There's something about weird coincidences that really freaks me out. I'm sure at one time you've heard me going on about how I always seem to notice coincidences and stuff and that I probably make too much of it...anyway, I know that some of those "coincidences" are probably a result of me just not realizing certain things unitl something else happens to draw attention to them and therefore I think they're connected in some way...BUT today I have totally had a weird coincidence.

So where it starts, is yesterday I was walking around Leeds Markets and I went to have something to eat at this one booth and the ladies working there were all excited because someone named Chesney Hawkes, apparently this person was famous in the UK in the 90s, had just eaten at their booth. So they asked me if I knew who he was and I was like....uh...I'm Canadian...never heard of him...so then they continued to tell me that he signed autographs and stuff for them...so yeah, that was yesterday. Today, like 10 minutes ago..I was listening to "The 90s Show" on Energy Radio (yes, I'm streaming my home radio station over the internet) and the song by this Chesney Hawkes guy comes on!!! It's called "The One and Only" if anyone knows it. Now tell me that's not weird. I mean, never heard of this guy before until yesterday...I turn on a Canadian radio station which just happened to be airing a 90s show at the time and this song comes on. And I had never heard the song before...it's not like I recognized the song and just forgot that he sang it or something...That is too weird for me. Call me crazy, I don't care. It's all a bit, you know...oooo-eee-ooo-eee-ooo-eee (uh yeah, that's my creepy sound).

I was just about ready to go to bed...had a shower, packed up my stuff for school tomorrow, brushed my teeth...and then I started setting my alarm, dreading the 8am wake-up time that would start my week for the rest of the term. See, at Leeds there are 20 credit courses and 10 credit courses. For the most part, the way it works is 20 credit ones run all semester whereas the 10 credit ones are only 1/2 a semester long. I have a Human Genetics course which starts week 14...and it is because of this course that I will lose my sleep-in time on Mondays as well as my days off on Fridays...I hate this course already. So, back to my story where I was getting ready to go to bed early (yes, 12:30 was early for me) in order to get up for this stupid class....and then I realized...this isn't week 14...this is week 13...I don't have class until 1:00 tomorrow...that means I still get to sleep in!! Yay!!! So, out of sheer happiness I have decided to stay up longer, update my blog in light of the weekend's events...and sleep in tomorrow.

On Saturday I went on a trip to York put on by the Leeds University Union (LUU). I lied in bed on Friday night praying for a nice sunny day...no joke...but Somebody apparently wasn't listening.
So, I got up at 8am to get ready to go...too early, hence my dread of doing it for my supposed class tomorrow...I contemplated wearing my winter jacket. I got it out of storage and everything...then right before I left, I thought, I'm going to get really warm walking to school in that jacket, so I changed and wore my green zip-up jacket (?) thingy and my brown jacket with the fake hoodie, convinced that I would be warm enough and if I got too hot I could peel layers. This plan worked perfectly for the walk. Yes, I was warm...I got hot, and peeled...the bus left at 9:30...we got there about 10:15. Now, when I got out of the bus, the whole clothing plan was totally shot. It was cold and pouring. Why didn't I wear my winter coat?! So, I'm sure my stupidity in choice of coat was part of the reason why I have stayed cooped up in my room for most of the day (with the exception of going to Wilko's to buy a battery charger, which I will elaborate on later...) blowing my nose non-stop and feeling like crap.
But anyway, back to happy fun times...
Despite the pouring rain (I did bring my umbrella - or "brollie" as it seems to be called around here) we (as in me and 5 other Mac students) managed to take in the sites of York - a beautiful city that is so old that I'm learning about it in my Anglo-Saxon class (it was a very active area of development of the early Christian church...way before Henry VIII came in and split it into Roman Catholic and "The Church of England" a.k.a. Anglican).
The first thing we did was visit the York Minster - "the largest gothic cathedral north of the Alps".

Well, it was huge and really snazzy inside. All the carvings and stained glass and ceilings and floors...everything was just so intricate and beautiful. Check out the pictures in my photo album...although some pictures may be a bit blurry...this is because my camera is very sensitive to shaking, and I tend to jiggle the camera a bit when I push the button. They had prayers over the intercom every hour on the hour. Everyone had to be still while someone...the priest?...said prayers to the world. Lucky for you I also took quite a bit of video...so I've been an uber-dork during my day of sickness and have put together a 4-min video of the interior of the cathedral (well, highlighted parts of it anyway) that you can watch by clicking on the link in my Videos section. Now I have to warn you again, that it'll probably take a while to load, especially since this video is about 3 times as long as the other 2 I've put up. So be patient...maybe click on it then go do something...make some dinner...come back and watch it...it should be done by then.

