:: Nietzsche kNew Nothing ::

:: Saturday, November 30, 2002 ::

Poop. I picked a computer whose mouse doesn't scroll properly. That's goign to be amnnoying since I'll be here forever writing a paper. My mom thinks the puppy is a poodle. How cute is that? I want to go play with the puppy. :-(

Well, film noir and femme fatales are in my future. Who would have thought I'd still be taking french.

Blah.

:: Jennifer 11/30/2002 10:11:00 AM [+] ::
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Hmm, my mom got a puppy yesterday and its name is suspciously like mine. I'm thinking she's missing me.

It doens't make sense though. She got a dog of her own free will, but when I wanted a dog, she said she didn't have time to take care of it while I was at school, but now she has time to take care of a dog? She's more busy than ever. Oh well, it's a good thing for her. Doggies relieve stress or so they say, and god knows she needs a stress relief. Woo hoo I get to play witha puppy when I go home, well that is unless she changes her mind and doesn't want to toliet train the dog etc. Oddly enough she doesn't know what kind of dog it is, she forgot, but she said something about it have brown spots on its legs or something. it's a male too. I told her not to keep the name Jin-jin because I thought it was too close ot my name and having a dog named after you is very weird. (Sorry Beth).

I want a dog. :-( I want to go home. How much can a puppy grow up in 2 weeks? It will still be cute as a button hopefully. She says it's going to be a small dog and that it fell asleep on her shoes. I hope it didn't poo in them. While I was on the phone with her, the puppy was chewing on the rug and then her phone charger. Little things are soo cute.

crap. I forgot to ask my MPT prof about the ppaer. I need to know if there are a specific number of sources that we need etc. grrr.

Graham Norton is so fab and I still can't say brillant. it's bothering me. I can't even re,meber how to say it in an american accent.

:-(

:: Jennifer 11/28/2002 07:25:00 AM [+] ::
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The time to panic is now. 2 weeks, 3 papers, one test. I'm done for I'm done for!

Well, at least there's always Harry.

Here's the latest from the greatest. That rhymed.

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Subj: General

Good afternoon

I have not had too many visits from associate students since my
return this week - I assume that no news is good news but if there
is anything you need help with, please make sure you come and
see me.

A big game this weekend for Arsenal - the forces of darkness
(otherwise know as Tottenham) will visit Highbury for the North
London derby.

In the unlikely event that they do win, I would appreciate it if no
sarky e-mails were forwarded next week.

'Sarky' - London phrase meaning to take the michael, to goad.

Harry Gibney


[Learn somethign new everyday]
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Subj: NIGHT OUT AT THE FOOTIE

Hello folks

Anyone want to watch a football match?

Wednesday 4 December, CHELSEA V EVERTON, 7.45pm

The Worthington Cup has thrown up an interesting match next
Wednesday night which I thought you might want to go and see.
These two teams are currently 3rd and 4th in the Premiership and
only a few points short from the mighty AFC (as Arsenal continue
to throw games just to keep the league interesting this year).

The fact that it is a Worthington Cup match means that some first
team players will be rested but it also means that we will not have
a problem getting tickets - Tickets will be £25 (Chelsea are known
as the 'fancy dans' of the football world and are therefore quite
pricey but this price has been reduced from £35-40 which is what a
league match would cost).

Chelsea's swanky home is the most central of all the London
grounds, a few hundred yards walk from Fulham Broadway station -
nice trendy bars, shops etc and easy for us to get to from Stepney
Green station (same line).

The deadline to get the cash to me is Friday 29th November - noon
(12pm), no exceptions. I will then pop down to the ground to get
the tickets which you can pick up from the afternoon onwards. I'll
also give you a sheet with details of how to get to the ground if you
want to make your own way down there.

I'll do the same as I did for the London Knight's match - go for a
pint in the Drapers in the Union and make my way to Chelsea at
5.45. If you would like to join me, you are more than welcome. All I
would ask in return is that you do not mention the fact that I am an
Arsenal fan on a train full of the Chelsea faithful!

If I'm not in the Admissions Office when you pop in, just give you
money to one of my colleagues but make sure they take your
name.

Regards

Harry Gibney
Room CB02
Admissions Office
Queens Building

[Britain, the only place where the administration will go for a drink with you. It would be funny to see Harry get pummelled by Chelsea fans, but we love Harry too much for that to happen.]
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Subj: Thanksgiving

Morning all

Those good people at the US Embassy have faxed me details of
restaurants/bars where you can go tomorrow night for some
Pumpkin Soup and a bucket of mash.

