My own image of Indiana, car racing aside, is a large flat state without many distinguishing features. Well, there was Bobby Knight, right?! (up) But thats got nothing to do with pizza....it would be the equivalent of naming a pizza....thinking....Milton Keynes pizza.

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I cannot help ( in my quest for PhD sustenance of the food kind) of the absolute proliferation ( thats a PhD sized word :p) of Southern ( Southern US I should perhaps clarify) food everywhere. ( in constrast to the missing Taco Bell, or missing Tex Mex of any sort...) There is of course KFC, but then there is Maryland Chicken, and Dixie Chicken, and various other places that offer up Southern fried chicken, southern fried potatoes, etc.

Why so much southern food in the UK?!!!

Maryland Chicken is actually pretty good , I had some for lunch the other day, when I was craving Taco Bell.

Oh, and then some sort of mysitque about the state of Indiana in relation to pizza...you see Indiana pizzas advertised...which always puzzles me. What is the image of Indiana? and that would link it to pizza? Very puzzling.

Go Billy--will enjoy reading your progress and aims! Post away!

Now I am talking to myself....can we say work avoidance??!!??!

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Well the thread title is Free StarS--as in plural--as if there might be lots of stars being given away, willy nilly even! :p

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Well the thread title is Free StarS--as in plural--as if there might be lots of stars being given away, willy nilly even! :p

Hmmm...at that....I really want to find a way to horse ride again...which seems like an impossibility for lots of reasons, money perhaps being the first. But there might be some kind of activity through the Students Union or whatever they have for students to organize themselves. I will have a look. Maybe I will just go once and get it out of my system ( as if such a thing were possible.)

One, that is, besides a PhD or academic sort of book. Since I do not have any TV in Bleak Towers, I have turned to reading as a way to spend my off hours winding down...when normally someone might watch TV. I have found an Oxfam shop that sells used books--and good ones--so have enjoyed reading a few books over the past several days. I am in the middle of Half of a Yellow Sun, about Biafra and Nigeria in the late 1960s-1970's --not an event I knew much about, but now want to do some more reading on to improve my own knowledge...its such a well written book, but its very tragic...

Another one, by American author Jane Smiley ( I still love her first book, Barn Blind, to anyone ever involved with horses...this book captures it all, the obsession, the love, the highs, the lows...) called the True Life Adventures of Lidie Newton ( title is close to that, I don't think its that exactly), about the saga of Bleeding Kansas, when the United States was torn over the question of slavery, and how to deal with it in its new territories that wanted to become states. The territory of Kansas became a literal battleground...the story rings very true, but again, there is much of this history that I was not aware of, and would like to read more, and heart breaking stories of the depravation and hardship that people went through trying to settle "new" lands.

I would recommend both books highly to anyone looking for some excellent fiction!

I was thinking of doing a diary...but....I already am finding enough distractions without that. I do send frequent emails back home, The Bleak Towers report, about my ( mis) adventures this side of the pond¬

Hi Sillybilly--thanks for the congrats! You should have another star within no time, I am sure, you are well-deserving of them. That is too bad about the other forum, but with the improvements on this one, perhaps it was redundant, well it was fun while it lasted!!!! 8-)

I have gotten some physical therapy on my foot....just when it seems to be getting better then I have to do some insane amount of walking ( like the stairs today) and it seems to set everything back. :-s:-s:-s I have stretches that I do, etc, trying to loosen up the tendons throughout the course of the day...I am trying to do only the necessary amount of walking, which still amounts to a lot....and trying to conserve walking trips, to collapse several trips into one ( sort of like trying to save petrol if you drive!!!) I would love to get a bike, but there is no where to lock it up at the University and I would be furious if it were stolen.

Sillybilly, check out the BBC website Olympic section--they have great taped highlights of various events, so no doubt the gymnastics is on there!

PS--also, Forum Admin folks--thanks for the new look to the Forum, and all the cool new options. Its very nice! I like it!

:-):-):-) I am so thrilled to see I have a second star----thank you, thank you!!!! ( Claps and cheers!!!) Why, this is a day brightener after the power was cut off to Bleak Towers meaning I had to walk down 10 floors worth of stairs just to escape and come to the university to work on my PhD ( a more sane person would have just gone back to bed) and then limp up a hill and up more stairs to get here, still suffering from Bleakfoot Tendonitis ( what ever gains I made have been shot down by today's adventure), but to come and see a second star---well, it makes my day! (up)