Mar. 9th, 2009 at 01:31 am |
There was a "UV Rave" at Drapers Friday night, which was really, really, really fun, though it resulted in me staying up way too late dancing, wearing white and neon colours, glowsticks, and neon facepaint (it looked awesome in the blacklight!).
I got a grand total of two and a half hours of sleep before I rolled out of bed and onto the tube to go meet Ha at Heathrow; I completely passed out when I got on the Picadilly line, and almost didn't get off at the stop for Terminal 2, which would've been disastrous. (Not really, I would have just had to go back a bit and been even later than I was).
We chatted a bit on the way back, though I fell asleep standing up on the last leg of our journey, and we both crashed for a couple hours until we got woken up by a text asking if we wanted to go to the London Zoo. So we did!
The zoo was pretty awesome, there were animals and they were cool. Vanessa and I watched baby monkeys playing around, and we all went into the Reptile House and saw where a scene from the Harry Potter movies was filmed, though I was very disappointed that I looked at every snake in the place and there was not a single Brasilian boa constrictor. What a waste of me getting creeped out. Apparenty when Harry helped him escape, there was no replacement.
Kevin and I enjoyed watching the giraffe stick his head over the fence to say hi to his Zeeba Neighba, and we all spent a little too long watching the penguins waddle around adorably. One of them fell in, it was cute.
After an epically long trek around the park, we managed to navigate the underground closures and get to Byron for burgers. The place is a bit overpriced to me, but I was hungry, so whatever. When we got back to campus, we met up with a big group of people and went to the New Globe and then Hayfield's for Damien's birthday, which was really fun.
Ha and I slept in today to make up for the lack of sleep yesterday, and then we went to the British Museum. It started pouring whilst we were on the tube, so it was really fun walking around the chilly museum slightly dampened. We're definitely on an equal museum going level, where we wander around and investigate what looks really interesting a bit more closely, but don't insist on seeing everything.
We came back and did some work and made dinner, and watched an episode of the Office, and then I decided to take her to check out Parliament at night, since that's really pretty. It took a while to get there, again thanks to line closures, and we walked around, took some photos, and then just missed the last train. Following our study abroad advisor's advice, we found our way to Trafalgar Square via bus; however, none of the buses that go to Queen Mary leave from Trafalgar Square, so that advice was sort of worthless. We took another bus to Bank (after asking the driver for advice), and went to wait for the 25. We just missed one, so were really excited and cold when another 25 came along ten minutes later... only to be out of service. Growing colder, Ha started showing me a partners' jig she learned in a dance class, and the one other person waiting for a bus was watching and laughing.
We finally caught a bus and got back to QM, and are slowly thawing out with the aid of hot chocolate. Yumm!
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
I Really Want to Eat a Child
Mar. 6th, 2009 at 06:01 pm
I managed to squeeze in a really quick gym run after lecture and tutorial and before my other tutorial yesterday, though I decided to take a shower rather than eat, so I was chilling with tortillas and humous or however hummus is spelt here. I managed to look up a few books in the online catalogue, then finally returned my massive pile of Westminster Cathedral texts to Senate House Library. I was glad Liz met up with me there, so that we could go get lost in the bowels of the buildings (and by bowels I mean maze-like upper levels) trying to find a book. She told me that the building wasn't bombed in WWII because Hitler wanted to use it as a headquarter if they took over England. I thought that was cool, and creepy.
We went and hung out in Westfield Shopping Centre for a little while, and after crepes (CrepeAffaire is so good, I'm glad it's pretty far away!) we went to Foyles. We found a book about a crocodile family that ate bananas, only the baby crocodile got pissy and wanted to eat a child. It was a superb children's book.
After doing not much in my room when I got back, I went and hung out in Drapers with some friends- it was so empty! James and I came really close to beating Damien at pool, though probably because James and I took some turns for him while he was off getting another pitcher. So that was epic.
We went to Halal Bite after. I've yet to determine how they keep the names of these fried food places straight, since they all have some combination of Chicken, Taste, Halal and Bite in them, and all have almost the exact same menus and prices.
