all my girls have been in edinburgh for the weekend, so that made me one lonely girl, but they're coming back tonight, so i won't be alone for long. actually, i did have a nice weekend, and i got to stay at co be and matthias's on saturday night after babysitting manuel. and while i did have to cook for myself and eat by myself, i did get to eat red meat since i usually don't cook it for squeamish meredith.

last thursday, went to see arthur miller's "the price," which was good, but i was preoccupied most of the time trying to hold in my coughs. but i must have not been the only one, because at one point, this 90 year-old character came on stage, coughing after apparently climbing up a long staircase, and throughout the audience, people took the opportunity to let their coughs loose and hacked along with him.

happy belated halloween! i didn't do very halloweeny things on friday, besides carve a couple pumpkins and dress in goth-black with kate and meredith. there were some parties going on in the complex, but a bunch of us went out to a club called madame jojo's near tottenham court road. they played kind of disco-funk music, but new stuff, not stuff from the 70s. i didn't even know that people still produced disco-funk. it was fun though, and i love the fact that every club that i've been to has played a different type of music. ministry of sound played standard dance/hiphop/pop, but the other places have played drum & bass, and flamenco music. let's see what the next one will be...

on saturday, with everyone else in scotland, vito, eamonn, and i went to harrod's to people-watch and to play "the price is right." i lost horribly every time, but it was amazing how ridiculously overpriced everything was. this really unattractive antique statue of a boy was �28,500, though i would say the giant �24,000 music box thing that played mascagni's "cavalleria rusticana" off a large silver disc was much cooler. the most expensive item we found was a sculpture for �59,000. crazy.... ooh, and the best things of the day were the donuts that we got from the harrod's krispy kreme as free samples. they were warm and sweet and oh-so-american.

since they don't have thanksgiving here, it's officially the christmas season (though really all the decorations went up in october and i started hearing christmas ads in september). though i'm panicking with the thought of getting gifts for everyone, i can't wait! giving gifts is the best part of christmas. that, and listening to holiday music. it's the holiday season... so whoop-dee-doo, and hickory-dock, and don't forget to hang up your sock....