Is it bad when everything you are thinking starts to always seem to evolve into utility curves or become involved with credits/debits?
And by everything I mean everything.
Ooh LSE.
Let's do this Week8.
I promise a real post is soon to come. Don't lose hope in my blogging skills yet!
Monday, November 22, 2010
Monday, October 25, 2010
onemonth.
Soo I've been working on my real analysis (which actually needs to die) pset for the past 5 hours and have decided to put it aside and take a break for a bit. What better use of a study break than a blog post! :D wooot.
Title of post: So today I had the realisation that I have been in London for exactly a month now. INSANE. Def does not feel like it's been a whole month--maybe more like a couple weeks? Where is the time flyingg? so crazy.
Back to post..
Basically life has been crazy. In every sense of the word. I'm still constantly running around, trying to fit everything I want to do in while attempting to maintain my studies and academic obligations at the same time, which has been proven difficult to accomplish. Let's just say, when they say you can only pick two of the three social, studies, sleep I'm def not picking the latter in this case. lols. So a tad sleep deprived? perhaps. But it's fun. I did catch up on some sleep over the weekend, so it isn't quite as bad as it could be. (averaging 4-5 hours a night last week, wahahah I have no idea how I survived. guess I'm getting used to it?) But overall, life is just amazingly amazing and thus life > sleep. And that is where my priorities lie. hahah. I've been so busy I still haven't really had time to explore London--thank god I have a whole year here, cause I'd be in trouble if I was only here for a semester sinceI have so much I want to do while here! But yea, enough of this fluffy lack of information Diane rambling bit and on to the juicy stuff. hahahhaha.
Anyways, here are some brief thoughts on some of the major events of my previous few weeks:
St. Paul's Cathedral/British Museum
(8-9 October)
My Dad was visiting London these couple of days (stopped over while on a business trip) so he came to see me/bring me my winter jackets (yess). We took Friday to go over to St. Paul's Cathedral, which I believe is the largest Cathedrals in London with one of the largest domes in the world apparently--basically this place is huge. It was really nice inside, and you could climb up the 600+ steps to get to the top of the cathedral where there were spectacular views of the London skyline, def worth the trek up. Saturday we went to the British Museum, which is cool becuase there is so much to see there and it's all free to get in! woot. haha. But that was really interesting-I'm def going to have to return at some point to see more of the museum and see some more of the items in greater detail.
Brighton Beach
(Sunday, 10 October)
Bright and early on Sunday morning, a couple of my LSE friends and I headed off to Brighton Beach. And by bright and early, I actually mean dark and early. It was still pitch black outside when I woke up at 5am to catch our 7am train. hahaha. But anyways, after about an hour train ride we arrived at Brighton Beach! It was soo nice there--Brighton Beach is a big touristy, vacationy town where everyone from London heads to when they want to hang out at the ocean/away from the city etc. It was so beautiful because after a day of foggy, rainy London weather we got to Brighton Beach that was full of sunny (yes, the sun was out!! felt so goood. lols) skies and relatively warm weather. Since we got there super early we hung around the beach for a while while it was still deserted and then had breakfast at this restaurant on the beach. Brighton was basically a big beach town--lots of stores near the water, a big pier (complete with multitudes of fried food booths, actual rides, and lots of free beach chairs to sit in), and lots and lots of visitors. Such a nice and relaxing day, we ended up taking a couple hour nap (ahahah how I love naps) on the beach chairs on the pier. I also got pretty addicted to this gambling game where you put in money to try and push more money out. SO GREAT. I'm def going to be in trouble once I turn 21 and head over to Vegas..lolsss. Had some realllyy greasy fish and chips (we shared one order between the 3 of us and still felt sickly from it. hahah. ohh british food. you are not my greatest friend) and then chilled on the beach to watch the sunset before heading back.
