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New Pad August 2, 2008

I haven’t uploaded any pictures yet, but I’m now officially in my new pad. Dalston is pretty great. There’s oodles of people around all the time, and always something going on. Today on my way to Sainsbury’s there were people on microphones rapping outside of McDonalds. That’s when I knew that me and this neighborhood we meant to be together. My room is amazing. It’s huge, which is unusual for London. And cheap. Also unusual for London. I’ve only met one of my housemates so far, but he’s pretty great so I think this is all going to be fantastic. I sound like Suzie Sunshine.

This week has been fairly low key because of all the finding somewhere to live and moving business. I did go on a behind the scenes tour of the Natural History Museum. So cool. I got to see the giant squid (gross), pickled pig fetuses (grosser), and a ten year old decomposed sandwich (nasty). They have giant tanks where the scientists store they’re specimens, and they are stored in a mixture of alcohol and water. Apparently they actually have hard alcohol on tap. Party time at the Natural History Museum! But I’ll tell you something- there is not a more disgusting smell in this world than old, pickled fish. It’s like bacardi and sushi times ten.