When we finished touring the cathedral, it was still pouring...which wasn't really what we had wanted, but oh well. The unfortunate part came about 5 min. after leaving the church when my second set (a.k.a my back-up set) of batteries had run out in my camera. Well, I only brought one extra pair, not realizing how fast normal batteries ran out. I had to bring non-rechargeable batteries because when I tried charging my batteries last week my charger died...I'm guessing the converter wasn't doing its job and the excess power fried the charger. This is why I bought a charger today...so I don't have to worry about using crappy normal batteries anymore and not being able to take pictures of things I wanna take pictures of. Luckily, I like York so much that I'm going to go back sometime and can take more pictures then. But what if I had been somewhere else? So, I have to wait for the other ppl to send me their pics...but I'm not sure when that'll happen. Until then, you cannot see where we ate...although it was called the Punch Bowl and was very cute...you know, tudor-style (which I love) and flowers and such...I ordered fish and chips, because I'm determined to figure out which place makes the best...and when they brought out my fish I started laughing cuz it was huge. It looked like they'd just taken the whole fish and fried it in batter. It was at least a foot-long piece. It didn't even fit on the plate! It was good though. Not the best I've had while over here, but still good. And they had a kind of beer there called Waggledance, which I though was really funny. It reminded me of biology when we had to learn about those stupid bees and their symbolic waggle-dancing. I'm sure that's where the name came from too cuz it was a honey beer.

Okay I have to go to bed cuz I'm actually tired now...but I will continue this when not so tired...nite all.

Carrot cake, Germany, Amsterdam, Edinburgh, Anglo-Saxon church...this is the basis of this post. I have to write it down now so I don't forget what I have to talk about.

First, the carrot cake. I made carrot cake yesterday for my flatmates. The cake turned out great. The icing....not so much. Nan if you're reading this please tell me what I did wrong. I followed the recipe but the icing was sooooo runny! As you can see in the picture, the icing has fallen off of the cake and pooled in the pan. So yeah, not exactly as planned. It tastes good still but I'm not sure how to explain what happened cuz Nan's icing is always so high off the cake. We're just kind of eating the cake now and drizzling the icing on top, which works pretty well too. Also, you'll notice that the cake's a little wonky-looking. That's because nobody had cakepans and by the time I realized this the store was closed. So, I used 2 different sizes of square/rectangular pans and then had to cut a chunk off the the rectangular cake so it would fit on top of the square cake. Oh well. It's done and no one's complaining. The presentation isn't the greatest but it tastes fine.


So, the big news for the week is that I've booked some trips!! Me, Elle, Tom and Erin (who are all from Mac) are going to Germany/Amsterdam at the beginning of December. I've been browsing the internet for cheap flights cuz if you wanna find good deals you have to check quite often as the prices are always changing. So, I found tickets to and from Dusseldorf, Germany for 7p each! (That's about 15 cents!) Now we still had to add flight taxes, which because of gas prices are pretty expensive right now, so it was about an extra 30 quid (slang for the British Pound) each for the return ticket in taxes, but still that's pretty good...65 bucks approx to get to Germany and back? I'm not complaining! Why Germany? Well, my Dad's cousin, Sylvie, who we visited the weekend before Mom and Dad left here, called me last weekend to see how I was doing and mentioned that almost every city in Germany has these amazing Christmas Markets during the Advent period that have been going on for hundreds of years. So I figured it would be nice to go...
So we're flying out of London on the evening of Dec.1 and flying back the morning of Dec.5. So we get 3 solid days there. We're planning on renting a car when we get there cuz Cologne, another German city, is close by and Amsterdam is only just over 2 hours away by car. So we'll probably drive up to Amsterdam on the 3rd and stay over night there. I'm so excited though...it'll be good!

Okay next...Edinburgh...and York I guess I can talk about too. The Student's Union puts on these "Give it a go" trips that you can buy tickets for, and basically they just load up a couple buses and take some students to different places. So, I signed up for the trip to York, which is a really old English city about an hour away from here(we're learning about York in our Anglo-Saxon class...it was around at least in the 700s). Mom and Dad went there and said it was really beautiful so I'm looking forward to seeing lots of cute tudor houses and there's a really old cathedral there too. So that's next saturday, the 22nd. Then I signed up for the trip to Edinburgh, Scotland, which we go to the last weekend in November (the weekend before my Germany trip...haha). We leave on the Friday afternoon and come back sometime on the Sunday.

