Lazy Day

Sorry for the lack of earlier update, but we didn't do much today. Probably because we all went out last night. The whole lot of us (ha British talk) went to a bar called Walkabout because it was their student night. The W&L Theater group was there, too, so we took over a section of the club for our own use. We had a really great time, and I was part of the early returning group that came back at 1 am, heh. The rest of them came back much later. So, we were all a bit tired today.

This morning we had a class with Lembit Opik, one of the leaders of the Liberal Democratic Party here in the UK. He has a strange name because his parents are from Estonia, though he was born in Northern Ireland. If you read the Wikipedia article he seems a bit...off-color? and maybe he is, but he was hilarious, and really smart. We talked about third parties and why they're important (he says to be the conscience of a country), why the Lib Dems are clearly the best party for the UK, UK and US politics, how he would like to see the country run, and the truth, politics, politicians, and the media. I wasn't in total agreement with, well, a good deal of what he said, but he was really engaging and it was a good way to spend a morning.

After that we all just kind of bummed around all afternoon. Lavinia and I went to some cell phone shops and found a very decently priced one for me, so if you feel like you'd like to have that number, let me know. Some kids ran errands or did laundry. Most of them are leaving at some point tonight to go to various European destinations (Paris, Brussells, and Edinburgh are the big contenders this weekend), so they spent the day getting ready to go. I'm staying here to play with Caelah (who arrives tomorrow morning at 6!) and to go to the worship conference at Holy Trinity Brompton.

I checked out HTB earlier this evening at a prayer/worship thing. It's a very pretty, old church and I really enjoyed by time there. I think the conference on Saturday is going to be great. After that, I watched LOST online (ohhhh goodness....) and I've been wasting time away on the internet in my flat for the past two hours. Yes! Internet! IN the flat! It randomly started working yesterday afternoon. I have no idea why, and I have no idea what I did or if I did anything at all to make it work, but I'm not complaining. I had been working on chapter 6 of my current fic for a couple hours and the internet was just randomly connected. I was ecstatic. And it hasn't gone out! Let's pray that it doesn't. :)

Okay, I think those are all the pertinent details. Can't wait to see my Caelah!