So the boy has left London now and i am a little bit alone for the time being. I could fill this entry with talk of our travels to Cambridge and Oxford and other things but it would seem like useless drivel and I don't particularly need to say anything of it now. We had a great time at Oxford with Scott, a tutor of Classics and it was nice seeing the city and the various colleges. We have also been to Harrod's for the past four days (yes, in a row) and it's still pretty exciting. Everything here is hideously expensive, without a doubt. It is akin to taking everything in New York price wise and replacing the dollar sign with a pound sign. I'm fairly ready to leave London now and I'm headed to Paris tomorrow, even if only for a few days, just to see what there is to see, stuff myself with fatty croissants (one of my primary reasons for living) and to soak up the typical tourist sights. I will find a way to munch on confit canard and if possible I will have pictures of me taken in various places, though I won't count too much on it (I'm travelling alone). I feel like a 70 year old woman though...today I bought a Longchamp tote bag to help cart away the few things that i bought while here and in Dubai. I also have to mail off my uncle's present before I leave, but i can't get motivated enough to move. I also feel an inclination to skip dinner today on account of my body being hideously full from Lunch, still. I may go to Wagamama's and get another noodle dish. It would do me well to walk outside again today.

And crap, I need to be spending less money. I have been thinking about the things that I need for my apartment and they include quite a few things that are reasonably expensive like a bed, a futon, some furniture, etc. I also need to buy books for this semester and pay for incidentals like...food. I'm so much happier that I get to cook for myself this year, which is better for my mental health and physical wellbeing at the end of the day. I don't need to rely on HamDel's eggplant mozzarella sandwich to get me by anymore, and with the stash of interesting foodstuffs that I will bring back from europe from this trip, I'm super super excited to be cooking myself.

I think I've been pretty reasonable this summer with buying things, having really only acquired my new cellphone and the carpet in Persia, as well as small random things here and there which don't cost a lot of money but take up a considerable amount of space. I have a pound and an ounce of my favorite English Breakfast, for example, which just takes up a ton of space but wasn't a considerable financial burden. On the whole as long as I don't buy my the Apple ibook I've been lusting after, this summer won't have been too hideously expensive...This coming schoolyear, however, is another matter entirely.