Hi ya

(photos: me on a horse statue...not sure that's allowed..; me friend and i in the museum store trying on masks; the musuem- not the most architecturally exciting, though exciting on the inside)
Started off the day by finally working up the gall to go against my religion and interrupt people in the midst of their work. I hate interrupting people, and more then that, I hate making scenes. But you will be happy to know that a scene ensued when I asked for the chef guy because half the people there seemed to not know who he was (?). So yes, I was successful in gaining the cd. The whole ordeal was worth it though, because Ray LaMontagne is now at the top of my favorite musicians list. And I have been listening to him nonstop sicne I got it. It's unfortunate that i just found out about him, since his two London shows in October are sold out.

Directly after this event, we left for the museum of London for the Civ of London class, and though we did not have much time there it was very interesting. I will most certainly be going back. A museum dedicated entirely to London? You can’t get too much better than that. Although, they seemed to have a rather unnecessarily large collection of flint and flint tools….so I may bypass that section when I return , because, believe it or not, there is a point where one loses interest in flint. And if I lost interest in it, that says a lot. I am pretty easily amused.

Since I am a silly person, I led a series of slightly inane photo taking, which would have made a scene if people were there. Luckily they were not. We took a few photos in the gift shop, and a few outside the gift shop near/on a statue of a horse. No one seemed to care though ,so that’s good, I don’t like confrontation either.

We got back to school with just enough time to run to my next class which was theatre, where we found out the plays we will be going to see. The next is Moon for the Misbegotten at the Old Vic Theatre starring Kevin Spacey. So that should be exciting.

My friends were all going to see a free play called Cyclops that they needed to see for class , and they told me to go along. But I chose to eat dinner and plan out some stuff I wanted to see in London / England instead. They may be going back Sunday so I might go then. I really need to get ontop of this things I want to do list, so that I do the things I want. I did find out a few important things, which helped me plan out Saturday. There is a rather exciting river race on the thames in the morning, a thames river festival with a bunch of fun attractions, and the whole weekend is open house weekend. That means that over 600 buildings in London are open to the public for free, including many that do not otherwise admit the public. Hopefully I can take advantage of that, as well.

Everyone seemed to be in the mood to stay up rather late last night, including people who said “stacey lets just stay up til breakfast (8am) “ at which point I paused, laughed at them when I realized they were serious, said “I’m going to bed” and walked away. Before that, we were playing around online with this bogus website that supposedly matches your face structure to that of celebrities. We did two different pictures of me, which provided results that ranged from "oh yeah i can see that" to "hmmm...yeah..no" . My favorite two results were Whoopi Goldberg ( this I can understand because I do have the trademark very dark Polish skin tone, and dreadlocks Oh and I did star in Sister Act) as well as Mel Gibson. Yes. I look like Mel Gibson. This does explain why people often come up to me and ask for an autograph while yelling “ FREEDOM!” and painting half of their face blue. Glad I finally got that cleared up .