Portobello Market

Monday... oh Monday. What a good day. Well other than the fact that I was up at 8:30am after coughing half the night and not being able to sleep because of the hockey game going on. I hoped to fall asleep to the game (which I did) but my brain needed to know the score. I didn't really fall asleep until about 4am.

I was up early because I was meeting Nick in West London for my dissertation meeting. i got there early, got a cup of tea, and was writing when he showed up. Nothing really exiting happened during the meeting, I told him how much I have done, we talked about the self reflective essay, the deadline, summer plans, and that's about it. I'm sending him what I have in a few weeks and by that time I hope to have 10,000 words. I only need 1,400 to get there.

After that though was AWESOME. I walked to Portobello Market which was two seconds away. I walked the market, almost bought a watermelon but decided it would be too messy to eat and I can get one in Kingston, had lunch at a pub, and then the real fun began. I got two cupcakes at the Hummingbird Bakery... YUMMY. They actually aren't as good as they were last time and much more expensive. But still, they are good. Of course, I had to get a coke after I ate the cupcake so I wouldn't fall asleep. I decided though to go to Kensington Gardens and eat my cupcake there. Good idea. I stopped at a used bookstore first and walked out with four books. Two of them about Rome. Yeah I know, go figure. I got a travel writing book that compares London to the Monopoly board (yeah I couldn't help myself) and a book by Kate Moss (the author not the model). I went to a Masterclass that she gave. The only one I went to. The Rome books I got were two narrative autobiographies (?? is that a term) one about Augustus and the other about Tiberius. I'm 40 pages into the Augustus one and it's Augustus telling the story about his rise to power to his grandchildren. I think. It mentions Lucius and Gaius who were two of his relatives. I did go in looking for used travel books. I swear.

Kensington Gardens was so nice. I sat by the fountain by Lancaster Gate and ate my cupcake. I then went down to the Peter Pan statue and read a little bit. I can't go to that area without stopping to see Peter. It was a little cloudy at this time but still so nice. I was listening to Disney songs, eating a cupcake, reading, and in London. Can you get any better than that???

After that, I did have to go to work, but that was fine. It started down pouring during the Social Tennis so all a sudden I was invaded by the tennis group. The only bad thing that happened at work was I got Subway before heading to the club. I ate a good part of it, but then I had to go and serve someone. When I got back, I picked up my sandwich but there was a spider really close to it. I ended up throwing away the sandwich. Boo.

It was still a good day though and now I'm going to eat that second cupcake.