So after lying in bed until about 12:30pm today, I got up and went to Tesco to buy the last supply of food for the rest of this week. I got me a nice thing of stirfry to go with the rice I still had, and also managed to fix some chicken. I watched some episodes of the Tudors, and then whenever Danielle got home, we did a spur of the moment buy of Wicked tickets and went to see it at the Apollo Queen theatre. I have to say, the woman playing Elphaba had a great voice range. I was [View Full Entry]

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Today was my last day at work, so Greg had me spend it like any other: leaflet flyering and updating the systems directory. On the plus side, Greg did bring me a jelly-filled doughnut as a goodbye gift. I was happy I at least got the first 52 pages done of the directory update. At least it meant that I got a good chunk of the work done before the next person has to tackle it. After work was just spent babysitting the flat mates during their party. Like usual. [View Full Entry]

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I was back up in Enfield North today, and back with Greg again (since he returned from his two week holiday). That meant I got to go about the morning doing more leaflet deliveries, and then spent the rest of the day finishing my big project, and also starting a 239 page update of names in the server directory. Yeah, I only made it through the first 15 pages before I had to leave for the day. Finally got to go see Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. I have to say, I was extremely disappointed with the movie. I felt [View Full Entry]

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This morning was my evaluation, so I went back to Westminster to meet with Hillar, Dr. Hagen, and James. The interview went exceptionally well, especially when James told Hillar and Dr. Hagen I was his favourite American intern. I think that made both of them very happy. After that, I spent the rest of the day writing letters in the office. Tonight all the people who were working with politicians went to dinner with Hillar and Dr. Hagen, who paid for us at a nice little restaurant that had a wonderful salmon and mashed potatoes. I don’t know if it was [View Full Entry]

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Thankfully I had set an alarm to wake up early enough to meet Tess at the train station. From there, she and I road the underground down to Earl's Court for the London Film and Comicon. If there were any question about how to get there, the only thing I had to do was follow the geeks and nerds. That, and the HOARD of Twilight fans. Those girls are creepy as hell, btw. More on that later... After getting our tickets, we went inside, and the first thing I did was look at the photo shoot times and buy a ticket [View Full Entry]

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Despite deciding we would wake up at 9am and go swimming in the pool, our plans shifted so that we didn't wake up until 10am and relaxed leisurely until we had to check out at 12noon. By 1pm, we were back in the Barcelonita beach area, and we went into the Gran Casino, checked our bags, and sat down to gamble. Gotta say, for only betting 20€, I came out with a pretty good profit. After that, I used some of my winnings to go to Ice Barcelona, a bar made entirely of ice that makes you wear an Eskimo coat [View Full Entry]

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We woke up early enough to realize that we wanted that extra little sleep because of the jet lag, and so we weren’t actually able to hit the beach until around 12noon. This meant that we spent a whapping 6 hours on the beach, just relaxing on the fold out chairs we rented for 5 Euros, and also partaking of the full body massage that we gave into, courtesy of the little Asian women who walked around asking “You-wan-mas-sah?” and pointing to their little flyers. Next, we walked along the board walk to find a place to eat for dinner, and [View Full Entry]

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The bus was an okay ride to the airport because we had a lot of extra room, so we could have one person in each set of seats. It wasn’t until about 11pm that we made it to the airport in London-Stansted. We got to play the fun waiting game until 5am by sleeping in shifts. I was glad that it was just myself and Danielle on this trip, mainly because the other girls who had invited themselves along had now uninvited themselves from our hotel room. After we checked our bags, went through security, ate breakfast, and walked to our [View Full Entry]

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I got a call from Nicola last night asking if I could go to the secondary office to help out. I agreed, and it turns out when I got here this morning it was our job to go around flyering again, which was fine with me. I got to see a lot more of the town because of it. I definitely enjoyed being able to see what some of the upper class houses in the area looked like. In other news, we all go together and bought pizza for lunch, which means I didn't eat my sandwich, which ultimately means that [View Full Entry]

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I decided to wear tennis shoes to work today, mainly because my feet were killing me from being in heels all day yesterday for work and for Les Mis. So I'm dressy casual for the most part, with shirt and trousers being dressy, but the shoes being trainers. I think they call this look "dressy nerd" or something like that. I like it, it means my feet aren't hurting by the end of the day. On the plus side, I really only had to do one project today since apparently my boss is a perfectionist, so I got to learn how [View Full Entry]

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