And speaking of old Anglo-Saxon things, my class went to see the All Saints' Church at Ledsham on Wednesday (about 10 miles out of Leeds). It was built sometime in the 7th or 8th century. I felt like a total tourist when we went though cuz I was taking so many pictures and other people were talking to the prof about archaeological or historical aspects of the church. I just thought it looked nice. I took some video of the inside of the church that you can watch here...it's a bit shaky and dark cuz there wasn't much light inside. Our prof was explaining to us about how in later centuries the church was altered and fixed up and stuff, so when you look at the pictures you will see that there is dark stone the makes up most of the church, and then there's a lighter coloured stone at the top of the steeple...all the dark stone is from the anglo-saxon period...the other stuff is newer. I took a picture of this hanging they had of the Lord's Prayer...and I thought it was kind of funny cuz they spelt trespasses as "trefpaffes". Where we say "And forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us", it says on the hanging, "And forgive us our trefpaffes as we forgive them that trefpafs againft us". It just sounds really dim-witted kind of if you try to read it out loud. It reminds me of how that pirate with the wooden eye from Pirates of the Caribbean would've talked. lol...and then I took a picture of this door on the outside that was really cool-looking. Careful though, it's a blurry picture and it hurts your eyes to focus. It kind of reminds me of a mini version of the door at the Mines of Moria in Fellowship of the Ring....and yes, once again, everything I say relates to a movie. We had a block party in our flat on Friday night and I was supplying the music from my laptop...and I never realized how much music I downloaded or bought because it was part of a soundtrack for a movie or television show...

Ooh while I'm on the topic of things I've never realized...I was walking in the city-centre on Friday (cuz I still have fridays off til the first one in November) and they have this open-air art exhibition in Millenium Square called "Earth from the Air" which is a series of photographs taken from the air all over the world. At one end of the exhibition they had a huge floor map of the world that you could walk on and stuff if you took your shoes off...and it was there to point out where all these different pictures had be taken for the exhibit. And I mean, I KNOW Canada's big. But when I saw it on this big map I realized how big it really was. Maybe it's because I'm now staying in quite a small country...I'm not sure, but ya, it's pretty big (this is where everyone goes, "Yeah, well, duh!")

I uploaded some new pictures of my flatmates and I from when we went to a place called The Wardrobe last Monday night. It had a jam night so there were just random people going on stage and playing jazz music together. It was nice, but I'm afraid I can't listen to jazz music for too long before it all starts to sound the same and starts to bore me.
Here's pictures of Sophie, Katherine and Rich, Rich, Me, and Katherine, Rich and I. Haha...still no pics of Matt! I'll get one someday. We don't know where that kid is half the time. He's always off visiting someone upstairs or downstairs or in another block or something...

Okay I'd like to start off by saying that I've added a video section on the sidebar, so be sure to check it out. It may take a while to load depending on your connection speed so please be patient. I only have one video so far and you'll notice that it's only like a minute long...that's because my digital camera only takes clips a minute at a time. The current clip titled "Thumbmaster" took place on Saturday night...I went to an International party at Kevin's house (Kevin is one of the guys here from Mac) where the Mac students taught the other international students how to play Thumbmaster, or Kings as some people call it...except once the internationals caught on it got pretty crazy! There was a lot more yelling and chanting than I'm used to...and the French were teaming up on the Germans and vice versa...it was really funny. I remember looking at Emma one time (she's from Mac too) thinking, what have we done?!! It was so fun though. Here's a picture of (left to right) Esperanza (Spain), Weng (some Asian country..lol...not really sure which one), Nacho (either Mexico or Brazil...can't remember), Mauricio (Mexico) and Marina (Brazil).
During the game I had to make a rule...so I said that everytime someone took a drink they had to go "HWAAAAAH!!!" like the moose noise in Princess Diaries 2. It was soooo funny!
After the party I went home with Elle and Tom (both from Mac) cuz they live in Lupton too. We stopped by the Subway on the way home and it was so good...I start to crave North American food every now and then. OOhh the worst example, besides my random cravings for Starbucks Mocha Mint Chip Frappacinos, was when I was downtown on...yesterday actually...and I saw a picture of this new McFlurry they had which had chunks of Cadbury Dairy Milk chocolate (MMMMMMMMMmmmmmmmmmmmm) in it. Now, I've been craving the DQ lately...but they don't have DQ here. They have Mr. Whippy, which is a very wussy looking version of soft serve ice cream served from a van. So, when I saw this McFlurry, I REALLY wanted it. The thing is, compared to Blizzards, McFlurries are roadkill....that was until I gave in and had one of the McFlurries here...it was even crappier than the ones at home!! The ice cream was like, half melted, and they barely mixed in the stuff so it was like...chocolate clumps galore for a while, but then just vanilla after they were all gone. Boo. Hoo.

