Summer is here! It greeted us with 50 degrees and rain, unfortunately, but we still put together a barbecue! We introduced Europe to the concept of s'mores last night and they went over very well! We couldn't find graham crackers, so we were using chocolate coated biscuits. I think the extra chocolate helped to sell the idea.
It's Jubilee weekend, so there are a lot of parties and things going on right now. I was going to go to a giant slip and slide at Hampstead Heath, but it was so chilly this morning and I don't have any pants or sweatshirts that I want to get messed up with baby oil, so I decided against it! I think the queen is at the races today, watching derbies and whatnot. Tomorrow, she is going on a boat cruise on the Thames with a 500 boat fleet! Crazy! I want to go watch, but I don't know how early I will need to get there. I predict that it is going to be absolutely packed, and none of the pedestrian bridges are open so anything there is to see will have to be from the shores.
I finished my last day of work yesterday! It felt pretty good to finally be done with everything, but a bit sad too, because working at the archives was fun. I liked all the people and my boss was very nice. I was only there five weeks, but they got me a going away present and took me out to lunch! They gave me a very lovely book of stuff to do in London, with different ideas for every day of the year! That will give me something to do this summer in addition to writing my dissertation!
Meanwhile, Prometheus is coming out, so I have been helping Sanjiv to introduce various people to Alien / Aliens, etc. It was really fun watching other people watch them (because at this point, I don't need to watch the movies anymore to know what's going on), since Pep doesn't like scary movies and was going to pieces over the suspense in Alien. Lakshmi said she didn't like action movies but ended up at the edge of her seat during Aliens. And the international kids thought it was funny that Bishop says the explosion will cause a crater the "size of Nebraska."
I've started looking for PT jobs to keep me afloat this summer. I don't know how much luck I will have, but I'm also considering putting up posters about exotic petsitting. I figure, with the olympics coming, people might be leaving town and not want to take their pet with them. While there are constantly ads for dog walkers and dog / cat sitters, I never see any ads for people who will feed snakes, birds, tarantulas, etc, so I think I might have an edge on the market! Haha. We'll see!
Happy summer, everybody!
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