london update

i really should be working on my next chapter of my thesis. but i ahve had lots of distractions lately, and not all of them related to work or harry potter.
finnally, i found a new flat so i will be moving in a couple of weeks. thank god. there was a really gruesome murder on my street a few days back...and well....enough said.
other than that, caitlin and yuri have just relocated to london. so i have been hanging out with them. they have a nice place in south kensington, and instead of sitting in the library all the time like a good phd student, i have been going around to museums with caitlin and drinking in their flat.
yesterday we wandered throught the V&A and friday we went to the exhibit on mega cities that is currently on at tate modern. that was really cool. i loved the airal views of mumbai, london, cairo, johannesburg and tokyo. and their were some really great photos from each of those places....plus a video on toilets in mumbai, which having experienced them close up, proved only to be too accurate. i like mega cities, i have always operated on the assumption the larger and smellier the better. i think that is why i love mumbai so much when i was there. or moscow or istambul or cairo. i know i am alone in this view, but parks and green space make me really nervous and uncomforatble. i am sure i suffer from some strange syndrom....but anyway, if you are in london and get a chance to see it, go, it is worth it!