Misc:

1. My grades for last semester were posted and they came out very well... I may yet have a shot at the honor society.
2. I've just received my permission to visit the Map Room at the Bodleian tomorrow, which is something I've been looking forward to for quite some time.
3. I've noticed that most banks in the UK offer even basic savings interest returns of 6-6.5% annual, typically with balances as low as 2500pounds. Interesting.
4. Oh, I want to mention, for those parties who might be interested in such things, there is some mad shopping to be done in Oxford and, of course, London. One of my fellow librarians went on some sort of insane shoe-buying mission in London yesterday and was gushing about the experience. What I like is that, for every new or upscale or contemporary store, there is a hole-in-the-wall with nifty antiques and strange tchotchkes sandwiched between dusty books and random medieval weaponry. Cool stuff.