Death Clown

Helloooo! Time for quick update of what's happened in the last week or so...
Tuesday and Wednesday were boring - besides a trip to the mall to buy my Halloween costume I mainly just did work. One positive was that I finally located a box of Twinkies - I've been looking for them since I got here. They were sort of nice but it wasn't really worth the effort... I went to WT's on Thursday as per usual, which was a nice escape from work.
It was Halloween this weekend so we went out on Friday and Saturday. I dressed up as a "death clown" both nights but varied my costume slightly. On Friday, I was a sad, angry clown and on Saturday, I was a happy clown, the "death" part came from having a ripped up shirt covered in fake blood. Friday night wasn't particularly great, everybody had different house parties that they wanted to go to, but they always ran out of beer soon after we arrived so they were winding down. After walking the streets for a few hours, we decided to call it a night but it took a while to find a cab which was annoying. On Saturday night, Aimelyne had decided to have a party at her apartment following the previous night's disorganised events. We stayed there for about an hour and it was really fun having everybody in the same room in their costumes, especially for photo opportunities. Afterwards, a few of us headed downtown which was a big mistake. Most people left Aimelyne's just before us and managed to get a taxi but me and Ellen couldn't find one for ages but we eventually made it downtown and managed to sneak in to the front of the queue at Envy (I don't usually do it, but it was cold and the queue was absolutely huge). Envy itself was actually good for a change but trying to get a taxi back uptown was a horrendous experience. It took us the best part of two hours to manage to get one, as most refused to go to the university campus (I swear the job of a taxi driver is to take customers where they ask) and Ellen ended up having to walk home alone because he wouldn't take her home on the way. She happened to see people threatening each other with knives on the walk back while I'm sure was a very unpleasant experience!!!
Earlier on Saturday I watched X Factor (Cher was amazing) and Greg's friend David took us to a fish fry - an American version of a fish and chip shop. The fish was really small and quite bad quality and the chips were just cheap oven chips, so there was absolutely no comparison to English fish and chips - I'm now very excited to go to Superfish when I'm next at home! Sunday was a lazy day, I just watched X Factor and lay around. Our shower broke and now we have a new one which isn't as powerful which deeply upsets me. I watched the first few episodes of season one of Modern Family which is absolutely hilarious and one of my favourite TV shows already!
Yesterday, my 3 hour 1970s America class was cancelled which was a nice surprise, so I spent the whole afternoon single-handedly editing the latest episode of ATV 360 which was a good experience, but I;m scared to watch it in case I made any mistakes! In the evening I went to the cinema with Ellen, Emma and Emma's friend from Hull Uni who's on an exchange in South Carolina and came to visit for the weekend. We went to see it "Life As We Know It" which was a rom-com about two people who don't get on who have to raise a baby together when their best friends die. It was actually better than I expected but it wasn't one of the best films I've seen since I've been here.
Today, I woke up with a sore throat and missed one of my classes because I didn't feel up to it. I spent the afternoon watching Modern Family, 30 Rock and Dexter then I've been working in the library tonight. Today was the mid-term elections in America where all members of the House of Representatives, a third of the members of the Senate and a significant amount of State Governors faced election. It seems as though the low approval ratings for President Obama have cost the Democrats their large majorities in the House and Senate, which means that he's going to find it much more difficult to get his proposals made into law, an issue which was already a serious problem when the Democrats had the majorities. Let's just say his chances for re-election in 2012 aren't looking great....
I've got a lot of work to do for next week - 2 long essays and revision for an exam so I probably won't blog again until that's over which will be a week on Thursday. We're going out on Thursday for Joao's 24th birthday and hopefully I'll have the willpower to stay in for the rest of the weekend so I can get my work done without having a mad rush as the deadlines approach, probably wishful thinking...