Diff Eq was really exciting today- three girls got shown the yellow card by the professor, and they kept talking so he finally said, "That's it! You've been red carded! Get out!" I really like that it was a football match, apparently.
That's the only exciting thing that's happened so far today, aside from Grand Tours (I was hungry), a two hour break in which I looked at courses for next semester, Diff Eq, an hour break (I made mashed potatoes and they were delicious) and an Actuarial lecture that went on for forever.
I managed to squeeze in a really quick gym run after lecture and tutorial and before my other tutorial yesterday, though I decided to take a shower rather than eat, so I was chilling with tortillas and humous or however hummus is spelt here. I managed to look up a few books in the online catalogue, then finally returned my massive pile of Westminster Cathedral texts to Senate House Library. I was glad Liz met up with me there, so that we could go get lost in the bowels of the buildings (and by bowels I mean maze-like upper levels) trying to find a book. She told me that the building wasn't bombed in WWII because Hitler wanted to use it as a headquarter if they took over England. I thought that was cool, and creepy.
We went and hung out in Westfield Shopping Centre for a little while, and after crepes (CrepeAffaire is so good, I'm glad it's pretty far away!) we went to Foyles. We found a book about a crocodile family that ate bananas, only the baby crocodile got pissy and wanted to eat a child. It was a superb children's book.
After doing not much in my room when I got back, I went and hung out in Drapers with some friends- it was so empty! James and I came really close to beating Damien at pool, though probably because James and I took some turns for him while he was off getting another pitcher. So that was epic.
We went to Halal Bite after. I've yet to determine how they keep the names of these fried food places straight, since they all have some combination of Chicken, Taste, Halal and Bite in them, and all have almost the exact same menus and prices.
Diff Eq was really exciting today- three girls got shown the yellow card by the professor, and they kept talking so he finally said, "That's it! You've been red carded! Get out!" I really like that it was a football match, apparently.
That's the only exciting thing that's happened so far today, aside from Grand Tours (I was hungry), a two hour break in which I looked at courses for next semester, Diff Eq, an hour break (I made mashed potatoes and they were delicious) and an Actuarial lecture that went on for forever.
Being Harry Potter
Mar. 5th, 2009 at 12:27 am
I am not going to remember many of the names of the places I was at today, but this day was a lovely long one dedicated to visiting Carrie.
She lives in the sketchy part of Oxford, which is still ADORABLE. I got to meet her flatmates- very fun girls, I must say- after she picked me up at the bus station, and then we started wandering. We walked along Martin's field, which is very pretty, albeit a bit muddy (no huge deal, we had fun jumping over puddles), and generally enjoying the arbitrarily sunny day (it was supposed to pour all day; no complaints here that it worked out to the contrary!) Then we started to play a game called "let's see which colleges we can get into!" which was really fun. When I am more awake I will name all of them.
The first quad we went into was where they based some major scenes from the Golden Compass movie out of- Christ Church. We also went into the dining hall that they based the Harry Potter Great Hall off of, which was so cool. Carrie is going to try to eat there one of these days. We also walked down an outdoor corridor that was most definitely used in the movies, and Carrie told me about how one of her friends has to wear a huge black cloak for certain formal occasions, and he lets her wear it and flap around in it a bit before he heads out. I want to be in Christ Church and wear a black cloak- talk about feeling so Harry Potter!
We went into St Mary's after that, and paid a couple quid to go up a staircase... and then up this really narrow twisty one. Halfway up, two people were coming down, and there was no room to pass; since we didn't want to go down and start again, we decided to stand in the window nooks while the other two went the rest of the way down. It was inventive, but I think the other two thought it a bit odd. The view from the top of the tower was really cool, and Carrie pointed out the library where she usually does work (which we can't go in since I'm not a student) and some of the other colleges, along with random trivia about things in their courtyards we could see.
As we walked along some more, she told me a story she had been told about a certain area that supposedly inspired CS Lewis; there was a black lamppost in the walkway, and a bit further down from it, a doorway that had what looked eerily like one would imagine Mr Tumnus to appear, and a door with a tree that has a face and ears ("Here, even the trees have ears!"). She doesn't know if that truly did inspire him, but it was still cool.
