Free Writing

I was having trouble trying to concentrate enough to start on my final draft of this english paper. I mean it's pretty much written...needs to edited quite a bit, though but still should be easy but I couldn't concentrate or get myself to do it. Instead my time has been spent talking to Sean on the phone for almost 2 hours if not 2 hours, facebooking an incredible amount, and going on a candy run. I had an intense craving for some sour patch kids but I have not seen any whatsoever since being here. I am an intense sour patch kidaholic. It's kind of ridiculous that it got to a point freshman year my lovely Sarah made a food guide pyramid for me and my bottom was not my complex carbs but was made mostly of sour patch kids a simple sugar. Needless to say I've learned since taken a nutrition class or two and quit that dirty habit like a Will Miller..hehe. (That should make sense to the Johnstown people and my family.) So I just went on a candy run to Somerfield, which is a 5 minute walk or so to get some candy. I set out to just get one thing but walking into a grocery store I cannot be stopped. I think I'm addicted to grocery shopping. I love reading labels and checking prices and what not. I mean that's not weird is it? But in the candy isle I found some starbursts buy 1 get 1 free and some sour looking candies called Tangfastics. They are super tangfastic and hard to chew but pretty delicious. The Starbursts are super bizarre because they taste like juice and the flavors are made up of orange, lime, strawberry, and blackcurrant (a favorite here in Britian). The orange ones taste like fucking orange juice. It blows my mind. I'm bringing home a bag to do some cross testing.

A side note to this random entry is that I forgot to write about seeing my first theatre production here. It was a musical...and it was the Lord of the Rings. I mean come on, of course it is going to be bad. I didn't expect anything else...but what I did expect was a fucking good laugh. But it was basically a condensed 2.5 hour version of all 3 movies with some thrown in acrobatic tricks alongside dancing hobbits and super metal ballads. Ok no metal ballads, that would've ruled, though, but still the songs were long and whiney. If you youtube Lord of the Rings Musical London you'll get some slideshows with the music. Here is one for your pleasure:

So great, right?

And on an end note here is a fantastic performance from So You Think You Can Dance:

I think that dance gives me chills.
By far my favorite couple!

Now that I've successfully avoided homework for another half hour or so I guess I'll get to it.

xoxo,
Brittface

Thursday morning in London

It's a Thursday morning but I don't have anything to write about this morning so it's moreso about yesterday happenings.

In the morning we took a bus tour of London starting from the west side (Wesminster) where our dorm is located all the way to the East where the actual City of London resides. I just found out yesterday that only 1 square mile of this city is actually London. Everything else is Wesminster. But anyways our tour guides name was Peter and he is this adorable british retired actor. He was hilarious and I could not figure out what jokes were actually jokes and what was the truth. I was convinced that the toilets near St. Paul's Cathedral really did play God Save the Queen when you sit down but no...that was a joke. When returning back to our dorm around half past noon Elodie and I ran errands. We were trying to make it to an art supply store but ended up taking the wrong direction on the tube and came out at Trafalgar Square. That is where the National Gallery is and just behind there is another art supply store. So our mishap was no biggie. We bummed around, took some pictures, watched the worst street performer ever. All he did was make fun of the Scottish people and tell people to sit down. It was dumb. We were convinced he was just trying to see how long he could keep people watching with out actually doing anything. But I did see him do a little breakdancing when I walked by later. We headed back to our side of town and went to the pharmacy and grocery stores. I bought some Captain Morgan's rum that was actually bottled in the UK. I found that to be quite silly. After I spent the longest time taking a shower since it was just a light spray we went around the corner to a pub called the Duke of York. Apparently tonight is quiz night. I hope that proves to be a blast.

I have taken so many pictures so far that I would love to post but still can't get my computer to recognize my camera is attached. It's bumming me out. I turn it on, I try to review, I downloaded Kodak Easy Share Software, but nothing. It's totally pissing me off.

I'm not sure what my plans are for this morning yet. I don't have class till 2 pm so I was thinking of walking around Hyde park and then heading towards wherever my afternoon Asian Art History course is. I almost feel like I should bum around with Jody's Art History class sometimes too because they will probably go places I want to go. Like today I think they are going to the National Gallery. Hmm...well I feel like the only person who isn't in that class on this trip. Jody just seems really dry and I didn't want to be bored the whole time. Anyways enough of that. I need to get ready and get out of here before I fall asleep.

xoxo,
britt

hopefully pictures coming soon!