Pre-Lunch Post

There are a lot of little funny things that happen here.

Finding the "Quiet Room" for instance. You have to remember that Oxford is ancient and all the buildings are ancient and there once was a great fire in London that changed the way everything was built. There are "fire doors" at the beginning and ending of every hallway. They're all marked with blue signs with white (or black) sans-serif letters "FIRE DOOR KEEP CLOSED" and each door is also 25 lbs.

The Quite room is located in the Brunner House on the south side of campus. You must go in through a back door, a first fire door, around a curve to the left, down two steps to the second fire door, up the flight of stairs on the right, up another flight of stairs directly on the left, and through one more fire door. The Quite Room over looks the street and you can hear every step that passes underneath. This is where we, several English students, one other American, and two Germans watched the presidential inauguration on a terribly fuzzy screen. It was raining so that made the reception worse. While the view wasn't the best, the sound was loud and clear.

It was clear.