Oh, look, I am resurfacing after a long time of not posting. Between travel, deadlines, and a dash of burnout, I have been sorely lacking in impetus for anything besides reading for my dissertation and watching Justified (which none of my other friends are watching. Except Dan. Thanks, Dan!).
But today I’m off to Stockton to go see the England vs USA World Cup match. The last time I was in the UK, it was for Euro 2004, and I managed to care about soccer a little bit for a couple weeks. (I even remember that Greece won!) Here’s seeing if I can manage the same for World Cup 2010. Today, another American friend and I will be in a pub full of drunk English fans. The person who invited us sent her this email:
Just confirming what is happening tomorrow. C. and his wife will come around 18:30 hrs to collect yourself and your friend to take you both to the pub where we will be able to watch the match if this is okay.
I hope you don’t mind spending the evening with quite a few drunken English fans as every pub in England is going to be quite packed with them I should think. I had thought of trying to get to Scotland and watching the match with you and your friend as you will find the pubs there very crowded also but they would all be cheering for your team as they really hate us English to win anything.
Oh Scotland.
It’s going to be so fun! Hopefully I will have some photographic documentation of the evening for everyone’s amusement later on. And the rest of the backlog of photos I need to post will also go up soon. I promise!
Now, pray that drunk English fans don’t haze us too much.