Cumberland Lodge(Weekend of 15-17 October)
Went on a group excursion with a bunch of people who are also General Course students here at LSE up to Cumberland Lodge, which is a big lodge in Windsor Park (right next to Windsor Castle, where the Queen lives) and about an hour outside of London. One of my favorite parts of Cumberland--GREEN. I forgot how nice grass is! and real trees! and clean air! ahahah. But it was such a nice weekend. The main point of our program this weekend was the many speakers that they brought over to the Lodge to talk with us. There were like 5-6 different people that came to talk, including the head of London Transportation, the woman who was the head of the London Stock Exchange for the previous decade or so, the head of the Royal Parks of London, etc. Some of the speakers were especially interesting (ie the London Stock Exchange woman) while others not so much (ie the one who spoke early Saturday morning that I don't even remember the name or occupation of..hahah yea I was totally awake for it) but overall it was very interesting. We also had some free time Saturday afternoon to explore Windsor, so I walked over to Windsor castle to check it out. It was pretty cool on the way becuase to get there it was about a 3-4 mile walk from the Lodge through the parks of Windsor, and the parks are littered with deer EVERYWHERE. And apparently it was deer mating season. So all the male deers were going crazy. HAHAH. actually not that crazy, they were just loud and a tad obnoxious with their weird mating calls. lols. But they were all chillin out right next to the road which was super cool, so you could get pretty close to them, except not that close since it was mating season. hah. but anyways, after the long walk over to Windsor Castle I went inside the castle and explored a bit, though couldn't see much since the public is only allowed in a few rooms of the enormous castle. And the Queen was in residence! Exciting. After, headed back to the Lodge for somemore talks etc. Ended the night chilling in the Lodge's bar before taking a midnight stroll in the pitch-black woods outside the Lodge to stargaze. The next day, we were invited to attend service at the Royal Chapel, which is the local Chapel on the grounds of Windsor that the Queen attends service at! So of course I took advantage of this opportunity, mainly to see the Royal Chapel which in the end was an amazing little Church--I loved the home-y architecture on the inside and the very personal feeling it had. Much better than my hugemungous Church that I attend back at home. So I sat through service (shorter than Catholic Mass too--only about 40 minutes as compared to the 1+hours of Mass) which was very interesting in itself, and as we all headed outside afterwards we were standing outside when no other than the Queen strolled outside! So we were all standing around and the Queen came up to us and the small group of people I was with were able to talk with her! It was beyond exciting. She told us how beautiful the weather was and there was a conversation about how international all of us were. And then she walked over to her station wagon car and drove herself off (yes, she drove herself!). It was so amazingly amazing--almost beyond words. Still a little surreal. But yea, after that we ate lunch before returning to London. Great weekend full of great food, great people, and great times.
Ice bar
(17 October)
Later that Sunday night, a bunch of people and myself went out to this Ice bar to celebrate one of my friend's 21st birthday. It was pretty crazy. Basically a bar made entirely of ice. Meaning EVERYTHING is made of ice--from the bar to the walls to the glasses the drinks come in. And we all had to wear these big parka type things to get in and then got some really yummy drinks in the below freezing temperatures of the bar. Reallly fun. Overall really interesting night--and by that I mean of what I can remember of it. aaaaaaahahahaahha. yea you know what I mean. Fun times.
Gym
Sooo I'm going to be in excellent shape by the time I get back to the States. Just had to share. HAHAHA. Well I have started going to the gym on a more regular basis, so I'm trying? lols. I'm hoping that by revealing my goals to the blogging world I will in turn motivate myself to actually stick to them. We'll see how that goes. Though I did attend my first pilates class at the gym last Saturday! And thus yesterday (Sunday) was pretty painful as I couldn't even laugh without my abs hurting. Sort of hilarious. hahahha.