We walked through the courtyard of the Bodelian library- that's the big deal one, where when you go in, you have to have everything in a clear bag, and you're not allowed pens, and you have to swear not to be wet when you go in, or to take anything from it. We passed under the Oxford Bridge of Sighs (inspired from Venice), and then went along to Waterfords, which has the most miles of shelving in a bookshop. It was epic, I almost got lost in there and loved it. We passed Trinity college but couldn't go in, and went down to the Eagle and Child, where the Inklings would often meet and hang out.
After buying milkshakes (I got Cadbury Caramel, and it was SO GOOD) and Ben's Cookies at the covered market, and inquiring about where the fishmonger's crabs were imported from (apparently Denmark- Carrie had been guessing Maryland or Alaska), we found ourselves at Keble College. It was a strange mix of gothic structure but very Byzantine decoration, which was interesting.
I forgot the name of the pub we ate at (I usually write that stuff down!) , but lunch was yummy and at a very cute sprawling pub, and we got in a good talk. From there, we went to Carrie's college- Mansfield- and she set me up in the library while she went to meet with her tutor. Classes there sound so cool- they're on a trimester system, and you have a primary course that you meet one-on-one with a tutor for once a week, and a secondary, also one-on-one, that meets every other week, and you get to choose a topic, and they'll find you a tutor, and then you work with the tutor to decide what you want to study, and they'll make reading suggestions and things like that. She says it's a lot of work, but very interesting and worth it.
After we left her adorable library, we went and got afternoon tea, and watched two little British boys run around playing a game that, when asked, they didn't know what it was either. We tried to go shopping, but the one store we went into was adorable and pricey, and then everything else closed, so we went back to her room and watched an episode of the American Office and then one of the British ones, and had fun comparing the two. Then she saw me off and I slept my way back to Mile End!
I am not going to remember many of the names of the places I was at today, but this day was a lovely long one dedicated to visiting Carrie.
She lives in the sketchy part of Oxford, which is still ADORABLE. I got to meet her flatmates- very fun girls, I must say- after she picked me up at the bus station, and then we started wandering. We walked along Martin's field, which is very pretty, albeit a bit muddy (no huge deal, we had fun jumping over puddles), and generally enjoying the arbitrarily sunny day (it was supposed to pour all day; no complaints here that it worked out to the contrary!) Then we started to play a game called "let's see which colleges we can get into!" which was really fun. When I am more awake I will name all of them.
The first quad we went into was where they based some major scenes from the Golden Compass movie out of- Christ Church. We also went into the dining hall that they based the Harry Potter Great Hall off of, which was so cool. Carrie is going to try to eat there one of these days. We also walked down an outdoor corridor that was most definitely used in the movies, and Carrie told me about how one of her friends has to wear a huge black cloak for certain formal occasions, and he lets her wear it and flap around in it a bit before he heads out. I want to be in Christ Church and wear a black cloak- talk about feeling so Harry Potter!
We went into St Mary's after that, and paid a couple quid to go up a staircase... and then up this really narrow twisty one. Halfway up, two people were coming down, and there was no room to pass; since we didn't want to go down and start again, we decided to stand in the window nooks while the other two went the rest of the way down. It was inventive, but I think the other two thought it a bit odd. The view from the top of the tower was really cool, and Carrie pointed out the library where she usually does work (which we can't go in since I'm not a student) and some of the other colleges, along with random trivia about things in their courtyards we could see.
As we walked along some more, she told me a story she had been told about a certain area that supposedly inspired CS Lewis; there was a black lamppost in the walkway, and a bit further down from it, a doorway that had what looked eerily like one would imagine Mr Tumnus to appear, and a door with a tree that has a face and ears ("Here, even the trees have ears!"). She doesn't know if that truly did inspire him, but it was still cool.
