England and Rambling
Maybe it was the jetlag, but a strange notion came to me while I was in London: keep an irl journal so I can write it all on lj when I get back. I know, who would have thought, right? But, before I get to the fun London stuff, let me bore you with my ramblings about how my week has been:
I think this disease is affecting me in more ways than one, because I've been feeling very loopy the past two days. I think I'm getting better, though, because I made it through English and Psych without wanting to rip my nose off. Good thing, too, because I officially used my last tissue last night, and I've been resorting to napkins, of which my nose does not approve.
I have a drawing due on Monday and a god-knows-how-many-page paper due on Tuesday. As one would expect, this means that I have no intention of starting either one until after the weekend. I'm going home, for crying out loud. Today and tomorrow are for doing absolutely nothing, Saturday is for hanging out with Morgan, Steph and Hayley playing Apples to Apples, and Sunday is a day full of Easter festivities, including doing absolutely nothing and possibly some napping and lounging. In any case, I'm most-likely going to procrastinate on this whole homework thing until it's too late to do a decent job on it. 'Cause that's how I roll.
I have many other things I could ramble about, like how I had to take down my English flag and my Gryffindor banner because it violated the fire code, or how I don't like whoever designed the poster that came with the I Heard a Voice dvd because it's terribly off-balance color-wise and I can't see the second picture of Adam, or how the fuzz on the side of my tote bag is coming off because that's the part that sits under my arm (which means that's Hunter's head is slowly disappearing, which, in a state of ambiguity, made Jessi freak out because I said "aw, Hunter's going away!"), or how someone stole the water fountain from my hallway, but I've decided against telling you all of this, because, well, you most-likely don't care.
On to better things:
IF YOU WANT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT ANYTHING LISTED OR SEE PICTURES OF ANYTHING SPECIFIC, JUST REQUEST!!!
The Flight, 03/08/08
- Takeoff at 10:15 PM
- Dinner: tortellini, wheat roll, sesame crackers, cheddar cheese, red wine, salad, chocolate cheesecake
- Flight of the Conchords
- Dr. Who
- started to watch No Country for Old Men, but wanted to stab someone out of boredom
- Sudoku
- Solitaire
- Neon Bible by The Arcade Fire
- Favourite Worst Nightmare by Arctic Monkeys
- Breakfast: cranberry granola bar (pretty lame in comparison to the dinner of amazingness)
@2:30 AM: watched the sun rise
Arrival, 03/09/08
- Rain
- Teeny hostel rooms
- Informational meetings
- Nap
- Three roommates: never here, complains a lot, and nice/likes to dance/hates beer
- £2.50 Generator Specials (peach schnapps, Stoli, orange juice, grenadine)
- Dancing (Creepy Italian Guy, Other Creepy Guy, Creepy Arcadia Guy(s))
@2:30 AM: slept
Monday, 03/10/08
- Laura's birthday! (I swear, I wrote that in my journal at the very top of the page!)
- Breakfast: Rice Krispies, wheat toast with strawberry jelly
- Lectures about the history of London and safety
- It rained, and it didn't rain, and it rained, and it didn't rain.
- Cruise along the Thames
- Tower of London
- Will and I split a pack of shortbread for lunch
- Missed the escort back to the hostel
- Hopped on random Tubes, eventually got back
- Dinner in South Kensington: veggie lasagna, rolls, water, salad
- Back to the hostel for a quick change
- Piccadilly Circus Nightlife
- Into a club free: £1.50 Vodka Lemonades
- Singlehandedly started a dance party
- Had to leave: dancing shook up the lemonade, had to pee/vomit
- Messed up my (red) right ankle
- Tube back to the hostel for more dancing until closing
- Two guys had a danceoff to see who could dance with me
- Free cider!
- Talked with two roommates about various topics (beer is gross, stitches bleeding, Spanish, clubbing adventures, got told I was a really good dancer)
@2:30 AM: got asked out by a drunk guy (who proceeded to ask me out every night all week)
Tuesday, 03/11/08
- Breakfast: Rice Krispies, wheat toast with strawberry jelly
- Victoria & Albert Museum: Rodin sculptures, Moses, David, School of Athens
- Free lunch ("I'm secretly a Communist at heart.")
