its been crazy lately here in the house of love!

these past few weeks joel was here visiting me. it was soooo wonderful to have him in london! over the weekend we took a jaunt over to paris and enjoyed excellent french food and romance on top of the eiffel tower (you have to have romance when its snowing!).

this past week two of our friends, shelley and jess, were visiting london. they were tourist champs and saw EVERYTHING here in london. they did more in six days than i've done in (a collective) six months. oh well...we cant win them all.

while they were here, joel and i accompanied them to brick lane, which is a street with tons of indian restaurants. as we walked down the street, guys would come up to us and tell us great deals so that we would go to their place. after denying a few, we settled on a great bangladeshi restaurant. the food was so good and to reward us for choosing them, we got our first two rounds of drinks free and 30% off the entire bill.

now i am in full throttle finals mode. our first one is a week from tomorrow! ahhhh! its so crazy that this time is almost done. but not quite because i still have a trip to budapest planned. when will i do all this you ask? well, i have 3 finals the first week of finals (not this week but the next week) and my last final on the monday of our second week. so, that leaves me until the following sunday (the 16th) to travel!

this past friday we had our second house of love par-tay. as usual it was a smashing success and people were calling for another one as they exited our door. we should have another one because we have so much alcohol that we will need a whole army to dispose of it for us.

i will post pictures from the past three weeks sometime this week. things are a bit complicated because i am using my old computer (which joel so wonderfully brought to me) but i prefer using my macbook because its soooo fast and pretty. but i cant stand its new 'quirk'. with the old computer my internet lasts for only 30 minute increments. so every half hour i have to reset my internet which messes up anything that i am working on (like this post). thats why i will be posting pictures at another time (and boy are they excellent pictures!).