Bigslope

I may have found a new favorite place. Ever. It’s called Bigslope. It’s a little pub in the basement of some other building and it plays awesome music, i.e. Architecture in Helsinki, Of Montreal, Broken Social Scene, Crystal Castles, and Deerhoof, annnnddd it serves Zubrowka, a lovely Polish buffalo grass vodka that is not readily available in the states, and this fabulous drink called an After Eight. Much like its namesake candy, it has a minty flavor, along with Kalhua and Bailey’s Irish Cream. Sooooooo when I die and I go to that magical A.C. Moore/ Barnes and Noble in the sky, there may have to be a Bigslope attached to it.

 

Except now I just ate dinner at a pub called the 78 that serves ALL VEGAN FOOD!! Nowhere does it say the word vegan, but everything is healthy and without animal product. I would eat there for every meal if I could afford it.

 

Anyway, today was my first day of orientation. I got soaking wet and kind of lost on the way there, but I rather enjoyed it. It seemed to be exactly what should happen to an unprepared slacker on her first day at a foreign university.

 

Life lessons learned today:

-Don’t complain on an empty stomach. (It only makes you EXTRA whiney.)

-In Glasgow, pedestrians NEVER have the right of way, even when they technically have the right of way. Cars are bigger and faster, and they know it.

-Bring your orientation booklet with you so you know what room you’re supposed to go to, and don’t end up with a bunch of Swedes doing registration.