10.11.05

i have been busy

It has been an odd few days
I will try to be cronological:
Sunday:
sadly, i had to take my dad to the aeroport, which means i have to start doing my own cooking again ....such is life...
Then i met razvan for some comiserating about the difficult lives of underfunded students...since he is romanian, he is only allowed to work legally 20 hours per week, on campus. So he has the thrilling task of reshelving books in the science library, and even this barely pays him enough to live on...but it is that or nothing at all...having compared our sad financial situations, we moved on to ceu gossip....and inexhaustible source of conversation!
Next i trotted over to the british library to meet oliver garyachi estonski paren! I hadnt seen the guy since march when i ran into him in tallinn, but he had to come on business to london, and so...there he was!
The amazing thing was that he got to stay for the duration of his trip in one of the most expensive hotels in london! He works for hilton, so he got a huge suite in one of their most expensive areas!!!i couldnt believe it, i mean this is OLIVER, the guy who didnt bother handing in his graduation thesis!!! Slightly over one year after NOT graduating, he is staying 5 star hotels in major capitals! Life sometimes does not seem fair. But then again, he was generous, i got to stay Sunday night i the hotel too. In the evening we walked all around london, and went to canary warf, which looks like a london la defense, and was equally empty on a Sunday night as i imagine la defense would be!
After our tour we went back to the hotel and plopped ourselves in the bar/lounge where oliver gets a 50% discount.....

Monday:
Massive buffet breakfast at hilton.
I then tried to go to the university to plead for funding, but that got me no where...as usual...so i left the uni and went back to the british museum where oliver was wandering around egyptian statues...we then walked to the national gallery, which is huge....
In the evening we met gabor for drinks near the british library (gabor’s home basically) and exchanged ceu gossip...for the second time in as many days....

Tuesday:
I had to go to work, and oliver wandered around, having spent the night on my couch...we then made a tour of the areas pubs....and exchanged ceu gossip, despite him claiming that men dont gossip....

Wednesday:Oliver hopped the train for stansted to get a flight to amsterdam...i went to work....just as i was leaving work in the afternoon, i got an sms from him, already pubbing in holland....and i went home to clean!

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