and extra busy when I got back. I'm going to have to try to do better than blogging once every three weeks.

So...what inspired me today, besides being caught up on grading and having the luxury of a free hour in what's been so far a pretty busy schedule?

Something I read:
"Lists do not always impose order on the world."
As a chronic listmaker, I can attest to the profound truthiness of that statement.

Something else I read. I finished grading student internship entries last night, and this one cracked me up. The student was describing a meeting they attended at their internship site. It made me laugh, just because it was so spot on and so matter of fact:

"I did not want to be rude to anyone, so I drank 6 cups of tea. That cannot be healthy."

Unlike Singapore, where there's a clean toilet around every corner, finding a loo here in the first place is a challenge, and then finding one you'd be willing to use except in an emergency (there is a reason why people call them bogs) isn't always easy. Six cups of tea could represent challenges, of the health and dignity sort, for sure.

Cuppa, anyone?