i don't want to say this too loudly, lest i jinx it, but --

[fox]

the US dollar is almost up to 54p, which means the pound is almost down to $1.85, which is like eleven or twelve cents better than as bad as it was before christmas, even though it's still five or six cents worse than it was when i first got here.

go, dollar, go!

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[maliwane.livejournal.com]

I'm sure this makes sense, [chooses not to take advantage of pun opportunity] and perhaps after another six or seven cups of coffee, I might actually be able to follow it.

[darthfox.livejournal.com]

:-D

for one US dollar, the higher the number of pounds sterling it fetches, the better. so 54p isn't very much, really, but it's more than it has been. conversely (or inversely, as the website (http://www.xe.com) says), for one pound, the less it's worth in dollars, the better for me -- because it won't cost me as much to get it, right? so when i got here, i could buy one pound for about $1.79, which at the time i thought was pretty high, but by christmastime it was up to about $1.96, which sucked. (i mean, imagine if anything you could buy for $1.80 went up to $2.00 in an eight-week period. it'd suck.) but it now looks like the dollar is back on the rise, which is all to the good. for me. :-)