The parents have left after a week and a bit here with a trip in between to Italy and Slovenia (that they somehow forgot to take me on.) We did the usual touristy things - Changing of the Guard, Westminster Abbey, Big Ben & Parliament, Greenwich, etc. I also brought them out to Zensai Bar for Mairead's birthday. My mom liked being out but my dad felt like everyone was staring at him and wanted to get out of there ASAP.
In the interim while they were off exploring caves and eating pasta, Thom visited for two days before staring his 48 day tour of Europe. It was the poor guy's birthday and he had to hang out with me and my friends. I also had to finish my final paper of the semester during most that day, so I can pretty much guarantee he had a crappy birthday. On top of that, I forced him to go to XFM's First Friday the next night. He was still deaf when I left him at Russell Square on Saturday, sorry man!
I haven't been up to too much over the past two weeks otherwise. Just been going out, finished my papers, got treated to my dad's yummy cooking, went to Ben's house for his birthday dinner, had end of course drinks, went to a comedy night, and did a pub crawl through which I remained sober.
I've also been bumping into lots of people which is weird because that never happens to me in London. About a month ago I bumped into Zoe and Louise in Hampstead. Then, on the day of Ben's birthday dinner, I got into the same tube car as him in the middle of the day which was really random. On Sunday I was eating lunch (broccoli & spinach pie, yum!) at The Big Chill and I saw the drummer from Razorlight who I'd met at a bar in L.A. last year. I didn't go up to him this time, but he was super nice last year. Then, the other day, all separately within about an hour, I bumped into Finnish Ana, Mexican Esmeralda, and Brazilian Ernesto. I wasn't even near school either.
This week's NME lists the Top 50 Music Heroes as voted by readers, which obviously means the order was changed by the editors. Somehow Pete Doherty ended up at #2. The part about his entry that caught my eye was this passage:
"But is he really still your hero?...Now that he's spotted in the tabloids every other day looking no different to the junkies passed out on Kentish Town High Street?"
Hey! I never see junkies on the high street, just dealers, geez.
Current Music: The Beatles - No Reply
7 comments:
Bumping in to people has been happening to a bunch of people I know. Maybe because it's the weather and people are out and about more now.
I'm glad you are back!!! I've missed you. Can't wait to see you in June. Love ya and miss ya.
-Heather
I had noticed the lack of postings. Now, if only I could explain my own writer's block...
Ah, dude, was wondering where you'd vanished to. How was Joy's on Saturday?
Bumping into people in London is a factor of how long you've lived in London and how many people you've met in this city. You're quite a sociable person and you've obviously met a hell of a lot of people since you got here, so it's not that surprising. Having lived here all my life, I'd say I have a random coincidence bumping into someone at least every 3 or 4 days... usually someone from high school (like last night, when I went into a pub and found an old school friend was the bar manager there!)
After posting this, I then bumped into Casey, another girl on my course, on the 214 on Saturday night, random!!
Shaun - there's a Socialist bookshop I always pass on the bus which I meant to tell you about. You probably know it already but here's the site anyway: http://www.bookmarks.uk.com/cgi/store/bookmark.cgi?page=whoweare.html&cart_id=3522790.20168
I avoid socialist book shops, because I avoid other socialists. They're bastards.
I forgot to mention that I also bumped into Christos and Bryan from my course at a cafe in Shoreditch last Sunday too.
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