- "This is a Piccadilly line to...Cockfosters."
- St. Paul's Cathedral (climbed the steps to the very top, messed up my left knee trying to keep weight off my right ankle)
- Nap
- 39 Steps in Piccadilly Circus
- Tubed back alone (also on a Piccadilly line to...Cockfosters)
- Discovered Tesco (dinner: hummus, carrot and lettuce sandwich, organic strawberry milkshake)
- Tried to dance in the bar, left because the only people there were these stuck-up Danish girls who gave me weird looks
@2:30 AM: talked to my roommate until 5:30 AM
Wednesday, 03/12/08
- Rudely awoken by fire alarm
- Breakfast: Rice Krispies, wheat toast with strawberry jelly
- Walked with Will to Euston station
- Met up with Yvonne, Raych and Nora
- Lunch at Chiquitos: "doritos" and salsa, coleslaw, potato slices, rice, pasta
- Started dancing in the middle of the restaurant (old, Spanish men started whistling, so we stopped and left)
- Shopping in Oxford Circus at H+M (bought earrings, a silver halter and a silver and black thong)
- PGM photoshoot
- Looking for Abbey Road (H+M Sales Associate: "I think that's in Liverpool...")
- Abbey Road (crossed barefoot, signed the wall, saw the studio, shopped in the store)
- King's Cross (pictures at Platform 9 3/4, chips!)
- Said goodbye, Will and I went back to the hostel
- Another nap
- Generator Specials and Lemon Drops
- Danced like a crazy fool
@2:30 AM: Stacked plastic cups (my record was seven)
Thursday, 03/13/08
- Breakfast: Rice Krispies, wheat toast with strawberry jelly
- Olympic bus tour, aka nap
- Arsenal Football Stadium tour
- Camden with Ashlee (pretended we already owned everything as a tactic to not let us buy more, every other store was a goth store or a hippie store, ran out of money/went to ATM twice, Ashlee convinced me to buy a corset, bowl "for two beautiful ladies!", generic London t-shirt)
- Nap
- Karaoke Night!
- Sang White Rabbit (because the girls who sang it didn't actually know how it went)
- Smooth Criminal was dedicated to me
- Took high-exposure pictures
- Generator Specials and "Lemon" Drops
- Lime-throwing war
- Helped Will back to his room
- Talked to a hot 25-year-old German guy
- Hooked up with aforementioned hot German guy
@2:30 AM: danced
Friday, 03/14/08
- Friday is Pi Day
- Breakfast: Rice Krispies, wheat toast with strawberry jelly
- Cambridge, aka BICYCLE TOWN
- Cathedral
- Shopping with Jessi (bought lavender incense, peach and cinnamon candles, a black flowy skirt and a vegetarian cookbook)
- Lunch at Bella Italia: Buffalo mozzarella and tomatoes, The Godfather Part II (vanilla ice cream with chunks of toffee and little crunchy bits, topped with whipped cream and drizzled with caramel, with four Pirouettes stuck in)
- Back to the hostel for some reading
- London Pub for dinner: veggie burger, chips, Bacardi Lime Breezers
- Hostel bar for Generator Specials, Stoli shots and absinthe
- Danced alone all night
- Accidentally helped start a bar fight
- Talked to Jeff
- Annoying roommate hooking up with foreign guy in our room = I got kicked out for the night
- Slept in Jeff and Tony's room (Taylor and Drew were nowhere to be found)
@2:30 AM: evading Creepy Australian Guy and Creepy Swedish Guy
Saturday, 03/15/08
- No breakfast (you weren't expecting that, were you?)
- Slept on the couch in the lobby for two hours
- Bus to Heathrow
- Lunch at EAT.: egg salad and cress sandwich, lemon cheesecake
- Takeoff at 4:00 PM
- Dinner: vegetable curry and rice, roll, macaroni salad, crackers, cheese, orange chocolate
- Elizabeth: The Golden Age in between naps
- Busride back to Arcadia (The Day After Tomorrow)
I will now keep up the London tradition and take a nap. Have a good evening, everyone. I hope to see some of you this weekend.
