Might as well update now, before things get really crazy. Trip back to Nottingham was uneventful.

Not much has happened this week -- back to the usual academic routine. The campus JSoc did do a big party for Yom Ha'atzmaut, which was fun. I've been working on essays pretty heavily -- I have one (for The Politics of Science Fiction) due a week from tomorrow (May 4th), and one (for Representing the South) due a week from Tuesday (May 8th -- it was originally due the 7th, but that got changed because it's a bank holiday).

My exams are, respectively, the 19th (unfortunately, they do have exams on Saturdays here), the 21st, and the 24th. Or maybe it's the 19th, the 22nd, and the 24th. Whatever. This is a little compressed, given that the exam period lasts over two weeks (May 15th - June 1st). It could be worse, though -- I've talked to people who have all their exams in as little as three days, and I get done relatively early -- more time for travelling.

I'm going to Prague from the 27th through the 31st. After that, there are still-very-tentative plans to go to Amsterdam with some British friends. I return to Philly via London on June 12th.

More to follow at some point. Let's just hope the academics don't drive me nuts.