The spurs v roma game

And then I went swimming in the street....

Hello,

SO this weekend was a very very wet one! I headed to Reading on Friday night (bad idea as the train was well packed) and got to see the bf's house for the first time. Wasn't nearly as bad as a bachelor pad could be. The next day I was tricked into helping set up for their house warming party (just kidding didn't mind helping). Although the helping included things such as removing the front doors (long story). The BBQ went well aside from the fact that it took about two hours for them to get the grill going due to all the rain! The next day we headed back up to London for my first professional football match. We saw the Tottenham Hotspurs play (well kick the ass of really) AS Roma. Chris, his sister, and cousin, were well pleased as they are all fans, although I was sad to see any team from my beloved Italy get the crap kicked out of. It was an experience however. I got separated from the group and went to the bathroom, just as massive thundering and shaking of the stadium started- an entire stadium stomping and shouting at once = scary! In fact in one cheer which encourages fans who hate Arsenal (their enemy) to stand up, no one is actually supposed to stand up anymore for fear of making the bleachers collapse! (I am sure the stadium is not that flimsy though). Although it was pretty funny to hear an entire 40,000 people go "ooo" at the same time. Excellent place to go people watching. This week at work will hopefully go well- already been in Lloyds again. That's it for now!

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me

My new job

Hello,

For those of you keeping track I ended by job with the law firm on Friday (was only a two week to do) And started Monday with RK Harrison. It is an insurance brokerage ie. people come wanting to get certain policies and they dive out into the insurance world and find companies to cover their client. It is pretty interesting when they have work for me (August is a slow month). I have actually worked on the presentation for one of the submissions almost all on my own (pretty exciting). My team is all guys so I have advised on things such as: what to do for a one year wedding anniversary, what is a good chick flick, and pick up lines. (They are a pretty interesting bunch). While there is the occasional binding task for me, they do try hard to get me to learn a thing or two. Today I actually got to take a tour of the Lloyd building (above). Basically its where oodles of syndicates (the people who provide the insurance) work. Most of the brokers go over at least once a day and throughout my time with them, they will occasionally take me with them (like today). What is even cooler is that some days I will get to sit in a box with an underwriter and watch for a few hours. (Clearly I am just trying to find jobs that get me into cool buildings in London).

Not much else to report at the moment.

Ps to explain the building...property at Lloyds is $$$$ so they wanted to fit as many syndicates in as possible (get more $$$). So everything else is on the outside; stairs, elevators, air shafts. Needless to say not very pretty (but pretty sweet on the inside, especially since the escalators are clear!)

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me

Mamas got brand new shoes

So this weekend, Chris and I consoled ourselves over the cancelled rubix cube party by shopping (well really Chris was just forced along but he gave good input!)


We popped into a store looking for flats (bought two pairs of shoes so far...none of them flats). While they had no quality boots, they did have the shoes shown above...which clearly are amazing!

So I get to the till to pay (for you americans cash register). And what do they have behind the counter....my shoes in BABY SHOES, Lisa you will be proud to know...I bought them. (No I am not preggers, Marion I have a baby gift for you).

Anyway after buying those amazing shoes we went to the next place to hunt for flats. It took forever to try on this boot (apparently they "sent it back down" the first time) I finally tried it on, was all ready to buy it, when, it turns out there was no right boot to match! To make things even more....erm.. interesting, these women from the Caribbean got into a MASSIVE screaming fight in the store. The manager tried to get them to quite down and they just began to scream at him! Needless to say it caused a massive crowd outside the store!

Anyway enjoy the shoe picture!
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me

my new room and the view out my window....NO TRAIN

But where did the toilet paper go?

As you know I have moved into the dorms at LSE. Day one there was tp in the bathroom. I came home from work the next day and suddenly there was none! The next morning I held it all the way until I got to work (those of you who have been near me for more than two hours know how hard that is!) Sadly I got off work too late to pick up some tp at the store which put me in a predicament when I got home! I got some the next day and chose to put it in my room- just because I am not sure exactly what the protocol here is- provide your own? Share? Should the maid be replacing it? Anyway it has been nearly a week and no toilet paper has resurfaced in the bathroom. This begs the question- what is everyone else doing? If everyone else has it in their room that is fine....but what if they don't?

I have finished working in the giant egg today. It went mostly well. The last couple of days dragged on and it kind of snapped me out of my "o maybe I can do this kind of work thing" So I am back on track for human rights but still undecided about the general law school question.

I actually walked home after dark the other night (doesn't get dark till around ten), I walked along the river and it was the pretties thing ever. The thames actually looked blue, fountains were lit up and there were decorative street lights.

So happy to be in London and looking forward to office job number two!

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me