HAHAHAHA. No sooner does Lauren arrive than we run into some hijinks. After the airport and some power napping from Lauren, we went about the town. We looked up this place called Freaky McNasty's Whiskey House near the Angel tube and cruised on over. There was a drunk party celebrating someone's birthday, a thin waitress, a party of soccer-types and some randos. Rando #1 Sean (shawn, jeffrey, not seen). Drunk old irish guy. Good heart but kinda creepy. cornered lauren at the table. Randos #2-4 Mike - the law student from UT Austin, Amit- the unknown guy from Texas, and Igor - a very friendly fella from the Ukraine who is in a band that is "pavement meets country twang" they rescue us from Sean and we ditch Freaky's after an hour or so.

Then we find some place that was lit with purple lights and had gigantic pool tables. Igor and Lauren vs. Amit and Myself (me later substituted with mike). Igor makes the first shot of the game (after many tries by others) and runs around screaming "that's the first ball of my life" and shaking his pool stick over his head like some sword of victory. Pool game ends and we decided to look for some after hours places that Amit knows about. Yeah, and it's only like 10:30. We spend the next two hours running around one end of London to the other. We end up, finally, (after none of Amit's places work out) at Amit's hotel lobby. Swank number called The Leonard. haha. They serve us beer, weird doritos, some prawn-peanut mixture, and THREE HEAPING PLATES OF SALTY CHIPS made fresh to order. Lauren and I take a cab home.

Giggle all night because of loud Korean snoring roommate. Makes most unnatural sounds.

Went to temp agency today and i think it went really, really well. they seemed pleased and i was too. turned in CV to other places. Went to look for flat in HAHA Brixton. It ended up being nice but a fifteen minute walk from the tube station without adequate protection from the DRIVING FREEZING RAIN. I was wearing sandals, skirt, and sweater. Ony time as yet that I have left hostel sans umbrella and met with utter disaster. It is so cold right now! i'm still cold inside! gotta go only 2 minutes left. more detailed account of flat finding as was also hilarity. love all! thanks so much for responding! trisha