This week was the first real week back to work in the new year, and it is starting out pretty well.

Tuesday Steph and I went to Titanique, a Titanic movie parody, that was hilarious. The characters where exaggerated in just the right ways. My favorite was the mom character, who was yelling and saying terrible things the whole time. Then the Celine Dion character was getting in the way of the action, and making things up about the Titanic that were clearly wrong. We got amazing seats, front and center, using the rush tickets. I’ve really been enjoying the rush tickets and I plan to keep using it. Steph at one point had to sing into an aubergine that the Celine character was holding out to her as a microphone. I was given some Celine Dion fake money for a sexy dance number that Jack was having against Cal. This show was so much fun, and I would say it is one of my favorites. I laughed more at this than any other show I’ve seen in London.

The rest of the was mostly uneventful. I met up for coffee with another person on the StartX AI taskforce, which was nice. He also lives in Islington. Saturday I got rush tickets to Mean Girls, which was similar to the other movie adaptations I’ve seen, where the music was superfluous, and it is mainly targeting the people who liked the movie. I didn’t like it overall, but had a few good laughs. I also got tickets to the string quartet by candlelight that evening. Sunday I tried again, but nothing came through on rush tickets for the matinee.

This past few weeks have been perfectly bad weather, being as cold as it can be while also being wet. There have been multiple instances when I’ve walked to work with it snowing for the first half and raining for the second. When we were sitting in the Mr. Fogg’s bar last week it was switching between raining and snowing as we watched out the window. Despite that I’m still finding myself walking around for half an hour to an hour a day, just because that is how life works in London. I feel strangely happy with it, as I have all the right clothing to deal with the bad weather now. Once I get to a nice warm place after the bad weather I feel comfy in a way that I didn’t in California. Also, despite the frozen canals, the birds are still very active. I regularly see all the gulls, morehens, cormorants, geese, ducks, and coots.

When Steph got back from her diving adventures over the weekend we had a sticky toffee pudding together.

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