They are:

American Womne's Club - 020 7589 8292
Villandry - 020 7631 3131
Truc Vert - 020 7491 9988
Planet Hollywood - 020 7478 1558
Lanesborough Hotel - 020 7259 5599
Smollensky's 020 7497 2101
Texas Embassy Cantina - 020 7925 0077
Hard Rock Cafe - 020 7629 8702
Honkres American Bar and Diner - 020 7251 3783

If you want a copy of the fax (addresses, details of food etc.) pop in
to see me - Room CB02, Queens Building

Please note there is also a Thanksgiving Day Service at St Paul's
at 11am tomorrow - for security reasons this is a ticket only event -
I also have details. There is also a service at the Grosvenor Chapel
at 6.30pm (South Audley St - W1). Please note that if you are
going to go to one of these events, it must not mean that you miss
any classes here.

Regards

Harry Gibney

[I don't know what the hell pumpkin soup is]
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Subj: American Football

I've had an enquiry with regards to watching American Footie..

Sky Sports show the tv games from the US live (Sky Sprts 2 or 3).
A normal pub will not show them if they clash with the English
footie but they are shown 'in town'. There is a Sports Bar along
Haymarket (Picaddilly Circus station ) called the Sports Bar (I dont
know how they come up with these names) which is worth a look. I
also see that one of the places doing a Thanksgiving meal,
Honkers (sounds classy) has 30 (that's right 30) screens showing
worldwide sports so that must be a winner.

On another point, the Chelsea game does not come with a student
discount so family, friends are welcome.

Harry Gibney

[British humour. You gotta love it.]


Man, I've been watching so much telly. Graham Norton is a trip though. He had Donny Osmund on last night and they were so funny. They made some guy put on pink women's pants with donny's face on them. When DOnny say the guy he starte to laugh sooo hard. Some of the Donny fans are stalkers. One of them picked a scab at her knee because she got the woiund chasing his car. They got Donny to throw a dart at some pictures and he called the person up in the picture and seranaded them on the phone. He sang puppy love. He also danced with Graham and it was fab. He dipped Graham and everything. The show looks so fun. I hope I get to go, I sent in for tickets a couple of weeks ago.

Still hating the Cockney accent, but gettiing better at distinguishing accents. I should have went to Australia because they have better weather and are more friendly. Still picking up british words, but can't sat Brillant convincingly or even spell it correctly for that matter. Couldn't sleep last night so I did all the dishes in the flat at 3am. Weirdness that is. Tired, but have lots ot do. I want to hammer out my paper this weekend. :-) I like the Crocodile Hunter Diaries. It comes on 5 past 5 on Itv1 I think. Oh Say an old episode of Frasier last night. I miss American sarcasm. My film prof is cool, but my mate told me that he wasn't the one she saw with a girlfriend, so I stick to him being gay. Man, time is short.

Hungry and sleepy is my sign off.

:: Jennifer 11/27/2002 07:34:00 AM [+] ::
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Dude, computers can be really fickle. Well, I have 2 weeks to write 3 papers, 2 over 3000 word and one 2000. Also have a film analysis test too. fun fun. Also have 4 days in Germany with my dad. When will I do all this work?!?! Well, I have a headache just thinking about it so if I don't check in you know why. Film Noir. I would rather write on The Usual Suspects and Citizen Kane, but this essay is just more practical and and a time saver as I don't have the time nor resources to watch the Usual Suspects over and over as well as Citizen Kane. Also can see some similaorites in Kane and U.S., but writing on Mulvey's film perspective of women is just more meaty and easier to pad the 3000 words I need, well hopefully it is. That's the 3rd time I have had to read Mulvey's visual pleasure for a class.

Something shitty is up with the hot water situation in maynard. I couldn't get any hot water last night! so i had to take a luke warm shower this morning and the hot water still ran out. I had to use cold water to wash my face. Grrr it would happen to me. I always get the fuzzy end of the lollipop.

Grrr still don't know how I want to write my Body in history poaper. I suppose it will be on Laquer's Making Sex, but how will I stretch it to 3250? I don't even want to think about the Elizabethiuan Essay i think I'm going to write. Crap. I need to check out books before I get totally screwed over. Will probably head over to ULL tomorrow or Wednesday, should also catch Body World before I leave. I think Wednesday will be my day out. Poop, Russell Square is closed, so I will have to walk from Holborn and pray that I don't get lost.

So begins my journey through hell. At least Dante had Vergil with him.

:: Jennifer 11/25/2002 11:09:00 AM [+] ::
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Well, emm I'm sick and I have lots of work to do. Also been wathcing too much Tv to try to combat SAD. Bloody sun is never out and rain sucks. Emm Oh yeah Brent Spiner and Dennis Quiad are from Houston. Weirdness.

I hate being sick. Blah. All I want to do it sleep.

:: Jennifer 11/24/2002 10:53:00 AM [+] ::
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Fuck! I closed my window. Now I'm mad and I will sulk. Damn Lea Thompson. It's her fault.

