Last Day at Black Dog

This morning, I was somehow the first person to arrive at the office.  No, I don't have a key to get in.  And neither does Helen who is always first to arrive when I'm not there.  Noortje was off today.  The early Alex was off.  Tom was off.  Leonardo's off.  That left us with people who actually turn up either at 9.30a or later.  The first person was Ana, who didn't have her keys because there was never a need for them.  Next was Phoebe, who never brings her keys either.  Ana called Adriana who said she would be there in three minutes.  We later determined this was 3 minutes Italian time, which is between five to ten minutes for people freezing their butts off outside their office.  Then the other Alex came, and he had keys.  Thank goodness. 

Tea was made.  My apple scone with raisins was eaten.  I didn't mind the raisins in the scone, but I minded them in the cake Annabell took out later.  They were just so overpowering.  If raisins were replaced with chocolate chips, that cake would have been amazing!

Spent a large chunk of the morning listing names in alphabetical order for an acknowledgment section.  Some names were repeated and some names were repeated and spelled differently with each repeat.  So I had to look up how they really spelled their name.  Also spent some time talking with Ryan on Gmail chat about the trip.  We wrote up a list of things to do in each city, determined where Ryan can get a document organizer thing like the one I have, and confirmed that Ryan would print out maps of our hotel/hostel location so we can find them when we get to the cities.  It was pretty productive in terms of travel.

Meanwhile, I was texting back and forth with friend Becca from Virginia in regards to seeing Tron Legacy tomorrow.  We determined that we would meet tomorrow at 1p at the Vue Cinemas in Shepherd's Bush to catch the 1:20p performance.  Shouldn't cost anymore than 10 quid with the student discount and perhaps some popcorn.  That'll be nice.  AND, if the first showing is sold out, we can always attempt to make the 3D performance an hour later!  Minus the popcorn, that one shouldn't cost more than 10 quid.  So it's a pretty good deal, methinks.  I'm super excited!

So when I finally finished up, there was no grand send off.  No one took me out to lunch (no one wanted to leave for lunch because it started to snow).  There was cake, but it was leftover from yesterday.  I meant to bring some, but I forgot.  Whoops.  Anyway, my days with Black Dog are done.  And I'm not feeling anything one way or the other.  But it's still a nice thing to have on my resume, methinks. 

Picked up milk and fries coming home today.  Had a sandwich for dinner.  The girl I wanted to win America's Next Top Model won.  Project for Awesome is distracting me from Creative Writing.  I call this a good Friday.

Now all that's left is video chatting my parents so they can see me open my present (the package from yesterday).  I want my popcorn!!  And Christmas cookies! 

But mostly I'm excited for Tron.  That movies looks so awesome!!