Shopping is much easier with a car.

Jan. 6
So we went to Argos last night. COOLEST PLACE EVER. You flip through catalogs and there are places to check if they have things in stock, then you write down the numbers and go pay at the counter and they bring you your stuff. If they don't have it, they'll get it from another store and you just go pick it up later. <3 I got a colorful comforter and pillowcase set, and another pillow, and also some dishes and flatware.
We stopped at Sainsburys after to do some grocery shopping. Walking home was very difficult. We were all dying, carrying way too much and freezing. But it was totally worth it, since now my room feels more like a home than a hospital, and I have food!!

Today was pretty fun, I slept way in, and met up with two other math majors from BC on the way into Diff Eq. Where our professor slowly went through the chain rule and integration by parts. Yay easy class!! Both exams are open notes/books/whatever, too, and I sent Conor the sample final that was online and he said it was essentially the same as what he did. I found a kiosk to top up my phone, so I can use that now. My friends are finally starting to get cell phones, too, so the days of waiting outside in the cold and only being able to make plans by randomly bumping into each other are drawing to a close!

Since the girls all had USC-y things to do, Kevin and I decided to go get cheap tickets for Billy Elliot. Totally worth it. So the musical is based on the movie based on the play about a boy who decides to forgo his boxing lessons and take ballet instead, which meant that I was super surprised (in a fantastic way, of course) by the fact that there was a TON of tap dancing in it. My favorite character was Billy's friend Michael. What a fantastic kid, and the little boy who played him was a total ham. Why is it adorable when little kids are hams onstage, but annoying when they're precocious off stage, and then you just downright dislike them when they grow up into cocky adults??

At any rate, we were starving after, but everything closes pretty early (especially on weekdays) so we found a nice greasy fastfood place two doors down from campus where I got a coke and way more chicken and fries than I could eat for three pounds. This will be my British version of latenite. I'll have to buy some ice cream for my freezer, too.