These past 5 days or so...

A lot can happen in five days. I'm trying now to collect my thoughts on everything that has happened and it seems ridiculous. I guess I can never really say I'm terribly bored, even though there are points at which you hit lows, secretly craving Long John Silvers or just wanting to be able to drive yourself somewhere instead of always having to wait for a train.

Let's start with Thursday. An interesting day at work, finally! The weather here has been absolutely amazing. It must seem weird, but we've had 80 degree weather and no rain for the past week, so I've been overjoyed by the fact that I can finally wear flipflops to work. Anyways, the guys decided that we should all go out and have a liquid lunch...and they didn't mean all of us ordering some soup. We walked a couple of blocks through Soho and David bought me a pint of beer. After everyone had gotten what they wanted, I was introduced to the ladies who worked downstairs as the special events team called Destiny. They were all very nice and it was there that I got a break. Alice told me that normally they too have an intern, but work was slower than normal and they didn't get one for the summer. But she said because of my background from the Rec that if I ever had some downtime that she would love to have me work on a few projects! I was really excited because my job was growing mundane, I guess I never realized how much variety I had at my job back at school.

The ladies also gave me some ideas on what to get Alissa for her birthday. I ended up buying tickets for a show called Fuerzabruta. The preview boasts: This is an event where worlds collide. Where dreams are real and reality takes a back seat. Give in to it, let go and enjoy the spectacular ride. It's seductive, it's inventive and it's coming to town in a big, big way. It looks to be pretty cool. Click here to check out the trailer.

That evening, Alissa, Bomo and I were riding the elevator when all of a sudden it had a sudden jolt and just stopped. We all looked at each other and burst out laughing. Hysteria in a time of commotion is rather ironic, but we found it so amusing that we were actually stuck in an elevator. Quickly though, I hit a button and it jolted back to life. Our desperation and misery would just have to wait another time. Unfortunately, later that night, the elevator did have some victims who were trapped in there for quite some time.

Friday was extremely hot. Most of the day was spent packing up the agency despite the heat. Suparama is about to move to a new location and take on a new name. The $100,000 a month rent just became to pricey. So in the words of Meagen Cougill, "They got tired of the monkey and made like a banana and split."

I left early, came home, showered and prepared for Alissa's birthday extravaganza. Her actual birthday wasn't until Saturday, but the bigger night out here is Friday. We ended up going to a place called "The End." After the most complicated search of my life (they even went through every compartment of my wallet) we finally made it in and found ourselves the only ones there. But we paid $20 to get in so we weren't leaving. Got a few drinks and waited around and slowly people began to filter in. We were amused when a group of guys were break-dancing beside us. Before you knew it, the place sprung to life and for you ladies in the pit, I can classify this as my first rave.

Strobe lights, music so loud you could feel it throughout your body, alcohol and weed was all part of this place's character. Twice, someone asked me if I'd like to buy drugs from them and seemed quite shocked when I declined. We were there a little longer than I would have liked to be, but it was Alissa's birthday and she was having a good time so I didn't want to spoil her fun. I'm definitely not the raver type, but you have to try everything once and enjoy it for what it's worth.

Yesterday, we ventured to Chinatown and enjoyed the sweet and sour chicken that seemed so much better than we ever had at the Evergreen Buffet...hard to imagine, I know. After that, we all spit our separate ways, shopping on Oxford Street or going home. Later, we went and had some cake and ice cream and ate it outside in celebration of Alissa being an old geezer at 23.

While we were out, Mark called and eventually I met up with him and his friends down in Soho. Not after quite the journey getting there though. Someone had passed out on my train and we had to wait at a station until EMS arrived. In addition to the time this took, the line I was transferring to was closed so I had to make an entire new route on the spot. After weaving my way through the city, I was just about to board my last tube when out of the corner of my eye I spot Alissa and Bomo. Talk about your random coincidences. In all of London, with a population so large its outstanding, we meet at the same time on the same train unplanned. It boggled my mind, but nonetheless, I finally made it to meet Mark 25 minutes late. After apologizing profusely, we did some barhopping. Good times were had, except for the 1.5 hour long ride home. Night buses suck everyone, take advantage of your cars.

Today has been a lazy day. I went and got some subway and ate it at a park by the river. I'm starting book number two because I just recently finished one very similar to The Da Vinci Code, called Map of Bones. If you liked any of Dan Brown's books, you would like this one too. That's all for now, hope everyone is enjoying themselves...keep a look out, round two of the postcards should be going out soon.