Perfecting Grocery Shopping

I set my alarm to go to the gym today. True to form, I turned it off and went back to sleep.

Next time it went off, I got up to meet with Vanessa and Caitlin to go to Sainsburys for groceries. We smartened up this time and took the bus from campus to the store. While in the store, rather than writing off everything I couldn't find as a lost cause, I asked where it was, meaning I finally found q-tips (ie, cotton buds- I had to ask for and describe them to three people before we figured out where they were) and all of the stuff to make my chocolate mint brownies (very excited about that!). We took the bus back- the right one this time- and there was much happiness. Huzzah! There were a couple British men who seemed quite happy to be on the bus, too, considering they burst out into some very British song (I can't remember what it was, but I'm pretty sure it's from a musical). Their friend shooed them off the bus pretty quickly, though.

I video-Skyped home today, it was really entertaining. Mum picked up Lilo and had me say her name, and unsurprisingly all she did was move to a different couch and go back to sleep. When she picked up Nemo, though, he cocked his head towards the computer screen, so I said his name again; he set about trying to free me from the computer, so then Er had to come free the computer from him.

After having a quick snack, I finally went to the gym (go me!) and then went over USC Kevin's flat to work on Diff Eq homework, which was very productive. Dinner and finishing both my problem sets later, we walked down Mile End and then into this sort've sketchy neighborhood to Adib and Phil's apartment (the British people I met Wednesday) and played Supersmash for a while.

I was going to go to bed early, but I got caught up in IMing and Skyping various friends, which was really nice; Keens and I have a very vague "Italian travel" plan now, so we'll probably call again soon and figure out exactly where we want to go. I'm so pumped for that!