Hi All!

Wow, I apologize for being so utterly horrible at updating this thing.

I think most of last week was pretty uneventful that's probably why.

Work has been insane lately....my one supervisor in the lab has gone on a 3 and a half week excursion back to the homeland of New Zealand, so I've pretty much been doing a whole bunch of his responsibilities since he left, which has carried over into this week. And surprisingly enough, being two people at once is incredibly difficult. I think I have a lot of stuff and responsibility by myself, but then to tack some more on is A LOT. But I still love it :)

So I know last week I went to see the Social Network on Monday = AMAZING. If you haven't seen it, go see it. It's not a lame facebook movie, it was an incredibly well done and very captivating film. Heck yes!

I didn't do much for the rest of the week I'm pretty sure, until Thursday when I went to the mall to look for some suitable work shoes, and who did I find in the mall, but RIHANNA. Yes, the mega pop star. She was just doing a concert (which I missed) and taking pictures with people at the mall. Insane! This would never happen in KOP. So I did not get a picture with her, but did get pictures of her...with my pathetic phone camera. Haha! There was a much better picture in the newspaper the next day so I think I'm just going to save that and pass it off like I took it.

Friday night = Bonfire night! Which was delightfully uneventful. By the time Rachel and I came home from work and ate dinner, it was 6. And we were looking up fireworks that were on, and none of them were close by, and many of them were at 7pm. How the heck were we supposed to manage that? All the closer ones were Saturday and Sunday night. So we went to a pub instead with her friend Pete and his two cousins which was alright. Pear cider is my official drink at the pub when I get the question, "So what do you want to drink, Carina?"

Saturday I went to Covent Garden continuing the shoe quest! I also went to a store called Cyber Candy which I encountered Halloween weekend at 2 AM which had a large Lucky Charms display in the window. So they were, of course, closed the first time I went, so I knew I would be returning. And I bought Mountain Dew Code Red, brown sugar Pop Tarts, and candy! Delicious! I was so excited. I had to bring in the code red to work, there was a purpose to this purchase.

Then Saturday night my lovely friend Joe who is studying in Munich this semester came to London so I met up with him and my friend Mike who is also in London, and we all went out a pub for dinner, which was delightful! Then, to really live it up, we went out clubbing, of course. So I paid EIGHTEEN POUNDS (=27 bucks about) to get into this club called Fabric, which is supposed to be one of the best clubs in London. And it was really really sweet! It had 3 different dancing rooms with different music and lots of staircases and balconies, it was very very sweet. Even though house/trance music is kind of...blah. STILL FUN. The headlining DJ came on at 3, and he was a large improvement. What a tough career though, where your shift doesn't start until 3AM. So I, Carina, stayed out clubbing until FIVE AM. This is not a normal Carina occurrence, this is insanity!

Amazing night though. Then I came home and slept until 1pm. which I have also never done before...but I guess it's a full 5 hours! Sunday I really did nothing but laundry and cleaning and watched TV, but I really really needed it after my previous night's excursion.

Sunday night Rachel and I were going to go see some fireworks in a park but we decided to go to her new chruch's bonfire night party that was supposed to have fireworks and a huge bonfire instead. We got incredibly lost trying to find this church in South Ken, but THAT"s ok. I think we may have missed the fireworks though. Definitely a huge authentic bonfire though! I still preferred the PA Guy Fawkes parties, myself. And I met two American kids who were on study abroad, so that was fun.

Then this week so far, has been insanely busy, i can't even describe. Just So so so busy. But I am finally done with one list of about 100 procedures I had to finish, so now life should get a little better.

Went to the one and only Chipotle in the UK for dinner last night :) and went to a lovely comedy show with Maggie. Tonight I met up with my friend Sam who I haven't seen since 8th grade who is, of course, just by chance, at London School of Economics for a year.

Having all of these random friends around Europe makes it seem like I'm such a cool person! haha it's great :)

Off to Barcelona on Thursday for the weekend :) Next update will probably be after that.

have a good night and rest of the week everyone!