hey, lazy butt, who are you!

today at work, i sneaked out around 3pm down to the nearest newsagents to go buy a coke. and to my surprise, the newsagents was crowded and had a line! infact, the streets themselves were very busy. now i know this is london, and its a very busy and populated city, but seriously, with what seems like non-stop talk about the 9 to 5 work day (and more! for those crazy bankers), who are all the people out in the streets during the middle of the day?

the people i observed were too old to be students, too young to be retired, and too well dressed to be homeless. i guess some of them could have legitimate excuses to be wondering around on a gorgeous day: tourists, late night club bouncers, or even pulling a sickie. but still, there were far too many people out on the street for me to explain away with reasonable excuses....who are they? and why don't they have to work?!!

basically, i want to be them.


oh also, as an addendum to this post, why are all the shops and post offices, etc. open from 9 to 5. Aren't those the hours that most people would be in work and unable to spend their wages? One possible answer..all those lazy jobless people i described above are keeping them in business!

fun in harrods.

that is a large bear.

whatcha' readin?

looks pretty engrossing.

touchdown!

So I've been playing touch rugby for a couple weeks now, and I'm finding it pretty entertaining. Last night we won our game 10-0 because the other team didn't show up; sweet, now our record is 2-1-1. I, however, was disappointed, because I was promised that if we were up on the other team, I could score a try and then slam down the ball screaming 'TOUCH DOWN!!!!' and do some sort of TD celebration, perhaps T.O. style. This whole planned act was actually building off of my first week attempted score where I ran the ball into the endzone, but was so delighted with myself that I didn't recongize the screaming pleas of my teammates to 'PUT THE BALL DOWN!'. To score in rugby, you have to put the ball down in the endzone in a controlled fashion. Whoops.

In other news, work is the same as usual..nothing interesting. The ultimate season is gearing up; we went to copenhagen a couple weeks ago and it was a great tournament..got to play lots of national teams. It was my first tournament experience playing teams who don't speak english to each other, which was really stragne. I realized how much I actually listen to the other teams comments, and it annoyed me when I couldn't tell what the other team was planning. The best was the germans, though. Einszweidriewlkjfoiauelkrjek BREAK dfadlkfuoaije;fk HUCK dlfkajieffjek . In the midst of garbled shouting, you would hear these random english frisbee words..very amusing.

i love ipods, but they do not love me

i think ipods are now set on causing me torment.

first of all, a couple months ago, my 4-year old trusty 3rd generation ipod was taken from me when my purse was swiped from under my nose. that ipod was a gem; never any problems except for a short batterty life, which was sorted with a replacement battery christmas present. those lucky bastards, i hope they're enjoying the long battery life.

well, i had an appropriate mourning period, and it took me very little time to realise i cannot live with some sort of music device. i can barely walk to work without my ipod, and actually exercising is impossible. so i finally decided on buying a used, older generation ipod, because i like them better (easier to hold, i think). but when my cheap used ipod arrived from ebay, of course, the hard drive was an absolute mess. so, i went about replacing that, which was a nightmare that involved ordering of the wrong drive (false adverstising on the website!), shipping of the wrong drive, and weeks later, a hard drive that finally fit and worked! woohoo.

and now, for the newest segment in my ipod drama, i've gone and lost my ipod. only four weeks after i finally replaced it! damn.

yay yay yay!

this day can't be bad.

i mean, there's finally a new veronica mars out and i've already downloaded it, and its sitting in my hard drive at home, just waiting for me to come watch it. i'm so excited!!!

also, very excited about going to copenhagen this weekend. new city, new tournament, new team. it will all be new for me. i guess i'm really just excited to be playing at a decent tournament once again! it's been so long. we're staying an extra day to wander around the city; i'm planning on hopping on an open top bus tour. man, those things are genius. you can hop on/hop off whenever you like, and it pretty much takes you to all the places in the city you "should" see. i love it. its like cliff notes for the tourist.