Oxford Day 22

The walls and floors in this house are so incredibly thin and porous when it comes to sound. I woke up this morning bright and early to the sounds of an earthquake above my head. The commons room in our house is directly over my room, so I can clearly hear everything that takes place within it. Today the cleaning lady was in there vacuuming and moving furniture. I have no idea how she managed to make as much noise as she did. I tried to go to sleep for another hour or so, but after she got done in the commons room she came down to the bottom floor and started vacuuming there. I have no idea what she was doing, but she hit my door with the vacuum about 68 times. It really sounded like there was an elephant cleaning our house. Oh well, I finally got up and grumpily poured a bowl of "Jordan’s Country Crisp" and headed to our morning meeting. No, on second thought, I was only grumpy until I read my morning message from Mallory. That always makes the day better.

We worked the whole day on our project, tabulating data and starting our Powerpoint. We present tomorrow afternoon, so I certainly hope we’re ready. We’re pretty lazy at this point in the trip, so we’re all pretty lethargic about the whole thing. We’ll do a decent job, but we’re all too tired to make it an absolutely stellar project.

I’m not gonna lie; I actually ended up being fairly useless today. I mostly just gave moral support and backrubs and guitar accompaniment. Shaylee and I worked up another bout of songs for the devo tonight. It was really fun. She also made me learn a Nickel Creek song for her since it was her birthday. I love guitar. My fingers are really hurting because of the amount I’ve been playing in the past few days. I love the pain though. It’s much the same as the deep muscle pain after a good workout. Good pain.