The reason I was downtown yesterday was cuz I was dropping off my application to volunteer at the Leeds Film Festival. It runs from Nov. 3-13, so I hope I get some shifts cuz I think it'd be a cool experience...plus, we get free admission to the films!! And MAYBE I'll see someone famous!!!

Oh man speaking of famous people...my flatmate Katherine was telling me that a friend of her friend was visiting New York and she was walking home alone from a club one night and a car pulled up beside her and the guy in the car told her that she shouldn't be walking home alone and asked her if she wanted a ride. Of course, she was pretty hesitant about it since this guy could be crazy or something...but it was a nice car and it looked like he had a couple of protective type (aka bodyguard)guys in the back with him, so she agreed. The guy drove her home. She had this feeling that she recognized the guy from somewhere...and when she picked up a magazine the next day she found out that the guy that had driven her home was a BACKSTREET BOY!! Katherine never said which one it was, but I'm sure you can all hear me saying "SHE RODE HOME WITH A BACKSTREET BOY AND DIDN'T EVEN KNOW IT??!!!" It hurt me. It hurt me real bad.

On Sunday I went to play football (aka soccer) with some of the international students and it was really fun. I haven't played outdoor soccer in like, 2 years, so I was afraid I would totally suck...but I didn't do as bad as I thought I would. I think my worst problem was that I am incredibly out of shape, so after playing for half and hour I was dead. But it made me so happy when I got the ball away from this German guy and he told his teammate "don't give me the ball when she's there...she's too good". I know I'm not that great, but that comment made my day! And Emma (she played on the Mac soccer team) scored 3 goals!!! She was on fire!
But as a result of the exercise my out-of-condition body totally ACHED on Monday morning. I was sooo stiff. And one of my classes in the afternoon I had to walk up 5 flights of stairs...

Last night me, Rich and Sophie went to The Fruit Cupboard for their 80s night....and it was soooo much fun! I'll be the first to admit that 80s music is bad music, but I still love it! There was a point when they just kept playing medlies of movie songs...so there was stuff from Grease, Dirty Dancing, Blues Brothers, Rocky Horror Picture Show...it was great! And then some of the stuff they played was popular 90s music too so they had Fresh Prince and Hanson (and even though I used to hate MMBop I was so happy when it came on!) and Whitney Houston "I Wanna Dance With Somebody" - Love that song! Yeah, it was a great night, so hopefully we'll go again next week! Oh yeah! and it was only 80p entry (about $1.70...which is cheap even in Canada...but it's usually about 4 or 5 pounds - $8-$10 to get in to places here)
Tonight we might be going to a launch for the new club on campus. Katherine said her friend might be able to get us on the guestlist so we'll see how it goes...

And now for school...school's going fine. It's tough you know...partying last night, woke up at 10:15...class at 12 for an hour and then I'm done for the rest of the day...it's really putting a lot of stress on me. My population genetics class today went totally over my head...and everyone else's. Although to be fair, our prof did say that this would be the most confusing class of the semester...so I guess it can't get any worse than this. I'll just have to read some stuff over in the book I guess...

Oh, and one last thing...I made banana muffins for my flatmates last night...hey West Park are you missin my muffins? They taste really good! No chocolate chips though...they only have really dinky bags of chocolate chips here and I would've had to buy like 5 of them to make it work and they were 70p a bag...so I'm not spending over 3 pounds on chocolate chips!

Anyway that's it...I'm goin to make some food.

Yeah, I'm pretty dumb...it's 1:30 in the morning here and I'm not really tired right now. Why? Because I came home from shopping at 6:30 and decided that I would read for a bit...but then that turned into a 3 hour nap....and now I'm awake. At least it's the weekend so I can sleep in a bit tomorrow if I can't get to sleep.

