was, to put it mildly, not the best of days. It probably wouldn’t have been as bad a feeling if I didn’t just spend the last week/end in heaven. But I spent the entire 10am-6pm day in front of a computer looking up sites that would put my company’s link on them for free. And tomorrow, I will talk to my supervisor about my research, and then learn how to ‘put an email together.’ I felt miserable all day because I was put in front of a computer and not introduced to anybody, and therefore was ignored until closing. I really felt like 12 years old.

And to top it off, my roommates have two girls staying in our room all week which they didn’t tell me about. Six girls, one shower, first week of working, and no patience left. Nine are in the room currently, and all I want to do is curl up and fall asleep early and not be judged by what I’m wearing and how low my voice is and how I’m being ignored by all of them.

Monumental achievement today: did my first load of laundry since arrival. Total cost: £13.30. Equivalent to $21.30. Exchange rates are DUMB. I’m combining whites and darks next time I don’t even care.

Apart from that morning adventure, I have sat in my room eating cookies and pretzels, reading My Trade by Andrew Marr, and trying and failing to lay off the internet. The only reason I’ve laid around today is because I am TRYING to get research done on my term paper (due Thursday) but really, who ever heard of me getting anything done earlier than the night before? I do not understand why I even kid myself.

Tomorrow: class 9-1 and more staying in.

Journalism class involved watching a media piece on coverage of the royal family, which was pretty interesting. I am really THE WORST blogger ever because I won’t tell you about any of the stuff I learned about anything, but it would take too long! Read at the library for a bit, worked on my JO358 test (which involves googling everything, and really ridiculous) I came home, took a long nap, made a HUGE pot of penne pasta, ate it! then went back to the room to read a bit. Probably going to bed early because I am a loser!

My journalism class today went by faster than usual, because we watched a movie on why people and the media are obsession with celebrities. Kind of interesting, anyway. Tomorrow we will be discussing the obsession with royalty. And taking a test yikes. I didn’t do much but read in the library and get some bread after class, and am now home thinking about dinner. I’m going to gain about 50lbs on this trip I swear. MLIA omg. Tonight will probably be a pub night. I think Chelsea’s playing tonight, which could get interesting.

But I don’t even care about these boring days. I cannot imagine a life out of this country.