New shoes!!!!

You are all going to see these, so it's a non-story, but I'm quite in love with my new crazy shoes... they have two sets of laces for christ sake. I need some kooky shoes now that everyone has military brown boots. They are comfy but really tricky to put on, so I guess I just won't take them off.

They are perfect because they will go with all my clothes, and are slumpy, but still neat. My parents sent me some pyjamas today and a post card. I think there should be mandatory care packages from parents to students who have for university. In the care package today was a postcard. With a picture of Queen Victoria and her dog. The note read:

Our noble hound today ate through my belt so my trousers keep falling down. We are not amused. Dad.

This week I'm reading about print and manuscript culture. I think my first or at least my procedural might look at times when works were circulated as manuscript even after coming into print and arguing that this was not necessarily because of flexibility and engagement: Since these things were still very much possible with printed works... but because of economic reasons. I think it's an interesting and different enough argument to get me through this busy, busy start of term.