Toodles Namarie Mellon Nin.
~Me
I think this disease is affecting me in more ways than one, because I've been feeling very loopy the past two days. I think I'm getting better, though, because I made it through English and Psych without wanting to rip my nose off. Good thing, too, because I officially used my last tissue last night, and I've been resorting to napkins, of which my nose does not approve.
I have a drawing due on Monday and a god-knows-how-many-page paper due on Tuesday. As one would expect, this means that I have no intention of starting either one until after the weekend. I'm going home, for crying out loud. Today and tomorrow are for doing absolutely nothing, Saturday is for hanging out with Morgan, Steph and Hayley playing Apples to Apples, and Sunday is a day full of Easter festivities, including doing absolutely nothing and possibly some napping and lounging. In any case, I'm most-likely going to procrastinate on this whole homework thing until it's too late to do a decent job on it. 'Cause that's how I roll.
I have many other things I could ramble about, like how I had to take down my English flag and my Gryffindor banner because it violated the fire code, or how I don't like whoever designed the poster that came with the I Heard a Voice dvd because it's terribly off-balance color-wise and I can't see the second picture of Adam, or how the fuzz on the side of my tote bag is coming off because that's the part that sits under my arm (which means that's Hunter's head is slowly disappearing, which, in a state of ambiguity, made Jessi freak out because I said "aw, Hunter's going away!"), or how someone stole the water fountain from my hallway, but I've decided against telling you all of this, because, well, you most-likely don't care.
On to better things:
IF YOU WANT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT ANYTHING LISTED OR SEE PICTURES OF ANYTHING SPECIFIC, JUST REQUEST!!!
The Flight, 03/08/08
- Takeoff at 10:15 PM
- Dinner: tortellini, wheat roll, sesame crackers, cheddar cheese, red wine, salad, chocolate cheesecake
- Flight of the Conchords
- Dr. Who
- started to watch No Country for Old Men, but wanted to stab someone out of boredom
- Sudoku
- Solitaire
- Neon Bible by The Arcade Fire
- Favourite Worst Nightmare by Arctic Monkeys
- Breakfast: cranberry granola bar (pretty lame in comparison to the dinner of amazingness)
@2:30 AM: watched the sun rise
Arrival, 03/09/08
- Rain
- Teeny hostel rooms
- Informational meetings
- Nap
- Three roommates: never here, complains a lot, and nice/likes to dance/hates beer
- £2.50 Generator Specials (peach schnapps, Stoli, orange juice, grenadine)
- Dancing (Creepy Italian Guy, Other Creepy Guy, Creepy Arcadia Guy(s))
@2:30 AM: slept
Monday, 03/10/08
- Laura's birthday! (I swear, I wrote that in my journal at the very top of the page!)
- Breakfast: Rice Krispies, wheat toast with strawberry jelly
- Lectures about the history of London and safety
- It rained, and it didn't rain, and it rained, and it didn't rain.
- Cruise along the Thames
- Tower of London
- Will and I split a pack of shortbread for lunch
- Missed the escort back to the hostel
- Hopped on random Tubes, eventually got back
- Dinner in South Kensington: veggie lasagna, rolls, water, salad
- Back to the hostel for a quick change
- Piccadilly Circus Nightlife
- Into a club free: £1.50 Vodka Lemonades
- Singlehandedly started a dance party
- Had to leave: dancing shook up the lemonade, had to pee/vomit
- Messed up my (red) right ankle
- Tube back to the hostel for more dancing until closing
- Two guys had a danceoff to see who could dance with me
- Free cider!
- Talked with two roommates about various topics (beer is gross, stitches bleeding, Spanish, clubbing adventures, got told I was a really good dancer)
@2:30 AM: got asked out by a drunk guy (who proceeded to ask me out every night all week)
Tuesday, 03/11/08
- Breakfast: Rice Krispies, wheat toast with strawberry jelly
- Victoria & Albert Museum: Rodin sculptures, Moses, David, School of Athens
- Free lunch ("I'm secretly a Communist at heart.")
