I just want to say that I'm 3 songs into Frightened Rabbit's new album and it IS AMAZING. I'm so proud of my favourite fully Scottish Band (I thankfully can't count Belle and Sebastian in this category because conveniently one of the members is from Northern Ireland. Thanks Bobby Kildea for my making my favourite fully scottish band decision easier). Anywho, the album comes out March 9th but NPR's amazing All Songs Considered is kindly legally streaming the album now. AMAZING. Check IT OUT.

PS- the image is from the Frightened Rabbit concert Lianne and I went to at the Rock & Roll hotel in DC the night before the Inauguration.

Issues Right Now

- My sparkly toms smell awful after being exposed to a day of rain. They even started disintegrating. I think I'm going to have to reward myself with a new pair in April. Ah they smell SO bad!

-My national insurance stuff hasn't come yet, so I'm going to have to call on Monday ughhhh.

- It took my an hour to get back after getting into London from Oxford because so many lines were closed. I should have waited and gotten off at marble arch but nooo I got off at Notting Hill Gate. BAD idea.

- I have to figure out how to research my dissertation topic tonight while my friends are at a food party.

- I have no money, still.

- I have a lot of angst.

- I keep having imaginary arguments where I have the courage to say what I actually want to say instead of smiling and nodding and being passive aggressive.

Good things right now:

- I got to hang with Clare and Ruth this weekend.

- I'm going to Glasgow next weekend :) .

- I'll going to start getting paid.

I'm glad the negatives vastly outweigh the positives. YEY.

Song to get through days of rain

Wowwww...

My new fav british politician? Yes.

WTF of the Early Afternoon

Whhhaaaaaaatttt is thisssss story. You just have to read it. Hint it involves a middle aged "vampire" aka a creepy looking man who looks like a less hot Tommy Wiseau (yeaaaaa), proposing to a 16 year old via youtube. Then snatching her away from her family and going on the run together. She has since been reunited with her family. But WHAT THE EFF!

Here's the proposal video. I hope I get proposed to in the exact same way.

I thought the new heinz ketchup packets with the biggest innovation of the year. I was wrong. May I present you with, bags of milk.

working 9 to 5

Today was my second day of work. I'm not going to go into much detail about the place I work in case this blog becomes super famous and I get fired for talking about it, ha ha ha like any of those things would happen. I'm going to be working 20 hours a week in "the city" aka the financial hub of London. 9-6 Mondays, 9-5 Tuesdays and 9-12 Wednesdays. Yey money.

I can deal with waking up early. What I can't deal with is the morning commute. I read an article a while back on the BBC about how lots of people have to use intense mental preparations to take the tube. Now I see why. I knew it would be bad, I just didn't realise HOW bad. For the two times I've taken it, I've had to get the second train that comes through bc there was no way I could get on the first. Both times after the first passed through I ended up in the front. But once the second train comes it's everyone gets in no guts no glory mode. I'm not good at it yet. Then on the train it's so crowded it's probably illegal. It's basically like a giant hostile group hug. Then I'm so bad at knowing where to move when people need to get off. After I get out of the train today I felt like I needed a drink. It was so intense!

When Lianne was here she remarked that New York subway trains are a lot wider, I remember the DC ones being wider too. So it's basically the same volume of people going in the New York subway but on much narrower trains. Bahhh commuting. I feel so real!

Tomorrow is my first day of work and I have an almost consistent record of not being able to fall asleep the night before my first day of work. Please let tonight not follow the pattern! I already have a slightly nervous stomach ache- fabulous. And I can't call my parents and have them soothe my mind because they're flying back from Mexico today. Wahhhhh! Well, hopefully I'll be able to fall asleep before 2! Wahhhh!

Here's one of my favorite going to bed songs, vintage Coldplay: