Soooo if you haven't heard http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6252276.stm. Scary stuff. I'm at work about 8 blocks from there right now. That area is one of the busiest in London. Pretty sure I walked right past it yesturday on my way back to work from lunch. This is just one of the dangers of living in a big city, I suppose. In that particular area right near Soho and Piccadilly is busy 24 hours a day. There are as many people in the streets at 2 am (like when the ca...

I know I've been horrrrrrible about updating. But our internet is out at the flat 95% of the time, so I'm pretty restricted. Last Friday was a lot of fun. Four of us went up to Camden (just north of where I'm staying) to check out the bars there. It was cheesy pop night/80's night at this (underground) club called Underworld. Fantastic. It was hysterical because a large number of people there were dresses as if they thought they were coming to a heavy metal co...

I really wish I had something more exciting to blog about, but this week has been fairly uneventful. My internet has been off and on, so everytime I really want to blog the signal is completely dead. I almost died Tuesday morning. It involved a motorcyle, a city bus and a red crosswalk signal. But I won't go into the details because I've already lectured myself enough. And I now know that the crosswalk signals are more than a suggestion. I forgot to mention...

Can I please get a collective "thank you" to the wi-fi gods of London for giving me back my internet. We had it all week (stealing from a nearby building, I think) and then all of a sudden it went down last night. The 5 of us sat around the akwardly rectangular kitchen table tonight, twiddling our thumbs and talking about mid 90's Nickelodeon shows. Someone check if the internet was back up every 15 minutes or so, until we all gave up. Glad I didn't go ...

I'm now positive that London has the most fickle weather of anywhere I've been. I learned this by wearing flip flops and sunglasses out, only having to put the glasses away 3 times (in 2 hours) in exchange for an umbrella. More on that later. I spent Friday night in doing laundry and grocery shopping. Luckily, my clothes survived the only-one-setting-of-hard-wash commercial washers, but I completely wasted 4 pounds on the dryers. I'm pretty sure my clothes ...