thursday

my favorite past time these days has definitely been reading other people's blogs. i almost feel voyeristic as i read the private (i guess they aren't so private if they are posted on a public blog) moments of people i know nothing about. its almost as if i have two lives - the "amanda" life that everyone knows and the "blog-amanda" life that i am slowly kindling. in this life i have friends that i know only through what they have written. i am joyous when they post pictures that reveal parts of them i would never have known if it wasnt for the picture. i thrive on videos where the two-dimensional people become three-dimensional with real voices.

but the thing i've gathered the most from these blogs is how important pictures are. i love them! that's why i've decided to institute more pictures on this blog. the reason i haven't been posting pictures is because it is SO much work. i have to plug the camera into the computer (which at this point is VERY tempermental), upload the pictures, put them in a special file, then open firefox and upload the pictures on to my blog. then i have to arrange them in to a pleasing fashion and write blurbs about them. its all very exhausting.

yesterday, halloween was it?, was fairly uneventful here in london. its not a holiday so widely and fervently observed as it is in the states. apart from the half naked teens on the bus and the four kids who accosted our home, i really wouldnt have known yesterday was any different than, say, today. here's what the house of love did....

we ate at the gourmet burger kitchen and it was great.

today i had class from 2:30 until 9. we had a half hour break around 6:45. ugh. 4 classes in a row is grueling. and everyone around me is getting sick. now i have to go to bed and be well rested for another vigorous day at the office.

on a side note, i am still waiting to hear back about the interviews from last week....this waiting is killing me! i check my email every chance i get (which is about 15 times a day). i think this is the Lord's way of teaching me patience. ok God, i get it already - i've learned the patience...now send me an email!