:: Jennifer 11/24/2002 10:16:00 AM [+] ::
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I saw the new Harry Potter movie and it was pretty good. I thought that ron weasly's voice cracking was funny. I wish John Cleese and Alan Rickman had bigger parts. Kenneth Branagh was a perfect fit. His pompousness and ego really worked for the part. I did find the hugging Hagred to be a bit much, but it is a kid film. Since the old headmaster guy died, I think the only one thast could fill the part is Ian McClellan. He would be fanastic.

Oh yeah, remmeber my rant about Michael Ball (Marius)? He's in the West End playing the lead in chitty cHITTY Bang bang. Weird. Flying car and all. Save us Chitty, please!

Work sucks, here it comes too.

:: Jennifer 11/23/2002 04:42:00 PM [+] ::
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So WTF? I get the same grade on my late paper as I did on my other paper, but the weird thing is on my non-late paper most of the letters circled were A's. but on this on it's mainly B's. So can some one explain to me how they are the same grades? Bloody hell. Well, with the late points off, i still passed. That's a bloody good achievement and all I really wanted.

wow. I'm using bloody a lot.

Anyway, I saw the new Bond film last night. HEH HEH All you American Scum had to wait 2 days while the British get their Bond before you American pig Dogs. Anyway, my mate went to the premire on monday night and saw the Queen and the bond cars. She didn't see the film, but just stood and star gazed with the other Londoners. The Bond film was all right, interesting twist and the cars are to die for. Very sleek cars. Pierce is really showing his age, not as hot as you used to be, but still he's still eye candy. Heh heh.

I'm seeing the Harry Potter movie today, or rather tonight. Should be interesting, but I hear they actors, who are going through puberty, stretch out weird and their voices are cracking. not being a guy, I wouldn't understand the voice cracking thing, but I hear it's not a nice time in a guy's life. I should ask Gilbert about the effects one's voice cracking all the time had or still has on him.

weird. Still stumped that I got the same grade. it kind of makes me sad, but I don't know why. Well, it's lunch time and I have naps to have and tickets to get. OOh I wonder if Sainsbury will have those stupid cookies I've been looking a month for. :-D I also get to have the sweet and salty popcorn. Sweet popcorn here is pretty cool and super yummy. :-P

:: Jennifer 11/22/2002 05:28:00 AM [+] ::
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Dreary, Rainy London. Hooray. Well, last night i went to go See Les Miserables. It was an overall good experience. Although after psyching yourself up for seeing it for 5 years and expecting it to be like the 10th anniversay "dream cast" concert, it was sort of a let down. The singer who normally played Valjean was off that night so his understudy Chris Fennessy filled it. At first I really didn't like his singing style, it was just too overdramatic and nothing like Colm Wilkinson, but after 3 hours and 15 minutes, he kind of grows on you. Also he seemed way too young for the part. He sorted of looked like Jesus in the begining, I hope that was intentional. Javert was also disapointing to me, but then again the guy was rather young and no Philip Quast, but again after 3 hours, you get use to him. He buchtered the Stars song, but he loosened up and did better when Javert kills himself. I must say, apart for the two main roles, the rest of the cast was AMAZING! Even Marius wasn't annoying like Michael Ball was in the RAH version. Cosette and Fantine, were good too. Fantine was also done, but the understudy, but she did an excellent job. Eponine, as always was great. The students, Enrojolas, etc. were excellent and not to mention really hot, but since it's musical theatre, gay. Enroljas was always hot though. OH The weirdest thing was the accents. I swear, when they do poor uneducated french folk, it came out COCKNEY!!!!!!! That was the most disturbing thing ever. It reallyt didn't come ouit cockeny in the RAH verrion, but oh hell was it cockney last night. [On a side note, the cocknet cleaning ladies woke up up late. 10am. That's really nice of them since they're normally yelling around the flat by 9am] I really did like the group numbers. It was really awesome. Another oddity, although very necessary was the rotating circular stage. Well, there was a rotating circle in the stage and it would spin and they actors would rotate and stuff. It was pretty cool, except I'd be very motion sick if I had to perform on something that moved like that. Oh about the guy playing Valjean as being dramatic, I laughed at a lot at hium during really serious scenes, like when he diecides to be good. I had the giggles, it was so bad. Then Grace's cell phone went off during the production, I could have killed her. SHe also showed up 30 minutes late, which wasn't good either. We did get excellent seats for £20. We were in the Dress Circle 3rd row, center. Very good seats indeed. So the turning stage and all the props were really cool. I was very imp[ressed by the stage and the pit. I could see into the pit, but it bothered me that one of the guys was puttin g up his instrument during the second act. Yeah, there might not be need for a sax anymjore, but do you have to put up when everyone is dying? The Theanardiers were excellent. So good. The little kids singing little cosette and gavouche were pretty good also, but again with the cockney accent. Les Mis, in short, was very good.