So what's new...uh....well I can start with last weekend I guess since it's been that long since I last posted...and I'll admit, I've just been to lazy to post before now. I can be the Queen of Procrastination when I feel like it...

Last Friday we had a block party (everyone in our block of the residence hung out in the hallways as we have no common area...) which started after Mom and Dad came back from their trip and took me out to dinner. We were leaving to visit family the next day at 8:30am (the trip was supposed to take over 3 hours) so the original plan was that I wouldn't be up super-late...but that planned kind of got tossed. The party ended around quarter to 12 or so and then everyone was going to a club so I also went to the club...we got back around 2 or so...a tad later than planned. But I'm afraid my problem on Saturday morning wasn't the lack of sleep (although it may have contributed), rather the excess of wine that one may have consumed the night before...have I mentioned before how much people like their wine here? I can't remember if I posted it in a blog before or if I've just told people about it...but again, I must say that here, people my age sit around and drink wine...I mean, no one does that at home, unless we're feeling especially posh or something. But if students are sitting around drinking it's usually beer...or in the case of my friends at school some choose tequila, but hey, whatever turns your crank eh Emma?
Anyway, point is: Drinking wine = social pastime....and I'm afraid I underestimated the wine's effect on me given my reputation for alcohol tolerance.
I ate a lot of biscuits that night as well.

NOTE: Where we have the collective term "cookies" the English prefer to categorize their sweets into "cookies" and "biscuits". To them, cookies are only the type that could be home-baked...ie) chocolate chip cookies...biscuits refer to basically anything else: typically the more "boring" selections. I have endured long instruction in the differentiation of cookies and biscuits. However, some discrepancy still remains when two biscuits are sandwiched together with cream in the middle...some argue that the new addition of cream has lauched the biscuit into cookie status, appalling supporters of traditional cookies. A petition has been started to strip these "imposing" biscuits of their cookie rights as some argue that they are still merely biscuits...I shall report back later on the matter...

Ah-ha...now you see what 2 o'clock in the morning can do to people...making up ficticious (is that spelt right?...I'm pretty sure it's "ci" and not "ti") cookie petitions and such...

But anyway, in the words of my high school Physics teacher, "Back to the point at hand".

So yes, we ate lots of biscuits because I found a huge package of cheap ones at Somerfield (the grocery store) and they made a good party snack.
I have a couple pictures from the party, which means, that you are entitled to a first time exclusive look at....duh duh duh....My FLATMATES!! Matt's not in any of the pictures though, but this one is of Richard and Sophie (that night we decided to call Richard Alex because it's been agreed that he looks more like an Alex) and this one is of Katherine and I, and here's a picture of the party in general.

So yeah, it was a good night. 8 o'clock rolled around Saturday morning...I shut off my alarm and set it for 8:15...8:15 rolled around, got up, got ready to go and such...felt fine, except tired, but fine. Got in the car for our 3 hour trip....car starts moving....not so fine. But despite my stomach pyrotechnics we got to Tring, which is a bit northish of London, where my Dad's cousin lives. It was really good to see her...we were trying to figure out the last time we saw her and it was over 10 years ago anyway...they live in a really cute town and they took us for a nice long walk around the countryside...and it was so weird cuz there were public footpaths through people's fields...fields that had animals in them! I mean, over in Canada you could get charged for trespassing...but not here! We stayed there overnight and headed back to Leeds around lunchtime on Sunday. When we got to Leeds there was the inevitable teary-eyed goodbye when Mom and Dad left. They were flying out of Manchester on Monday, so they drove back to Manchester Sunday night.

Monday I started classes. I didn't have to start until 1pm so that was nice...first I had my "Guitar's Influence on Popular Music" course, which sounds like it's gonna be pretty interesting...it's basically post-WWII history of the guitar, how it's changed physically, guitarists who have shaped what music is today, etc. There're maybe 10 girls in my class? Lots of guys...a true sign of an easy class (j/k)...
Then I had my first "Anglo-Saxon Cultures" class. Now, this one is gonna be a lot of work...more work than I had planned for an elective anyway. It probably doesn't help that I've never taken a history course outside of high school, so I'm not used to all the reading...and I haven't written an essay since high school, so given that 2 essays are all I'm being assessed on then it could be a bit interesting...
My prof read us this Olde English riddle in normal English...and then she read it in the Olde English and it was complete gibberish! I was afraid we'd have to learn to understand it...but luckily we don't! And then we had a tour of the library that we're supposed to be using...but it's so confusing...half of the history section is in one place and the other half is somewhere else...and they don't use Duey Decimal like at home either. Meh, whatever... I had my first tutorial for the class yesterday and my TA is from Toronto. Go figure eh?

