Author: Lindsey

London escalator etiquette

Geeky Obsessions, London

WHY MUST THEY BE DIFFICULT? Was always my first underground thought of the day. Because Londoners stand on the right-hand side of escalators despite the fact that they insist on driving on the left. Why? Are they really just difficult? Did they originally drive on the right-hand side? Do they admire American escalator etiquette?

Answer: They inherited the behavior from a film! Underground, the first film to use extensive footage of the Tube, “shows how the design of early escalators meant that it was important to step off with the right foot.”

Bravo to The Times for making Lindsey’s life in London impossibly easier.

Mark visits: Day One

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Sitting in work on my lunch break, and what better to pass the time than this? Although, I’m contemplating running to the convenience store on the corner to get myself some crackers or something, but I still have about 50 minutes—no big. I woke up refreshed today because there’s nothing like going to bed at 23:30. I really have nothing to say except I probably won’t have any time to update tonight. I really want to wear my Jack Wills stockings today but… is it cold enough? I also need some nice brown boots to go with them. Perhaps Mark will come shopping with me this weekend so I can stock up on outfit accessories. A blue jay just landed on a branch outside the window! This weekend will be busy busy. Pictures to come, I promise. Just hasn’t been much touring going on lately.

Edit: Tonight I picked him up from the airport and brought him back to meet the roommates and get him fed (Dim T for some good dim sum!) and well rested. It’s strange how mannerisms resurface so quickly with the familiarity of someone. It was an almost sad feeling of missing home, a feeling I didn’t know I felt until tonight. I hope I have time to show him everything he wants to see here.

More work and random stuff

Work Abroad

First night without roommates in a while! Therefore, blasting Relient K, doing crunches, painting my nails, and pondering whether a membership to the gym now will get me ripped before I go back to school. Is £99 until I leave worth it?

Today, internship was still just okay. I’m actually placed as a Marketing intern, which broke my heart when I found out, but I emailed EUSA and I don’t think they’re going to care. I just thought I’d be able to get some editorial experience in before I graduated 😦 I almost feel like this entire program was a waste because I’m really not “seeing how the company works” or “grasping a little bit of everything in publishing.” I’m literally sitting at a computer checking their Facebook account and making excel spreadsheets. Ugh. No magazine looking at my resumé is going see ANY editing or writing experience, my career goals, and that’s what really gets me.

Anyways, came home and stayed in and bummed out. Tomorrow will be more internship, then going to Heathrow to pick up my boy. And then who knows. Thank goodness for the weekend being only days away.

Work and random stuff

Work Abroad

So that organic chocolate I got last night? They have separate golden wrapping on the inside and makes me feel like Charlie from Willy Wonka every time I open one. But four bars down, I still haven’t found the Golden Ticket. It was not meant to be!

Today I lazed around at work and did more research and outreach for Funky. Tomorrow will be my first day at CultureCritic. Am I allowed to be a little excited? At least work will be something different than marketing (yuck yuck yuck). I ran out of food today so I’m also looking forward to getting my Sainsbury’s salad during lunch break! Oh the small things in life.

Melissa and Alison and I booked our hostel for Scotland and it was only $24 a night! I am really relieved I am going, after having cancelled my flight to Sweden. There really is only so much time. I’m actually thinking of traveling to Paris that weekend by myself and see where I end up. I think it would be a perfect place for thinking, and for self-discovery. And good for my soul. I’ve started to become more reluctant to do things on my own, and Paris would be a great way to tear that veil of hesitancy down again. And, of course, the shopping. And the baguettes!!!

And we also went to this Gelato place to get just that. Chocolate and Strawberry Sorbet = heaven.

Bright Star gala

Theater

Went to internship and it was normal blah blah blah. We had an actual ‘meeting’ today and announced that I would be working two days a week at Funky Venues and two days at CultureCritic, which is good news because then I’ll have a variety of stuff to do and not just marketing for one website for eight weeks.

