Feeling much better now. Had a few hours sleep; after any nap of a few hours I feel messed up, but at least I no longer feel like I might collapse at any second.
By coincidence, while flipping through the Globe today, I found out that the Bodyworlds exhibit is coming to Toronto. My brother and I saw it on my last visit to London nearly three years ago.
caffeine update: my brother, bless his heart, found me a diet pepsi.
After only the briefest of delays we got underway, and arrived early this morning in London. I wasn’t able to sleep much on the plane, so I’m pretty messed up right now. But we’re here! And in a few hours we’ll be bound for Scotland!
My kingdom for a diet pepsi…
I’m waiting in line for Swiss Chalet. This may represent a new low point in my life.
I hate terminal 3.
It’s finally hit me. As I finished up my last few tasks of the morning, I turned on the TV to TSN and saw Wimbledon. Jesus…I shall be in London during the tournament at Wimbledon. Actually, that fact hit me a couple of days ago, but seeing the people sitting on Henman Hill was pretty cool. Maybe we’ll do that one of our free days.
Then I flipped up a bit, stopping on The History Channel. It was a program about English & German night fighters during the second world war. Jesus…
It’s times like this that my country, though huge, seems very young and very small.
That’s it, I’m off. Our flight leaves tomorrow afternoon, so I may not post again until we’re there. I’m not sure what kind of net access I’ll have access to (depends on whether laptops are left around my brother’s apartment), especially in Edinburgh, Vienna and Budapest, but I’ll post what I like when I can, and pictures if possible. I’ll give you the flickr link if the time comes.
Cheers, kids. Play nice.
Rick Mercer’s blog. Sweet.
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I’m off for two weeks, visiting the brother & his girlfriend in London. I’ll give updates on any new music he exposes me to (he’s a trusted source of new bands, especially of the Brit & blues varieties), and of the NIN concert at the Brixton Academy the night before we fly home.
In the meantime, I leave you with the three best albums released so far this year:
Assignment 1: finished and uploaded. That’s really the only thing I needed to do before we left. So today will be much like yesterday: errands, loose ends, etc.
We have three Summerlicious reservations made already, but it just seems that I’m destined to never eat at Canoe. I was so close that one time…so close…but all I get from now is a busy signal.
Getting pretty excited now…we leave tomorrow afternoon. I’m debating tactics: stay awake during the flight and sleep when we reach London (which would be about midnight EST)? Or try to sleep on the plane? I have no problem with flying, but it’s hard to sleep in those seats and I’ll be totally hopped up anyway so sleeping might not even be an option.
I gotta tell you, I’ll be happy just to get on the plane and not think about work or school. This is our first vacation since Xmas, and my head’s getting a little spinny…
Skirl | Dan Dickinson 