If my boyfriend were Batman...

If my boyfriend were Batman, I wouldn't want to know, because I would be nervous every night that he was going to get killed or cut up.

Catch up on the simply fabulous week I have had so far.

Tuesday evening was very chill, filled with a home-cooked meal of what else? Pasta. I am going to be so sick of noodles by the time I get home. They are the cheapest meal to make. You can buy a bag of pasta shells and some parmesan cheese and that can last you 2 weeks at least. Trying to save some mula here… because I would much rather spend it on other things besides food. I took a long walk along the Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Walk. It is by far the best walk, in terms of sights I have taken in London.

After work on Wednesday Danna and I decided to be very cultural and go to The Mikhailovsky Ballet of Spartacus. It was beautiful. Made me wish I was that talented and that I was built like a professional ballet dancer. It was a great performance. We were both a little bit confused during the second act but it didn’t matter because it was 3 hours of my life that I would do again. I am looking into seeing one more show, either another ballet or a musical before we leave. It is really easy to get tickets, and you can get them for half price the day of; which is what we do. We get great seats for a low price and get the full experience. Plus it adds a little bit of spontaneity with the not knowing for sure if you have tickets until lunch time the day of the performance.

Thinking that the ballet made my week complete, I came into work happy yesterday (Thursday) and to my surprise was pleasantly given more great news! There was a chance I could go to a screening of The Dark Knight. It came out today, and we went to a pre-screening last night. Not having tickets, or technically being on the list made Blake and I a little jittery, but we made it in! It was by far one of the best movies I have ever seen, due to Heath Ledgers acting. There were scenes in the film that you almost forgot he was acting, it seemed as though he was not a real person and must have been like the Joker in real life at all times. Scary. I went into the theatre thinking that it was going to be good but I wasn’t sure if it would live up to all of the hype. Considering the film got loads of press after Heath’s tragic death, you never know if it would have gotten such great reviews had that not occurred. This was not the case. It deserves every great review, and every nomination that I’m sure it will be up for. Fantastic film, brilliant acting. It was a great night.

This morning Blake and I continued our movie dates with a screening of ‘Jesus is Magic’ – the new Sarah Silverman film. It was filled with racial ‘jokes’ and made me feel slightly guilty and uncomfortable for watching. There were some funny moments in it and was everything I expected out of Ms. Silverman. It was kind of sad that she mentioned her ‘boyfriend’ throughout the film a lot, but popsugar has informed me a few weeks ago about their Jimmy and her breaking up. Sad story. They seemed so happy together and are both funny creatures, that it makes me wonder what they would ever fight about.

We are leaving for Paris tonight. Doing an overnight bus and should get there early tomorrow morning (8ish). As horrible as it sounds, the overnight bus really isn’t that bad…we can sleep the entire way there and when we wake up the beautiful, romantic city will be at our fingertips. Flying is definitely more posh and convenient, but saving money always makes me feel good.

Work is continuing to go well. I went to a presentation yesterday at COI, one of our major clients. From my position, taking notes in the corner, it seemed to go really well. I think they enjoyed the effects I added into the power point, and all the time I took to make sure all of the fonts were the same. Such labour intensive work…! Two of the interns left yesterday, and it made me think of our last day coming up. I will cry, most likely.

Kevin has complained about my use of ‘ou’ in spellings. I apologize if this is annoying but often I use my spare time at work to write these entries and my computer uses the British spell check. Therefore I throw out a lot of weird spellings.

I was happy to hear from Dad that he reads this thing, because I do not get any comments and therefore I never know if I am writing this for no reason…or only for the reason that I can then have the written memories upon my return. So I hope someone gets pleasure out of hearing about my day to day adventures in Europe. It is much easier to type it all on here than repeating it to everyone over the phone. I am sure I will still have many stories for the family over thanksgiving break, but still this is a good backbone.