Camden town
(24 October)
Finally, I have done some more London exploration! On Sunday went over to Camden town which is basically an area of London that is completely full of random flea-market type booths and stores galore. There was so much cheap food everywhere there, and so delicious. I treated myself to a nutella and banana crepe and a hot apple cider. yummyy. (this is why I need to go to the gym. hahah.) and just walked around the hundreds of booths checking out everything that was being sold. It was really cool, though a little overwhelming with the insane number of booths and the HUGE crowds! I don't understand where all those people came from, but you could literally not walk because there were so many people around all the time, everywhere, and granted it was a big area too. Will def be back at some point, if anything to get more delicious, cheap food! yess.
Okay, I think that's about it for now--I'm starting to fall asleep here at my computer. hahah. I need to stop writing these blogs laying in my bed, just asking for me to pass out in the process. hah. Until next time, cheers!
PS: I think my new love is going to the grocery store. I legit go there every other day. IT'S SO MUCH FUN. I love wandering around all the aisles, imagining what I could cook myself to eat. so so great. :D I absolutely love this whole having a kitchen to use thing.
Title of post: So today I had the realisation that I have been in London for exactly a month now. INSANE. Def does not feel like it's been a whole month--maybe more like a couple weeks? Where is the time flyingg? so crazy.
Back to post..
Basically life has been crazy. In every sense of the word. I'm still constantly running around, trying to fit everything I want to do in while attempting to maintain my studies and academic obligations at the same time, which has been proven difficult to accomplish. Let's just say, when they say you can only pick two of the three social, studies, sleep I'm def not picking the latter in this case. lols. So a tad sleep deprived? perhaps. But it's fun. I did catch up on some sleep over the weekend, so it isn't quite as bad as it could be. (averaging 4-5 hours a night last week, wahahah I have no idea how I survived. guess I'm getting used to it?) But overall, life is just amazingly amazing and thus life > sleep. And that is where my priorities lie. hahah. I've been so busy I still haven't really had time to explore London--thank god I have a whole year here, cause I'd be in trouble if I was only here for a semester sinceI have so much I want to do while here! But yea, enough of this fluffy lack of information Diane rambling bit and on to the juicy stuff. hahahhaha.
Anyways, here are some brief thoughts on some of the major events of my previous few weeks:
St. Paul's Cathedral/British Museum
(8-9 October)
My Dad was visiting London these couple of days (stopped over while on a business trip) so he came to see me/bring me my winter jackets (yess). We took Friday to go over to St. Paul's Cathedral, which I believe is the largest Cathedrals in London with one of the largest domes in the world apparently--basically this place is huge. It was really nice inside, and you could climb up the 600+ steps to get to the top of the cathedral where there were spectacular views of the London skyline, def worth the trek up. Saturday we went to the British Museum, which is cool becuase there is so much to see there and it's all free to get in! woot. haha. But that was really interesting-I'm def going to have to return at some point to see more of the museum and see some more of the items in greater detail.
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| View from the top of St. Paul's Cathedral |
Brighton Beach
(Sunday, 10 October)
Bright and early on Sunday morning, a couple of my LSE friends and I headed off to Brighton Beach. And by bright and early, I actually mean dark and early. It was still pitch black outside when I woke up at 5am to catch our 7am train. hahaha. But anyways, after about an hour train ride we arrived at Brighton Beach! It was soo nice there--Brighton Beach is a big touristy, vacationy town where everyone from London heads to when they want to hang out at the ocean/away from the city etc. It was so beautiful because after a day of foggy, rainy London weather we got to Brighton Beach that was full of sunny (yes, the sun was out!! felt so goood. lols) skies and relatively warm weather. Since we got there super early we hung around the beach for a while while it was still deserted and then had breakfast at this restaurant on the beach. Brighton was basically a big beach town--lots of stores near the water, a big pier (complete with multitudes of fried food booths, actual rides, and lots of free beach chairs to sit in), and lots and lots of visitors. Such a nice and relaxing day, we ended up taking a couple hour nap (ahahah how I love naps) on the beach chairs on the pier. I also got pretty addicted to this gambling game where you put in money to try and push more money out. SO GREAT. I'm def going to be in trouble once I turn 21 and head over to Vegas..lolsss. Had some realllyy greasy fish and chips (we shared one order between the 3 of us and still felt sickly from it. hahah. ohh british food. you are not my greatest friend) and then chilled on the beach to watch the sunset before heading back.
