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You know that Patrick Dempsey movie, "Made of Honor"?

I first saw adverts for it about a month ago, mostly posters on telephone booths and the sides of buses. The first wave were advertising "Made of Honor"

More recently I noticed a second wave of adverts plugging "Made of Honour".

Amazing!

eye-fir, eye-fir, eye-fir!

I was walking to the Geography Building today when I made a sudden realisation. In six months of living in Britain, I don't think I have seen a single fire hydrant.

Now, I could be wrong about this. But what tipped me off to the possibility was sighting a small box-shaped cover (on a corner of an intersection I happen to pass through quite often) with the raised letters "fire hydrant". The rest of the walk I tried to think of any large red hydrants I might have seen here, but I can't think of one.

It's one of those things that once you realise it becomes obvious, but it's hard to notice a lack unless you're looking for it.

I'll keep it in mind, anyway, and if I do see one I'll be sure to correct this observation.

wind

Do soda bottles come in 20oz size as well? I honestly can't remember. Anyway, 500 mL is about 17 oz, so I'm losing on that battle too.

I hope you all had a chance to see the lunar eclipse last night. Despite a string of clear nights earlier in the week, it was cloudy last night and we had no luck at all.

It's definitely coming on spring, though. Which is odd, that for such a temperate climate you (I) can tell season change and in mid-February. But it is noticably warmer and I daresay less of the winter-icy-biting wind that we had before. I've even been running outside on occasion! That's something I can only do when the wind is down, which is pretty rare.

Yay spring!

Bright as Yellow

I haven't updated much because I guess nothing is really happening... this is the third-to-last week of classes, so after the next two weeks it's exam time. Theoretically, everyone's focused on those problem sets, essays, and exam-studying.

But, I am now the proud owner of a new pair of glasses! And my first-ever sunglasses!
The sunglasses will be very helpful on my morning walks to class... actually, really, any time I walk in a Southerly Direction. Currently the sun rises at 7:50 and sets at 4:04 (according to weather.com) and spends much of the day at a low angle. My walks to KB are especially bad, it's half an hour long, at around 9, and going S/SE the whole way. Ouch, eyes.

Also keeping me busy are rehearsals for the Theatre Paradok production of "The Visit", by uhh, Durrenmatt? someone German anyway. I wasn't going to participate in it after all, but a week or two ago I agreed to help with lighting and so whenever we're in the theatre space I've been going to rehearsals, in an attempt to see what parts of the stage need to be lit when.
The play goes up next week, but I still shouldn't be too busy. It's a lecture theatre, so really our lighting will be pretty minimal: be able to light the three regions of stage (there's a small platform in front, close to the audience, and an extra 'room' in the back of the stage, usually hidden by a curtain) with the lights we have. Probably don't have enough lights to use colors... besides, we can't find gels and don't want to buy any.
So, simple enough.


This is something I've meant to put in this blog for weeks:
Anyone in any sort of hazardous occupation has a bright, neon yellow vest as part of their uniform. Construction workers, traffic police, other police, crossing guards. Cyclists. Police cars and ambulances also use neon yellow paint, although they are still white with blue.
I think fire trucks are still all-red but I could be wrong.