Arcades @ MindSay

Okay, I got this next thingy from something on Myspace and just found it amusing. (BTW, I was born in April).

APRIL:
Active and dynamic. Decisive and haste but tends to regret. Attractive and affectionate to ones self. Strong mentality. Loves attention. Diplomatic. Consoling, friendly and solves peoples' problems. Brave and fearless. Adventurous. Loving and caring. Suave and generous. Usually you have many friends. Enjoys to make love. Emotional. Stubborn. Hasty. Good memory. Moving, motivates oneself and others. Loves to travel and explore. Sometimes sexy in a way that only their lover can understand.

Well, I'm certainly suave...I've always known that. The loving to travel and explore describes me the best, though. As does the stubborness.
Right, then, moving on...

OCT. 4
I've met most of my flatmates. The room itself is pretty cool and I'm almost done decorating. I've got a little monkey (on a key chain), wrapped in vines, hanging by a tropical flower hanging by my light pull-cord (the on-off pull cord, you know... I have no idea what they're called). My favorite people so far are Maggie and Steve. They seem pretty cool. Maggie is super nice and Steve is really nice too but he's more funny and likes asking questions about America. Oh - and I learned something today. Most Brits perception of America is based on what they see on TV, the most popular American shows over here are The Simpsons, Friends, LOST, and, I think, Without A Trace. But The Simpsons is the most popular by far... which isn't the best thing at times. Steve seemed to think that's how Americans are. Hm. No, they're not.
Anyway, two other guys I met that are real cool are Matt and Brian (who are currently in the kitchen making egg fried rice and bacon noodles - some of the grossest noodles ever). I had fun last night shopping at Tesco's with Ma and Jane. They have some of the same things as us like Coke and NutriGrain bars and something that's very similar to Ramen noodles (a university student's main diet, right? haha). Their peanut butter looks funny. I haven't tasted it yet but... it just looks funny. I bought it anyway because I love peanut butter and my typical breakfast is peanut butter toast. I also got macaroni and cheese in a can. I kid you not, fellow Americans - it comes in a can over here, already made. Then I got some Honey Oats, which look like Honey Nut Cheerios, a pack of Coke that comes in cans shorter than my iPod and about the width of my wrist (they look like baby Coke cans, lol). What else did I get... oh, porridge. Or as Americans call it - oatmeal. I got some apple and cranberries porridge. I think it'll be good. I just have to get some milk, sugar and... some other things I can't entirely remember. Maybe some sandwich making stuff. They seem to like cooking here and I'm not a big cook. OH! I need cheese so I can make grilled cheese! YES! mmmm... grilled cheese...
I just opened iTunes to update my iPod and totally forgot I'm in a network here so when the 'share' music thing came up with about a dozen different names, I was totally like 'What in the hell?' Then I remembered, I'm on a network so I can see the playlists of other people on my floor. Or is it in my building? I'm not sure but I would think that out of the 100 or so people in my building there would be more than twelve people with iTunes. Who knows.
I need to find some sticky hook so that I can hang up my Orlando Bloom calender. I'm starting to feel lonely without him in my room, haha. Oh, I just remember something. The whole internet thing here is weird. Like, I have to do a bazillion differnent things, go to a few dozen different locations a speak to a hundred different people just to get connected. That's the actual process too. At Miami, they had about 30 people connecting kids computers for them and, even with the wait, it took maybe a half hour. Forty at most, and then we were instantly connected. Here, even after I do all the things I gotta do, it'll be twenty-four hours before I'm connected because there's a waiting period for some reason. Very strange.
(Late Night Addition... technically it's 10-5 b/c it's 12:38pm but whatever). Just spent the past 4 hours sitting in the kitchen chatting with my flatmates. Well, most of my English flatmates. Two other American's joined us for a while, one girl from Texas who also shares our flat. It was such a great time, just sitting there, all chill, talking about anything and everything. The big thing is the German girl on our floor - she seems 'Froulein'. Very motherly and bitchy. Ah well, I'll just ignore her is she gets like that. I don't want to pass judgement yet 'cause she could just have had a bad day. We all have 'em.
Been invited to go to the beach (a.k.a. arcades) in Clacton tomorrow afternoon with my new 'mates'. Hehe. It'll be a blast, I'm sure. Can't wait to check it out. Oh, and just for my American friends (all of whom want me to bring home an English or Scottish or Irish boy for them), there's a nice English boy here, who's name's temporarily slipped my mind, who looks strikingly like Nick Stahl and loves the telly, playing video games, and the computer, not to mention has a great taste in music. I think I'm in love, haha.
One last note: they have those chocolate oranges here! I remember only seeing them at Target, like five years ago, for about a month and I loved them and then they completely disappeared but they must be popular over here because Tesco had two shelves full of them! YES! By the time I leave England in December I'm determined to not want to see another chocolate orange for as long as I live. :) And they're only like 80p. Sweet, in both ways.

Ah...now I can get back to writing up-to-date blogs! But I promise nothing interesting has happened of late that I didn't mention. I have to go to Richmond this weekend (a suburb of London) so, hopefully something interesting will happen there. We'll see, eh?