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_thirty2flavors

trip overview + doctor faustus review

Sep 07, 2011 19:34

So, the short version is that my trip was amazing and I desperately wish I had a TARDIS and could constantly revisit that particular two-week period over and over in a Moffat-style disregarding of timelines and universal laws. Now I am back in Canada and pretty sick and my sunburn is peeling and I am a hot mess who is significantly poorer than she ( Read more... )

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_thirty2flavors September 7 2011, 23:49:31 UTC

I was super lucky that I got to go! Feeling pretty mopey about being back home though.

lol ONTD_feminism was as a really succinct glimpse into the problems feminism as a movement faces. I found it very educational in a lot of ways, but also very very quick to descend into anarchy and madness. I never joined or commented, though I used to read articles there occasionally. And wank.

LOL SHE COULD NOT HAVE HORRIFIED US MORE TBH

quick_ly September 7 2011, 23:53:09 UTC

Sounds like an awesome trip (in case you're wondering, I'm desperately trying to conceal my exstream jealousy, because you clearly just had the vacation of my dreams.)

_thirty2flavors September 8 2011, 00:03:17 UTC

I'm sorry, I know that feeling well!

2nd2ndalto September 8 2011, 00:06:04 UTC

THERE IS A TOWER THAT IS OVER A THOUSAND YEARS OLD AND I GOT TO WALK UP IT, WHAT FRESH HELL IS THIS.

I KNOW, RIGHT? At home if something is pre-1900 we're all, "oooh, old." By the time we left Britain we were all, "500 years old? Pffft. That's nothing."

LOL German lady! My BFF and I heard essentially the same argument when we went to France! UM, NO, IT'S NOT THE SAME THING. And then they would shrug their shoulders as if to say that we totally WERE American and were just trying to deny it.

_thirty2flavors September 8 2011, 00:09:16 UTC

LOL I KNOW. Towards the end of my trip I found some stuff that would say, like, "EST 1910" and I'd be like "BOOOORING".

RIGHT? THAT WAS EXACTLY THE ATTITUDE THIS GERMAN LADY HAD. I DON'T UNDERSTAND. That's not what it means in English! American = of the US! I am North American, but I'm not just "American". Why is this hard! LIRL

fauxkaren September 8 2011, 00:10:31 UTC

This comment is going to be loooong. I can tell ( ... )

_thirty2flavors September 8 2011, 01:46:12 UTC

I think the British Museum would be best done in doses, yeah. Two hours there was a long time and I came away not really knowing much more about anything although I got some neat photos of some stuff ( ... )

fauxkaren September 8 2011, 02:15:05 UTC

If the other department store you went to was next to Harrods it was probably Harvey Nichols. (lol I once went to a fancy brunch there. It was pretty AMAZING. And also cost like 30 quid.) The only department store that starts with F that I can think of is House of Fraser. I DID WAY TOO MUCH SHOPPING IN LONDON, IN CASE THAT WAS NOT OBVIOUS.

I think the jig at the end of plays at the glob is especially awesome when it comes to tragedies. I saw Romeo and Juliet at the Globe and it's like EVERYONE IS DEAD, ISN'T THIS SAD? And then the dead people stand up and start to dance.

zombie_boogie September 8 2011, 00:16:58 UTC

Oh god people who try to insist that everyone who lives in North America are Americans are so pretense. JUST DEAL WITH THE FACT THAT AMERICAN IS THE ACCEPTED TERMINOLOGY FOR SOMEONE WHO LIVES IN THE UNITED STATES GOD.

Your trip sounds fabulous! MUSEUMS MUSEUMS EVERYWHERE.

_thirty2flavors September 8 2011, 22:58:43 UTC

It always baffles me because as far as I can tell it's not actually people who live in other countries in the Americas who are upset about the US claiming the word "American". I certainly have no desire to identify as such.

LOL BASICALLY. It sounds a lot more cultured when I type it out like this and skip things like "the day we went to Fright Night and then stalked David Tennant at the stage door".