We walked through the courtyard of the Bodelian library- that's the big deal one, where when you go in, you have to have everything in a clear bag, and you're not allowed pens, and you have to swear not to be wet when you go in, or to take anything from it. We passed under the Oxford Bridge of Sighs (inspired from Venice), and then went along to Waterfords, which has the most miles of shelving in a bookshop. It was epic, I almost got lost in there and loved it. We passed Trinity college but couldn't go in, and went down to the Eagle and Child, where the Inklings would often meet and hang out.
After buying milkshakes (I got Cadbury Caramel, and it was SO GOOD) and Ben's Cookies at the covered market, and inquiring about where the fishmonger's crabs were imported from (apparently Denmark- Carrie had been guessing Maryland or Alaska), we found ourselves at Keble College. It was a strange mix of gothic structure but very Byzantine decoration, which was interesting.
I forgot the name of the pub we ate at (I usually write that stuff down!) , but lunch was yummy and at a very cute sprawling pub, and we got in a good talk. From there, we went to Carrie's college- Mansfield- and she set me up in the library while she went to meet with her tutor. Classes there sound so cool- they're on a trimester system, and you have a primary course that you meet one-on-one with a tutor for once a week, and a secondary, also one-on-one, that meets every other week, and you get to choose a topic, and they'll find you a tutor, and then you work with the tutor to decide what you want to study, and they'll make reading suggestions and things like that. She says it's a lot of work, but very interesting and worth it.
After we left her adorable library, we went and got afternoon tea, and watched two little British boys run around playing a game that, when asked, they didn't know what it was either. We tried to go shopping, but the one store we went into was adorable and pricey, and then everything else closed, so we went back to her room and watched an episode of the American Office and then one of the British ones, and had fun comparing the two. Then she saw me off and I slept my way back to Mile End!
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 :-)
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 :-)
Tube Fail
Mar. 2nd, 2009 at 11:05 am
I finally finished being a tool yesterday :-) Oh wait, I don't think I'll ever be done with that...
Anywho, the underground was an even bigger mess yesterday than it'd been Saturday. Fail. Plus Caitlin and I had a major Tube Fail. We were waiting for the last train (of three or four) we had to take on our journey back to campus, and one pulls into the station and we hop on, noting that the benches facing each other are really cool and the train itself is shockingly empty, considering only one line was going in through Mile End. Then we realized it was purple. Whilst a lovely colour, purple is not a line we take very often, as it is the Metropolitan. So we hop off at the next stop, run around, get back on a train going in the other direction, run around, and then succesfully make it to Mile End. Hey, it already took over an hour to get back to campus, the extra ten minutes really wasn't a huge deal.
Haider made us dinner, which was yummy- fajitas and nachos. And he made fun of me for bringing milk over, until Hilary brought out a box of brownies.
Speaking of brownies, I finally solved a mystery yesterday. See, I had purchased some Cadbury Chunk Brownie mix, and was debating making it the other day, but noticed it was MIA. I thought maybe one of my flatmates had borrowed it, but after a few days of it not being replaced/no one saying anything, I decided I should check with Caitlin as to whether or not she'd used mine when making brownies after dinner last Tuesday. She had, so mystery solved!
I went over and hung out at Adib's place for a while, and played an AWESOME zombie game on the Wii. I was pretty okay at it, considering I'm bad at most games. Then we played some Smash Bros, and he annihilated me after a couple rounds, but then I made a comeback and left while still on top. But it was fun, I really like playing video games and listening to my British friends exclaiming, "bollocks!" etc.
Thus far today, I woke up exhausted, went to Diff Eq, turned in some courseworks, and went to the gym for a bit. Enthralling, I'm sure ;-)
I finally finished being a tool yesterday :-) Oh wait, I don't think I'll ever be done with that...
Anywho, the underground was an even bigger mess yesterday than it'd been Saturday. Fail. Plus Caitlin and I had a major Tube Fail. We were waiting for the last train (of three or four) we had to take on our journey back to campus, and one pulls into the station and we hop on, noting that the benches facing each other are really cool and the train itself is shockingly empty, considering only one line was going in through Mile End. Then we realized it was purple. Whilst a lovely colour, purple is not a line we take very often, as it is the Metropolitan. So we hop off at the next stop, run around, get back on a train going in the other direction, run around, and then succesfully make it to Mile End. Hey, it already took over an hour to get back to campus, the extra ten minutes really wasn't a huge deal.