I think i want to see Contact, but the guy in the poster... but I hear it had a lot of nudity and it a dance thing, so that kind of puts me off. I would like to see Michael moore Live though. Oh I was reading the theatre magazine last night and I didn';t know that Cameron Macintosh owned 7 west end theatres. Wow. Andrew Lloyd Webber also owns some of the theatres, I don't know why that should suprise me. Oh I hear Madaam butterfly is coming to London. Sounds liek I'm, going to that too. Also Breath of Life with Dames Judi Dench and Maggie Smith is extending it runs. I might see it in January. Oh Macbeth is in town, but I think Mrs. Arnold and 7th grade GT ruined that play foir me, although Smanatha bond and SEAN BEAN are in it. Hmmm it's somethign to ponder, but I hear all the tickets are sold out. eh, Macbeth wasn't happy anyway. I love London Theatre.

Coolness, There's going to be a Star Trek Adventure thingie in hyde Park that opens December 18th. I really want to go. I saw the adverts for it in the Tube and stopped to read them. I'm a trekkie, so what can I do, but go?

Mmmm food. Always with the sleep and food, I am.

Hey I go to germany Next week.

:-( I have 3 papers coming up. So sad I am. I hate writing BS.

Lunch and a nap, solves all things. Crap I have to do laundry too. Only have enough pants for 3 days.

:: Jennifer 11/21/2002 07:58:00 AM [+] ::
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Grrr, I checked the weather forcast and it will be raining for the next 10 days. Lovely. rainy and dark. We talked about the lack of sunchine in the winter and the excessive sunshine in the summer in my film studies class. The prof is American, from New Orleans and he's pretty cool. But no matter what they say it still sucks when there's no sun out.

Hey did you know Cary Grant (Archie Leech) was British? He was bron in Bristol. Yeah, most Americans don't know that. Crap, I can't publish this. Damnit. Oh well, I'll finish it later. I have to run some errands. hey hey hey it's lunchtime.

:: Jennifer 11/20/2002 07:28:00 AM [+] ::
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What is it with guys scratching their crothes while they sit next to me. It just hapopened again, but at least it wasn't like Scratchy ball guy's handball routine. Sheesh.

Well, just got out of class and had to remark that the history of the body discussion group was dead quiet. The combination of british people and talking about the reading which consisted of penises, clitorises, vaginas, and orgasms seemed to amount to silence. Who would have guessed ;-) Anyway, so the prof cut short the discussion or rather long and uncomfortable periods of silence and asked us 15 minutes before class was let out what we planned to do for our second paper. And we all went around the table telling him what we planned to do. it was all very elementary schoolish. Grrr I have to buy more print credit. I hate having to pay for printing out my papers. they require 2 copies of the paper for it's like 20 pages each time I write a paper. it's highway robbery that is. they also only give you £1 of free credit, da Bastards.

Well, I get to go scrounge up some food. I go grocery shopping tomorow. A nap in my warm bed sounds really good too. I will probably finish the reqading for today since it's pretty interesting. It comes out of a book called MAKING SEX, which unfortunately is not a how to or porn book, although people look at you funny when you try to look for it in a book shopp and the internet search results give you a shitload of porn. It's a gender studies type book about how the ancient felt about the human body. Females had internal penises for a long time and for 2000 years people thought that fetuses were p[reformed in the mother and and that that fetus had preformed fetuses in it. Then came the discovery of the clitoris in the 17th century. Boy did that thing confuse everyone. Females having two penises! yeah, still didn't help towards the reproduction aspect. We did had internal penises. Funny enough, the guy who "claimed" to find the clitoris was disputed by a lot of other guys that they had found the clitoris first. I found that really funny becuase from what I hear guys now a days don't know what or what the clitoris is. They can't seem to put their finger on it...(sorry couldn't resist the pun) They said though that the existence of the clitoris has been around since the second century, but not really "discovered" or documented until Columbus, not the guy who sailed to the Americas thinking he had found Asia. I wonder if he found the clitoris on his wife by mistake... We didn't get a proper understanding of human sexuality and reproduction till the 20th century. how sad is that?

Speaking of sad, I've been wathcing a lot of telly lately and I was wathcing something about armadillos because it had Texas in it, or something like that. Probably same reason I watched the John wayne film BIG JAKE. But anyway, I learned that Armadillos have identical babies. their litter of 3 or 4 (emmm what's the term for baby armadillos, kids, cubs ? I forgot) well they all come from one fertilized eggs and split. So all the babies are idenitcally the same. So they're either all girls or all boys. it cuts down on the incest. Also Armadillos can delay development and biorth of the fetus for 3 years. They can carry around a fertilized eggs until the enviromental conditions are good enough to support them. If it's too dry or not enough food the Armadillo will delay the birth. I thought that was cool. I still think they're fairly repulsicve creatures, but hey, to each his own.

