So, my brother found out that AIM had a virus, and he couldn't fix it, and he couldn't delete it, so he quarantined it. So I can't use AIM, and I'm at home, and it sucks.
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12:00:16 PM,Tuesday 12 August 2003
Yesterday I set up a Netflix account. We have two weeks to decide whether or not we like it for free. The thought is that it will be for the family, but right now it's under my credit card, and the queue is very obviously mine.
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07:48:03 PM,Monday 11 August 2003
So, I have decided that if I can't find a job, I will go to Sweden earlier. I was already planning to go to Sweden in April or May, when there's sun, and I've had a job, so I will have money. But if I can't find a job, I might as well go to Sweden earlier. This is also if I can't get in a pottery class. (The glass class is already full.) I might take a jewelry making class as well.
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10:52:47 AM,Monday 11 August 2003
So, just when you've finally gotten used to hitting the shift key and the 2 to get a quotation mark and the shift and the apostraphe key to get an @, you go home, and it's all switched back to normal. Similarly, just when you've finally gotten used to looking to the right to cross the street, it goes and switches on you.
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10:51:29 AM,Monday 11 August 2003
I am in entirely different clothes. A different shirt, a different pair of beat up old jeans, different panties, different bra. This feels extraordinarily lovely.
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02:03:30 PM,Sunday 10 August 2003
So, yes, if anyone has any really good reason as to why the copper rods moved when I crossed a certain point, will they please tell me? And I'm looking for something more scientific sounding than "a line of Earth Energy, called a ley-line."
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01:02:40 PM,Friday 8 August 2003
We found that we couldn't get to Tintagel, and so we wound up in Salisbury. So we sort of accidentaly went to Stonehedge. (I don't think I realized Stonehedge was in Salisbury until we were on the train there.) Which was fun. We did a bus tour thing, and the bus tour included our ticket in, and it meant we got to play with dowser rods. They were the oddest thing, as they actually did move where she said they would. Even when I used them, and I thought they were like a oujia board and wouldn't work for someone as skeptical as me.
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01:01:39 PM,Friday 8 August 2003
And they didn't have both of the things he asked for, so we only got one, we hope that's okay.
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12:57:54 PM,Friday 8 August 2003
So, we went off and bought whisky for my uncle John, which now I get the privilidge of carrying around.
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12:57:32 PM,Friday 8 August 2003
So, it seems, you can buy Harrods tea online. Which is nice to know, as I really like their Breakfast tea.
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11:47:35 AM,Friday 8 August 2003
I discovered in Falmouth that the puzzle I got for Cassie was of the wrong tapestry. It's similar, but not the same. Ah well. Falmouth was lovely. If ever you go there, you should stay at the Falmouth Lodge Backpackers, because it's a nice location, and the woman who runs it is totally amazingly sweet.
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11:42:46 AM,Friday 8 August 2003
We are back in London. Tomorrow we go home. Today we saw the Tower, then went off to Covent Garden to eat lunch. Tomorrow we will be in a land of ice and air conditioning.
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11:39:55 AM,Friday 8 August 2003
Oh, god, I miss my puppies.
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06:52:16 AM,Monday 4 August 2003
Punting is going about on a long, narrow-ish boat (it looks a bit, almost, like a canoe, but you can sit two people next to each other). You have a long pole (which is the punt) which you push against the bottom of the water and pull out to get speed, and then you use it as a rudder to stear.
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06:41:16 AM,Monday 4 August 2003
Moira, I got you a St. John's College of Oxford postcard and mailed it off yesterday.
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06:40:13 AM,Monday 4 August 2003
And so we are, almost accidentally, in Salisbury, and are in fact going to go to Stonehedge. We were to be in Tintagel last night, and we knew that we could get to Tintagel from Exeter by bus. So we got to Exeter, we asked how to do it, they said, uh, well, the last bus left. So then we had to find a new place to spend the night. We were quite distressed. Staying in the Southwest of England seemed like a good idea, as that's where we'll be throughout the rest of the trip. So we sat down with tour books, and tried to find places (other than Penzance, which is full) to go, that sounded nice. I eventually wrote down the numbers for the hostels in Bath and Salisbury, figuring they're both probably nice, and called Salisbury first, cause we'd both already been to Bath. Salisbury said they could take us, we just couldn't be in the same room. Which is fine, you know, whatever. We went off, checked in, then went out for dinner. We ate a lovely Italian place, and then I washed my clothes. They gave us breakfast, too. And we got discount tickets for a bus tour with admission to Stonehedge included. And so Salisbury is nice and fine, and it's quite a cute little town. Tonight we go to Falmouth, which is south south, but supposed to be lovely (the YHA down there used to be in a castle, but then their lease ran out). We will be there for two days, then we are going to spend time in Exeter, then we are going back to London. We left Jamie's bags at Paddington (in the luggage check area) because we were hot and tired and didn't feel like Tube-hopping to get the hostel we'd been staying at which is kind of dirty and cancelling the reservation we had at the hostel right by Paddington, which is in a lovely neighbourhood, and looks clean and I think the next street might be the Mary Poppins street. And so we ate sushi at Paddington, which was remarkably affordable, and tasty, and got on a train, and that was yesterday.
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06:39:30 AM,Monday 4 August 2003
Today we went punting.
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01:16:41 PM,Saturday 2 August 2003
So, I will write a bit about Mull. Mull is the island I did wind up going to. It really is a lovely island. The busride from Craignure (which is how you get from the mainland) to the interesting town was totally amazing. And it has castles, and is surrounded by mountains. And it has seals. And now I have to go back to yahoo.
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12:14:22 PM,Friday 1 August 2003
There is a FoxTrot where Paige keeps checking her email and there are no new messages, and she has some little comment about how with the phone at least you can pretend to watch TV or something. At least I can pretend to blog. I have...145 seconds before my pound runs out. I'd like to get dinner sorted out.
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12:13:05 PM,Friday 1 August 2003
Looking at prices is funny, because you get all used to seeing things in pounds, and transferring them into dollars, and then out of curiosity you go to see if Robin McKinley's new book is coming out in paperback or hardback, and you go to amazon.com, and there're dollars.
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12:06:22 PM,Friday 1 August 2003