Woke up and went to work. Rode backwards on the bus today. The only open seat faced backwards, so that's where I sat. Until another seat opened up with a better window view. I took that one when I could.
Continued to research email addresses at work. I compiled a giant email list for marketing. But now I guess I don't have to do that anymore. So what I will be doing on Wednesday is a bit up in the air.
My lunch consisted of a pile of spinach (newly bought on Sunday), along with half a sliced apple, croutons, a kiwi, turkey sandwich meat, cheddar cheese, sliced tomato, and I think that's everything. I debated bringing the ranch dressing with me to work, but I didn't want to carry it in my bag all day. So I left it at home. Salad was good even without dressing. Healthier too. It was a good salad. I'm proud of my salad. Quite proud. Also proud of the dinner I made. More on that later.
Work was only a half day today, so I spent the afternoon going all the way over to Victoria to pick up the bus tickets for Thursday night. Took a long time to get there, and I took the tube back to Lambeth because there weren't any buses going to that area from where I was. Sadness. Nothing interesting on the Tube. Not much is interesting on the tube which is why I like buses more. At least you can people watch on the sidewalk without looking like a creeper.
Becky booked a backpackers hostel for us. I checked it out online and it looks really nice. Really quaint and good services and all that. Can't wait to see it in real life.
Dinner was fried chicken with vegetables. I spiced it up with some recently bought Italian seasoning and some salt I took from Vanessa without her knowing. Yes, I'm mean. I also used to take some of her ketchup but now I have a bottle of my own. Now I'm stealing salt. I think it's a sign. Anyway, Hattie and another girl I didn't know (but Hattie did) were also in the kitchen as I was making my dinner. Hattie was making a pizza for herself and she and her friend kept commenting how my dinner looked really good. I had to agree because, well, it did. I used a pepper, a few mushrooms, a stick of celery, chicken, the Italian seasoning, and I cracked an egg over it just as it was getting really hot. So good. Except I kind of wanted some stir fry sauce to give it some more flavor. (Why I stole the salt in the first place). So now I know what to look for.
Which reminds me, I had bacon for breakfast. And this was bacon that was more closely related to the kind of bacon I'm used to. Still miss that old American bacon, but this stuff wasn't bad either. At least it tasted like bacon should and crunched when you bit into it.
I also learned that the version of Harry Potter I got was the adult version. In Britain, there's an adult version and kid version. They're both the same thing, just published with different covers and layouts. Hattie's friend made the comment that the books in the States are longer than the ones in Britain because the font is a bit bigger and the spacing between each line wider. She wondered why that is, and I said I don't know. Couldn't tell ya. And I can't tell you dear readers either. I don't know. Scholastic just decided to make things that way. I assume it's because it's more appealing to the children when a book is formatted a certain way, but that's about the limit of my speculation.
Then I started working on my essay, which I decided was a mess of jumbled thoughts on three different documents. So I wrote down my sources and their major points on tangible pieces of paper and wrote a rough thesis at the end of the list. Then I started writing. IM'd David to celebrate getting onto the second page before moving on. Now blogging is my second study break before breaking through the third page. This is all single spaced, mind you, which means I have about 1000 words for a 1500 word essay. Plus I still need to write the introduction. But I'm not going to quit until I have the entirety of my ideas down, even if it takes 2500 words because I'll cut out so many useless phrases when I go back to edit it. I might just get rid of a few paragraphs that can easily be summed up in two or three sentences while I'm at it.
The majority of my editing will probably be tomorrow. Yippie.
Tonight, I'm going to see if I can stay up late enough to Skype into Working Title. At least to say hello, London is awesome, have fun at the Hoofers scary story thing.
Speaking of events back in Madison:
- managed to find a possible roommate for next year. We're still working out finer details. She pays about $500 a month including utilities which isn't so bad I guess. It's quite close to campus, right on a bus line, and services a bunch of other students. Plus it can't hold as many people as the house on Emerald Street, so there's less to split.
- Sienko wants to move out for the Spring semester. Makes me sad because I was looking forward to living with her, but she's gotta do what she's gotta do. She asked if I wanted her to find a subletter, and I said she can if it'll help her financially. As long as I pay what I was told I would pay, I'm ambivalent either way. Which means there's a possibility I'll have an even bigger room to myself when I get back. Which means I can get a giant desk from Craigslist. Well, maybe not a giant desk. But a desk with drawers and stuff.
- NaNoWriMo starts in November. A part of me wants to do it, but a more rational part of me says "Girl, you cannot travel Europe and write 2,000 words a day. Not gonna happen, sistah." Not only that, but I'm already slowly working on another story, the same story that I worked on in August for my personal NaNoWriMo. Still didn't stop me from thinking about something that's been on my mind for a while off and on. If that idea stays in my head for another year, then I'll NaNo that next November. Until then, I'll just continue to collect the random hodge-podge of notes I've been gathering.
And now back to my essay. I could really use my own personal cheer squad right about now.
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