Dinner and a nap, my favourite things to do.

:: Jennifer 11/19/2002 10:56:00 AM [+] ::
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Hmm I guess I shouldn't hum that cat food jingle while logging in. [meow meow meow meow] It casues people to stare at you espeically the cute guy next to you.

Well, I didn't have MPT class last Thursday and I learned that only 3 people went to discussion class last Tuesday so I don't think I'm all that far behind. I got my first paper back today. It was the Harvey Essay that i turned in on time. I got a 64 on it. Before you panick or something, the grading here is a lot different. The scale is like 70-100 is a A+. So my 64 is like a A/A- which is really kick ass since I emm didn't spend all that long on that paper, but I did feel it was a decent paper. Hey that paper counted 30% of my grade which is a bit comforting. Now I'm kind of worried about the paper I turned in yesterday. Since I see the same prof 3 times today and the paper was due last wednesday and I turned it in yesterday I expect getting some flack for not turning it in on time. I probably did really bad and if I failed on that paper, that just makes doing the paper pretty useless eh? Well, i consider it a personal victory against the hardships of stress and bad things in general. So no matter how shitty my paper I will be proud that it got done. Oh poop! I forgot I have to show Swarthmore my work. Hmmm that might not like the fact that I failed a paper because it was late. Hmm I wonder if they wouild flip out about the grade too, but I wil.l enclose a copy of the grading scale. Things are looking up.

I watched Graham Norton last night and had my celebratory cake. Still have half of it in the fridge. MMMM cake. I really should start eating before I write these things. I go grocery shoppiong and Les Mising tomorrow. It will probably rain. I would walk to Sainsbury today except it would be dark when I get out of class at 4pm(!) and Mile End is pretty damn dodgy at night.

MMm sleep is nice. Since I haven't been sleeping lately it was pretty hard to get to bed. I spent most of the night watching Grease, which also came on telly Sunday. Oh yeah, I heard one of the teletubbies guys got sacked for smoking crack or soemthing.

Oh scary thing. Emm they arrested some men that they believe are linked with Al Quida who were thinking about putting cyanide gas in the Underground. That's pretty scary. The world just ain't right anymore. Couldn't we just blow it up and start over again?

Well, I have a library book to return. I have a £1 fine at Senate House for not turning in this book, but I'll pay it tomorrow.

oh yeah, the Tube is crazy expensive. a return ticket into zone one from zone two costs me $6.20 I am scared to think how much it costs for a weekely pass. Never putting the ticket on my credit card again. I hate knowing how many dollars it cost.

:: Jennifer 11/19/2002 05:16:00 AM [+] ::
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SOOO COOOL! My dutch friend just sent me a link to a page that has pics of us meeting Gillian Anderson. Of course I didn't seem to get in the pic, but my friend Grace and Natascha were in it. I'm to the right of the pic, but not really in shot. Here's the link to gAWK. Funny. That wasn't a pun.

http://www.gauk.net/London/1511pics.html

So I finished my shit paper today. It really didn't turn out that bad, but then again it didn't turn out too good either. It's passable, but since they're taking off 15 points, I'm not so sure anymore. But, on the brithg side it's done and I'm going to celebrate by having some strawberry cake. YUMMY!!!!

If you're interested in the causes of the English Reformation or just curious what kind of train wreck I wrote, e-mail me and I'll send you a copy. You know I was considering writing papers so people could plagerize them. But I think that's emm wrong in some ways or another. That and I hate writing papers so why bother. But I could always just pimp out my old papers. Some real POS that would probably pass off as a real paper and not some shit from the internet. Somehow if I ever did this, I think it would come back and bite me in the ass.

Wednesday I'm seeing Les Mis or What the Night is For, if Les Mis is going to be a bitch about it.

Well, to spoil my happy paper writing ending day. I have less than 3 weeks to churn out 3 papers. 2 of which are longer than 3,000 words, and studying for a test. Woe is me. But at least I get to go home afterwards. I could get a roundtrip ticket home and back for $381, if I just stayed for 5 days. I considered it, but it wouldn't help anything. But it's nice to know it's fairly cheap to fly home.

Hmm getting pretty hungry. Been up since 830am and went to bet at 430am. All I had to eat today was a bag of hula hoops, a banana, and some cheese and onion crisps. I washed it all down with some nice warm, flattish coke. Yum. I would treat myself out to dinner, but I'm feeling pretty damn lazy and the though of actually walking somewhere when i could just as easily sleep in my warm bed is emmm... lost my train of thought. thinking about bed. Well, tomorrow i mail out paost cards I was intending to mail out for like 2 weeks. Oh well.

dinner and sleep is calling. au revoir suckers. ;-)

:: Jennifer 11/18/2002 10:41:00 AM [+] ::
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So last week was officially the worst in London and perhaps the worst I've ever had, that I can remember. Still dealing with the shit paper that I better turn in tomorrow, but at least I have some clue about what I can write on till I hit my next wall. Hopefully I won't fall apart this time, but if I do that's life.