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| Early morning yoga by the pier |
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| The beach |
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| Chilling on the pier (like the color accent? :D heheh) |
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| Fish and chips |
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| Brighton sunset |
Went on a group excursion with a bunch of people who are also General Course students here at LSE up to Cumberland Lodge, which is a big lodge in Windsor Park (right next to Windsor Castle, where the Queen lives) and about an hour outside of London. One of my favorite parts of Cumberland--GREEN. I forgot how nice grass is! and real trees! and clean air! ahahah. But it was such a nice weekend. The main point of our program this weekend was the many speakers that they brought over to the Lodge to talk with us. There were like 5-6 different people that came to talk, including the head of London Transportation, the woman who was the head of the London Stock Exchange for the previous decade or so, the head of the Royal Parks of London, etc. Some of the speakers were especially interesting (ie the London Stock Exchange woman) while others not so much (ie the one who spoke early Saturday morning that I don't even remember the name or occupation of..hahah yea I was totally awake for it) but overall it was very interesting. We also had some free time Saturday afternoon to explore Windsor, so I walked over to Windsor castle to check it out. It was pretty cool on the way becuase to get there it was about a 3-4 mile walk from the Lodge through the parks of Windsor, and the parks are littered with deer EVERYWHERE. And apparently it was deer mating season. So all the male deers were going crazy. HAHAH. actually not that crazy, they were just loud and a tad obnoxious with their weird mating calls. lols. But they were all chillin out right next to the road which was super cool, so you could get pretty close to them, except not that close since it was mating season. hah. but anyways, after the long walk over to Windsor Castle I went inside the castle and explored a bit, though couldn't see much since the public is only allowed in a few rooms of the enormous castle. And the Queen was in residence! Exciting. After, headed back to the Lodge for somemore talks etc. Ended the night chilling in the Lodge's bar before taking a midnight stroll in the pitch-black woods outside the Lodge to stargaze. The next day, we were invited to attend service at the Royal Chapel, which is the local Chapel on the grounds of Windsor that the Queen attends service at! So of course I took advantage of this opportunity, mainly to see the Royal Chapel which in the end was an amazing little Church--I loved the home-y architecture on the inside and the very personal feeling it had. Much better than my hugemungous Church that I attend back at home. So I sat through service (shorter than Catholic Mass too--only about 40 minutes as compared to the 1+hours of Mass) which was very interesting in itself, and as we all headed outside afterwards we were standing outside when no other than the Queen strolled outside! So we were all standing around and the Queen came up to us and the small group of people I was with were able to talk with her! It was beyond exciting. She told us how beautiful the weather was and there was a conversation about how international all of us were. And then she walked over to her station wagon car and drove herself off (yes, she drove herself!). It was so amazingly amazing--almost beyond words. Still a little surreal. But yea, after that we ate lunch before returning to London. Great weekend full of great food, great people, and great times.
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| Green! |
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| The Long Walk (literally) |
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| Stag |
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| At Windsor Castle |
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| Windsor Castle |
Ice bar
(17 October)
Later that Sunday night, a bunch of people and myself went out to this Ice bar to celebrate one of my friend's 21st birthday. It was pretty crazy. Basically a bar made entirely of ice. Meaning EVERYTHING is made of ice--from the bar to the walls to the glasses the drinks come in. And we all had to wear these big parka type things to get in and then got some really yummy drinks in the below freezing temperatures of the bar. Reallly fun. Overall really interesting night--and by that I mean of what I can remember of it. aaaaaaahahahaahha. yea you know what I mean. Fun times.
