Amanda and I were the only two from W3 to show up for rowing last night. I can't decide if it's due to the others' lack of commitment or the fact that Amanda and I are out of the loop. Who knows.

I got tickets to see Reel Big Fish next Saturday at a venue here in Oxford. The undergraduate student body president sends out an email every week, and he mentioned their show in it. I went out to get tickets immediately. I am so excited. One of the girls from W3 is in an opera next week, apparently. So that would be neat to go see too.

I walked by Anna Popplewell outside of the library today. She was talking to a kid, and I thought to myself, have I met her, because she looks very familiar. She plays Susan in the Narnia movies. Celia on the rowing team had told me that she was a second year at Magdalen, but I forgot. And then I saw her today, and when I realized who she was, I got unnecessarily excited. My head was immediately swarming with ideas about how to meet her and become her best friend. But alas, I just walked on by so that I could sit with other lowly citizens and read about diabetes. I can't imagine being her, or someone like her. She's just a normal girl, going to college, reading English. But she also happens to star in blockbuster movies and have random Americans wish they were her friend. How strange.

The library was absolutely freezing. It was so cold that it was actually distracting me from my work, so I came home to drink tea and finish my essay.

I booked a flight to Rome this morning. Several kids from Hopkinton are going to be there the first full week of April. I am very excited. To people who know my Hopkinton friends: Julien is studying in Rome. Blackmer is coming from Germany, Sarah Brown is coming from France, Pat McNicholas is coming from California, and Barbara Anne, who was an exchange student my junior year, is coming from Germany as well I think. I think we are going to rent an apartment or something because staying in Julien's apartment might be a tight squeeze.