ola: It's Been a Hard Day's Night

Hello dear readers.
Am writing this from my room, which I've just re-arranged, vacuumed and decorated. Instead of writing an essay, obviously. It's Reading Week this week, and I only have one class! Plenty of time to do nothing! I've started running again though, in prep for next years City to Surf, I've got a date with Laura I've got to uphold.
Anyway, I've done a few cool things since I last posted so here we go:

Went and saw a firework show at a fairground with rides in celebration of Guy Fawkes night, for those who don't know what that is I've googled it for you! (Naturally after reading that article I'm going to call him Guido Fawkes, thank you once again Wikipedia.) The fireworks were totally ace, much better than any I've seen at home, as was the dodgy MC and the James Bond music they were set to. I also went on the Gravitron twice, worth £6 anyday.

A free comedy night at the Grove in Hammersmith. It was a little bit amature, but I laughed the whole time because I laugh at anything. Our collective favourite was Vikki Stone, who does a range of songs that are rude and hilarious, my favourite is above ^^^. There is so much comedy around, ranging from free to very expensive and crap to very funny (don't be fooled though sometimes free ones are hilarious), and I plan on going to lots more.

I saw Skyfall with Marthe and Sarah, it was very very good, even more so because it was set in London and every time we saw the tube or Big Ben we'd nudge each other and giggle a little bit. Joni and I also saw Argo on Sunday evening, it was fantastic! We were on the edge of our seats waving our hands at the screen in one of the last scenes, real nail-biting stuff. And for anyone that doesn't want to see it because of Ben Affleck, Joni only realised it was him 3/4 of the way through the film, and that's because I said his name. Good beardy disguise.

Ice-skating at the Natural History Museum with Joni, Soph and Ry. Highlight of my life! Luckily my leg injury didn't prevent me from gliding about, though I didn't manage to do a spin like Joni did, but she was on the floor most of the night. There are lots of places you can do it, I think my roommates and I will go again, maybe to the Somerset House one.

Back to netball! Our team is top of the ladder! Playing for the proper uni team is such a change from my old social team, which is both good and bad! Miss tuesday nights thats for sure.

Started working! In a cafe in Hammersmith, quite far from my place but a 4 minute walk to Joni's, so I just go there before or after, use it like a hotel you know. (I've got gluten-free bread in the freezer and my own shelf in the bathroom for my [second] toothbrush etc. as I'm there so often!) Anyway, the cafe is very small and cute, I get to make coffees all morning then serve salads and sandwiches in the afternoons. So my days are now full of working, uni, netball and being a tourist. Good times.

Had my first proper night out on Saturday. It was a fun filled evening that started with us running for a bus we definitely didn't need to run for, the middle involved a whole bottle of rose and several expensive cocktails, and the end involved a taxi we caught home when we should have got the bus. Oh and there were KFC chips in there somewhere too. Sunday was filled with headaches and groaning, but Ben Affleck soothed it slightly (see above) as did a pub lunch. It was well worth the cringing bank account I had the next day, but I don't think it'll be happening again for a while!

One of Marthe's friends came to stay this weekend, she's from Utrecht in Holland just like Marthe, is was so lovely to see someone from her hometown, and one of Sarah's friends who is doing exchange in Denmark will be here this weekend, so it's a bit of a good time sandwich at Platt Halls. Obviously if anyone wants to visit me for the weekend, that would be greatly appreciated. Here are Sarah and Marthe's blogs for anyone who is interested, although you'll have to Google Translate Marthe's, the mistakes make for fun reading.

As for the rest of my week, I'm joining one of the best libraries in the world tomorrow (nerd for life), am going to a gig later this week, and plan on seeing the Hollywood Costume exhibit at the V&A museum, (I want to see Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz's ruby slippers, as I watched that film almost once a week in my youth) and maybe to Brick Lane on Sunday! In other gig news, I'm seeing the Black Keys at the start of next month, and KINGS OF LEON!!!! (in June). Hells yeah!
I've included my song of the moment, bye for now!
x

(p.s. If you're really weird and noticed the URL is "an ode from death bed" and need an explanation, that was the working title when this was written on Sunday.)