- "This is a Piccadilly line to...Cockfosters."
- St. Paul's Cathedral (climbed the steps to the very top, messed up my left knee trying to keep weight off my right ankle)
- Nap
- 39 Steps in Piccadilly Circus
- Tubed back alone (also on a Piccadilly line to...Cockfosters)
- Discovered Tesco (dinner: hummus, carrot and lettuce sandwich, organic strawberry milkshake)
- Tried to dance in the bar, left because the only people there were these stuck-up Danish girls who gave me weird looks
@2:30 AM: talked to my roommate until 5:30 AM
Wednesday, 03/12/08
- Rudely awoken by fire alarm
- Breakfast: Rice Krispies, wheat toast with strawberry jelly
- Walked with Will to Euston station
- Met up with Yvonne, Raych and Nora
- Lunch at Chiquitos: "doritos" and salsa, coleslaw, potato slices, rice, pasta
- Started dancing in the middle of the restaurant (old, Spanish men started whistling, so we stopped and left)
- Shopping in Oxford Circus at H+M (bought earrings, a silver halter and a silver and black thong)
- PGM photoshoot
- Looking for Abbey Road (H+M Sales Associate: "I think that's in Liverpool...")
- Abbey Road (crossed barefoot, signed the wall, saw the studio, shopped in the store)
- King's Cross (pictures at Platform 9 3/4, chips!)
- Said goodbye, Will and I went back to the hostel
- Another nap
- Generator Specials and Lemon Drops
- Danced like a crazy fool
@2:30 AM: Stacked plastic cups (my record was seven)
Thursday, 03/13/08
- Breakfast: Rice Krispies, wheat toast with strawberry jelly
- Olympic bus tour, aka nap
- Arsenal Football Stadium tour
- Camden with Ashlee (pretended we already owned everything as a tactic to not let us buy more, every other store was a goth store or a hippie store, ran out of money/went to ATM twice, Ashlee convinced me to buy a corset, bowl "for two beautiful ladies!", generic London t-shirt)
- Nap
- Karaoke Night!
- Sang White Rabbit (because the girls who sang it didn't actually know how it went)
- Smooth Criminal was dedicated to me
- Took high-exposure pictures
- Generator Specials and "Lemon" Drops
- Lime-throwing war
- Helped Will back to his room
- Talked to a hot 25-year-old German guy
- Hooked up with aforementioned hot German guy
@2:30 AM: danced
Friday, 03/14/08
- Friday is Pi Day
- Breakfast: Rice Krispies, wheat toast with strawberry jelly
- Cambridge, aka BICYCLE TOWN
- Cathedral
- Shopping with Jessi (bought lavender incense, peach and cinnamon candles, a black flowy skirt and a vegetarian cookbook)
- Lunch at Bella Italia: Buffalo mozzarella and tomatoes, The Godfather Part II (vanilla ice cream with chunks of toffee and little crunchy bits, topped with whipped cream and drizzled with caramel, with four Pirouettes stuck in)
- Back to the hostel for some reading
- London Pub for dinner: veggie burger, chips, Bacardi Lime Breezers
- Hostel bar for Generator Specials, Stoli shots and absinthe
- Danced alone all night
- Accidentally helped start a bar fight
- Talked to Jeff
- Annoying roommate hooking up with foreign guy in our room = I got kicked out for the night
- Slept in Jeff and Tony's room (Taylor and Drew were nowhere to be found)
@2:30 AM: evading Creepy Australian Guy and Creepy Swedish Guy
Saturday, 03/15/08
- No breakfast (you weren't expecting that, were you?)
- Slept on the couch in the lobby for two hours
- Bus to Heathrow
- Lunch at EAT.: egg salad and cress sandwich, lemon cheesecake
- Takeoff at 4:00 PM
- Dinner: vegetable curry and rice, roll, macaroni salad, crackers, cheese, orange chocolate
- Elizabeth: The Golden Age in between naps
- Busride back to Arcadia (The Day After Tomorrow)
I will now keep up the London tradition and take a nap. Have a good evening, everyone. I hope to see some of you this weekend.
Toodles Namarie Mellon Nin.
~Me