Alas, the absence of Wal-Mart has finally hit me. And hard at that. I don't know how people here can survive. What do you do when you need a tube of toothpaste AND thumbtacks? Well, you go to like 4 different stores to find what you need, bu thats besides the point. The point is I miss cheap find everything stores. Targets are included in this as well. It's amazing how underappreciated their convenience was to me before.

Anyways, tommorrow we're gonna wonder around stores all day to finally try to figure out what stores have what, and which are cheaper etc. It'll be like shopping with no fun rewards at the end...but also no sad dwindling bank accounts. So it should be good.

Tonight we ate lots of biscuits (cookies) and watched 'Elf' dowstairs in the Reid Hall lounge, which was fun. Then Becca, Erin, and I decided to pop in and see Tiffany (the mraz fan, new favorite person girl) who I love even more now. She got her guitar out and played us a few songs, and she is absolutely amazing. I mean that in every sense of the word. Girl has her some soulful pipes, great songwriting skills, and she can play the freaking guitar. I would compare her to Sarah Bareilles (whom I adore) and/or Tristan Prettyman. If you don't know what that means, you can listen to them on Myspace or maybe those little Amazon clips, and get the idea. Thank God she is transfering to a music school next semester. Probably Berkley. Our friend Chris had recorded her without her knowing it and is gonna make her a little demo cd (he's also a musician and has lots of editing programs etc.) Hopefully they'll be able to get a some good recordings from a live set she's gonna do at the Tuke Pub on campus later in March. I can't wait to get the cd from Chris, and she's supposedly gonna be uploading songs to a Myspace artist page so hopefully soon that'll be up. She really is just an awesome person in general; some good talks tonight.

On the topic of music, I'm devastated that I couldn't watch the Grammy's here (even though award shows suck lately, I still find it my duty to watch) but I find comfort in the fact that apparently U2 swept the floor with Mariah Carey. Sorry, but she's just too damn annoying (not to mention a little underdressed for her age--she's getting up there) lately.

Besides that, not much of an update here tonight. Hope all is well across the ocean for everyone :)

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