Got a call mid-morning to go work in an office for the rest of the day. Off I went to King Kollakis in Knightsbridge. This company is a Greek shipping company and I spent the day answering the phone, eatting ginger snap cookies, watching them play ping-pong with the visitors, and the second daily freek snow storm. The Greeks really know how to work and have a good office environment! After work Chris said that he would take me for McFlurries since I felt horrible and ice cream always makes you better! America's Next Top Model and then bed for me!

On a side note, I made some conclusions about British office workers today:
So being an office temp I'm mostly doing receptionist work. In this country that can mean a few different things. Mostly it means about 2 hours of actual work a day and the rest of the time to do whatever you want.

For example my first job I made tea & coffee and unwrapped their lunches. The rest of the time I read books, journalled, read the paper, wrote letters, and made my "London To Do" list.

Second receptionist job was answering the phones, signing-in guests, making more tea & coffee, booked meeting rooms, diary (British for planner) management, and assigned parking spaces. In my down time here I got to be on the internet and label photos, my space, and facebook, not to mention reading OK! magazine.

On Monday I answered the phone, opened and sorted the post (mail,) and called a client. Other than that more My Space all day.

Today, and possibily the rest of the week, I answer the phone. Rest of the time spent on-line doing whatever.

Conclusion: British receptionists are paid, well may I add, to play on the internet, or whatever, for 5 hours a day and work for only 2! I'm liking this country more and more every day!

I'm sick! Not okay! I am not going to Morocco with a cold! When I finally decided to leave the house today I went for a walk around my neighborhood to take pictures of my day-to-day things. i.e. Tesco, ICCo, Boots, Goodge Street Station, BT Tower, Foundling Museum, and others. Spent the rest of the day taking care of stuff around the house and trying to rest and get better!

I had a one day job with Lewis Craig corporate real estate agents. I spent the whole day doing whatever I wanted while I answered the phone for these 4 guys who were all really nice! The office building was actually this really nice and cute house in the Marylebone area of Central London. After work I picked-up my package from Mom, which had my much needed clothes for Morocco! Tonight I was surprising Chris with a ride on the London Eye! He had been held in suspense all weekend. He had no idea where we were going or what we were doing! I think I prefer the London Eye at nigh because you only see the famous and pretty things that are lit up. Also it's really fun to go on it after you've lived in London a while because you can see all the things that are important to you. He was very appreciative of his present. Sometime I surprise myself with how good of a friend I can really be.

We (Keith, Mandy, Jimmy, Amy, and myself) just went to Primrose Hill, which boasts a beautiful view of all of London, and had a picnic. It included chicken bites, bread, Brie, onion & garlic dip, clementines, and red wine. Granted it was about 30 degrees and gail force winds, but it was worth it! We are such the Londoners! We also got to watch American Idol tonight which is only days behind the US. We really like Elliot, Chris and Ace. Ace's version of Father Figure was amazing! Good day and very Londony.

I decided to be productive today so I went for a little walk... I went past the following: Karl Marx's House, Windmill Theatre, Pall Mall, St. James Square, Eisenhower's WWII Headquarters, Charles de Gaulle's House, Piccadilly Arcade, Burlington Arcade, Albany, New Bond Street, Jimi Hendrix's House next door to George Frederick Handel's House, Grosvner Square, American Embassy, Baker Street, John Lennon's House, Madame Tussaud's, Sherlock Holmes Museum, Marylebone, Little Venice, Regent's Canal, Regent's Park, Primrose Hill (fabulous view over all of London,) Camden Lock Market, and home again. All in all it was a 10.5 mile walk, whoops! When I got back all exhausted, tired, and freezing/wind burned, people were watching Sex and the City and had been all day! My friend from St. John's was in town this weekend so he came over and drank with us before we headed to Archway for a house party. It turned out to be more of a British House Rave, not my seen so we were out of there in less than 30 min.! I got John on the bus back to South Kensington and stayed up until 3:30.

Work was work and I got to walk past Big Ben for the last time in awhile on the way home this afternoon. I'm going to miss walking past him twice a day everyday! Tonight we're going out in Soho so shower and pre-gaming were in order. It's scary how much this place is like college sometimes! The shear amounts of alcohol that past through here in a night/weekend are not good. We ended up at this new place called Sphere which was really cool inside and the drinks were reasonable. When we got there we were having a really good time and dancing a lot as always with us. The music was alright at first and then turned hip-hop real quick. Almost as quick as the Eurotrash moved in and starting trying to get with the girls. Not an okay situation! We were out of there relatively early (around 1) and headed to Subway to get some delicious food!

Big Ben likes to mock people! Trust me it's not fun to walk past it at 8 AM when it's chiming the full chime plus the gongs for the hour when you're not awake yet and still feeling the effects of the night before! Probably the best/worse walk of shame ever! Let's not forget that it snowed the entire way to work and rained the entire way back home! After work I stayed in bed all night because I had food poisoning because of my allergy to mayo. Note to self: still allergic to mayo, have not out grown it! Tonight was karoke across the street and I guess Chris sang Rock DJ by Robbie Williams and destroyed it; it was horribly fabulous! He and the rest of us know that he doesn't sing that well, but he tried that's all that counts!