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| Tic-tac-toe board made of ice |
Gym
Sooo I'm going to be in excellent shape by the time I get back to the States. Just had to share. HAHAHA. Well I have started going to the gym on a more regular basis, so I'm trying? lols. I'm hoping that by revealing my goals to the blogging world I will in turn motivate myself to actually stick to them. We'll see how that goes. Though I did attend my first pilates class at the gym last Saturday! And thus yesterday (Sunday) was pretty painful as I couldn't even laugh without my abs hurting. Sort of hilarious. hahahha.
Camden town
(24 October)
Finally, I have done some more London exploration! On Sunday went over to Camden town which is basically an area of London that is completely full of random flea-market type booths and stores galore. There was so much cheap food everywhere there, and so delicious. I treated myself to a nutella and banana crepe and a hot apple cider. yummyy. (this is why I need to go to the gym. hahah.) and just walked around the hundreds of booths checking out everything that was being sold. It was really cool, though a little overwhelming with the insane number of booths and the HUGE crowds! I don't understand where all those people came from, but you could literally not walk because there were so many people around all the time, everywhere, and granted it was a big area too. Will def be back at some point, if anything to get more delicious, cheap food! yess.
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| Crepes! |
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| Shops |
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| Camden Town |
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| Sunset view out my dorm window-def my favorite time of the day. (: |
PS: I think my new love is going to the grocery store. I legit go there every other day. IT'S SO MUCH FUN. I love wandering around all the aisles, imagining what I could cook myself to eat. so so great. :D I absolutely love this whole having a kitchen to use thing.
Friday, October 15, 2010
We no speak americano..
HI WORLD.
Yes, I have come to the realisation that I fail at blogging. HAHAHAHAH. But actually. I have legit reasons for it! (I think.. heh) but I hope all you out there who have been repeatedly telling me to update my blog have forgiven me for my blogging laziness. Cause yes, here is an update. :D Yay!
But wow, so much has happened since I started this blog (way back then...hahahah) Alright, to first set up the scene:
It is currently 2:30am. I am chillin in my room on my (new) laptop. I keep making typing errors because of this new British keyboard I'm still not completely used to. (story of laptop to come) I have LastFM.com playing in the background (Thanks, Calder! Soo amazing. basically Pandora for those who do not know, except unlike Pandora, it works overseas!!). I can hear the city still moving and lively outside my window. I'm running off about 4-5 hrs of sleep a night for the past few nights. (YESS) and life is interesting--I shall go further into details as this goes on. woot!
ANYWAYS,
life.in.london.is.and.still.continues.to.be.AMAZING.
well most of it.
ahahahahah. so to get over the sad parts of my life, a couple nights ago my laptop decided to kick the bucket. ): IT WAS SUCH A SAD NIGHT. basically I was in the middle of doing my real analysis problem set, using the internet to look at my class notes, when my laptop starting acting really really slow, so as I usually do when this happens, I restart my computer to try and get it back to normal. Except unlike normal, when it turns back on it tells me that something is wrong with the disk and it needs to run a scan. Okay, I do that. and it goes through the whole cycle, tells me it's done and okay and begins to restart itself. Except this time, it starts loading up and right after the start up screen, it flicks out and begins starting up again. And before I know it I'm in a continous loop of restarting at the beginning phases of the startup cycle. So I sit. And stare. After about 10 min of looping later I start to freak out. Eff. Thus commences panic attacks as I realise that, yes indeed my laptop has just died on me. It no longer worked. Such a sad night. I felt like my entire house had just burned to the ground. Everything gone. No way to communicate to the outside world. I realised how dependent I was on my laptop, especially while overseas. I talk to everyone back home via laptop and internet, and one of my main forms of communication even here in London is my computer. It was a little disheartening how dependent I found I am on my laptop, but I guess at the same time that's what comes with this age. Such an integrated world, and I've gotten used to it and overall it's not a horrible thing. Eh. Anyways, so on with the laptop story. Soo the next day I decide to take my laptop to the Sony store to see if they could fix it. The guy takes it in to perform diagnostic tests to determine whether it was a software or hardware problem. Turns out I had a corrupted hard drive. Which is not fixable outside of the US, of course.
