Tuesday
Miss Laura came over for a stir fry and The OC.
Wednesday
Ana and I went to Maristela's house in Greenwich. The day included shopping at Asda, kickass pasta, double kickass baklava, and the Barcelona v Arsenal game.
Thursday
Dave and I attempted to go on the Eye and of course ended up not because the weather turned to crap.
Laura and I got lost in Watford (shocker) but she finally managed to get tickets for today's playoff game in Cardiff (which Watford won, good job!)
Then we went for £3 pizza on Goodge Street, yum.
Friday
I had an interview to pull pints at concerts and festivals for a measly £5.20/hour. Who cares though, I'll hopefully be working at Take That and Robbie Williams shows!
I also said a sad goodbye to Elliott. Katherine's 'Somewhere Over the Rainbow' and Taylor's 'Try a Little Tenderness' were grrreat.
Saturday
I worked at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development Annual Conference at the Edgware Rd. Hilton. My job was to assist the Official Documents office with my friend (Argentinian/Italian Daniela) from uni and a French guy from LSE named Jerome. We have the most laid back boss ever. We collated folders by language and went home after 3 hours. Let's just say I wasn't paid £5.20/hr. for that; it was about 6x more.
An old man at the bus stop near the hotel asked me which bus he should take to some destination I didn't understand. Other people couldn't understand him either so he just waited. Then four nurses came down the street from St. Mary's hospital to retrieve him saying "I thought he was sleeping!"
I had the National Lottery on TV while I was making dinner. There was a guy running across the stage with a posterboard yelling something which I didn't catch. Then the lottery shut off its live feed saying they were sorry for the disruption which was pretty funny. The story is now mysteriously missing from the internet.
I stayed in and watched the Eurovision contest, which the ever so talented Maria Menounos co-hosted. I sat there in total
shock and then giggles at how the countries are completely biased (ex: Norway giving Finland, Denmark and Sweden the top votes; Armenia giving Lithuania, Russia, and Latvia the top votes.) I am still surprised that Serbia gave the greatest points to Bosnia, does that seem weird to anyone else? Also,
Finland won and they looked like monsters/boars/things nightmares are made of. The song was a bit soft for their heavy metal style, and it just looked weird when the lead monster, er singer, was holding their winning bouquet of flowers. The photo of them talking into mics during the press conference is priceless.Sunday
I worked again for the bank today. I arrived at 10:30 am, did a minimal amount of work, was told to go to lunch at 11:45 am and not to return until 2:00 pm! The three of us went all the way to the Tate Britain instead, which was, uh, really random. Phil Collins filmed a dance marathon of Palestinian teenagers (I heard some Smiths and dancy stuff) and showed what happened in that period (how there was a power outage due to local problems and unrest, etc.) It was one of those things you couldn't stop watching even though it was just people dancing. Upon our return to work, we did some more minimal things and left at 3:30 pm. Keep in mind that I have friends working 12 hour shifts on their feet giving directions to attendees from 5:00 am on. Suckers!!!
Then was the pub quiz at The Black Sheep. I quite often get 40-45 questions out of 50 wrong on this quiz. But did you know that Jimmy Page's band pre-Led Zeppelin was The Yardbirds? Because I actually did!
~Back to our regularly scheduled post~
I forgot to mention that Guiding Light won four Emmys for Lead Actress, Supporting Actor, Supporting Actress, and Younger Actor which is unheard of for GL. Also, Sandy Foster fell off a cliff and died, which is too bad because I met him in Grand Central Station when I was in a drunken state, I told him this and then explained to him that I had to run because I was late for a Met game, as if he really cared. Who knew that in a year's time he'd be stalking Tammy and consequently fall to his death?
RIP Sandy Foster (2003-2006)
My old company's annual Spring Convention started this weekend in Las Vegas. This would have been my fourth year going if I had stayed with them. Which I should have done considering they've got Bill Clinton as the speaker for the opening session!!!! Makes my job as Melissa Rivers' agent's escort from the airport to the hotel last year seem pretty insignificant right about now.
Current Music: Snow Patrol - Hands Open
3 comments:
I flicked on BBC1 fo Eurovision and also saw the National Lottery getting hijacked! The story isn't missing from the internet though... it was even on the news yesterday. It was Fathers4Justice, a group campaigning for the rights of fathers to see their children after a divorce.
Their previous publicity stunts have included throwing purple powder at politicians in the House of Commons, climbing Tower Bridge dressed as Spiderman, and breaking into Buckingham Palace dressed as Batman.
They disbanded last year after rumours that they had been planning to kidnap Tony Blair's youngest son, Leo. Saturday's attack on the National Lottery was their re-launch.
http://www.fathers-4-justice.org/
Was that your first Eurovision? The biased voting isn't as bad as it used to be, but since the former USSR and former Yugoslavia disbanded, countries like Latvia, Lithuania, Bosnia etc have always done really well because they are guaranteed lots of votes from other former USSR and former Yugoslav countries.
I found out what the protest was, but I couldn't find the story anywhere when I posted this. Strange!!
Take That is still together?
I am more of a Westlife person myself.
:)
That's funny about the patient escaping the hospital.
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