1. My dad complained, via email, that he needed to be featured prominently in my blog. I hadn't even realized that he had found the link yet since I vaguely remember some argument about how he didn't get the "updated link", but naturally I had to remedy this, because I can't really afford to lose any followers. This is the first time I'l really publicly published any sort of writing (albeit casual and informal) and allowed people I know to read it, so I kind of enjoy the fact that people continue to read it. Anyhow, now to remedy that complaint:
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Moving on...
2. Elise, if you keep reading and posting comment,s of course we shall have some sort of epic HIMYM adventure. It will involve something with bingo or janga, a remote island, and buying a bar or starting a band, or some other 3 word sentence that is probably not at all smart. Beautiful.
Okay, I think those are the two people that I needed to write to. Maybe I should apologize to my mom for not keeping in contact with her this week. After getting a "where the hell have you been?!" skype, I feel like I might have made a little misstep there. My bad. She just doesn't realize how much it makes me smile when she swears... Oops, I guess it's public knowledge now. Anyhow, continuing forward--
I have a few comments to make this week before I write up a brief schedule of my activities. First on the list is:
The Gym.
Doesn't that just sound epic? I think so. It also kind of looks obnoxiously epic in larger letters and lime green color. Sorry, couldn't help myself. I'm kind of enjoying taking a brief reprieve from my formalized blogging of last semester and just running with this whole "whatever's on my mind" style. If it gets too crazy just drop me a comment and I'll tone it down. Maybe. Depends on how much I like you. Anyhow, the gym! So, I'm sure all those self-help and diet books out there are nice and lovely, but honestly? I lost all that nasty xmas break weight by paying my 35 pounds per month for the use of the Imperial College gym that's not even a block from my London house, and going there on an almost-daily basis, along wiht walking around London, and eating smaller portions. It's way easier this way. And- wait for this bit of knowledge- keep a diary! Food dairies. I should have remembered this from Nutrition class freshman year at Pepperdine. Seriously, keep a diary of what you eat. You snack less, eat healthier, eat smaller portion. Add that with a bit of working out and you can totally afford to have that delicious cosmo or vodka cranberry or, ehh, cup of water at the pub.
I swear, I feel so enlightened. Okay, that was a bit of sarcasm towards myself, but seriously? This week I've felt so much healthier than even a week ago. Granted, that was after x-mas break's Mexican food consumption... Whatever, I seem to be on a good track now. Woohoo! That is, until next week's Switzerland hot air balloon festival which is probably ridden with champagne and sausage and chocolate and bread. Oh well.
Continuing onward- my eyes and hands and frankly my brain are dead. I made the New Year resolution to write every day. I have not broken that- I manage to get in a minimum of 10 minutes every day for my writing, which is going fantastically. I'm quite happy with it, actually. However, I got it into my head that I wanted to try and publish again this summer. Of course, that means having my friends read some of my work, editing it like crazy, doing tons of researching, and the likes. Unfortunately, it's a pain to email such huge files to my friends, so I thought it would be a brilliant idea to make a website to help the reading process. But then there comes the problem of me being a perfectionist. Not only did I decide to forgo making just a single page to post text on, I had to re-educate myself in html and make this huge epic monstrosity of a site that turned out extraordinarily well, but I've spent so much free time the last 4 night working on the beast. Seriously... hours upon hours upon hours. I mean, I got in all my socializing time, too, but goodness, this site has become an absolute monster in my life, and I'm still not done loading up the actual writing. Ridiculous. But I am proud of my photography, which I turned into some of the images for the site. Seriously- check it: Click Here.
Please, oh and ah as much as you'd like. It looks fabulous in the actual website.
Okay, so moving past the gym and writing and site-creating, I'm still waiting to hear back on my internship. I swear, I have about the patience of a really small child looking for candy on this matter. I. WANT. to know. NOW. But I guess that update of whether or not I got it shall have to wait another week. (I really hope it doesn't last any longer than that...).
Sidenote- my room is really dark right now. I need to get new light bulbs for the chandelier, because it gets dark around 4:30 here and that is not conducive for writing. The dim lighting makes me all tired.
I think that's the last bit of business that I've got to write about now. I'm loving the new London kids, I'm a bit sleep-deprived, but heck, I expected that for the first week. I did get to sleep in today. I actually didn't get out of bed until 12:30. But then I worked out, so I feel like that negates the earlier laziness.
So, time for a quick overview of the week before I conclude this week's blogging.
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Tuesday: Good day of light classes, hung out with the new kids a bit and I'm loving the new group. They fit in excellently. We ended up going to The King's Speech after dinner- I highly recommend seeing this movie. It was amazing. We booked Ireland for St. Patty's day after the movie, and then booked Dover for the weekend.
Wednesday: Didn't have class til 4 today, so that was lovely. I hit up the gym, got some writing and website-creation done, hung out with people, and finally made it to the museum with Jessica, which was a new one, so naturally we got lost. However, we spoke to a lovely man at Starbucks who gave us directions, and we (although late) were the first people to arrive. And it was in a new area, so it WAS fun exploring. The London weather really started up this day- not so cold, but the drizzle and cloudiness has definitely set in. I ended up looking up good writing cafes with Diana later that night. We're excited to go and explore and check them out.
Thursday: Got to "sleep in" a bit today before hitting up the gym. This was followed by another museum visit (we actually knew where this one was so made it on time, and still first- woohoo!). After the visit we headed back to the house. I worked on my website while everyone napped, and then we made some food before heading out to our favorite bar, Trafalgar. My favorite bartender was there, but I did make friends with the new ones and I found a friend in Andrew, who will match me... err cup of water for cup of water. Yup. They offer great glasses of water. It was a fun night.
Friday: Jessica and I slept in a bit on Friday before I took her to Piccadilly Circus for some touring and shopping for a present for her bf. We were successful and made it back to the house in time for a little relaxing before we headed out for the British Museum with the house. It was amazing! Such a beautiful building (regardless of the long walk in pouring rain before we actually got there). We saw the Egyptian exhibits (in preparation for our visit to Egypt) and then split up for small group dinners. I got delicious Mexican food and once again indulged in such a lovely meal. Whatever. I'd been working out all week. After this the house reconvened and we saw Les Miserables- amazing show! Seriously, go see it if you can. We hung out a bit after, and then I wrote and did some web-work, but not too crazy due to our early morning the following day.
Saturday: We woke up early for Dover today. I ended up going with Jaclyn, Andrew, Mallorie, and Jessica (largely new people) but it was so much fun. We saw two castles (but not the main one... unfortunately we were misguided and ran out of time). We did get to walk a few miles along the coast (and it wasn't too bad of weather- a bit windy) and see the cliffs and we had a lovely lunch, before heading back home. We watched a movie that night before I did some more writing and web-work.
Sunday: I was lazy today, because I could be. I ended up sleeping in to a lovely hour, then hit up the gym, and spent the rest of the afternoon having a little me-time in the room working on my website, writing, listening to music, and now writing this blog. And it's only 4:30, so I have a decent amount of time until my 8am class tomorrow. Eugh.
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So, that's it for this week's update. I'll work on getting some pictures up soon. I've been really bad about uploading pictures from my camera for the last month. Ehh, I'll work on that. Eventually...
i like that picture of ray. that's cool. you're sched sounds pretty sweet and there is a lack of shenanigans for me to comment on.
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