On a brighter note. On Friday Evening, instead of seeing Les Miserables, I saw the Play "What the Night is For" (Yeah I know I should underline it or something, but I'm not going to fight HTML right now so live with it). Anyway, Gillian Anderson and Roger Allam were in it and it KICKED ASS! It was one of those relationshipy moral thingies that only women and gay men could truly appreciate. IT WAS SOOO GOOD though. Gillian's performance was pretty good, but I thought Roger was Stellar! He's really good. Anyway it was about these two former lovers (they had an affair in NY, oh yeah it';s an american play) who meet up 10 years later in Gillian's hotel room. They try to decide whether or not to leave their spouses and kids and be happy together or what. Emmm it's really good. I loved it a lot. But the best thing about it was that I HAD FIRST ROW SEATS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yeah, we came about half an hour before curtain and got student tickets, so for £20c($30 Which is good for a London show believe me) we got the best seats availbe which happened to be FIRST ROW CENTER. OH YEAH! I was 5 feet away from Gillian Anderson and Roger Allam, and they were naked under those sheets. Heh heh. It was weird because we were so close that I could hear their clothes squeak when they fidgeted in their chairs. There was this fly on stage (3 of them super annoying buggers) that was buzzing around and in the middle of one of Rogers lines, Gillian tried to squash one. It was soo funny. The play itself is a emotional drama, but some bits are funny. I think Gillian is quite the actress, more than a Scully. She does crazy very well. Well, after the show we stood by the stage door to wait for the actors to come out. There was a long queue of people and I was near the back. But We saw Roger come out and I got his autograph on the programme. It was all sort of sad. Roger had a wonderful performance, but he walked away from the theatre and was hardly bothered for an autograph, while Gillian was driven away from the theatre in a silver mercerdes, with a cute guy in the back. She also had a body guard, while Roger walked alone. Weirdness. Anyway, Gillian is super nice and waited for everyone to get autographs and take pictures. Dude, I forgot my camera and what a night for it. I though we were going to go see Les Mis that night, but there wasn't a student discount and I wasn't going to spend £25 pounds on pretty bad seats. But anyway, since we were so close it would have been perfect for a picture. >:o Anyway, some nice asian girl from Holland on holiday took pics of us gettingn autographs from Gillian and she will scan them in and e-mail them to us. What a nice girl. We befriended her in line for Gillian, whilst the crazy women in front was talking to the scaffolding. Really freaky people in London. The chick was talking to the sky. Well, since Gillian and Roger's characters were lovers they were naked. Emm they also got dressed on stage. Roger walking around in boxer briefs is a bit disturbing since he's old and emm squishy is a good word. At least they were black boxer briefs... Gillian wore blue satin or silk pajamas, the old people type. LOL I really loved the play and it lifted my spirits. The tage line was "What if the person you're with isn't the one for you. What if the person for you is out there leading another life?" Somethign along those lines. Well, the play is only in London for 12 weeks and I think I want to go see it again. He he he i got Gillian Anderson and Roger Allam's signatures. Mmmmm

Anyways... Yesterday I went to Windsor Castle and Eton. It was a foggy day. Classic London Fog. But it cleared up and I saw the sun. Windsor Castle is kick ass. It's huge and really cool. Lots to see inside. We got a tour from Frank, who was very informative. We saw him 2 times over the course of the day. He told us that the fire of 1992 was started by a hallogen lamp and a careless person. But it's really cool and people should do see Windsor. The queen was there that day because the Royal Standard was flown over the Round Tower instead of the Union Jack. 300 people live in Windsor. All the help live on the castle grounds. That was a really cool fact I learned. It also have a Starbucks in the village.

Eton is a small village across the Thames River from Windsor. It's also home to Eton College that exclusive college prep school for boys. Hmm somethign with 1,200 boys at a boarding school sounds too A Separate Pieceish to me. Well, anyway, we couldn't tour the college because the tour was closed and hell if I was going to spend money to tour a High School. Anyway, I thought I saw Prince Harry across the street while I was walking back to Windsor. It looked like him, red hair, but he seemed a bit short, but the guy was also slouching. It could have been him and for all practical purposes I'm just going to say it was him. Maybe if he had been smoking a joint I could have positively IDed him. It was rather fun to see prepubecent boys running around in full length jackets. It's their uniform and it;s kind of monkey playing accordian cute.

