1) The toilet seats are very big. Too big for my little boney flass. I always feel like I'm going to fall in.
2) When you order coffee they ask if you want it black or white (with milk), but the milk they give you is "frothy". Not cool.
3) When you order a chicken bacon sandwich from McDonalds (which I did last night and saw a kid from catholic, but I'll get to that later), instead of asking if you want the chicken fried or grilled, they ask if you want it "brown or white". I almost threw up when the guy asked me that.
Things that I think America should do like London does:
1) I have a heated towel rack in my shower (which doesn't have a curtain, just a one foot wide pain of glass, very odd). The towel rack plugs into the wall (now that I'm thinking about it, not that safe actually...probably why the shower pressure isn't strong and the water only gets pushed like 3 inches) and it heats your towel while you shower!!!! BEST THING EVER! Also, you can heat the floor but I can't remember which button it is, so I don't do that.
Just that one thing so far.
OK so this dude from Catholic. Further proof that even though only about 600 of us graduate each year we are destined to be friends with each other and drift towards each other no matter where we are or what we do. We are linked with each other to the bitter end. Probably because we are the only ones who can understand our mild alcoholic tendencies and sinful ways mixed with our Catholic beliefs. What kind of people go out 6 nights a week in college and then go to church at 9pm on Sunday where you see everyone that you were at the bar with and up at afterhours with until about 4 am? CUA does all it. Anyway, I digress.
So I'm in McDonald's waiting for my white chicken and getting the eye from some little british dude who probably weighs about as much as my left leg soaking wet when I turn around and see this guy come in wearing a Catholic University sweatshirt. IMMEDIATELY I charge over to this poor guy, rip out my ipod and say "did you go to Catholic??". "umm. yeah." "ME TOO!!" He then understood why I was so weird. He didn't look familiar to me so I assumed he was squad. He said he was architecture and graduated in 2004. I asked if he knew Pete Clark. He didn't. This made me question him on several levels. The architecture school has like 5 people in it doesn't it? Weird. Anyway, my food came up shortly after he told me he was just passing through on the way to India. I told him good luck with all that and left.
So this weekend I have plans tonight to meet up with Jeanine (from AFP)'s friends who live here. They seem very nice. Its a couple who are both American. The guy is from Jersey I believe, so I automatically like him. I think his wife is from upstate New York so I pretty much trust her too. Saturday I will probably do some shopping with her and then hopefully check out some flats. OH! Vocab lesson of the day. Ever wonder where the word "sublet" comes from? I know I always have. I always thought it should have been called subrent. It actually comes from the british word "let" meaning to rent. There you go. London is making me smarter. On the other hand, as Dave would say, "My wit levels have flat lined". I'm the least funny I've ever been. Well I don't know that I was ever that funny, but at least witty/sarcastic. That's all gone. My sarcasm IQ has dropped at least 20 points in this last week. Why? you may ask. Well the wittiest thing I've seen or experienced was on law and order when Lenny and the partner who was also Benny in the original cast of Rent were in a restaurant where the murder took place. Their conversation went something like this:
'Rent' partner: The food is really good here.
Lenny: Yeah, I hear its to DIE for.
ba dum cha
Yes, so please send funny vibes and more specifically emails to me to remind me of what American humor is.
I plan on watching the Giants at 6 pm at an American sports bar on Sunday. I'm going to try to recruit some Susan's friends from here to come because they are probably funny. She sent me information for an American guy who I for sure must spend time with. He's from Boston I believe so he'll probably be funny.
Well that's about all for now. Until next time, "insert witty comment here".
4 comments:
You're in a kind of Bizarre-o World where Bennie Hill is considered funny. Think of David Brent or Garith Keenan of the British version of the office. When you hear a British joke try responding using words like "Quite" or "Very Good Sir" or "Well Played" or even "Hear Hear". Whatever you do, don't laugh out loud. At most, allow yourself a smirk. You'll be a faux-Brit in no time.
Keep 'em coming Kath. I think you're still really funny! There is a Jerry Seinfeld - yes Mike, believe it or not, a Seinfeld reference- AmEx ad that must be on You Tube where he finds out he's going to perform in London and bombs because they don't get him. He takes a crash course in humor UK style and rocks....
may be a useful tutorial for you! (which of course I cant find now post Bill Gates. Seinfeld and Microsoft commercial debate..)
love you and miss you. talk with you tomorrow (sun) pre-Football!
Mom
you still make me laugh out loud :)
So who was the dude from CUArch? If he was really from my class, and claimed he didn't know me... he must have been a complete waste of oxygen! I do know that a girl from my class works for Norman Foster (Starchitect) in London. Her name is Simona Rossi (people generally called her 'the Italian broad').
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