So after work I rushed home to change into my gala dress and booked it to Leicester Square to make the private screening of Bright Star. Boris Johnson, the Mayor of London, came to speak!
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The gorgeous Odeon Theater.
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And the director and cast. Second from left is the director Jane Campion. The first man from the left is Ben Whishaw, who played Keats <33333 LOVE HIM. Abbie Cornish, leading lady, couldn’t be there due to filming elsewhere.
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And the movie itself was good! But sad. The cinematography was beautiful. And the many drawn-out silences and gazes held by the leading roles made me wait with bated breath. I liked it a lot. And I WOULD have meet some of the famous had I not realized I lost my Student Oyster card after the movie. SADFACE. Apparently, I left it at the Tube when I got off, but some very nice person turned it in and by chance I went to the right window and they returned it to me. So, so relieved. And they handed out free bars of Green & Black’s organic chocolate in the theater, which I snatched two more of on my way out, even amidst my panic. Was probably planning to gorge in my misery. Some things never change.

Also, new trend of mine. When I reach South Ken Station, I always pick up a banana for the walk home. It makes me feel healthy! Before I gorge on chocolate and pasta when I get in.

Jack Wills

Fashion, Geeky Obsessions

My blog is turning into a fashion explosion. BUT, seeing as how I’m living in LONDON aka one of the fashion capitals of the WORLD, I think I’m okay. Sooo I woke up from a crazy night spent at O’Neill’s which never ceases to provide the fun. Live band the whole night, wore a little black dress and earned a night of dancing with probably the best looking guy in the club (or so I was told ummm whatever I still think my boyfriend is better <3). But his name was Brett and he was from CALIFORNIA and I left without a hitch because who wants to meet Americans here anyway.

So today I slept late and such. Woke up to do laundry (yay productiveness) and clean the room and reorganize my wardrobe/closet/drawer space. THEN I researched forever on Jack Wills so I had a plan before I went out, then went on a wild goose chase at Covent Garden to find the store that apparently no longer exists there. NOT FUN. It wouldn’t have been as frustrating if it wasn’t the weekend and the entire Circle Line was closed and Covent Garden is notoriously a madhouse. So I hopped back on the Tube and arrived in Sloane Square (serious upper class shopping) and literally stumbled upon their other store. It was beyond beautiful on the inside, spared no expense, and there was even a café upstairs and dressing rooms that had sample clothes to try on and full couches and. Yeah. Forget Urban Outfitters, this place is the real deal.

And I made an expensive purchase but I’m only in this country for a short time. FORGIVE ME.

Actually, it was really all about getting the bag.
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But I did buy clothes. COLORFUL clothes, I might add.
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The shorts came in their own button-up pouch. THAT’S RIGHT.
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Made from real London, so you KNOW it’s good.
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And I was able to try on the brown version of the plaid coat I mentioned last entry because it was sitting in my fitting room just beckoning me. And let me say, let’s just forget about Burberry. The coat is gorgeous. I might just put it on my Christmas list anyway and ask for nothing else. In fact, I’d probably settle for it being my Christmas AND birthday gift. From the whole family. For the next two years. Haha I CAN DREAM CAN’T I.

Nothing else tonight. Tomorrow begins the second week of Cultureshock. Hopefully this will be the week they let me write about movies!

And wow, this post is really loving on the capital letters.

Third day at internship

Work Abroad

Better work today involved me actually emailing the researched companies, as well as learning how to work the websites and edit them –> http://www.funkyvenues.com & funkyweddingvenues.com <– check em. I added a bunch of new venues and everything, which kept me busy until closing! That’s what I have to get excited about! Pasta for dinner and now waiting until these crazy girls get out of the bathroom and leave so I can take a shower. Ugh. Tonight will be spent collecting my writing clips so I can send in my intern app for Boston Magazine tomorrow. And I’m going to the Frieze Art Fair for work tomorrow. Nightttt.