Day 4: School Things and Onion Rings

So I think I'm finally figuring out this whole sleeping schedule thing. After a decent 8 hours of sleep, I woke up at 10:15 and managed to get a nice bit of stuff done while my sleep-deprived roommate slept until 12:30. Gotta love it. So after a very slow morning, we got ready and hit up High Kensington for a little food and supply shopping. Let's just say that Whole Foods here is absolutely fantastic... Honestly, Kalie and I went speeding around all 3 levels staring yearningly at what looked to be delicious food and drinks. If it wasn't so high-priced I would have probably tried to buy almost all of the store. Oh well, at least they had little food and wine tasters all around. Free lunch anyone? I think so. Don't judge.

So after our sprint around Whole Foods (and our successful finding of a Mexican food aisle AND burrito bar- woohoo!) Kalie and I hit up a phone store and picked up some delightfully cheap little phones in the most excellent color of bright blue. Fantastic. Now we can connect to the world again, or at least find one another when we're running around Soho. Pharmacy stop came next, followed by the purchasing of some school supplies and finally a lovely trek to the market.

Oh, the market.

I can't explain how happy it made me to go and buy food. I think I might have gone a little overboard with my purchasing, but now I can make salads and sandwiches and eat fruit. And I grabbed some munchie food for 2 am strolls to the kitchen after running around London with the group. Totally a necessary purchase! Cheez-Its in bed are awesome, but probably not the best thing for a nightly snack... So, after battling with the obviously Satanic self-checkout counters, we began the long stroll home with nasty, tiny plastic bags cutting into our hands. I now understand why people don't go wild at the supermarket, because honestly, carrying that much stuff was no fun. haha. It made me miss the small trunk space of my Mini, because I could put four shopping bags in that, regardless of its tininess. Oh well, at least now we've bought a bunch of food and can make lunches and dinners here as a group! Which we did tonight, and it was quite a fun amount of group time. Of course, Kalie and I consumed an exorbitant amount of onion rings, because they looked so delicious in the store, so not the healthiest, but hey- again, totally necessary. They were delicious.

As a side note, I think I'm writing far too much. I mean, do onion rings really matter? They made for a good rhyming title for this post, but really... Oh well, to any of you reading this, I apologize for all the mundane matters that I note here. But, far more exciting- our window sill makes for a fantastic spot to read and skype and computer away. And it has a lovely view.

So the lovely evening continued with nail-painting and silliness with my roommate as we discovered the most amazing Google applications for finding out way around London. Seriously, though... fantastic program. I feel like we are going to have a must nicer time finding our way around... of course, now that I say that what us get lost repeatedly on our next adventure. Oh well, we'll see. For now, I'm going to make it an early evening in preparation for classes tomorrow! Yay for a 3-day school week and a 5-day weekend!