I didn't embarrass myself this time, which is always a plus. At Warwick Castle I made a complete and total ass of myself by inadvertantly insulting one on the reenacters. Thatw as really stupid of me and I blame Gregg, it's all his fault. If I didn't know that he made chainlink in his spare time, i would have said the dumbass thing I said offhandly to my friend in front of the guy making chain link. OMG am i an idiot. I think it ranks up there for the most embarrassing thing in my rather short life. For those burning to know what dumbass thing I could have said I guess it can be immortalized online what I'd rather forget. but first some background. Oh yeah Stratford Upon the Avon is a crap tourist trap unless you go see a RSC play, which we didn't have time for. My Warwick Castle and Stratford trip was 2 weeks ago. Emm soi Warwick Castle has surccombed to touristy land and it's really a children's play place. They have an underground section of the castle which recreates the medievil period. It has wax statues and everything. Very cheesy and it smelt of something so foul that we couldn't tell if they were recreating the stench of early England life. Ironically we discovered that the awful stench was coming for the restuarant that was also underground, which made a lot of sense once we found out where the awful stench was coming from. We thought it was the wax figures, but not it was food. HA HA and stupid people were paying ridculous prices to eat that shit. Oh yeah, so going through the recreating exhibit, where the models looked halfway real and it was also very dark. We came upon a man making chain link. OMG the trouble starts here... So I made the brainless comment that began with "Do you know what's sad..." While standing directly in front on the guy making chain link... Well, I must have been around too many wax firgures because why didn't it occur to me that he could hear me. It's not like I was whispoering, since I don't have a whispering voice. Incapable some would say. Umm and stupidly enough I had to finsh my pharse because just putting my foot in my mouth isn't enough, I have to cram it down my throat till I die of embarrassment. Well, folks it gets better. I finished was I was saying, Which was "I know someone that does this." Oh yes folks, I commited social suicide. My "friends" were long gone into the next room before I finished my phrase, and well, thinking about it the reenactor guy was pretty nice about it. I'm pretty lucky he didn't yell at me or anythihng, but I'm sure he gets stupid americans laughing at him all the time. Or not. So he said " What's so sad about it? I do it for a living" And of course already being dead why not kick a dead body like in Taxi Driver. Then the realisation of my stupidity hit me and why I didn't say sorry and run is beyond me. Maybe, my twisted mind reasoned, if I stay longer I could redeem myself somehow. Geez, I was earning stupid points by the milliseconds. Well, I had to say more and I told him I had a friend that made chainlink and they gave it up, somethign about it being too boring and time consuming. Well, he did say that it was incredibly tedious. Well, I had the good sense to high tail it out of there. FINALLY. They my friends laughed at me. We finished walking through the exhibit which was rather silly. All the statues were 5 feet tall, which is preobably the right height of that day. They even recreated wax dogs drinking out of the toliets, but toliets those days were similar to porta potties at their best, so I was pretty grossed out. Oh yeah did see another "live" person in the echibit in period clothes, but wisely avoided her lest I insult her too. Also my friend dragged me out of that room very quickly since the chainlink guy had just entered to tell the other reenactor person that he was going to lunch.

Well, i can't say that this even wasn't preceeded. I should have known better since earlier that day while in the armoury exhibit I had a rather odd conversation with one of the docent people. He was rather young and named John Hancock. I told him that in America that his name would be funny. They he made some weird British jokes that I totally didn't get and which prompted him to say not to worry it was a British Joke. Seems like I can't escape the role of the dumb American. Well, somehow it came out that I was from Texas and they he asked me if I was in the conspiracy to melt Alaska. And I was like WTF? you mean drill for oil and kill wildlife in Alaska? and he was like no, You know how Texas is such a big state and I was like yeah. And You know how Alaska is bigger, well Texans want Texas to be the biggest state in America so they want to melt Alaska down. Okay. Well that joke floored me because I never heard of it before. So I kind of looked at the guy with a confused looked and he was like, it's a British joke don't worry about it. And I then I was like yeah, but Alaska is 3 times the size of Texas. Well, let's just say we were on different wave lengths. Melt Alaska? Hell Texans are proud, but we're not stupid, me aside.

So ending this super long post and starting on a paper to save my life or at least relase me from its torture, I end with a incomplete and very grammatically wrong sentence.

P.S. What is it with Scratchy Balls guy? I see him all the time. he just walked into the lab.

:: Jennifer 11/17/2002 02:58:00 PM [+] ::
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Scratchy Balls guy has a name. It's Paul. Dude, that's just so messed up. There is a back story to this, but since I should be writing a paper, I'll post it some other time along with my Spain recap.

