Back, from outerspace....

Well I am back. Haven't blogged in a while, which is partly my fault, partly the fault of the recent trials and tribulations I have had to endure. Fear not though, for while being faced with a grueling gauntlet of paper writing, sickness, disease, coursework, presentations and parents, I bravely fought them all off so I could return my life to some source of normalcy. Normal enough anyway. Normal as it gets for me. I was going to see if I could drudge up from my memory some funny story of anecdote from the last couple of weeks, but instead I figure I'd just show off some pictures. Because, as the saying goes, a picture is worth a thousand lazy writers.

When I first starting writing this post, I was here. It's a small park on campus called George's Square. Nice little spot.

Now I am in here, one of the student union type places. Yes that is an indoor palm tree. Yes, the Scots will do anything sometimes to convince themselves they are not in Scotland. But despite what the indoor palm tree would lead you to believe, Scotland is not a tropical paradise and thus being outside typing in the wind was absolutely miserable, thus my going indoors to the sky dome type thing. Although really most of the time its a cloud dome.

This is Edinburgh Castle, flying to the dismay of many, the Union Jack. I recently went to Edinburgh Castle (twice), and got some of these pictures.

A shot over Edinburgh's New Town (I think).

Another shot over New Town I think, with what I believe is the Port of Leith on the Firth of Forth (confusing Scottish for "place were boats go into the North Sea") in the back.

Highland Regiment war memorial. Inside Edinburgh Castle is a large monument to Scottish troops who served during the Great War, as well as a regimental headquarters, and a military museum.

I have to go to class now, but check in tomorrow for some more pictures I've found.