Haider made us dinner, which was yummy- fajitas and nachos. And he made fun of me for bringing milk over, until Hilary brought out a box of brownies.
Speaking of brownies, I finally solved a mystery yesterday. See, I had purchased some Cadbury Chunk Brownie mix, and was debating making it the other day, but noticed it was MIA. I thought maybe one of my flatmates had borrowed it, but after a few days of it not being replaced/no one saying anything, I decided I should check with Caitlin as to whether or not she'd used mine when making brownies after dinner last Tuesday. She had, so mystery solved!
I went over and hung out at Adib's place for a while, and played an AWESOME zombie game on the Wii. I was pretty okay at it, considering I'm bad at most games. Then we played some Smash Bros, and he annihilated me after a couple rounds, but then I made a comeback and left while still on top. But it was fun, I really like playing video games and listening to my British friends exclaiming, "bollocks!" etc.
Thus far today, I woke up exhausted, went to Diff Eq, turned in some courseworks, and went to the gym for a bit. Enthralling, I'm sure ;-)
Beigles
Mar. 1st, 2009 at 12:12 am
Yesterday evening in the library, some lady goes up to the two guys sitting at the computers nearest me, and asks if they are maths students. They say yes, and she asks if they are first years, and when they reply yes, she starts to say something then suddenly turns to me and demands if I am a maths student and a first year. Once I explain that I'm on year three of four (it's always so awkward, since I'm not a second year but I'm not a third, either), she asks if I know how to copy over the text of an email that she sent to the wrong address so she can subsequently send it to the next one. I demonstrate briefly by highlighting the text on notalwaysright and right clicking, but she asks if I can come show her at her computer. As I follow her over, she asks me if I'm from Australia (I get that a lot actually, it's weird). I copy and paste the text for her, then retreat to my computer. I asked the two guys if they thought it was weird, and they told me that she's crazy and is always in the library asking people weird things. She came back over ten minutes later to ask me if "with regards to" or "regarding" sounded better for a professional email. Apparently you need to be a maths student to know how to copy and paste, and how to write emails.
We went to Hayfields last night for karaoke, but it wasn't quite set up when we got there, so we ended up playing pool a bit, and a version of Clue that was actually trivia (it was really messed up; I guess some girls were playing the 'Who Wants to Be a Millionaire' after we stopped, and they got out by saying that the minimum time one could get for a hockey penalty is ten minutes). Karaoke was really fun once it started up- Caitlin, HIlary and I did Dancing Queen, and Caitlin and I also did Video Killed the Radio Star, which was very fun. Also, everyone joined in on things like Living on a Prayer.
Today, Hilary filmed me doing party of my audition tape near the Houses of Parliament; two people rode by our spot on bikes, and the guy started ringing his bell in time with the music, it was really fun. Caitlin met up with us, and the three of us went to the Tate Britain and looked at many pretty paintings (after stopping at a cute cafe with yummmmy food, and a waiter who had stayed in Las Vegas for a while and got talking to Hilary about that; we decided the little cafe must be doing pretty well for itself if he can just extend his vacation as long as he wants and drop six hundred bucks for the best seat to Cirque de Soleil).
Getting to Westminster and Pimlico and back to Mile End was so obnoxious because of all of the line closures. It would be sort've nice if our weekend plans weren't made infinitely more difficult by having to maneouvre around all of the closed lines- especially the District, which goes through Mile End but is ALWAYS closed on weekends from Upminster to Embankment.