To make a long story short, after what seemed like forever of running back and forth between classes and the Sony store and my meetings and calling home I decided to just get a new laptop. And thus, I now own a new British laptop. Which I am really starting to love.
Though the really horrible thing about this whole situation is the fact that my iTunes now has a grand total of 0 songs. D: and it's going to stay that way until I can download the software to transfer my ipod songs onto my laptop. pooop. so yesterday and most of today I was streaming British radio. To be specific, British pop music radio. HAHHHAH omg it was so interesting. all their popular music is like techno-y pop. And they all sound like all the songs that are played in the clubs here. And I realised that I really can't listen to this clubby pop unless I'm at a club. STORY: so I woke up at 7am to finish my real problem set this morning, and I hate sitting in silence in my room so I turned on my British radio, and yes even at 7am they were playing club music. WE NO SPEAK AMERICANOO. all morning. HAHHHAHAHHAH ohmygod that was very interesting as I sat there in my half-asleep state attempting to do an impossible problem set. Omg all I could think of was how I wanted a drink. At 7am. yes. -__- wahahhahahah. wonderful.
SO I'M TIRED OF WRITING ABOUT NO FUN TIMES. so no more of that. (:
"HEY DIANE, WHAT EXACTLY HAVE YOU BEEN UP TO, OVER THERE IN LONDON?"
"Well, You, the truth is--so, so much."
WHERE TO BEGIN.
I guess at the beginning?
Orientation week was crazy, in a good way. day=orientation events. night=fun times exploring the London night scene. First week of classes: also, crazy. Finding my way around campus whilst constantly getting lost, organizing my still unpacked room (I don't think I ended up unpacking my suitcase until a week and a half after I arrived here...ahahahah true story.), trying not to become a number in my HUGE classes (largest lecture: intro to accounting with about 600 people, smallest lecture about 100 people. Definitely a big change from Tufts.), exploring the neighborhood, etcetcetc. And I'm finishing up week2 now and things are definitely getting easier to handle (somewhat. haha). Good news--I no longer get lost! well, at least I don't get lost all the time anymore. heheh. I'm getting more used to my lecture size, classes (similar to reciatations, each course has a couple lectures and a class, except classes are capped at 15 people in each) are starting now, and I'm beginning to really dive into the material. It's exciting but tiring at the same time. My brain is already tired of learning. In week2. I have 18 more weeks to go, plus finals. wahahahahhaha my life. anyways, classes here def are a lot different than inthe US in that they are much more quantitatively focused, especially my econ classes. I really like this though, finally something I understand. Numbers=good. Words=bad. ahahahaha. but yea. I absolutely love the atmosphere here though. I love walking around campus and hearing all the different things that people are talking about--mainly things dealing with current politics/events/world economics/so many other random, but seemingly always intelligent, conversations. I was sitting at Costa (my new favorite study spot--local SHOOT I JUST HAD MAJOR DEJAVU THAT WAS WEIRD okay back to story, local coffeeshop.) and the people in the table next to me were talking about the opportunity costs of their decisions to come to grad school at LSE etc. I just loved their terminology so much, it made me really happy. hahaha. but yea, the atmosphere here is just beyond amazing. It's so crazy to think that over 70% of LSE's student body is from outside of England. It's actually sort of difficult finding British people here jsut becuase it is so international and diverse. I've already met people from all over, from Malaysia to Kenya to Switzerland to Mexico to China to everywhere. Walking around campus you hear so many different languages being spoken, it's so great. And basically everyone I have met so far have all been really friendly and I love how many random conversations I have with random people in elevators or walking down the street. I think the atmosphere is def one of my favorite parts of being here.
okay, to be honest I am passing out as I'm writing...wahahahah. I literally just closed my eyes for a good 5 min..I mean it is 3am here. and I do have lecture to attend tomorrow...blahh. so i think I'm going to cut this a little shorter than expected for my own sake. lols. Though, tomorrow I'm off to Cumberland Lodge, which is in the more countryside of England, near Windsor (Apparently, there is a possibility of the Queen sighting?? hopefully!) for the weekend! I'm excited. Nice little break from the city, and it's supposed to be beautiful over there. Thanks for reading my random ramblings! And I apologize for any typos or errors, I'm still getting used to this keyboard and exhaustion=laziness (: therefore I'm not really fixing anything. hahahah.
