Weekend highlights

Today has been a total waste of a day, I did no work and ate way way way too much. Oh well. Hopefully tomorrow I can semi-detox, aka avoid anything that resembles a baked good. I would say avoid cheese but that would probably prove impossible.

Anyways, Friday I watched the excellent film 24-Hour Party People at some friends flat. I'd seen the film before, but years ago. What an exciting place and time musically, minus the violence and general shittiness of everyday life in Manchester at that time.

Saturday I went to Regents Park, which is basically my favorite park in London. I sat by the pond and read Mrs. Dalloway. It was perfect. Saturday night was fine, not the greatest night of my life, but certainly not the worst. But all the alcohol left me feeling gross all day today. Bahhh. And gave me no motivation to do work. Which means I'm going to have to wake up early tomorrow and pound out some reading. Yey.

Crossing Tower Bridge at 3am in attempts to locate the correct late bus. Oy Vey.

I hope everyone has a spooookkkyyy Halloween!

Nature

I've of late felt like autumn is slipping away and I haven't seen enough gorgeous colors. But, I guess the there are still a few more weeks left of the UK autumn, even though Rochester probably is already in winter mode. So I woke up this morning and walked over to Regents Park (about a 25 minute walk from my place). It was gorgeous. I didn't have much time to linger so I just walked around one of the park's sections and took some photos. But, I definitely think a longer visit will factor into my weekend plans.

I had a dream last night that (get ready): I was held hostage at Primark by Simon Pegg (I don't remember why) and as a reward for my good behavior they let Gwyneth Paltrow visit me. Gwyneth wasn't a friend, I just really wanted her to visit me. Also, I cried a lot. Probably because I was being kept hostage in Primark. I also had a dream that involved me getting 8 letters from Barclay's, but I woke up before I could find out if my debit card was in one of the envelopes.

Memoriesssss

(credits to Lianne for the gorgeous artwork...)

When I left DC last year I was so ready to get out. DC felt so small and I was sick of a lot of non-tangible things. But now I'm thinking about all the wonderful things in DC, mostly the three wonderful girls I shared Ivory 306 with. It was just nice having people around who I really really liked and who I knew liked me. This isn't going to turn into one of those long rants about how I have no friends here, because I do, but my friendships in DC were generally a lot more established. Friendships that might include squabbles, but the sort of squabbles that exist when you know people pretty well.

So here is a list of things I miss about my friends last year:

-Having people to eat dinner with or around all the time

-Having friends nearby, who I could easily plan adventures with

-Having friends who I am sure really really liked me

-Reading magazines at Barnes/Borders with Lianne

-Watching tv with my roommates

-Having a friend as hip, cool and nice as Sara D

- Knowing that if I didn't go out, I would still have lots of people to hang out with the next day

-Having people I could really really laugh with because we know each other so well

- Going to lunch with Mike and having him judge me as my food ended up all over my clothes

-Holding Sara Z and Jenny and laying in their beds

-Doing cool cultural things involving Tom Story with Lianne

-IHOP with people I love

- Being around people who I essential spent my truly formative years with

-and so on and so on

The thing I miss about DC the most is having a city to explore that is manageable in size and easy to navigate. London is soo big!

I honestly don't know what my friendships here will turn into. Mehhhh. And I don't know where I want to go, what I want to do when I graduate. Mehhhhh.

Reason I am Single #7: I adapt Taylor Swift songs in my head to fit guys I think are attractive.

The next Oscar winners have pretty much been decided

They should just give Clint Eastwood, Morgan Freeman, Matt Damon, and This Movie the appropriate academy awards because it has "Oscar" written all over it. I think I sobbed through the whole trailer. But that could just be because I'm emotional. But seriously, this film looks amazing.