**despite the fact that I'm usually pretty competitive, I'd like to suggest to anyone bored enough to read mine that you also check out my (wannabe) Irish friend Margaret's blog at http://greeceitw.blogspot.com/2010/05/herro-from-ath ens.html. she may be the funniest person i've ever met/read. it's worth your time.**
this blog could potentially have a lot of good stuff going on. for starters, I arrived in London this evening (afternoon for you blokes back in the States) and will be here for the next 5-ish weeks. and even if all I do is post pictures--can you even do that on here?--it would be pretty 'ill'. to be honest I don't have too many assumptions quite yet. not that i'm one of those people who goes into things with zero expectations and an abysmal outlook so that when moderately cool things happen I can write on someone's facebook wall to brag and call it a day. I just figure whatever is going to happen here is gonna be pretty rad and my predictions will most likely be significantly outdone.
some things i hope will happen:
- meet a british rockstar, mingle, become pen pals, live in sin for 15 years until he meets someone younger, or something similar.
- meet one person who sounds like a "bee-ull". (A Beatle. obviously.)
- get a cool european haircut, up my street cred.
- take a nerdy picture of me at platform 9 and 3/4. (this has been promised to me). if you don't know what I mean, climb out from under that rock and read a book. and start with Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.
- watch a World Cup game at a pub. this will obviously happen. i'm in London. and it's World Cup season. USA USA USA.
- come back to the states with a fake English accent. take over the world.
some things i hope won't happen:
- loss of any items: expensive, sentimental, or otherwise. thievery is neither cute nor tolerated. it's illegal, and seriously awkward, especially if caught. if you take my shit, I will report you to the police and post it on my fun new blog and everyone will know what you did. as a disclaimer to any readers, there is always the potential that I will lose my own things, in which case I will blame it either on a fictitious thief or "that night when I was soooooooo wastedddddd." guess you'll never know.
- the death of my computer. while i realize that the fan is probably broken and that my refusing to turn the damn thing off in its first 3 years of life strong increases the imminence of my lil comp's final days, that would suck.
- excessively hot or excessively cold weather. warm weather is welcome, especially if I get tan, but if it exceeds 90 degrees, I'll be pissed. if it's cold the whole time I'm here, I'll freeze, and bitch at my mom for making me unpack my $20 forever 21 jeans.
- anything that happened in the movie Taken.
some things that have already happened:
- hearing on the over-com at Heathrow that one "Phillip Phillipoo (sp?)" is being summoned at Gate whatever because his flight is about to leave without him. tough life in so many ways, Phil.
- sightings of a double-decker red bus and a black taxi. check and check.
- getting lost for over an hour and a half with Elizabeth because we got rerouted on the highway.
- eating 1/2 of a box of Special K with Almonds during said rerouting
- quickly falling in love with Liz's adorable mom.
- missing my own mom already, just a little.
- you too, dad.
- attempting to write a moderately funny first blog on Liz's laptop. the keys are different than mine. it's taken 4 hours. not goin so well.
so.
I guess I'm just hoping this will be the best trip ever. and I'm jk, Liam Neeson, you're invited! still not quite tired but based on the "fun o meter" of this posting I'm assuming that I'll get about 8 minutes into the book I'm supposed to be reading (because yes, I'm technically here to study abroad) and be bored to sleep.
Miss you already, Virginia! (no I don't. and I probably never will.)
I LOVE YOU! and wanted to be your first comment. I can't speak for Virginia, but 'Lawn Guyland' misses you :p
ReplyDelete<33 Diana
is it awkward if i use ur blog comment box as my own personal blog? ok GREAT lets do this...
ReplyDeletehello world, its me.
Day 1 of being without chelsea:
Woke up with high hopes of getting tan during my first day at TrUrO..it was sunny until 12:52 (pool opens at 1) then it was torrential downpour from 1-3:30 (swim practice starts at 4)...basically fml...went to taylor swift concert it was great but her dance moves resembled jennifers..obvious issues...anywho this is my blog from chelseas comment box blog
day 1 im expecting mad shoutouts in ur blog no duh and on a final note jack swanton has a mustache...so yeahhhh whaddup summer! miss u nooter!
HAHA - "Miss you Virginia (no I don't)"
ReplyDeletePERFECTION. Have SO SO SO much fun.
I MISS YOU
ReplyDeletea lot
I dont know how to make this my name but its rachel
okay bye
come back here
5004 misses you
and i know you miss it
mwamwamwa
I find it absolutely imperative that I comment first on your blog's name. You win, at the least, some cool points here. Mostly because sometimes (many times) blog names simply fail: "Claire's Trip!" or "Lizzy's Awesome Daily Adventures!"
ReplyDelete(Side note: while typing that, I did decide to Google 'dumbest blog names,' at which point I came across this article: http://www.infomercial-hell.com/blog/2010/03/04/awethumb-thumb-protector-may-have-the-dumbest-name-ever/. Awethumb.)
My point was supposed to be that I appreciate your creativity right from the get-go.
Here are a few things that I would love to see happen added to your HAPPEN list:
Happen:
1) meet, charm, befriend (meaning become besties with), and PRETEND--key word--to seduce Russell Brand. Once you have won him over with your talents, beauty, and unmatched wit, then you can star in his and Jonah Hill's next movie (Jonah Hill quite clearly being the man you are really after).
2) Attempt to make the guards at Buckingham Palace smile WITH Jonah Hill. He may, in fact, be the ticket to their corruption.
3) Take a picture in the Globe. And Black Friar's.
4) See a real, live play.....at the GLOBE!? I just lost it a little bit. Because I thought about how cool that will be for you if it makes its way onto the 'has happened' list.
5) When you come back to the states with the fake accent, this will remind me of that episode of "Friends" when their friend 'Uh-mahn-duh' (best I can do with a British accent imitation on here of the name 'Amanda') comes back to NYC with one. So by making this happen, you'll also make Annie laugh.
6) Live in the quaint and perfect house that is 45 minutes outside of London that's present in "The Holiday" (I wanted to underline the movie title, but it won't let me. Sorry English Major.)
7) Star in "Love Actually 2" and compose all its music.
I love and miss you. Keep us blogged. :O)
Great to hear your voice. All is good here in Cincinnati. Here is a talking poem:
ReplyDeleteStaring at the Moonlit Waves (2010)Dick Kait
I was looking at lady
who was wearing what seemed looked like
a blonde wig and white knit cap,
sitting on a red bar stool,
in the martini lounge by the seashore,
eating an orange and pineapple yogurt,
sipping a daiquiri,
and chewing crackers from a box
that she had laid on the counter as she sat there.
and I was watching her friend turn
to ask her if he could have a cracker,
so she started to pull back the lid,
and she remembered
she needed.
she really needed a spoon
to taste the yogurt
and so the bartender handed her a spoon
and asked her about another drink,
to which she replied, “Yes” while opening the box of crackers
for her friend, who was from Indiana,
who then munched slowly
while all the while sipping on his drink
and staring
at the moonlit waves,
that rose and fell,
onto the beach,
like creamy pineapple yogurt.
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