It's Sunny!

Well, after I don't know how many days of frigidly cold and gloomy weather, the sun is out in full force today! :) And it's about 25C (75-80F)...I got totally sidetracked today on my run and was in the park for 2 hours, oops ;)

Life here is settling and getting normal crazy, as opposed to new-to-town crazy. The 98 slide saga continues, I need to break the whole thing apart, figure out what the main point is and recreate a new presentation which I'll present...and please factor in that I speak American and the slides are in English...it's slow going. It's not actually that boring...but did I mention the weather? I so don't feel like working on it today ;) But!

The Notting Hill Carnival starts tomorrow and I want to go...and perhaps pop in somewhere for Sunday dinner, so it's better to be responsible today/tonight. I'll just keep repeating that.

So, backtracking to Thursday...I met Card Guy near London Bridge and got a quick history lesson followed by copious amounts of wine, with wonderful company the whole time...perfect! :)

Friday required going to (cue psycho music, please) the embassy to get the power of attorney document notarised so my mom can represent me in the states or, you know, take all my money, which ever she's in the mood for. We didn't think of it until my very last day in the states and I was just crazy busy, so no luck. Incidentally, if we had done it before I left, the whole bank wire saga with my flat would have been irrelevant, as she could have done it for me. Lessons learned I guess. I could go off on a tirade about how embarrassing our embassy is, but in the spirit of my previous post, I won't whinge...I'll just say that no one else has a bunch of dudes with ginormous guns standing outside their embassies. But whatever. Also, it was $30 and my entire afternoon. Ok, I'm finished. Amusing side note though: I was sitting waiting for my number to be called and a guy at the nondescript window (visas, lost passports, random questions) suddenly says, in a cheerful/small talk tone to the embassy worker behind the window:

"This is right where I got arrested in 1964!"

Which, as you can imagine, caught my attention. So I just mumbled "uuuh, some things are better meant kept to ourselves..." and laughed. And the lady next to me and her daughter burst out laughing, as they'd been thinking the same thing. So, take note: an embassy? Not so much the place to voluntarily offer up your criminal record.

Yesterday, my UK debit card came! I feel like such a local now.

So, last night, I met someone I'd met online (not a date!) and we went to the open air theatre in Regents Park. It was frigid (low 40s F), but was still very fun...I highly recommend it! Apparently they continue, even in the rain. Our seats were wet, but we were spared actual rain.

Ok, time to go enjoy the sun!