Enjoying family, weddings, foods and bearing the heat in India for a few weeks. Then travels around Europa!
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Month: April 2007
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Playing Ketchup
Let me explain: I’ve been doing everything. Let me walk you through it.
We slaved away on our million word papers (7,263 to be exact). It was kind of like a war zone in the common room. Note the Tim Harrower book:
I slaved away throughout the weekend but Shilpa took me on a study break. We dropped some heavy clams for Mexican cuisine. Less like a war zone:
Sunday (Easter) I saw Shilpa again and we went to the the Eucharist at St. Paul’s Cathedral. It was packed, kind of like a War Zone with Jesus undertones:
The Redcliffe Gang organized a dinner thing. It was the best we’ve eaten in a very long time. Power eating before final pushes on our paper. I wasn’t sure what I should contribute, so I brought samosas. I mean, it’s London, come on!
Sadly, I had my last day of work. Since my blog is being funny, here’s the YouTube link. The funniest part is that when I started working there it would have been WAY too dark to even get out a camera. Now it’s happy sunshiney.
Dad would have loved this. I made it to my Hyde Park Corner just by sunset.
I also attended a service at Westminster Abbey and saw the rest of the Design Museum. Here’s a nice shot from my walk through Trafalgar Square:
Shilpa and I tried to go to Ministry of Sound. We tried so hard to get there but.. it was closed. Here’s the failed attempt documented:
Today, I detoxed and it was the best. I woke up to the beautiful sun. Got down to the convenience store to break some notes to get change for Laundry. I bought myself a Guardian and did my laundry. While waiting for the tumble I made Chicken and pesto pasta and a side of greens, cucumber, and strawberry salad. All made by mis manos (hands). I pieced through the paper then folded my warm clothes. The sad part was packing my suitcase. I think I’m going to get it all to fit. Hopefully. I napped, blogged, and here I am. Tonight is the last time I’ll get to go to The Fest. Friendliest Pub in London:
Tea at The Savoy was delightful and delectable:
The weekend started off great though. Because of the bank holiday and Parliament being in recess, work is a bit slow. I had a leisurely lunch with the boss and some of my coworkers. Baking in the sun happily reminded me much of Chicago heat, however there was a bit of squirm coming from the Londoners’ direction. They like their fog I guess!
Because of the bank holiday again, we were encouraged to head off from work a half hour early and grab a few pints on the river. There was a cute little yacht, and by yacht I mean crumbly boat just across the street from the office on the water. So we had a few drinks and started off a great weekend.
A bit tipsy, I talked myself into some KFC (I know I know) and went off to our usual Thursday Pub where they really know our name and expect us there. Also, for students, a pint is one pound. The owner, Paul, jokingly yelled at us when we were late one week! He said we should have called. Gotta love The Aussies.
We go to The Fest, on Fulham. Do it. It’s a German Pub and Cassie got dressed up in one of the embarassing and amazing deustch outfits. She had to put down a 20 quid depost. I’ve got one more visit to the Fest under my belt, HOW SAD.
These are the regulars minus Jason who was in Dublin. Pretty fun crowd!
But since then I’ve more or less been trapped in the flat this weekend. I need 7,500 words on the design of newspapers in London by Wednesday. The only (and most important) thing getting me through this is that I could write much more than that. In fact, I’m pretty sure I’ll go over the limit and have to chop down. Also, Hey Guardian… why are you so beautiful?
Shilpa helped me take a break and we put down some heavy clams for Mexican food. I can’t explain how long it’s been since my lips have touched a Quesadilla. Or have chips (and I don’t mean potato wedges) come before the meal with Salsa. Know why Christopher Columbus went to India… spices. This I now understand.
We are going to hit up some of the glorious churches of London tomorrow for Easter. I make no promises, but I’ve got £10 riding on Jesus’ return, his divinity is a different wager.
I feel like I should mention that I’m no longer homeless for this summer in Indy. I’ve actually scored a pretty sweet pad and the tenant and I have a mutual friend (by chance).
This is unrelated, but I found a photoshopped pic of London flooded. Pretty creepy to say the least. My office is about an inch off the photo an surely half under water.
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Up to No Good
I have a whole second life going on back in Bloomington without me.
I registered for an awesome last semester of classes:
- Music in Multimedia, using Macromedia Director
- Fundamental Studio Drawing, using… paper!
- Politics in High Technology, best seminar topic for majors ever
- Constitutional Law, best professor I’ve had at IU
- Media as a Social Institution, because I have to graduate…
I got some pats on the back too:
- Society of Professional Journalists Award (region 5):
- 1st place photo illustration: Internet Junkies Cover
- Best Student Magazine: INside
- Indiana College Press Association
- 1st Best Cover Design: Internet Junkies
- 1st Best Overall Design: The Wired Issue
- 2nd Best Single Story Design: The Web that Binds Us
- 3rd Best News Magazine
And some money via the Journalism School
- Scholarships
- Robin Fogel Avni Scholarship for Design
- Eugene C. Pulliam Scholarship
- Patrick Siddons and Diane Siddons Indiana Daily Student Scholarship
I don’t know how much yet, but it’s coming in USD currency! Woop woop.
This was the last weekend of visitors. Alec arrived Thursday and we enjoyed the perfect concert at the Koko. It was a conglomorate of his and my music taste with the largest disc ball I’ve ever seen. We arrived as James Holden was doing his first of two sets. I liked this first better, it was more chill. Then Green Gartside (Scritti Politti) & Alexis Taylor (Hot Chip) was the meat of Holden’s sandwich set followed by an insane jam session with Kieran Hebden (Four Tet) and Steve Reid! We met up with Annamarie that night to continue the perfect weekend.
Early that morning I took them to my favourite classic place for visitors, The Troubador. Then we slopped through some rain and I took them to Buckingham Palace and Westminster. We sought salvation in the National Gallery and saw the Manet to Picasso exhbit. Annamarie went to see Marry Poppins with her Roma roomies and Alec and I toured Soho. Some how we made it out to Zoobar, a classic London day.
On Saturday, graced by the sun we split our ways and Alec got to see the South Kensington Museums. I took Amar around to all the shops she’s been missing at High Street Kensington. Poor little girl in Roma has not seen in H&M in forever. I got a super cute cheap bag from Top Shop with a huge discoball on it, it reminds me of the Koko! They got a taste of my favourite takeout, by favourite I mean cheapest, and it became a Snappy Pizza evening. That night, tired from Londoning we spent the night in and made it to Kings Kebob at a good solid 2am.
We woke up, dropped Alec off at the Tube and proceeded onto Notting Hill Gate where it was not crowded, touristy, or annoying. In fact, I got the perfect pair of shoes I was looking for, for 3 pounds. Pink athletic pumps! We did our thing, and got McDonald’s and then I took her to meet her roomies and we said by.
I came with the intention of napping only to pleasantly find an email from Matt telling me him and Jonathan are back in London till tomorrow. We met up for some drinks and I got a peek at some upcoming goodies for the paper at The Savoy.
I also met some really fun Londoners on my Tube ride home! What a great weekend I have no idea how I made it to class this morning.