london day 3

i worked late tonight.. and on my lunch break i bought a watch because i have been walking around here with no sort of way to tell time. to my surprise when i got back to the office, i realized that the battery was dead. grrrrr... so i worked till 5 of 8, which gave me just enough time to watch a majority of the shops on oxford street close. lucky for me beets was still open and had watch batteries on clearance for 1 pound. now i can tell time!!!

i didn't really have any plans tonight and was just going to grab a sandwich and go back to my hotel and watch an episode or 2 of lost, but i vowed to eat dinner by myself at one the places i walk by on my way to work each morning. i ate at the ha!ha!bar and canteen. i had a frittata and bubbles and squeak and a pint of peroni.

after that i went to the crown and sceptre pub. there i tried 3 different kinds of beer. a half pint of staropramen from the czech republic. a half pint of spitfire, a Kentish ale. the bartender asked me if i was sure that i wanted that, and i asked him if it was bad. he said he didn't like it, and only old men drink it. it had to be pumped out of the tap.. it came out all frothy. it was almost room temperature, amber in color and very mild. then i tried the greene king IPA. i expected that one to be crappy like all the other IPAs i've had in my lifetime but i was pleasantly surprised that it was just as mild and warm as the spitfire. i think i will try to go back here, there was a belgium strawberry on their beerlist that i want to try, only sold in a half pint.

the menu in this place had an item that read like this: Thai marinated sirloin steak on a bed of red onions, noodles and mange tout. £ 8/90.

now first of all, how amazing does that sound? and secondly.. fauna, ask your sister if that last part means "and eat it all" like it reads, or is that some weird french thing that really means something else...

for the past two nights as i type this out i have the tv in the background running and last night was a bizarre hour + length interview/show about john wayne bobbit. lorena bobbit was also interviewed heavily in this show. they talked about how john was in porn, and while they blurred out his penis they totally showed the naked women.. now tonight after desperate housewives, they are showing a show called "big penises of the world". there have been a series of interviews with men who have penises that are like 13.5 inches long (the average is 5-7 inches, in case you were curious) and how hard it is for these men, and how they are treated like objects, and how one guy has decided to be gay because the anus can take his penis far deeper then a vagina can. and honestly every other word out of the voiceovers or the interviewees mouth is cock and dick. wtf!! so freaking bizarre. where is the regulation on speech here. if america is the land of free speech, how come we are so censored? oh, and there are visuals, tons and tons of big huge erect and flaccid penises... these brits are strange i tell you!

one thing i am noticing (i wonder if it will change this weekend) is that i have not seen any people walking dogs. nor have i seen any cats in any windows. nor any children..although every morning on my way to work though i do see a lot of dog poop... i think this might be the place for me...

i have added a couple more pics to the album..