Rest in Peace Skip Prosser

I'm pretty much in shock right now. No words.

George Edward "Skip" Prosser: November 3, 1950 - July 26, 2007.

can this crazy country please just hold itself together for a few more weeks

First the attempted London bombings, then the more successful ones up in Glasgow (thwarted by this guy), now just yesterday a train on the central line derailed, sending several people to the hospital. Great Britain is dangerous, ya'll. Maybe it was better when my dorm room internet didn't work and i was blissfully ignorant.

At least there's one man i can count on to protect me...

so that was surreal

i used up too much bandwidth than UL likes, so my laptop has been banned from using the dorm's internet. they never said there was a limit to legal bandwidth use, and i'm pretty peeved. stupid streaming videos. hello from an internet cafe.

i spent all day at wimbledon yesterday. and i mean almost literally all day. i got up at 4am and didn't get back until 11pm. on the practice courts i got to see venus williams, safin, nadal and sharapova. also saw tommy haas beat some guy... turnsnov? then we made the great deal of turning in our grounds passes for some amazing centre court tickets for the ridiculous fee of 5 pounds each! we only got to see one match, but it was safin vs federer - pretty much as marquee as a match you could possibly see this early in the tournament. as much as i detest federer for being too good for his own... good; i couldn't help but be amazed at some of the shots he was making. chalk flying up and everything.

oddest thing was that the players have to take the same paths as the fans to get to the courts. we were just walking around and then martina hingis just walks right past us, three feet away. go figure.

it wasn't until my mom called after the federer/safin match that i learned about the attempted car bombings in london. so that has me a little on edge. scary stuff.

bye for now.

ewww... France

I made it through the "Tast of Britain" tour. We finished off the 4-day excursion with stops in Edinburgh and Scotland, Wales, and - wait for it! - the Josiah Wedgwood Museum! Who's Josiah Wedgewood? I'm still not sure. But there was lots of pottery on display, so I can only assume he has something to do with that.

Today we start our series of five one-day guided tours. First up is taking the "Chunnel" - once thought by me to exist only in myth - deep into the heart of the enemy: Paris, France.

Phantom, my apologies in advance if I call you frantically today asking - "I lost my tour guide and I need to know how to say 'get me the hell out of here' in French!"

Finally, big ups to Timmy winning his 4th NBA title! I guess I can give France a break for giving us Tony Parker. The big question is now - can Timmy catch Jordan and his six titles?

these people talk funny

i can't believe i'm going to be here for another six weeks. i'm currently in a surprisingly nice hotel in Darlington, England - the first place to rest on this "Taste of Britain" tour. i've barely had time to breathe so far. we've seen so much already, i can hardly recall what we've done. um... parliament and the clock tower, cruise on river Thames, that place the Queen lives, stratford-upon-avon, the tower of london, and york. i think that's it. generally speaking. i can't get used to the way people say "schedule." Shed-yool. Weird.