As a final statement, I will try my best to update this thing more often than once a month! haha. I've just been so busy with life and all that I really haven't had a chance to update this (which is why I am currently doing so at 3am. heh) but I will def try
Goodnight blogging world!
and Deedubs is ouuuuuuuut.8]
Yes, I have come to the realisation that I fail at blogging. HAHAHAHAH. But actually. I have legit reasons for it! (I think.. heh) but I hope all you out there who have been repeatedly telling me to update my blog have forgiven me for my blogging laziness. Cause yes, here is an update. :D Yay!
But wow, so much has happened since I started this blog (way back then...hahahah) Alright, to first set up the scene:
It is currently 2:30am. I am chillin in my room on my (new) laptop. I keep making typing errors because of this new British keyboard I'm still not completely used to. (story of laptop to come) I have LastFM.com playing in the background (Thanks, Calder! Soo amazing. basically Pandora for those who do not know, except unlike Pandora, it works overseas!!). I can hear the city still moving and lively outside my window. I'm running off about 4-5 hrs of sleep a night for the past few nights. (YESS) and life is interesting--I shall go further into details as this goes on. woot!
ANYWAYS,
life.in.london.is.and.still.continues.to.be.AMAZING.
well most of it.
ahahahahah. so to get over the sad parts of my life, a couple nights ago my laptop decided to kick the bucket. ): IT WAS SUCH A SAD NIGHT. basically I was in the middle of doing my real analysis problem set, using the internet to look at my class notes, when my laptop starting acting really really slow, so as I usually do when this happens, I restart my computer to try and get it back to normal. Except unlike normal, when it turns back on it tells me that something is wrong with the disk and it needs to run a scan. Okay, I do that. and it goes through the whole cycle, tells me it's done and okay and begins to restart itself. Except this time, it starts loading up and right after the start up screen, it flicks out and begins starting up again. And before I know it I'm in a continous loop of restarting at the beginning phases of the startup cycle. So I sit. And stare. After about 10 min of looping later I start to freak out. Eff. Thus commences panic attacks as I realise that, yes indeed my laptop has just died on me. It no longer worked. Such a sad night. I felt like my entire house had just burned to the ground. Everything gone. No way to communicate to the outside world. I realised how dependent I was on my laptop, especially while overseas. I talk to everyone back home via laptop and internet, and one of my main forms of communication even here in London is my computer. It was a little disheartening how dependent I found I am on my laptop, but I guess at the same time that's what comes with this age. Such an integrated world, and I've gotten used to it and overall it's not a horrible thing. Eh. Anyways, so on with the laptop story. Soo the next day I decide to take my laptop to the Sony store to see if they could fix it. The guy takes it in to perform diagnostic tests to determine whether it was a software or hardware problem. Turns out I had a corrupted hard drive. Which is not fixable outside of the US, of course.
To make a long story short, after what seemed like forever of running back and forth between classes and the Sony store and my meetings and calling home I decided to just get a new laptop. And thus, I now own a new British laptop. Which I am really starting to love.
Though the really horrible thing about this whole situation is the fact that my iTunes now has a grand total of 0 songs. D: and it's going to stay that way until I can download the software to transfer my ipod songs onto my laptop. pooop. so yesterday and most of today I was streaming British radio. To be specific, British pop music radio. HAHHHAH omg it was so interesting. all their popular music is like techno-y pop. And they all sound like all the songs that are played in the clubs here. And I realised that I really can't listen to this clubby pop unless I'm at a club. STORY: so I woke up at 7am to finish my real problem set this morning, and I hate sitting in silence in my room so I turned on my British radio, and yes even at 7am they were playing club music. WE NO SPEAK AMERICANOO. all morning. HAHHHAHAHHAH ohmygod that was very interesting as I sat there in my half-asleep state attempting to do an impossible problem set. Omg all I could think of was how I wanted a drink. At 7am. yes. -__- wahahhahahah. wonderful.
