Ramblings Of A Lunatic
Saturday 1st April, 2006 15:21 Comments: 0
I've been swapping text messages and emails with Jessica over the last week, we lost touch after we finished Pate's, but we've been rapidly catching up (and hopefully she'll stay in touch once I've moved to Reading). She says when she's bumped into other old friends from Pate's they usually expect her to behave exactly the same way as back then and can make her feel like she's now some boring loner, but she's not. Far from it. She's really nice, interesting, funny, creative, and I'm quite jealous that she and her boyfriend are hoping to buy a house together. Oh, and if you see her, wave and smile, it might make her day.
I ordered through Amazon a used copy of Michael Crichton's book from over the summer (State of Fear), which arrived this morning, and looks like it's in very good condition. I didn't realise how thick it was (over 700 pages!!!), so it should take me a while to read. Not bad for a quid (+ Amazon's delivery charge). I've bought quite a few older books this way, it's much easier than walking into one of those second hand bookstores and having to wade through the shelves of crap (some of which I already own hehe), but it's not as cheap or quick.
I was eating a Subway sandwich (ham & cheese with honey mustard sauce and none of that healthy salad rubbish) in Westminster and spotted an Oxfam bookshop almost opposite, I was half tempted to have a look around, but I didn't want to be late walking to my interview (the interview was with Deloitte & Touche in The Strand, but I stayed in the City Inn Westminster as it's a lovely hotel and has free broadband). It turns out London isn't huge, it's just very dense, so it doesn't take long to walk anywhere and I arrived way too early. I stopped in at Caffe Nero next door and had a really nice cup of coffee. Even better than Starbucks.
I ordered through Amazon a used copy of Michael Crichton's book from over the summer (State of Fear), which arrived this morning, and looks like it's in very good condition. I didn't realise how thick it was (over 700 pages!!!), so it should take me a while to read. Not bad for a quid (+ Amazon's delivery charge). I've bought quite a few older books this way, it's much easier than walking into one of those second hand bookstores and having to wade through the shelves of crap (some of which I already own hehe), but it's not as cheap or quick.
I was eating a Subway sandwich (ham & cheese with honey mustard sauce and none of that healthy salad rubbish) in Westminster and spotted an Oxfam bookshop almost opposite, I was half tempted to have a look around, but I didn't want to be late walking to my interview (the interview was with Deloitte & Touche in The Strand, but I stayed in the City Inn Westminster as it's a lovely hotel and has free broadband). It turns out London isn't huge, it's just very dense, so it doesn't take long to walk anywhere and I arrived way too early. I stopped in at Caffe Nero next door and had a really nice cup of coffee. Even better than Starbucks.