Anywho, we finally got HIlary out to Brick Lane for dinner, then successfully found the 24 hour "Beigle" shop (a little girl was in there in her slippers buying a donut, she was adorable), and then went to Cookies and Cream, where I got ice cream. The majority of our conversation for at least three hours was this game Kevin taught us, where you name a famous personnage, such as "Orlando Bloom," then the next person has to name someone whose name begins with a B, such as "Barney Rubble." If anyone says a double letter, for example "Rowena Ravenclaw," it reverses. Hilary and I had a pretty epic string of double Ps working for a while, though neither of us came up with Peter Pan, surprisingly.
Yesterday evening in the library, some lady goes up to the two guys sitting at the computers nearest me, and asks if they are maths students. They say yes, and she asks if they are first years, and when they reply yes, she starts to say something then suddenly turns to me and demands if I am a maths student and a first year. Once I explain that I'm on year three of four (it's always so awkward, since I'm not a second year but I'm not a third, either), she asks if I know how to copy over the text of an email that she sent to the wrong address so she can subsequently send it to the next one. I demonstrate briefly by highlighting the text on notalwaysright and right clicking, but she asks if I can come show her at her computer. As I follow her over, she asks me if I'm from Australia (I get that a lot actually, it's weird). I copy and paste the text for her, then retreat to my computer. I asked the two guys if they thought it was weird, and they told me that she's crazy and is always in the library asking people weird things. She came back over ten minutes later to ask me if "with regards to" or "regarding" sounded better for a professional email. Apparently you need to be a maths student to know how to copy and paste, and how to write emails.
We went to Hayfields last night for karaoke, but it wasn't quite set up when we got there, so we ended up playing pool a bit, and a version of Clue that was actually trivia (it was really messed up; I guess some girls were playing the 'Who Wants to Be a Millionaire' after we stopped, and they got out by saying that the minimum time one could get for a hockey penalty is ten minutes). Karaoke was really fun once it started up- Caitlin, HIlary and I did Dancing Queen, and Caitlin and I also did Video Killed the Radio Star, which was very fun. Also, everyone joined in on things like Living on a Prayer.
Today, Hilary filmed me doing party of my audition tape near the Houses of Parliament; two people rode by our spot on bikes, and the guy started ringing his bell in time with the music, it was really fun. Caitlin met up with us, and the three of us went to the Tate Britain and looked at many pretty paintings (after stopping at a cute cafe with yummmmy food, and a waiter who had stayed in Las Vegas for a while and got talking to Hilary about that; we decided the little cafe must be doing pretty well for itself if he can just extend his vacation as long as he wants and drop six hundred bucks for the best seat to Cirque de Soleil).
Getting to Westminster and Pimlico and back to Mile End was so obnoxious because of all of the line closures. It would be sort've nice if our weekend plans weren't made infinitely more difficult by having to maneouvre around all of the closed lines- especially the District, which goes through Mile End but is ALWAYS closed on weekends from Upminster to Embankment.
Anywho, we finally got HIlary out to Brick Lane for dinner, then successfully found the 24 hour "Beigle" shop (a little girl was in there in her slippers buying a donut, she was adorable), and then went to Cookies and Cream, where I got ice cream. The majority of our conversation for at least three hours was this game Kevin taught us, where you name a famous personnage, such as "Orlando Bloom," then the next person has to name someone whose name begins with a B, such as "Barney Rubble." If anyone says a double letter, for example "Rowena Ravenclaw," it reverses. Hilary and I had a pretty epic string of double Ps working for a while, though neither of us came up with Peter Pan, surprisingly.
Can't Touch This
Feb. 27th, 2009 at 05:05 pm
Yesterday was super busy. I had class, tutorial, did some work and took a twenty minute nap, went to my second tutorial rather late (but I only had one question), and then left that early to boogie on over to the underground. I met up with Paul at Waterloo station, and we went and caught up in Wagamama's (I had the apple and lime juice, my favorite! And the Wagamama Ramen, I honestly don't know what was in it. I was talking to my food, asking it what it was, and then would eat it and still not know).
We walked from there down to Tower Bridge, since I forgot which stop was near Tower Bridge and wanted to find this certain place to record part of my internship video. It was really far. And then I was rapping and dancing, with tourists looking befuddled and street cleaners standing behind Paul (who had my camera) and laughing. But it's okay, it was really fun, and I get to do more of that tomorrow! Paul was a good sport for being associated with me.