On another note they sure like to strike here. I didn't have class (I think I didn't according to the sign posted in the department) because the profs were striking for more money. Also the Fire Brigade is on strike so i won't get to see their trucks on Westfield Way every day becuase of a false fire alarm. Some 83 yr old man died because of the striking firefighters didn't respond to the alarm. You got to ask yourself if that's right. The Tube has had 2 strikes since I've been here bringing the strikes I've been affected by to 4, more than I've ever experienced at home. There was a picket line too, but I missed that. I bet my dorm is burning up as I type this, but why tempt fate right?

I hate the English Reformation and I hate writing about it. It seems rather pointless and I've read 5 books on it and can't suss any of it out. Damn protestants and catholics.

I want my Mommy.

:: Jennifer 11/14/2002 04:05:00 PM [+] ::
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Barcelona is a wonderful place. I like Spain a lot. I went to the Picasso Musuem and tomorrow I´m going to Figueras to the Dali Museum. Also trying to get to Andorra and perhaps this cool place in southern France. I will write a full report later, but I´m on time limit. Emmm hmmm Europe is nice... OOH I found Gelato here. YUMMY. Fresa... Okay, Credit is running out. Oh yeah someone call my mom or somethign and tell her I´m not dead. Ancient Cities is also working again. Yipee! The Wine is Fine... Dude, the music here is weird, lots of old American songs. OOH I´ve been seeing Barcelona from the tops of buildings. I´m obsessed. We like to go to the tpop of buildings or hills and take pictures of the urban sprawl. Coolness. OK. Laters

:: Jennifer 11/04/2002 02:20:00 PM [+] ::
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I'm tired. I didn't stay out as late as I could have last night. I was a good girl, I had lecture this morning at 10, so i went home early and then to class. O:-) But anyway, last night was fun, except that in London you can't get alcohol after 11pm. WTF? It was rather disapointing.

So we pre-partied at Drapers, which was a lot of fun. I learned some new drinking games, although Kings is a bit too complicated for me. I liked the British game that Chris taught us. He's hard core, butremained clothed fotr the time I saw him, i don't know if he got naked at his house, that's where everyone went later. So we played fun games and I drank a crazy vimto,, which was pretty good. it's port and WKD, which I don't care much for, but togther was ok. Watermelon Breezers suck. OMG I felt so bad for Jezz, he had to down 2 pints of mixed crap that we poured into a glass. Thank God he did it and not me (He was sitting next to me). He was quite pissed. But it was really fun.

Then Jezz said that he knew the DJ at some club and that we could get in for free if we got there before 1030pm. We left for this club near London Bridge and it was interesting on the Tube with some pissed people. Viet traversed the bars and stuff, chris was climbing buildings, but hey we're climbers. Emm, so we walked around the looking for the club an d the area was a bit dodgy. Jezz said that the club was under a bridge and we should have known then not to go. So we walked around and since everyone had to go take a piss, it wasn't fun. We back tracked 2 times, till we finally found it. We came too late for free entry so we had to pay £5 which isn't that bad for a club. Well the club was kind of cool, the music waw all right, but we'd only been there maybe 20 minutes when 2 fights broke out in 10 minutes. That was crap. So we said to hell with this shit and left. We were going to go to Jezz's house because he had some alcohol and a dance, floor, but Jezz stayed with his Mate, the DJ. So we set off on our own. They're mission, which I found stupid, was to get pissed. We looked for an offie (off license liquor store) and it was closed so then chris was like Tesco is open 24 hours a cday ;let;s go there and get something to drink. We caught the Tube to Canada Water and then went to Tesco where they were wrapping up the store (remodeling) in plastic, which was very slippery on the floor. Anyway, Tesco stopped selling liquor at 1055pm. Damn Britain for closing pubs at 11pm and not selling liquor. So they all decided to go to Chris' house since he lived 10 minutes away and had beer or soemthing. I hate beer and decided to clal it a night and went home on the tube catchign the 2 to last traions. It was around 1240am when I left. Well when I got back to Mile End, the Globe, a pub right around the corner from our flats, was still open and serving. They were open late for Halloween. That was bad luck. By the time I texted chris, the tube had closed so they coudln't get back here anyway. On well. I wonder if they had fun. They were rather crazy last night, but very entertaining. Oh I had a splitting heading, probably alcohol induced last night, but I drank 2 litres of water and I was fine this morning. I had to pee a lot though... go figure 2 litres.

Hey It's my Brother's birthday today. I will call and wish him a happy birthday I think he's 32. Heh heh 32... Such a memorable age.

I should get him some Dr. Martins from Camden Market. They're really cheap like $50. Anyway, I need a nap or some food or both. Scott is coming into London in about 4 hours. I better defrost the Beef for Spaghetti tonight. We're having a meet who you're going to Spain with Dinner. Fun fun Eh? Yeah, MMMM food... YUMMMM

My backpack isn't here and Decathlon overcharged me. I'm mad. GRRRRRRRRRR

:: Jennifer 11/01/2002 05:38:00 AM [+] ::
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