What's the matter with BU?

Mar. 4th, 2009 at 12:37 am

Just in case you were all wondering, I have not yet become a full Londoner. I was popping over to Budgens to top up my phone, and passed a girl wearing a BU hoodie, and had to bite my lip to prevent myself from saying "BU sucks!" as she passed.

Otherwise... yesterday was pretty legit. We had a field trip in architecture to the Royal College of Physicians. Unfortunately, photos will not be forthcoming as I had to sign a waiver saying I would only use the photos in relation to the class, so I can't share them. There were some cool things though- despite being modernist, I thought it was actually rather pretty. They had some cool stained glass windows that were actually a new design, but made of glass from previous locations of the RCP. The library had some really creepy dried out veins from the seventeenth century that were "teaching tools," and there was a collection of old "home remedies" in the basement, such as leech applicators, nipple guards (a double pronged one for twins) and the largest syringe ever seen, for giving enemas, accompanied by two coins depicting King Louis getting one, I believe.

USC Kevin and I got to the meeting place to go to the RCP a half hour early, so we were going to walk down and look at the zoo (literally just look at it from the outside), but our architecture professor hailed us from across the street, so we had to go over and talk.

We had a really funny conversation on the underground back to Mile End, but I can't remember what we talked about right now. So you just get to know that it was fun. I finished editing my video together, and then went and watched My Best Friend's Girl. I was so out of it, that it took me until more than halfway through the movie to realize it's set in Boston.

I slept in pretty late today, and haven't done much in the way of real work, though I have figured out most of my travel for the next couple weeks, which is good. I just need to decide if I have enough money to go to Athens for two days right after Italy, or if I will end up starving to death. Vanessa and I also had a nice chat stressing about what we're going to do slash planning out essentially the rest of our semester. She didn't eat enough of my Maltesers, that silly girl.

Getting Gram to Skype is really entertaining.

The cleaning staff confuses me. I got yelled at today when I went to take my laundry out of the drier, it was scary. I've succesfully stayed out of the way of the lovely lady who cleans my room for the last two weeks, though, so hopefully that means I'll have another pass to have her come in while I stay in bed :-)