SO I'M TIRED OF WRITING ABOUT NO FUN TIMES. so no more of that. (:
"HEY DIANE, WHAT EXACTLY HAVE YOU BEEN UP TO, OVER THERE IN LONDON?"
"Well, You, the truth is--so, so much."
WHERE TO BEGIN.
I guess at the beginning?
Orientation week was crazy, in a good way. day=orientation events. night=fun times exploring the London night scene. First week of classes: also, crazy. Finding my way around campus whilst constantly getting lost, organizing my still unpacked room (I don't think I ended up unpacking my suitcase until a week and a half after I arrived here...ahahahah true story.), trying not to become a number in my HUGE classes (largest lecture: intro to accounting with about 600 people, smallest lecture about 100 people. Definitely a big change from Tufts.), exploring the neighborhood, etcetcetc. And I'm finishing up week2 now and things are definitely getting easier to handle (somewhat. haha). Good news--I no longer get lost! well, at least I don't get lost all the time anymore. heheh. I'm getting more used to my lecture size, classes (similar to reciatations, each course has a couple lectures and a class, except classes are capped at 15 people in each) are starting now, and I'm beginning to really dive into the material. It's exciting but tiring at the same time. My brain is already tired of learning. In week2. I have 18 more weeks to go, plus finals. wahahahahhaha my life. anyways, classes here def are a lot different than inthe US in that they are much more quantitatively focused, especially my econ classes. I really like this though, finally something I understand. Numbers=good. Words=bad. ahahahaha. but yea. I absolutely love the atmosphere here though. I love walking around campus and hearing all the different things that people are talking about--mainly things dealing with current politics/events/world economics/so many other random, but seemingly always intelligent, conversations. I was sitting at Costa (my new favorite study spot--local SHOOT I JUST HAD MAJOR DEJAVU THAT WAS WEIRD okay back to story, local coffeeshop.) and the people in the table next to me were talking about the opportunity costs of their decisions to come to grad school at LSE etc. I just loved their terminology so much, it made me really happy. hahaha. but yea, the atmosphere here is just beyond amazing. It's so crazy to think that over 70% of LSE's student body is from outside of England. It's actually sort of difficult finding British people here jsut becuase it is so international and diverse. I've already met people from all over, from Malaysia to Kenya to Switzerland to Mexico to China to everywhere. Walking around campus you hear so many different languages being spoken, it's so great. And basically everyone I have met so far have all been really friendly and I love how many random conversations I have with random people in elevators or walking down the street. I think the atmosphere is def one of my favorite parts of being here.
okay, to be honest I am passing out as I'm writing...wahahahah. I literally just closed my eyes for a good 5 min..I mean it is 3am here. and I do have lecture to attend tomorrow...blahh. so i think I'm going to cut this a little shorter than expected for my own sake. lols. Though, tomorrow I'm off to Cumberland Lodge, which is in the more countryside of England, near Windsor (Apparently, there is a possibility of the Queen sighting?? hopefully!) for the weekend! I'm excited. Nice little break from the city, and it's supposed to be beautiful over there. Thanks for reading my random ramblings! And I apologize for any typos or errors, I'm still getting used to this keyboard and exhaustion=laziness (: therefore I'm not really fixing anything. hahahah.
As a final statement, I will try my best to update this thing more often than once a month! haha. I've just been so busy with life and all that I really haven't had a chance to update this (which is why I am currently doing so at 3am. heh) but I will def try
Goodnight blogging world!
and Deedubs is ouuuuuuuut.8]
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