11 posts tagged “london”
admittedly i've gone slightly batty because i've been working like fucking crazy trying to write 12,000 words of brilliance. so far, i've written 4000 words and the only ones of those that are brilliant are ones that i've quoted from scholars gilroy, adorno and kanye west. i am currently learning that kanye west is so much more deep than anyone could ever know. and despite his loveability, snoop dogg is a terrible, awful man.
so i didn't do as much work as i should have, but only because there isn't enough time!
in other news, i've included some fun pics of friends on the side there. first is krystin with her italian roomies, roberto and lorenzo. so cute! cutesters. i spent christmas with krystin and roberto and krystin's neighbours, who are mexican. it was a really nice time. i was so glad to spend it with them. for serious.
the second pic is my friend daphne, who is a classicly awesome person. like the kind of person that restores your faith in humanity. like the kind of person where you're like, i don't think humankind can be innately evil because of my association with this one person. sometimes we go to a pub to play connect four.
the bottom pic features two of my roomies at our christmas dinner, which was a few weeks ago. they are meher and andrea, two lovely awesome people. missing is maria, who cooked our entire meal... i didn't get any pics of her! dammit! anyway, it's been a great month full of holiday cheer.
the last week has been spent in cafes with maria reading and reading and reading for our essays. the toad's mouth, which is the closest cafe to us, is the best! they love us there! i think. it's like our whatever the cafe on friends was called.it's great. thank god, cause i still live in this awful residence. boo to that!
work is going well, just trying to keep it all together. the economy is scary. let's not talk about it!
i can't believe i've already survived a semester here! it's crazy. only 9 months left and it makes me kind of sad. i LOVE school. it's such a nice haven from the unpleasant real world. anywho. more pics can be seen on my facebook page.
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if doing your masters is a sort of a break from life and everything, then it is also an intense period of reading and exhaustion created solely by your brain power being co opted by a million different things pulling it each and every way. when i'm not reading, i'm thinking about the reading i've done. when i'm not doing the compulsory reading, i'm trying to do background reading to understand the foundations of the reading i've just done. it seems that my BA didn't equip me with tonnes of french philosophers that apparently everyone else in the world knows about! sheesh!
there are also tonnes of talks and events that i'm supposed to attend, though it's really busy and when i'm not at school or reading, i would rather just chill. i haven't even gone out dancing once! it's hard because i'm far from the city centre and it's tough to get home late at night.
anyway, for that i apologize. here's a video i made of a drift that we did last week.
let's see. i'm sort of settling in, if that's at all possible. i've been here a month and when i think about how long a month is - 1/12 of my time here (meaning there are only eleven more! implausible!) - i start to get crazy. how can i learn and absorb all this stuff in only a year? it's sort of insane! but i'm doing okay. krystin got here two days ago, so that's been lovely, having someone i know. not that i don't know bella and lisa, but it's different. i haven't even seen bella very much! everyone in london's so freaking busy.
i want to put pictures up, but it's so time-consuming and i'm always running around doing something else. today i applied to work in a cafe at the end of the road because i've always wanted to work at a cafe. i think it'd be an interesting chance to observe people. no, no, no boys, if you're wondering. boys are just a distraction anyway. i've sworn them off! which is usually the point where i have an unsavoury run-in with one.
i just got over being sick - i had shingles of all things, which i mistakenly thought only affected 60 year olds. wrong! fuck, that sucked.
wow i'm tired! and exhilirated and everything else you could possibly imagine after uprooting my entire life and moving across the world. the past week has been insane, i've moved into the halls, met loads of fantastic people and just basically starting orienting myself with this incredible city. bella had me for dinner the other night and leah and chris had me over tonight for some amazing salmon fishcakes which were absolutely to die for.
i've already done london fashion week, oxford circus, backstage at the globe, brick lane and spittlefield (?) markets, goldsmiths, grocery shopping, primark and woolworth's, et cetera et cetera. you can check my facebook for pics, which i can't do here because unfortunately i have to use public computers here usually. i will put pics here, but later.
i'm really starting to think about work work work (of course), because this running around the city listlessly can't last forever. i've got freelance articles to write and work placements to secure. i'm really hoping to do my dissertation on music and digital media's affect on it. i think it would be really interesting. as my mom says, we shall see. for right now i'm so overstimulated and worked up, it's crazy. but still trying to enjoy the moment of course. please send comments and messages - i love hearing from home. kisses and hugs.
let's see, let's see. i've been good. i'm very tired but wide awake. i finally got a duvet and coverlet, a little lamp and a pot and plate and mug and bowl. things are looking a tad more homey in my room. i'm more appreciative of my room right now, it' being further from school than the other halls. but it's quieter here and we've got a garden. so yeah. i met some really nice people, as i do every day, so that's really great. everyone is super friendly, i guess because we're all alone here and in the same boat.
siiighhhh. so! got to my dorm yesterday, which is in brockley - far from new cross where the school and other students live. also, it's really small and the mattress leaves a lot to be desired. it made me a little nervous and i had a little freak out, but really i'm sure i'll adjust and probably spend v little time there anyway. it's just a lot of adjusting. new city, no one i know, surrounded by (young) strangers, etc. i went to the student bar last night and i felt like everyone's grandmother. i have to remember that i'm here to study, not party. i didn't partake in drinking, which proved to be helpful later on.
back at the apple store aka my favourite since the internet's free. oxford circus is nuts - that's where i am. finally got in contact with bella and she told me i could take a bath at her place when i want, which would be nice because my room is super small! i moved half my stuff there already - no one is there yet, so i haven't met anyone. maybe when i get back. i opened a bank account yesterday and got a cell phone, so that's good. the place where i live is supposed to be a not so nice area but it still looks pretty to me. everything seems enchanted, but that could be the jetlag or lack of eating.
hey everyone sorry i can't write emails yet, but i have to bogart this computer at the apple store for free internet so it's gotta be quick.
of course today was an incredibly crazy mess of events. it wasn't too too bad but my back hurts from carrying everything. since i couldn't bring two bags, i had to work out a system where i used a large backpack, a carry on rolly bag, a tiny backpack and my purse, which expands quite nicely. it's all super heavy together, but it's my everything for a year. well, plus a box i got my mom to send me. but i can't imagine what i would have done with another suitcase.