I made it back to campus just in time to have to run from my room across campus to lend a friend a calculator for a midterm, and then book it all the way back across to meet up with Caitlin, hit up the ATM, and hope back on the Tube. After grabbing tickets for a show, we had a romantic snack at Burger King (shakes and chicken bites and fries). We ended up going to see Sunset Boulevard, which had good music and looked really cool, though we thought the amount of upstaging that occurred was a little strange... and it was definitely a weird musical. Also, the plot at the beginning was essentially nonexistant, there was way too much introduction and I had no idea where the show was going to go. Though I think when I get older, I should be crazy and melodramatic like Norma, because she was ridiculous. She reminded me of Madame. And the lead guy looked a lot like Kevin H.
The two of us went back to campus and booked tickets for Romeo and Juliet at the Globe for us and the rest of our friends- our seats should be pretty good. I'm really excited! That will be in May.
So far today, I got up, took a shower, took a half hour nap, went to class, took a nap for an hour and a half, put a pizza in the oven, took a nap for the ten minutes it cooked, went to lecture, came to the computer lab so I wouldn't nap again, had another lecture, and am back in the library. Actuarial got exciting again today- some guy came into the room halfway through lecture laughing, sat down at the back, and a half a minute later someone held their phone through the door with the ringtone going off, ran away, then came back two minutes later and yelled something indescernible into the room, and ran off again. Our professor laughed it off, so some of the class giggled a bit, but then the guy who came in laughing stood up, and storming indignantly down the stairs yelled, 'That was not funny! It was very disrespectful, Miss,' while lighting up a cigarette.
Yesterday was super busy. I had class, tutorial, did some work and took a twenty minute nap, went to my second tutorial rather late (but I only had one question), and then left that early to boogie on over to the underground. I met up with Paul at Waterloo station, and we went and caught up in Wagamama's (I had the apple and lime juice, my favorite! And the Wagamama Ramen, I honestly don't know what was in it. I was talking to my food, asking it what it was, and then would eat it and still not know).
We walked from there down to Tower Bridge, since I forgot which stop was near Tower Bridge and wanted to find this certain place to record part of my internship video. It was really far. And then I was rapping and dancing, with tourists looking befuddled and street cleaners standing behind Paul (who had my camera) and laughing. But it's okay, it was really fun, and I get to do more of that tomorrow! Paul was a good sport for being associated with me.
I made it back to campus just in time to have to run from my room across campus to lend a friend a calculator for a midterm, and then book it all the way back across to meet up with Caitlin, hit up the ATM, and hope back on the Tube. After grabbing tickets for a show, we had a romantic snack at Burger King (shakes and chicken bites and fries). We ended up going to see Sunset Boulevard, which had good music and looked really cool, though we thought the amount of upstaging that occurred was a little strange... and it was definitely a weird musical. Also, the plot at the beginning was essentially nonexistant, there was way too much introduction and I had no idea where the show was going to go. Though I think when I get older, I should be crazy and melodramatic like Norma, because she was ridiculous. She reminded me of Madame. And the lead guy looked a lot like Kevin H.
The two of us went back to campus and booked tickets for Romeo and Juliet at the Globe for us and the rest of our friends- our seats should be pretty good. I'm really excited! That will be in May.
So far today, I got up, took a shower, took a half hour nap, went to class, took a nap for an hour and a half, put a pizza in the oven, took a nap for the ten minutes it cooked, went to lecture, came to the computer lab so I wouldn't nap again, had another lecture, and am back in the library. Actuarial got exciting again today- some guy came into the room halfway through lecture laughing, sat down at the back, and a half a minute later someone held their phone through the door with the ringtone going off, ran away, then came back two minutes later and yelled something indescernible into the room, and ran off again. Our professor laughed it off, so some of the class giggled a bit, but then the guy who came in laughing stood up, and storming indignantly down the stairs yelled, 'That was not funny! It was very disrespectful, Miss,' while lighting up a cigarette.
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