Now, Tuesday and Wednesday were crap because the schedule for our courses was different that what was actually supposed to happen. For example, the schedule said our classes for "Human Population Genetics and Evolution" were supposed to start on Tuesday at 10 and then there was another lecture at 12. Well, no prof came to either class...so we waited about 15-20 minutes each time before leaving. But those were the only classes I had so I didn't even need to go to the school! The same thing happened on Wednesday morning with my Human Genetics class..except this class started at 9 so I could've slept in...and this course doesn't even start til the end of October which is sweet now that I know cuz that means I have Wednesdays and Fridays off til then!

So what did I do today on my Friday off? Well, I went downtown to the "city centre". First I went to the Town Hall cuz I want to volunteer for the Leeds Film Festival so I needed to pick up an application form. Then, I went to the art gallery. I'm becoming cultured guys! Yeah, we had our Lupton residence social last night (free drinks!) and a girl I was talking to said it was free entry and since it was right beside the town hall I figured I might as well have a peek. I'm no art fanatic or anything...but it was nice....haha...nothing moved me or whatever. There was some weird stuff though...

First I have to go back to the Lupton social now that I've thought about it. It was held at one of the postgraduate bar/meeting rooms on campus and everyone got free drink tickets...except that as usual, not everyone shows up, so they kept giving us more tickets! Basically it was just a bunch of mingling but I met this one girl in another block and we talked a bit and actually I had lunch with her and some other ppl today at a pub (which was very old-fashioned pubbish...and I even had fish and chips). Before the food was served one of our wardens gave a bit of a speech. Here, professors are assigned to each hall (I prefer to think of it being like Harry Potter cuz it makes me feel cool) as wardens. They don't really do a lot with us but I guess if we get in trouble we answer to them. Anyway, so Dr. Hughes, one of the wardens, was talking to us about being socially responsible and stuff...and he was going on saying "I know you're going to come home trashed...you're going to be absolutely smashed...you're going to have vomit all over yourself and stumbling this way and that...but I ask that if you are vomiting please do not do it on the old lady passing you by...do it as neatly as possible in a toilet or a bag...WE DO NOT WANT YOU SICKING ALL OVER THE LOCAL RESIDENTS!" I was killing myself. This guy is like, 60-something and when he told us not to sick all over the locals it was priceless.

So back to today...after lunch at the pub I went shopping...got a belated bday present for Bourke which, I hope you understand Bourke, I'm not going to bother sending over...you'll get it when I come home. Unless I find some way of shipping it for free. I actually didn't buy a whole lot at all. I walked through the arcades, which are beautiful...I'll have to take pictures sometime...it was crappy outside today though, which was why I didn't take them today. But all the shops in the arcades are expensive and too posh for me. So I went into H&M and other such stores. I went into this one store called PriMark which has really cheap stuff...it was like 4 pounds for a knit sweater...(almost 10 bucks)...but I didn't buy anything in that store except for underwear cuz as cheap as everything was, I didn't need another sweater so I didn't want to spend the money just cuz it was cheap.

OOH I bought an England football (soccer) jersey the other day. I walked into this place that's like SportChek and everything was on sale so the jersey was like, 50% off or something. I got it with Michael Owen's name and number...cuz everyone has Beckham and Owen's cuter anyway...see?

But I saw in the news that England lost to...one of the Irelands...I'm thinking Northern...in a World Cup qualifier, so that's not too good. But I figured by buying an England jersey (as opposed to a jersey for say, Man. Utd. or Chelsea or something) people can't harrass me about supporting a certain team cuz I'm sure they all support their own country.

But yeah, that was my week...in a nutshell...we went out to the pub a couple times in the evening...oh, Katherine and I went to this place called the Fab Cafe, which is like...I don't even really know how to describe it...the whole place is done up with action figures of sci-fi and horror movies, or signed posters, tons and tons of movie memorabilia...and they tend to play cult movies on the tv...like, when we were there Mars Attacks was on...and the kind of music that everyone knows but denys that they like...like most 80s music...it was a really cool atmosphere.

Anyway, that's it. It's now 3am...still not tired but I have to make myself go to sleep sometime.