hello all. i am really beat, and lena and i just got into budapest this evening. we're hopefully going to a park filled with communist statues tomorrow, and then a thermal bath, and then do some shopping....
i am leaving from prague to vienna this morning. prague was very beautiful indeed. merry christmas! i spent my christmas eve drunk in a jazz bar with a bunch of really awesome australians. what did you all do??
last friday was my last day of work. i wish i didn't have to leave. i got hugs from everyone, and i went to see the christmas lights at covent garden on the monthly group outting, and we ate at pizza hut. the OT gave me a box of chocolates; she spelled my name "Zi Zi", because half the staff calls me zizi. now i'm writing this stupid paper on a most interesting topic. i'm not doing it any justice, i don't know why stephen is requiring us to submit 15 pages of research bullshit.
it's due on monday. i am going to go down the slides at tate modern on tuesday with joanna benjamin. my presentation is due on wednesday. i leave for prague on thursday.
2. apparently, one of my patients (the one who's teaching me how to play pool better) used to be a pro skateboarder when he was aged 16 to 21. then he broke his ankle and had to stop. BUT he was sponsored by ELEMENT (!) back in the early 90s when it was only an east coast US company called Underground Element. no wonder i thought he looked like such a skater when i first saw him. brushmahshouldersoff, he said he liked my 'style' (= cheap socks, ripoff new balance shoes from target) because it was very laidback. i told him it didn't take too much effort, just go to a charity shop.
oh man, if only i could tell him how obsessed i was with skateboarding, aged 11 to 17. it's almost as good as my mumma having a patient who used to be a hell's angel.
+ i took a trip to brighton for the weekend, and it was nothing like our brighton, ma. it was pebbly and salty and cold. + i think i actually really like the beach. this i did not know until recently. i had always thought it was only okay. + i have been appreciating my privacy and independence more. london's been good for growing up n' growing old in a lot of ways. i take too much for granted and sometimes i need to catch up with myself. + i would rather go to work than class tomorrow. i really enjoy my patients, even if i don't mean anything to them. i feel more comforted by them than many people on my program. but i think i definitely don't want to go into psychology (wake up call, helloooooooooooooo sutton!). + next weekend, i'm going to northern ireland.
so... harry potty aside, i have been thrust into the wonderful adult world of real life employment, and i have been spending all of my precious time outside of that doing as much as i possibly can. today i went to see "au hazard, balthazar" which was directed and written by robert bresson. ah yes, another impossibly french and stark film, along the same lines as "mouchette" (which i enjoyed very much last spring at the mfa!). i liked it. i think i will be visiting the institut francais more frequently.
cafe forum. i was not hungry, but in fact, i bought myself a white coffee with two sugars, a mozz/tomato/basil baguette, and crisps.
what are you doing??? WHY ARE YOU TARNISHING HARRY POTTY'S GOOD NAME WITH THIS FILTH?!?!? (umm... i guess a less silly post will follow in the upcoming days?)
does anyone remember this kid from "higher ground", "smallville", "x-files", and other special guest appearance fame? because somehow i remembered him from abc family, and SOMEHOW today i spotted him in the 99p store in camdentown.
he was very waify and druggy looking. he was wearing a bright red sweater and tight jeans. i think he caught on that HE'S NOT FOOLING ANYONE, I KNOW WHO HE IS.
anyway, he's fucking hot, and i would hit that. which is why i remember him from when i was like.... eleven.
i am literally spending $300/mo. for my commute to work!!!! that should be a crime.
bu had better not try some dodgy scheme to cheat me out of my reimbursement money, because i shouldn't have to pay $200 for the rail. that wasn't part of the deal, you overdouched cocksucking cunt! otherwise i wouldn't have accepted the work placement!
i'm updating quite a bit these past few days. tomorrow i am going to sandwich world to buy a breakfast sandwich. it's as cheap as cheap's gonna get in south kensington (rich land).
today i went to the pub around the corner, and looked for orlando bloom. he was nowhere to be found. apparently, when he's home in london, he frequents that pub, because his flat is on the same street as mine. obviously, i was not expecting to "bump" into him, but if i had, i would have told him about the incident at alex's house where i was watching Troy with alex's parents, and when he came on screen all oiled up, i ran out of the room laughing because i couldn't handle how ridiculous it was. then i would have asked for his autograph and his hand in marriage.
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