Sinister: meeting people is easy.

[Ann Foreyt]

'allo, Sinister~

I never write... but now I feel compelled to ask for advice, for which I 
hope you will forgive me.

This semester I have moved to Scotland from the States, to study at the Uni 
of Glasgow (yay English and Scottish Lit!), and am rather in love.  This 
city is wonderful, and while perhaps I am still in that dreaded honey-moon 
phase, I think at least I've become more athletic at the sex: the love isn't 
so much new and strange any more, but rather it's become comfortable and I 
feel strangely at home in this new life.

But... as I wrote to a friend a wee bit ago, Thom Yorke is a snarky bastard. 
  How the hell do you meet people?  I suppose part of it is that I've come 
in as a 3rd year student to 3rd year classes, where everyone already has 
groups and routines to which I am entirely foreign.  I'm rather shy, and so 
I don't quite fancy going down to a pub and just waiting for someone to 
approach me... there must be a better way.  Or is there?

So, my lovely twee kids... what say you?  How can an introvert integrate 
into Glaswegian life?  Or is the highlight of my term going to continue to 
be wandering the streets of the West End alone, people-watching as from 
under glass?  I don't think I would mind that... but one can't help but feel 
that there must be something more...

And I must say: last night I watched "Fans Only" and it definitely warmed 
the cockles of my heart to see buildings and streets which before had been 
strangers to my eyes, and now I realize that I LIVE HERE!   It is a 
glorious, bubbly feeling.

cheers~

Ann



Odi et amo. quare id faciam, fortasse requiris.
nescio, sed fieri sentio et excrucior.


~Catullus


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