harry potter everywhere!
To start off, I absolutely need this shirt.
Anyways, the past week has been... well mostly boring, but last weekend was fun.
First off, on Saturday, all the Harry Potter posters went up, which of course, makes nerdy old me incredibly excited. It's fantastic. There's posters on the buses, there's posters at every bus stop, and there's one of those big changing signs on the way to the underground station with a huge Harry Potter banner on it. I love being able to go out and see Harry Potter EVERYWHERE. Because, as I have already made quite clear, I am a nerd.
Anyways, Saturday was Guy Fawkes Day, so Julie and I went to the Fireworks show at Alexandra's Palace. Well, first we were gonna go to this other bonfire and fireworks show, but we got there at 5, it was supposed to start at 6, and there was literally NOBODY there. So we got back on the Picadilly line and went entirely across town (yeah, like an hour and a half on the underground, oy). Luckily Alexandra's Palace had a big thing, complete with annoying radio DJs and french people standing next to us smoking right in the middle of a huge crowd. The fireworks were bloody fantastic though. Plus, they were up on a hill so before it started you could look out over all of town and see fireworks going off like everywhere. Because they sell professional-grade fireworks like at the supermarkets here. No joke. It was quite pretty. After walking back to the tube station and seeing that the line was all the way out the door and down the street (because everyone had to go home the same way, basically) we decided to go see Elizabeth town at the cinema right across the street. It was an hour until the next show, so we went and found a little chinese restaurant. Of course, the fireworks having just ended, it was crowded as all heck, but we managed to get our food pretty quick and also managed to eat it even though the lady at the next table decided it would be a good idea to take off her shoes during dinner and wiggle her toes around.
The movie was quite cute, not the best ever, but it wasn't bad. Though it went on for bloody ever and we literally JUST made the last tube back to Holborn. Then we had to catch the bus, but that wasn't so bad, because the bus that passes campus goes right through Holborn. Good thing we didn't have to get a bus from Wood Green or we'd have been screwed.
Anyways, Sunday was the World Premiere of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, so of course I had to go for reasons already stated above. Apparently you have to be an even bigger loser than me and go to the day before and camp out if you actually want anybody's autograph, but luckily there was a big screen so we could watch what was going on. And just the fact that I was like within the same city block as James Phelps, Matthew Lewis, Harry Potter, and the kid that plays Cedric Diggory is just beyond exciting to me. Plus they had the whole square decorated all cute. I went back the next day to take pictures in the daylight but I got there a bit too late and they were already taking everything down. I thought about begging for one of the Hogwarts banners, but I got closer and realized they were really huge and probably uber heavy, so I didn't. Plus I'm scared of construction guys. Besides, it's bad enough I have that Prisoner of Azkaban banner that turned out to be way too big for my room.
Anyways, for the rest of the week I've been "doing homework," which of course means procrastinating by watching Scrubs again (I've gotten rusty, it was about time I go back through the series). Anyways, tomorrow I'm off to Madrid, and I'll be back Sunday, and hopefully I'll get around to posting about it by sometime next week.
Oh, and also, this is beyond fantastic.
Anyways, the past week has been... well mostly boring, but last weekend was fun.
First off, on Saturday, all the Harry Potter posters went up, which of course, makes nerdy old me incredibly excited. It's fantastic. There's posters on the buses, there's posters at every bus stop, and there's one of those big changing signs on the way to the underground station with a huge Harry Potter banner on it. I love being able to go out and see Harry Potter EVERYWHERE. Because, as I have already made quite clear, I am a nerd.
Anyways, Saturday was Guy Fawkes Day, so Julie and I went to the Fireworks show at Alexandra's Palace. Well, first we were gonna go to this other bonfire and fireworks show, but we got there at 5, it was supposed to start at 6, and there was literally NOBODY there. So we got back on the Picadilly line and went entirely across town (yeah, like an hour and a half on the underground, oy). Luckily Alexandra's Palace had a big thing, complete with annoying radio DJs and french people standing next to us smoking right in the middle of a huge crowd. The fireworks were bloody fantastic though. Plus, they were up on a hill so before it started you could look out over all of town and see fireworks going off like everywhere. Because they sell professional-grade fireworks like at the supermarkets here. No joke. It was quite pretty. After walking back to the tube station and seeing that the line was all the way out the door and down the street (because everyone had to go home the same way, basically) we decided to go see Elizabeth town at the cinema right across the street. It was an hour until the next show, so we went and found a little chinese restaurant. Of course, the fireworks having just ended, it was crowded as all heck, but we managed to get our food pretty quick and also managed to eat it even though the lady at the next table decided it would be a good idea to take off her shoes during dinner and wiggle her toes around.
The movie was quite cute, not the best ever, but it wasn't bad. Though it went on for bloody ever and we literally JUST made the last tube back to Holborn. Then we had to catch the bus, but that wasn't so bad, because the bus that passes campus goes right through Holborn. Good thing we didn't have to get a bus from Wood Green or we'd have been screwed.
Anyways, Sunday was the World Premiere of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, so of course I had to go for reasons already stated above. Apparently you have to be an even bigger loser than me and go to the day before and camp out if you actually want anybody's autograph, but luckily there was a big screen so we could watch what was going on. And just the fact that I was like within the same city block as James Phelps, Matthew Lewis, Harry Potter, and the kid that plays Cedric Diggory is just beyond exciting to me. Plus they had the whole square decorated all cute. I went back the next day to take pictures in the daylight but I got there a bit too late and they were already taking everything down. I thought about begging for one of the Hogwarts banners, but I got closer and realized they were really huge and probably uber heavy, so I didn't. Plus I'm scared of construction guys. Besides, it's bad enough I have that Prisoner of Azkaban banner that turned out to be way too big for my room.
Anyways, for the rest of the week I've been "doing homework," which of course means procrastinating by watching Scrubs again (I've gotten rusty, it was about time I go back through the series). Anyways, tomorrow I'm off to Madrid, and I'll be back Sunday, and hopefully I'll get around to posting about it by sometime next week.
Oh, and also, this is beyond fantastic.